FOREIGN AREA RESEARCH NOTES

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• Publication Date: November 10, 1964
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ADDRESS OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS TO
TUE.SECIETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
November 10,., 1964
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MEMORANDUM TO: Members of the
FOREIGN AREA RESEARCH COORDINATION GROUP (FAR)
FROM Wm. J. Nagle, Chairman, FAR
SUBJECT Foreign Area Research Notes
* * * * *
The External Research Staff, which serves as the FAR
Secretariat, receives a great deal of information on develop-
ments in foreign area research, both in government and in the
academic community; We should like to share some of the more
significant information with FAR members through an occasional
memorandum such as this
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CLOSING THE DOCUMENTATION GAP
MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
'FAR in the RECORD
ARMY' ANNOUNCES CINIAC
REVOLUTIONARY INTERNATIONALS REVIEWED
THE SEARCH FOR NEW RESEARCH
SCHOLARS LOOK AT INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS RESEARCH
THIRD MEETING OF THE FAR GROUP
The third meeting or the full Foreign Area Research
Coordination Group is scheduled for Wednesday, December 2,
7964 in the Old Treaty Room of the Executive Office
Building, 17th and Pennsylvania Avenue. The focus of the
meeting will be research on Africa, both private and
government-sponsored, Invitations, agenda and documents
prepared by the External Research Staff will be dis-
tributed prior to the meeting.
Forthcoming FAR subcommittee meetings are: Latin
America, November 72; Documentation, November 17; China,
to be announced.
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CLOSING THE DOCUMENTATION GAP
? The Gap Perceived.
? New Documentation Center
? Growing Demand
? Collection Small but Choice
? Toward Better Documentation
That the documentation gap is growing was confirmed in
the FAR Documentation Subcommittee's recent survey of govern-
ment foreign area research community information needs.,
Respondents ranging from the working level to ambassadorial and
assistant secretary rank called for (by a five-to-one majority)
a central documentation center for research reports. As stated
by the director of the U.S. Naval War College library, "There
is a pressing need for a service center similar in operation to
the DDC LPefense Documentation CenteI7 to distribute copies of
completed reports of government-sponsored research in foreign
areas."
A first step toward meeting this need was the establish-
ment last month in the External Research Staff of the Foreign
Area Research Documentation Center. A vest pocket operation by
comparison with the Defense Documentation. Center, the Office of
Technical Services, and other established centers, FAR's new
service nonetheless performs some unique functions. No other
documentation center:
1. seeks out private, as well as government-sponsored,
research reports;
2. collects systematically papers given at academic
meetings--papers that report research findings months or years
in advance of formal publication;
3. obtains by Special request manuscripts and galleys of
forthcoming books;
4. focuses on the foreign area and foreign policy research
needs of State, Defense, AID, USIA, ACDA, and other government
agencies.
The new FAR center grows out of the continuing effort
since 1948 by the External Research Staff to identify and
acquire foreign area research materials that complement the
government's own in-house studies and/or meet policy needs. An.
informal loan collection that functioned in nameless anonymity
for many years was the precursor of the new center. ,In recent
months requests for papers and other documents available have
doubled and doubled again._ The nearly 300 re-quests in Sep-
tember rose in October--when the documentation center Was
established--to over 500.
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Clients are many.
Requesters, while repre-
senting a cross-section of
the government foreign area
research community, come
chiefly from those FAR 500
agencies most concerned
with foreign affairs. Much
use has been made of the
new center by State's
Policy Planning Council and
Bureau of Intelligence and 400
Research, DOD's Office of
International Security
Affairs and Defense In-
telligence Agency, Air
Force's Deputy Chief of
Staff For Flans and Oper- 300
ations, USIA's Research and
Refepence staff, AID's
Office of Technical Cooper-
ation and Research, to
mention but a few. Mili-
tary posts outside Washing- 200
ton, notably Fort Bragg and
Ford, Gordon, are frequent
requesters. This service
Is not unknown, finally, to
State, AID, and USIA
missions overseas; the list ino
of such addressees this 1964
year begins with Abidjan,
Accra, Addis Ababa, Ankara,
Asuncion, Bangui, Benghazi,
Brasilia, Brazzaville, and continues through Yaounde.
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NUMBER
OF REQUESTS
529
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03, 0
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Despite its modest size, the Foreign Area Research
Documentation Center offers a variety of materials not easily
available elsewhere. Its particular strength lies in the
papers from academic meetings, in the collection of which the
External Research Staff has been and continues to be a pioneer.
In September, for example, the Staff added to the collection
some 200 selected foreign area research papers presented at
recent meetings of the American Political Science Association,
the American Sociological Association, the Georgetown Congress
on French Speaking Africa, and the Internatbnal Political
Science Association in Geneva. Other materials obtained in
quantity include university research center reports, article
reprints, and occasional papers.
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The collection is small but choice. Received monthly
are 60 copies of the little known but highly useful reports
filed by American Universities ?Field Staff correspondents
throughout the: less-developed world. Received last week was
one of the three complete sets (the onlyone obtained in the.
executiVe.branch) ..of ..the 40 papers given at the Second Inter- ?
national Arms Control and. Disarmament Symposium held earlier
this year in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Also to be found is a
salting of advance copies of articles and books, generally
manuscripts obtained on special request, but also including
publishers galleys and the like. Just entering the col-
lection for the first time are tape recordings of foreign area
research conference sessions, an External Research Staff
innovation- in the documentation field,
The Staff has done less well in the collection of
government-sponsored research reports. The hundreds of
reports per month flowing from foreign area contract studies
have all too often been unavailable outside the sponsoring
office. It was to give new impetus to the collection and
dissemination of such reports in particular that the Foreign
Area Research Documentation Center Was established. Following
guidelines laid down by FAR's Documentation Subcommittee, the
new center will relate its activities very closely to the
revamped inventories of Government-Sponsored Research on
Foreign Areas,
Reports are available to personnel of all FAR member
agencies, generally on loan for ten working days. Retention
copies may be had in some cases. New reports are listed in a
compilation published monthly. Special, lists brought out
occasionally include cumulative listings on particular
!F.OREIGN AREA RESEARCH. DOCUMENTATION CENTER
DOCUMENT REQUEST
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INSTRUCTIONS
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REQUEST.
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WORK/NG DMYS. PLEASE RETURN
THEM PROMPTLY.
3. ADDRESS ALL REQUESTS TO
FOREIGN AREA RESEARCH DOCUMEN-
TATION CENTER
EXTERNAL RESEARCH STAFF
ROOM 9642
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON:, D.C./ 20520
4. TELEPHONE. 1ti2-2948
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REQUESTING OFFICE
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subjects, such as the problem of succession in the Soviet
Union: Requests may be lodged by telephone (Code 182-2948),
memorandum, telegram, or preferably, by the Document Request
Form reproduced on the preceding page, which will be attached
to all future monthly lists.
This new documentation center is a first step--much
remains to be done if the government foreign area research
community is to do more than merely wet its feet in the rising
tide of documentation.
MEETINGS ANp CONFERENCES
November 12 -13: American Philosophical Society, Philosophi-
cal Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
November 12 1A: Southern 'Political Science Association,
Jack Tarr Hotel, Durham, North Carolina.
November lb - 18: Peace Research Conference, Center for
? Continuing Education, University of Chicago,
? Chicago, Illinois.
November 19 - 22: American Anthropological Association,
Statler Hilton Hotel, Detroit, Michigan.
December
2
- 4:
"U.S. Relations with the Soviet Bloc,
Conference for Corporation Executives,
School of Advanced International Studies,
Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
December
3
- 5:
The Caribbean: Its Health Problems,
Conference on the Caribbean, School of
Latin American Studies, University of
Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
December
5:
D.C. Political Science Association, School
of Advanced International Studies, Johns'
Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
December
9:
"Power and Responsibility, u Institute of
World 'Affairs, Pasadena, California.
Deaembel
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- 21!
"Psychology for Cultural Progress, Inter-
American Congress of Psychology, Deauville
Hotel, Miami, Florida.
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rDecember 26 31:: American Association for the Advancement of
.Science, Queen Elizabeth -Hotel, 'Montreal,
Canada
December 27 - 29:: Modern Language Association, Statler Hilton
and Penn Zone Hotels, New York, New York.,
December 27 - 30: American Statistical Association, Fick-
Converse Hotel, Chicago, Illinois.
December 28 - 30: American Economic Association, Conrad
Hilton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois,
December 23 - 30 American Historical Association,. Sheraton
and Shoreham Hotels? Washington,. D.C.
FAR in, the .RECORD- . .
The October 2 Congressional Record (Vol. 110, No.
90, p. 22390) quotes a comment on FAR made by Representa-
tive Dante B. Fascell, Chairman of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs' Subcommittee on International Organi-
zations and Movements. Mr. Fascell cited one of the
Subcommittee recommendations made in its Report No. 2
(April 27, 19611):
Errective methods must be evolved to insure that
Llie results of research conducted by Government
agencies are promptly made available to all
agencies concerned with foreign policy operations.
Other arrangements must be worked out to divide
iPesearch assignments and make certain that all
requirements are covered to the extent that funds
are available. A system of priorities must be
established and enforced to insure that scarce
!resources?human and financial?are applied first
to the most urgent tasks.
The Congressman concludes by stating that "the
estabLishment of the coordinating group ZFAE7 is a step
in the direction recommended by this subcommittee."
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ARMY ANNOUNCES CINFAC
The Department of the Army recently announced the
establishment of the Counterinsurgency Information Analysis
Center (CINFAC) at The American University's Special Oper-
ations Research Office (SORO) . Under contract with the Army,
The American University has organized this ?facility to serve
the specialized information needs of the entire Defense
Department community, as well as those of other government
agencies concerned with today's international politico-
military problems. In accordance with Defense Policy, CINFAC
will not only classify, store, and retrieve information but,
utilizing the scientific resources of SORO, will also provide
analytical and other scientific advisory services to customer
agencies on what DOD calls the non-materiel aspects of
counterinsurgency problems.
Information in SORO files from the academic community,
from special consultants, and from government military and
civilian files will be processed, and stored in accordance
with a specialized classification system. As needed, infor-
mation will be retrieved, analyzed, supplemented by additional
data, and incorporated into the response to the customer.
CINFAC Is composed of a core of specialists analyzing,
evaluating and classifying information on insurgency and
counterinsurgency. These Specialists represent a variety of
academic backgrounds and possess -considerable experience with
operational problems in insurgency situations.
SORO has for several years conducted a broad research
effort for the Department of the Army on cross-cultural
problems affecting military operations among foreign peoples
and. societies. This effort has included studies in support
of Army missions involving psychological operations, un-
conventional warfare, counterinsurgency, military assistance
and related problem areas. Other studies have focused onthe
behavioral and, social processes underlying military oper-
ations, and the role of the military establishments in
foreign areas. The services of CINFAC are designed to
supplement continuing SORO programs; the informational base
and considerable research and analytical expertise within
SORO will in turn be utilized by CINFAC. ?
Likewise, CINFAC services may augment and be augmented
by efforts of other research and analysis centers, such as
the Battelle Memorial,Institute!.s Remote Areas Conflict
Information Center (RACIC) of Columbus, Ohio--in the physical
sciences--and the Department of the Army's Limited War
Laboratory at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.
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FAR members who want further information on the
activities and services of this new Center should contact
CINFAC Manger Richard H. Moore at SORO (Telephone EM 2-4030).
REVOLUTIONARY INTERNATIONALS REVIEWED
A three-day conference at Stanford University last
month reviewed the tortuous path of Marxist ideology, Commu-
nist history, Sino-Soviet relations, and the future of the
Communist movement. Scores of American and foreign scholars,
some of them among the world's most distinguished authorities
on modern revolutionary movements, attended the Hoover
Institution conference October 5-7, One Hundred Years of
Revolutionary internationals,"
The meeting was an ambitious affair. More than thirty
papers were read during the all-day sessions, and many of
them provoked lively controversy among the principal
participants and the far-from-passive members of the audi-
ence. The subjects ranged widely, touching on a variety of
topical problems, including "Khrushchevism," the prospects
for pluralistic Communism, and Marxism in the developing
countries.
Most presentations were at least lively and often
enlightening. Among the more notable figures from abroad who
attended and gave papers were Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin,
Richard Lowenthal, and Leonard Schapiro. The U.S. was well
represented by Merle Fainsod, Adam Ulam, Daniel Bell, Carl
Landauer, and Sidney Hook. Rounding out this distinguished
group visiting scholars was the strong contingent of
Soviet Ind Communist experts currently residing at the Hoover
Institution, including such well-known figures as Bertram
Wolfe and Theodore Draper.
The conference papers will be published eventually in
bok form In the meantime copies of the papers are avail-
able to government officers through the Foreign Area Research
Documentation .Center of the External Research Staff.
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TEE SEARCH FOR NEW RESEARCH
The External Research Staff has found that a rich and
varied source for timely information on foreign area research
is to be found in the newslettersand bulletins issued more
or less regularly by both private and government organi-
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zations. Many of these publications are available free for
the asking; others have moderate subscription rates. Brief
and designed for quick scanning, they frequently provide
advance information on projects of special interest to both
research administrators and analysts concerned with inter-
national affairs.
Although not exhaustive, the list below indicates the
scope and variety of newsletters and bulletins currently
received by the External Research Staff. Further information.:
about these publications is available from the Staff--the FAR
Secretariat (Telephone Code 182-2875).
ACLS Newsletter (American Council of Learned Societies)
African Studies Bulletin
ADC Newsletter (Agricultural Development Council)
AHA Newsletter (American Historical Association)
ALAS Newsletter (Association for Latin American Studies)
Alumni Newsletter, Russian Institute, Columbia University
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Newsletter
American Psychological AssOciation Newsletter
American Society of International Law Newsletter
AMSAC Newsletter (American Society of African Culture)
Asia Society Letter
Association for Asian Studies Newsletter
ASTE Bulletin. (Association for the Study of Soviet-Type
Economies)
The Brookings Bulletin and Press Releases
BSSR Newsletter (Bureau of Social Science Research)
Bulletin on International Education (American Council on
Education)
CAG Newsletter (Comparative Administration Group, American
Society for Public Administration)
Carnegie Corporation of New York Quarterly
The Center Diary (Center for the Study of Democratic
Institutions)
CRC Newsletter (Communications Research Center, Boston
University)
East-West Center News (University of Hawaii)
Fellow Newsletter (American Anthropological Association)
Ford Foundation News
Graduate Faculties Newsletter (Columbia University)
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Har4ard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research News-
letter
InformationBulletin (Special Projects Division, Frederick
. A. Praeger?.PUblishers)
IteMs (Social Science Research Council)
W. K,,Kellogg.Foundation Press Releases
Land Tenure Center Newsletter (University of'Wisconsin)
Latin .American Language.. and Area Centers. Newsletter
(Columbia University)
Looking Ahead ? (National Planning Association)
Mongolia Society Newsletter
National Planning _Association Press. Releases
Newsletter of-the International Commissionof Jurists
Newsnotes on Education Around the World (HEW) (Dis-.
continued after September 1964 issue)
Peace Research Society Newsletter
Research News (University of Michigan)
Rockefeller Foundation Grants
SESSI Newsletter (Society for the Psychological Study of
Social Issues)
SSSR Newsletter (Society for the Scientific Study of
Religion)
Twentieth Century. Fund Newsletter
University of Southern CalifOrnia_Press Releases,
Universities ,Committee on the Problems of War and_Peace-
Newsletter
VITA- (-Volunteers for International TechnicaLAsaistance)
What.HumRRO is Doing_ (Human Resources Research Office,
George Washington University)
SCHOLARS LOOK AT INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS RESEARCH
Since. World.War II, scholarship in international
affairs. has grown so voluminous, and complex that researchers,
government officials, and others interested in:the-field face,
:serious problems of communication and evaluation. It has
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become almost impossible for them to keep trackiof the
important research being done in international relations and
to judge its quality.
Because many leading scholars believe that steps can
?be taken to help alleviate these problems, the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace is sponsoring the work of a
Committee on Research Evaluation in the field of International
Relations. The Committee has held three meetings since
December 1963, and plans to publish its report in late 1965.
The Committee's Chairman is Professor Philip E.
Wisely, Director of the European Institute and Associate Dean
of the Faculty of International Affairs at Columbia University.
Dr. E. Raymond Platig of the Carnegie Endowment will prepare
the final report, whiCh, as now planned, will deal with the
following topics: International Relations as a Field for
Research (History and Definition); the Nature and Functions of
Research; Forms and Procedures for Evaluating Research;
Oriteria for Eyaluating Research in International Relations;
and Recommendations.
Communications relating to matters of concern to the
4mmittee are welcome, and should be addressed to Dr. Platig
qt the Carnegie Endowment, 345 East 46th Street, New York 17,
[low York.
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