DRAFT DCID 2/4 ON EXPLOITATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00069A000200010007-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 24, 1958
• Content Type: MISC

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IAC-D-105/24
24 April 1958
INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Draft DCID 2/4 on
Exploitation of Foreign Language Publications
1. Attached is draft DCID 2/4 covering IAC responsibilities and
arrangements for exploiting foreign language publications.
2. Approval of this DCID would provide the necessary machinery
for continuing the program which to date has been carried out by the
Exploitation Subcommittee of the IAC Advisory Committee on Foreign
Language Publications, organized under the old NSCID #16. Coordina-
tion of the present draft was accomplished through this Committee.
3. This item will be placed on the agenda of an early IAC
meeting, together with the Fifth Annual Report of the Advisory
Committee on Foreign Language Publications (IAC-D-60/7) and draft
DCID 2/5 - Procurement of Foreign Language Publications (IAC-D-105/25).
Acting Secretary
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24 April 1958
DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO.
EXPLOITATION* OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS**
Pursuant to the provisions of NSCID NO. 2, paragraph -, the following
policies and procedures are established.
1. The Central Intelligence Agency shall:
a. Provide,ias a service of common concern, for the exploitation
of fore:4gn language publications for intelligence purposes in
accordance with requirements established by the IAC departments
and agencies.
b. Coordinate this service with similar activities maintained by
the various departments and agencies of the government to
satisfy their departmental requirements: Provide, that such
coordination shall not prejudice the maintenance of facilities
necessary to meet their departmental demands.
2. The various departments and agencies of the government shall keep
vqoi the Central Intelligence Agency advised of departmental activities in the
exploitation and translation of foreign language publications.
3. There is hereby established the Committee on Exploitation of
Foreign Language Publications, an interdepartmental committee under the chair-
manship of the Central Intelligence Agency. Members of the IAC are invited to
designate representatives to this Committee. Other departments and agencies
of the government may be invited by the Committee to participate in discussions
of matters in which-they have an interest. The Committee shall advise and assist
the Central Intelligence Agency in the implementation of this directive.
Exploitation of forei. n language ublications includes the ,
g p , preparation in
English of annotated bibliographies, abstracts of articles or publications,
extracts or summaries of specific information in publications, selective trans-
lation of key portions of publications, compilations and collations of specific
information from a variety of publications and the use of special approaches
and techniques to derive or synthesize information required and available from
foreign language publications.
Publications are defined for the purpose of this DCID as: "Any multi-copy
works, excluding maps, placed on sale or otherwise distributed or offered
for distribution."
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