FDD PROGRAM FOR SOUTH ASIA AND AFRICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03130A000100020064-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 64
• Content Type: REQ

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PDD PROM M MR SOUTH ASIA AND AFRIG&
The following reports will be issued in the PDD Summary series consisting
in general of summaries of information in newspapers, periodicals, and mono-
graphs. This program is outlined in broad terms and subject to specific
refinement through operational liaison.
1, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
Monthly Report on India Pakistan and ani ta,n
This report will be broken down by co mtries.
Subjects: a. Data on Soviet economic penetration in Afghanistan
b. Comment on external affairs (from the provincial press only)
c. Developments in and India's relation with Kashmir, Nepal,
Sikkim., Bhutan, Assam* and Tibet (from the local--lang e
press only)
d. Political activities and develop.rrents in Pakistan (i.e. Azad
Keebmir; the North West Frontier province, tribal areas,,
and states; Baluchistan province and states; and East Bengal)
e. Characteristic of the people in major regions of Pakistan
(i.e. Bengali, Baluchi, Sindhi, Punjabi, Puahtna Pahari
region of Azad Kashmir, and Pakistan-occupied Gilgit and
Western Ladakh as support for NIS Section No 42)
f.. Religion, Education, and Public Information in Afghanistan
(to support MIS Section No 43)
g, Comments on Hindu-Moslem relations
h. Organized labor activities
i. Military information (only peebaining to army and air
force data on Afghanistan and from al-Hilgll on Pakistan)
J. Transportation and telecommunications (including graphic
information on airfields)
k. Industry and agriculture
1. Geographic information (surveys, accounts of travels in
little known areas)
nao Information on governmental structure, both central and
local, for Afghanistan
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2. Africa
Monthly Report.on Africa
This report will contain information on Tunisia, French and Spanish Morocco.,
Tangier, Lybia, French West and bquatorial Africa (including French Togoland and
Caineroons), Belgian Congo, Portuguese Africa, Somalia, Eritrea,, Ethiopia, French
Somalialand, Madagascar, and Union of South Africa, by countries.
Subjects: a,, Activities of political parties and organizations
(especially native, settler pressure, and turopean
groups in Ta Mier, wench and Spanish North Africa,
Belgian Congo, and Portuguese Africa; local organi-
zations of French political parties in French North
Arica)
b, Political agitation and tribal unrest (including
detailed data on units, rsonalities, and buildings
involved in Aorth Africa)
c. Comments on internal and external affairs (including
political and social reforms; spread of Islam and
Christianity in Belgian Congo, French West and
Equatorial Africa; federation of Eritrea with Ethiopia;
Somalia's preparation for independence, by 1960)
d, Sociolo4ca]. developments affecting growth of nationalism,
e, Organized labor activities (including affiliation,
strength, personalities,, and elections)
f. Military for Africa south of Sahara (local military and
security forces including personalities; bibliographic
references to military and economic publications)
g. Transportation and telecommunications (including logistic
problems)
h. Industry and Agriculture (including mining)
i, Geographic (surveys, accounts of travels in little known
areas)
J, Biographic (information on leading economic personalities
and third-strata officials)
3o Items on Communist and Comnunista.frout activities,, East-West travel and
contacts, East-West trade, and international arms traffic will be reported in
the Weekly Selected Briefs from the International Press.
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