(UNCLD) EXPLOITATION REQUIREMENTS NOT PRESENTLY MET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03130A000100030031-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2006
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: September 9, 1955
• Content Type: MF

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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
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MEMORANDUM FOR CHAIRMAN, SUB-COMMITTEE ON EXPLOITATION OF
FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS
SUBJECT: (Uncid) Exploitation Requirements Not Presently Met
1.
Reference is made to the minutes of the meetings of
the Exploitation Sub-Committee on 8 July 1955 and 12 August
1955, and to your memorandum for members dated 1 July 1955.
2. It is recognized that adequate exploitation facilities
are lacking on certain areas of foreign language publications.
This is particularly true, insofar as the Air Force is con-
cerned, in the periodical literature field. As you know, the
present joint periodical exploitation project participated
in by FDD/CIA, ATIC, and AID/LC, is an initial and vital step
towards solution of the above inadequacy. It is felt that
the majority of the truly valuable available items have been
covered in that program. A review of USAF production agencies
reveals diminishing interest in the unexploited titles on the
on inal list of USSR scientific and technical periodicals as
well as on newly published and newly received items. The
slight interest in Satellite scientific and technical journals
is probably caused by the degree of duplication of Soviet
press material by the captive nations press.
3. In spite of the above, USAF would find desirable ex-
ploitation by abstract rather than by collation of the follow-
ing:
a. Six of the nine newly published Soviet scientific
periodicals;
(1) Akusticheskiy Zhurnal
Acoustics Journal
(2) Dopovidi Akademii Nauk Ukrains'ksy RSR
Reports of the Academy of Sciences Ukrainisn
SSR
(3) Izmeritel'naya Tekhnika
Measurements Techniques
(4) Laboratornoye Delo
Laboratory Prac
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Memo for Chairman, Sub-Committee on Exploitation of Foreign
Language Publications - (Cont'd)
Subj: (Uncld) Exploitation Requirements Not Presently Met
(5) Ogneupory
Refractories
(6) Stall
Steel
titles;
b. Nine of the forty-three "left-over" periodical
(1)
Biokhimiya
Biochemistry
(2) Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Estonskoy SSR
(3)
News of the Academy of Sciences Estonian SSR
Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Latviyskoy SSR
News of the Academy of Sciences Latvian SSR
(4) Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Mat-
ematicheskaya
News of the Academy of Sciences USSR, Math-
ematics Series
(5)
Khologil'naya Tekhnika
Refrigeration Engineering
(6) Matematicheskiy Sbornik
(7)
(8)
(9)
Mathematics Symposium
Uspekhi Matematicheskikh Nauk
Progress of Mathematical Sciences
Zhurnal Analiticheskoy Khimii
Journal of Analytical Chemistry
Zhurnal Obshchey Khimii
Journal of General Chemistry
c. Three of the seventeen titles listed as spot re-
port material;
(1) Gorniy Zhurnal
Mining Journal
CONFIEN TI4L
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Memo for Chairman, Sub-Committeecn Exploitation of Foreign
Language Publications - (Cont!d)
Subj: (Uncld) Exploitation Requirements Not Presently Met
(2) Standartizatsiya
Standardization
(3) Svaroshnoye Proisvodstva
Welding
4. In view of the capability for monographic exploita-
tion enjoyed by the USAF through the Air Information Division,
we are not inclined to sponsor augmentation in that field.
However, in principle the USAF supports the exploitation of
all SovBloc document sources for military type information.
5. One cause for anxiety, in the light of the proposed
augmentation, is the apparent inability of FDD/CIA to meet
the commitment already existing in the joint S&T periodical
abstracting program. Current information indicates that
ATIC has not received any abstracts dealing with any 1955
issues of the sixteen (16) periodical titles originally
scheduled for FDD exploitation. It is suggested that addi-
tional manpower, if available as a result of the proposed
action, might be more effectively utilized in bolstering the
initial program.
HOWARD G. NEUMANN
Major, USAF
Member
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USE OF TRANSLITERATION HANDBOOK - AFd(Y
-ft 1. Zn early 1954, G2, DA, requested and received 500 copies
of the Transliteration Handbook. These were disseminated internally
within G2 and to the DA Technical Services, the Army Attaches, Army
Liaison officers, and Field Commands together with a letter of in-
struction concerning the use of the handbook.
2. The standard transliterations are currently being employed by
DA personnel with limited exceptions. Many, if not most, of these ex-
ceptions result from personnel turnover, and when deviations from the
accepted transliteration systems are noted, instructions are sent to
the office involved to correct the situation.
4. Although not specifically related to the problem of trans-
literation, a pressing requirement does exist for the adoption of
standard translations for important organizational and functional
terms, especially in Russian and the Eastern European Satellite
languages. An ad hoc Committee on Standardization of translated
Russian Terminology prepared a list of Russian terms with their
English equivalents in 1953, but either this was never approved
or it was never widely disseminated and adopted within the IAC.
5. It is proposed that the Subcommittee consider the problem
of standardization of terminology and take such action as may be
considered appropriate.
Q.
R. W. Bauer
Army Representative
Subcommittee on Exploitation
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