SUBCOMMITTEE ON EXPLOITATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03130A000100030053-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: July 13, 1998
• Content Type: OUTLINE

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27 May 1955
SUBCOM=TEE Ci! EXPLOITATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PLIBLICATIONS
1, PRESENT FDD PRC? I FOR LATIN AMERICA
The following is a description of the current FBI) program
for the exploitation of. foreign language documents on Latin America"
This program is devised to meet the needs of the IAC agencies as
previously expressed by their representatives on the Subcoim ittee
for the Exploitation of Foreign Langauge Publications and as.
modified through subsequent operational liaison with IAC analysts.
The sources covered by the program include central and pro-
vincial newspapers of the respective countries of Latin America,
selected perioeleals dealing with they subjects indicated, and
selected monographs
Results of the exploitation program are published in the Semiwee1 y
nfcrrration Report on .~ Latin America., which is marked "FOR O!!
FF ~ il'
~1enu an C+eitm~unoz~mxc~ st-ffg^s~nt organizations,
East-West travel and contacts, East-West trade, and international
kzms traffic are, reported' in the weekly Selected Briefs from the
International Press..
The Ser we Information Report on Latin America contains
information in the f Fisk subject categories on Argentina, Bolivia,
;?az i.1, Chile., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, El Salvador,, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Panama,, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela,, by countries.
lo Extc-mral Affairs
a, `comments on major issues in the UN (e.g., control of
atomic energy; admission of Coim unist China).
b, Comments on major issues in the OAS or inter American
meetings (especiaUy economic problems, Communism, colonial
issues, meetings of ministers of finance or econon- in Rio de
Janeiro, November 1954).
as Articles on controversial US policies.
d, Anti-US articles and propagmtnda,
2, Internal Political Affairs
a, Evidence of strong nation-2-List tendencies inimical to
US interests.
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be Anti- overnment activities: (1) articles on political
revolutionary and other movements m the weekly Cuban period-
ical Bohemia only; (2) report on former guerilla leaders, dis.-
turbancesp seizure of clandestine propaganda, radio trans-
mitters, etc., in Colombia; (3) activities of Argentina exiles
and evidence of Peronist penetrations in Uruguay; (4) personal,
attacks on higher government officials of the Dominican
Republic; (5) editorial accounts on activities of opponents
of Castillo regime in Guatemala,
co Significant political trends: (1) political develop-
ment in Colombia; political development in Cuba from the
weekly Cuban periodical Bohemia only; (3) relations of Partido
Popular and Communist Par Mexico; (4) any new party
coalition information and%or operation and their attitude toward
the administration in Chile; (5) political development in the
Brazilian states with reference to the 1955 presidential elections;
(6) government decrees of anti-Communist measures and electoral
rules from Gaceta Ofi~ only; (7) Church-State relations in
Argentina.
d. Organized labor develo mentsm(legislation, organization,
policies, e1 adera,and affiliations Guatemala, Brazil, Chile,
Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador,
Uruguay, and Venezuela).
3., Economic
National-level information only concerning foreign trade,
transportation, and telecommunications; electric power in Chile.
!t. Information concerning military and quasi-military forces
of Bolivia, Paraguay, and the Dominican Republic (order of battle,
training, equipments installations, organization of top command and
units, civil defense).
SF nIIONTHLY INFORMATION REPORT FOR LATIN AMERICA
No 1
00-W 31127 6 Jan 55
No 2
00--W 31144 21 Jan 55
i o 4
00 W 331 7517 Feb 55
No 5
00-W 31182 2 Mar 55
No 6
00-W 31208 16 Mar 55
No 7
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00-W 31222 30 Mar 55
No
B
00-W 31252 19 Apr 55
No 9
00-W 31281 1. May 55
No 10
00-W 31291 17 May 55
*No 1.1.
00-W 31302
*Being published
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IL PUGtn: si) Cis T, GES IN THE FDD PROGRAM FOR LATIN AMERICA
The following modifications of the current program are re comme?ided
as a result of --omment from the substantive consumers of the infor.
nation presente i in the scheduled reports outlined above,,
delete and 3r lbt "meetings of ministers of finance or economy
in Rio de Janeiro, Nov 19540"
Arid le: References to official visits and courtesies
of Latin American governments to Do na u3 carx
Republic.
Aid let Government organization and political partiest
1) organization of governments operations and
relationships of government agencies} local
and regional government and relationship of
these levels to the national government in
Guatemala, Costa Rica, Argentina., and Uruguay;
2) names and positions of middle-ranking
government and party officials in Brazil.,
Bolivian and Chile; 3) activities and
organization of political parties in Uruguay,
Brazil. (in all states and Federal District),
Guate ralaq Costa Rica,, and Argentina; 4)
speeches by party leaders in the Brazilian
national congress on significant political,
ec;onom ie, and social legislation,
e 3t Economic, as fal.iows:
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National-level information only con-
eerring foreign trade, transportation,
ant
teleco nications;
Important industrial development (including
e!cctric power) in Guatemala, Argentina,,
wart Chile: plans, policy statements by
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