1 - 30 SEPTEMBER, 1967 - FS REPORT (SANITIZED)

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 13, 2006
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: September 1, 1967
• Content Type: REPORT

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CHINA TASK FORCE NEWSLETTER
OCI-1544-67
1 September 1967
China Task Force Address: OCI/CTF, Room 5G19
Secretariat: Extension 4028 Black 9376 Red
(NOTE: Data in the Newsletter is limited to SECRET classification)
INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES AND REPORTS
1. With the establishment of the Office of Strategic
esearch on 1 July the responsibility for research on Chicom
strategic military and military related subjects within the
DDT was assigned to this office, along with the existing
facilities:: Military Division, OCI; Military Branch, China
Division, OCI; and the Military-Economic Res h ea of 25X1
the former ORR (including its China Branch).
25X1
also became a part of OSR.
2. The contract withi
to analyze
Chicom scientific literature is being rene7otiatea for a
second year betweeni
and OSI?s Physical Sciences
and Engineering Division. en s i lin are covered under
this contract. A similar contract
l
for electronics
has hPon active for several years and is a ng continued.
OSI/PSED, x7911 Black,1521 Red may be consulted
for furor information.
3. Reports Published
a. The Economic Outlook for Communist China,
NIB-1:3-5-67, 29 June 67, (SECRET, CONTROLLED DISSEM)
b. The Outlook for Hong Kong, Intelligence
Memorandum, DDI, 25 Aug 67, No. 1383/67 (SECRET, NO
FOREIGN DISSEM)
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PRODUCTION SUPPORT ACTIVITIES
1. The Central Reference Service (formerly Office of
Central Reference) will, during the coming months, regroup
itself into its new configuration. It will have. a Documents
Systems Group (responsible essentially for acquisition,
dissemination, and files) and an Information Services Group
(responsible essentially for indexing and information request
service). This latter Group will be organized geographically
with USSR,, FEZPAV ET NE/AF and WH Divisions, and the
CIA Library. I who has been associated with the
CHIVE development for several years, is head of the FE/PAC
Division, which will be the first Division to be activated,
now scheduled for 9 October 1967. (ex BR and CHIVE)
is he China Branch. For further data please refer
tol
2. Graphics Register, CRS, has prepared for the Task
Force a descriptive listing of its total film holdings on
Communist China as of 3 August 1967. This listing is in
f our parts:
a. Chinese Communist (i.e. produced in Communist
China) Newsreels, Documentaries, and Features
b. Soviet Newsreels and Documentaries
c. Communist Productions Relating to Communist
d. Non-Communist Productions on/or Relating to
Communist China.
:ttalo;ue of Chinese Literature on Modern China (Gendai
The items number about 1200, from 1 minute film clips to
2 hour features. For each item the list gives title,
producer, year of production, film size (mostly 16 mm),
silent or sound, BW or color, classification, showing time.
The CTF Secretariat will maintain its copy for your
reference. A second reference copy is held in Graphic
s.g;ister';s Film Branch x5515, Room 1E4822) ,
3. CIA Library now has volumes 1, 2, and 5 of the Union
C'iu ;ol u k.ankei Chugolr.ugo Bu ken Sogo ASokuroku , issued by
the Institute of Asian Economic Affairs (Ajia Keizai
~ enkyujo, Tokyo. Volumes 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 are in process.
This union catalgoue contains the holdings of over twenty
":;?.:jor Japanese libraries, including the National Diet
aAbrary, Toyo Bunko, and i ost important university libraries.
Compilation was started in 1.963. First volumes were published
Lair Isar .
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in recogn
Communist; 1s,
Staff has been renamed thel
Staff,
9, "Radio Peace and Progress", a Mandarin language, STATSPEC
purportedly unofficial, radio station in Moscow, sponsored
by Soviet public organizations, has increased its propaganda
broadcasts to China from 31.5 to 52.5 hours a week. Total
Mandarin broadcast time of both Radio Moscow and "Radio Peace
and Progress" remains the same, however, at 182 hours a week,
according to FBIS' Survey of Communist Propaganda, Vol XX,
No. 16, 3. Aug 67 A
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10, During the summer the Far East/Pacific Branch of
the Office of Basic and Geographic Intelligence has been updat-
ing and revising bibliography on translations on the
geography of Commun China, The new bibliography includes
onl translations and :is cross-indexed by topic and areaSTATSPEC
(pr v C,13 and major cities). The bibliography is expected
to be several hundred pages in length and includes many
translations peripheral to the field of geography. Although
originally use project it is now planned to have it
published b STATSPEC
11o placed on file in the CIA
Library a 37-page report by Dwight Perkin Q~ my 25X1
and Its International Impact. For T / C , se
( ,
Oriental Language Materials, Aug 25 is available from the
Secretariat. It supplements an earlier bibliography on Mao
120 The Red Guard Atlas, mentioned in the May Newsletter,
has been photo-reproduced and copies disseminated. If you
are interested and haven?t seen a copy, the CTF Secretariat
has a few copies for distribution. Note- It is in Chinese,
not English.
13. A bibliography: The Thinking of Mao Tse-tung,
Tse-tung issued by the CIA Library,
14, The Office of Training has published new,expanded
Simplified Character List, 1_.967, Copies are available in the
Secretariat.
1. joined CIA and the China Branch,
Physical 5ci neering Division, OSI, during August.
He will be working in the field of physical chemistry, in
which field he has just received his PhD from the University
of South Carolina.
2.1 formerly chief of China Division,
FEA, OC , wno recently re urned from the Senior Seminar In
Foreign Policy, has been appointed as Assistant to the
Director of OCI for Daily Production. He will be responsible
for the Central Intelligence Bulletin and Digest and the
Situation In Vietnam report.
3. In Jul became Acting Chief,
Fore' ranc , unina vision, Far East Area, OCI,
vice , reassigned.
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4. Returning from a year of ull time traininLy to the 25X1
China Division/FEA/OCI are
joininz tho Foreign Policy Branch, and 25X1
joining the Internal Branc .
5. has transferred from China Division,
Far East Area, OCI, to the Far East Branch, Communist Division,
OER. She has also `u announc2e51her engagement to another
OER China hand-1 I
CIA Library, who has been working
on our China collection, inter alia since World War II, will
leave us in September to b of Libraries
for Reader Services at the The Chin95X1
Task Force wishes him well in his new job.
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7 Asia Division has been
granted a year LWOP to pursue study of C inese history at GW.
8. There were five interns in the production offices
during this summer:
Name
OSR Washington Univ.
Princeton
.Y.U.
Indiana OCI N.Y.U.
OBGI Syracuse Univ.
Harvard Business
Dartmouth
UCLA
UCLA
9. Full time training
a. China Division, OCI:1 25X1
completed a summer of Chinese anguage s u y in
Washington and will leave soon for a ear of Chinese
studies, at Harvard and Iat Stanford. 25X1
b. OER: As reported in the first Newsletter, five
specialists were completing a year of Chinese language
study an would continue with a year of academic study-
GW or Geo GW;
Columbia; of California
in Berkeley; Harvard became a part
of OSR when i was ormed (see above).
Undergraduate Summer 1967-68 Graduate
School Internship Plans
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NEWS FROM THE ACADEMIC WORLD
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1. The 27th International Congress of Orientalists
met at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 13-19 August.
This was the first time the Congress had been held in the
Western Hemisphere. Preliminary report gave attendance at
2300. Several Agency representatives were there. There
were sessions each day on Early China and Modern China.
In general copies of papers were not available. A collection
of abstracts may be published later.
20 The Southeast Regional Conference on Asian Studies
of the Association for Asian Studies will be held on 26 and
27 January 1968 in Durham, N.C. The host will be Duke
University's Committee on International Studies. Prof. R. I.
Crane is Chairman of the Local Arrangements Committee.
reports that according
to Chinese Studies, U. of
California Berkeley), will use the recent Ford grant for
research;, training and librarianship for the next five years,
and that the money has definitely been allocated for
China" studies, with emphasis on Communist China
added that the term "Modern China" would be interpreted
liberally to include Nationalist China studies if they prove
relevant to the primary research on mainland China.
4.1 reports that the University
of Pitt Burg as a program of research studies on
contemporary China. The first two publications in this
program have been received by the CTF. They are "A Theoretical
Debate Among the Chinese Communists After Their Break With
t he .ision sm Corite'mporary China No. and -
The Case of Comrade Feng Ting and the Three Main Issues In the
Great Proletarian Revo ution Contemporary 'china Noo -.I, The
25X1 will send us additional items as they are
PUDITRUTZ1.
54 Under sponsorship of the National Science Foundation
several Acta Sinica series are being translated cover-to-cover.
Specificit1ly -the-T4'Iathematica, Entemol.ogica, Geologica,
Automatica, and Physics are--in process, Mans for translation
- the .-ctronina have been discussed but not implemented.
6. 1 has informed us of the
25X1 reactive ion of the Institute o Chinese Culture in New
York City on 30 April. report includes the 38 names
of the members of the Boar or Directors and 15 of the Board
of Supervisors. Anyone interested in, a copy of this item may 25X1
call either the Secretariat orl ext. 20960
25X1 Reference is
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7e With reference to the release of the Red Guard
newspapers to the academic world, reported in the previous
ewslett. he China Task Force has sponsored the publication
I lof two volumes of "Samples of Red Guard Publication".
450 copes of each were made available for distribution to
academic insititutions b y the External Research Staff and the
8, The Hoover Library has been given the private
collection of research material on China belonging to the
late Dr, Stanley K. Hornbeck, China expert and veteran diplomat,
who died earlier this year. About ll tons of materials are
involved.
9, The Inter Documentation Company AG, Zug, Switzerland,
describesits East-Asia micro-editions program as follows:
"The IDC project of micro-editions on East Asia includes:
materials on East Asia in general, China, Japan, Korea, etc.
in Western and native languages. They are selected on the
basis of their usefulness in research and their non-availability
on the market..." The publications planned for microfiching
were selected by Prof. T. H. Tsien of the University of
Chicago and Chairman of the Committee on East Asian Libraries
of the AASO A copy of the list is on file in the CTF Secretariat.
10, The China News Analysis (Father LaDany, Hong Kong)
is now publishing a ineseIanguage text of Chicom provincial
broadcasts. A sample subscription has been made by the PPO
on behalf of Asia Divisio4 Items are sold at $2:..`50 STATSPEC
each for up to 2,000 words. Lon er items cost $4000. For
further information call Acquisitions Branch, 25X1
OCR, ext. 3404.
11? According to the Newsletter of the AAS, a group of
American correspondents in Asia publish:a,n.Asia'Letter,,Y,
weekly. It is written in Tokyo and Hong Kong, Subscription
$65 a year. If you're interested, the US address is
Box 54149, Los Angeles, 90054.
12. The Board of Directors of the Association of Asian
Studies has changed the name of the Committee on American
Library Resources on the Far East (CALRFE) to Committee on
East Asian Libraries (CEAL), effective 1 July. The Executive
Committee now consists of eleven members. three faculty
members (Joseph Levenson, California; Roger Hackett, Michigan;
and Earl Pritchard, Arizona); six library members (TOH, Tsien,
Chicago; Ruth Krader, Washington (Seattle); Elizabeth Huff,
California; Yukihisa Suzuki, Michigan; Karl Lo, Kansas; and
K. T. Wu, LC); and two ex-officio members, Edwin Beal and
Warren Tsuneishi, both of LC.
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13. The Committee on East Asian Libraries (see item 12)
is sponsoring a project for a Union list of Chinese Red
Guard Newspapers and other materials in American libraries.
It will be prepared by Richard Sorich of the East Asian
Institute at Columbia. The list will also include translations
prepared. by Hong Kong; Union Research Institute,
Hong Kong
14. Howard Boorman will join the History Department of
Vanderbilt University in September, 1967, For the past 12
years he has been editing the Biographical Dictionary of
Republican China, at Columbia Un vvTTVol I-of thisdictionary
was published recently and Vol II will appear shortly. The
remaining three volumes are scheduled for publication in 1968?
China Articles In Journals Not Devoted to the Area
(Articles are not available in the Secretariat)
The World Significance of China's "Second Revolution", W. A.
C. Adie, Mizan, May/June 167 and China?s"Second Liberation",
by same author, International Affairs, (London), July 1967
Moscow and the Chinese Missile, Fritz Ermarth, Military
Review, April 1967 Chinese Nuclear Development, Kishida, Junnosuke, Japan
Quarterly, April-June 1967
Capitalists and Managers In Communist China, Barry M.
Richman, Harvard Business Review, Jan.-Feb '67
From the "Big Leaps" to the "Cultural Revolution", A. Nekrasov,
International Affairs (Moscow), May 1967
Industrial Aid To Agriculture In Communist China, Leslie T.
Co Kuo, International Development Review, June 1967
Mao's China: The Decline of A Dynasty, L. LaDany, Foreign
Affairs, July 1967
East Wind, West Wind (Chinese Students In Cardiff), Donald
Thomas, Encounter, July 1967
The Possible Implications of the Present Turmoil In China,
E. Iiinterhoff, Contemporary Review, June 1967
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Red Against Red (USSR vs Red China In the Middle East),
Victor Zorza, Atlas, August 1967
The Mind of China (Time Essay), Time, 17 March 67
On Understanding Asia (Time Essay), Time, 1 July 67
We Are Slaves Who Have Been Betrayed, Ma Sitson, Life,
:L4 July 67
The People's Middle Kingdom, John K. Fairbanks, Foreign
Affairs (US), July 66 (Repeat '66)
Japan's Quiet War Against Mao, Lester Velie, Reader's
Digest, August 1967.
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