FUNCTIONS OF SPECIAL DOCUMENT SECTION

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 2013
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• Publication Date: May 12, 1947
• Content Type: REPORT

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The mission and functions of SDS may be summarized as follows:
Extracting from captured German and Russian documents factual
information pertaining to the USSR, and European satellites.
h. Preparing full translations of selected captured German and
Russian documents.
go Preparing project studies from collated documents on selected
subjects, as assigned or approved by the Chief, Intelligence
Group, ID WDGS.
ROTE: All current projects will be completed or merged with the
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Industrial
Card File before the transfer to CIG except two:
(1) Transportation and Communications of the USSR and
European Satellites
(2) Soviet Military Potential
Extracting and translating intelligence information from current
Russian newspapers and periodicals for inclusion in the above,
projects or in the Industrial Card Elle.
Maintaining and operating the Industrial Card Fit.
tains in fragmentary form all available information on individual
industrial installations in the USSR and satellite countries. It
was established by the Intelligence Division in October, 1946, in
direct coordination with the State Department, A-20 ONI and other
interested agencies. Agreement was reached on the essential elements
of information to be obtained on each plant and on a standard card
format. Since captured German and Russian documents proved the most
prolific and dependable source of such information, SDS was designated
as the central working agency for the project. The ICF now consists
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approximately 17,000 items which have been produced and circulated,
and 15,000 which are in process of reproduction.
The majority.of the information.is still extracted by the staff of SDS
from captured documents, which are borrowed from MOS and other document
repositpries and agencies in the USA and abroad. Information from other
sources is carded by the participating agencies and submitted to SDS for
collation, assignment of ICF number, reproduction, and dissemination.
Direct channels were set up between SDS and member agencies for all matters
pertaining to the ICF and to captured documents.
On completion of the card file, it is planned to have competent analysts
examine the information on each individual plant. After further collation,
checking, evaluation, and analysis of the collected data, they are to
produce a current basic plant list which will be adaptable for use on
International Business Machines.
2. Documents Branch will assume the functions described in Paragraph 1, a through
A4 and will continue the extraction of ICF information from foreign documents. A
daboliftd plan for the continued operation of the ICF by CIO, and the possible in-
corporation of the ICF into the Foreign Industrial Establishments project, should the
latter be implemented, will be prepared by ORE irs-ittinetkori=etorGQ-Ernd.416.
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Appendix Intelligence Functions of
German Military Documents Section
I. The following functions are now performed by the exploitation sub-section
of German Military Documents SeCtion:
a. Screening of all incoming documents shipments for material
of intelligence value; determining priorities for setting up
(by the archival sub-section) of documents or document collections
(1) Which contain material needed by Special Documents Section
or other intelligence agencies for exploitation or special projects,
(2) which require detailed screening and indexing for items of
intelligence interest.
b. Advising the archival sub-section as to the disposition of captured
documents which are (1) of no intelligence or military value; to be
deposited on permanent loan with other government agencies.
(2) Of primary technical value; to be exploited by the technical
services of the War Department.
c. Preparing information abstracts and compiling and maintaining an
index (known as the GMDS Intelligence Catalogue) of all items of
inteliigence value contained in documents in the German Military
Documents Section collection.
d. Indicating which documents are of particular interest to agencies
maintaining liaison groups with GMDS, such as the FBI, War Crimes
Commission, etc.
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(e) BOammdmAmg the security classification of captured
German documents, i.e., the upgrading or downgrading,
from the overall clagsification of "confidential,"
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of individual documents or information therefrom..
ketensitctrbzedP449hief, Information Control Branch,
Security Group, ID, WDGS)
(f) Determining the availability within GMDS of all documents
containing intelligence information on a specific bubject
in response to requests from authorized agencies. This
involves searching the collection for, and assembling the
relevant documents for the interested agency, but does not
include the translating of documents.
2. Documents Branch will assume the above functions and provide a
CIG detachment to operate in the Pentagon in direct conjunction with the
Adjutant General. The latter will take over the title "German Military
Documents Section," and all non-intelligence functions, such as those Of
the archival sub-section. These including receivingjlibrary cataloguing.,
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shelving, stori(,_ng, loaning recording and otherwise handling and disposing
of documents. A detailed plan for coordination and cooperation'between'CIG,
the Adjutant General, and the Intelligence Division on such matters as de-
classification, directives to field collecting agencies, etc. will be
submitted later.
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