CHINA TASK FORCE NEWSLETTER

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• Publication Date: September 1, 1967
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Issue No. 4
CHINA TASK FORCE NEWSLETTER
OC]:-1544-67
1 September 1967
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(NOTE: Data in the Newsletter is limited to SECRET classification)
INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES AND REPORTS
1. With the establishment of the Office of Strategic
onsibility for research on Chicom
the resp
;.research on 1 July
strategic military and military related subjects within the
DDI was assigned to this office, along with the existing
China
facilities: Military Division, OCI; Military Branch,
Division, OCI; and the Military-Economic Rese ?h Area of
former ORR (including its China Branch). 25X18
also became a part of OSR.
25X18 2. The contract with
Chicoxn scientific literature
n,,ra Ti np'i nearing Division.
to analyze
being renego 1 for a
lines are covered under
for several years and is be
25X1A
25X1 B
OSI/PSED, x7911 bIacc., 1041 Al""+
nformation.
for electronics
ng continued.
may be consulted
3. Reports Published
a. The Economic Outlook for Communist China,
NIE-13-5-67, 29 June 67, (SECRET, CONTROLLED DI SEEM)
b. The Outlook for Hong Kong, Intelligence
Memorandum, DDI, Aug FOREIGN DI SEEM)
and OS]['s Physical Sciences
25X1A
25X1A
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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, FE/PAC, EUROPE, NE/AF and Wit Divisions, and the
CIA Library. who has been associated with the
CHIVE develop en or 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) 25X1A
is Chief of the China Branch. For further data please refer
to 25X1A
25X1A 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
four 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.
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 co is held in Graphic
Register's Film Branch x557.5, Room 1E4822) .
3. CIA Library now has volumes 1, 2, and 5 of the Union
Catalogue of Chinese Literature on Modern China (Gendai
au ;o'.. u Kankei Ciiugokugo L unken Sogo Mokciroku , issued by
the Institute of Asian ;economic Affairs (Ajia Keizai
Nonkyujo, Tokyo. Volumes 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 are in process.
This union catal.;oue contains the holdings of over twenty
:aajor Japanese libraries, including the National, Diet
Library, Toyo Bunko, and most important university libraries.
;oa;mp;ilation was started in 1963. First volumes were published
his yoar.
25X1A
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5. In recognition of a high interest in Chinese
Communist materials, 25X1A
25X1A Staff has been renamed the 25X1A
25X1A Staff.
9. "Radio Peace and Progress", a Mandarin language,
purportedly unofficial, radio station in Moscow, sponsoredcTATSPEC
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.
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Far East/Pacific Branch of
h
e
10. During the summer t
the Office of Basi nd Geographic Intelligence has been updat-
ing and revising ai"bibliography on translations on t8TATSPEC
geogra h of Communist China. The new bibliography includes
only translations and is cross-indexed by topic a
SsEC
(provinces and major cities). The bibliography is exp
to be several hundred pages in length and includes maanyhough
translations peripheral to the field of geography. t
originally an in-house project, it is now planned to have it
published by-STATSPEC
25X1A 11o placed on file in the CIA
w The Chinese Economy
Library a 37-page repor by Perkins, 25X1A
and Its International Impact. For T/C sere
(FO
12. The Red Guard Atlas, mentioned in the May Newsletter,
has been photo-reproduced and copies disseminated. Ifayout
are interested and haven't seen a copy,
has a few copies for distribution. Note? It is in Chinese,
not English.
13. A bibliography: The Thinking of Mao Tse-tung,
Oriental Language Materials ; s available from the
ug Mao
Secretariat. It supplements an earlier 'bibliography on
Tse-tung issued by the CIA Library.
14. The Office of Training has published v new,expanded
Simplified Character List, 1967. Copies are Secretariat.
PERSONNEL
25X1A
le joined CIA and the China Branch,
a neering Division, OSI, during Auguste
Sciences n
Physical
He will be working in the field of physical chemistry, in
which field he has just received his PhI) from the University
of South Carolina.
25X1A 2. who formerly chief of China Division,
FEA, OCI, recently r ned from the Senior Seminar In
Foreign Policy, has been appointed as Assistant to the
Director of OCI for Daily Production. ]3e will be responsible
for the Central Intelligence Bulletin and Digest and the
Situation In Vietnam report.
25X1A 3, In July became Acting Chief,
Forei n Policy Branch, China v s My Far East Area, OCI,
25X1A vice reassigned.
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4. Returning from a year of full time trainin
China Division/FEA/OCI are
'
to the
25X1A
oinin he Foreign Policy Branch, and
25X1A
25X1A
joining the Internal Branca.
25X1A
5. has transferred from China Division,
Far East Area, ,, to the Far East Branch, Communist Division,
OER. She has also lust anno n ed her engagement to another
OER China hand- 25X1A
25X1A 6. CIA Library, who has been working
on our C na co,.ec ion, inter alia since World War II, will
leave us in September to become Assistant Direc o of Libraries
for Reader Services at the The China 25X1A
Task Force wishes him well in his new job.
25X1A
7. Asia Division,- has been STATSPEC
granted a year to pursue study of Chinese history at GW.
8. There were five interns in the ;production offices
during this summer:
Undergraduate
25X1A Name School
Summer
Internship
1967-68 Graduate
Plans
Princeton
OSR
Washington Univ.
Indiana
OCI
N.Y.U.
Dartmouth
OBG:[
Syracuse Univ.
Dartmouth
Harvard Business
UCLA
UCLA
9. Full time training
25X1A
25X1A
25X1A
a. China Division, OCI: 1A
have completed a summer of Chinese anguage s u y in
Washington and will leave soon for a year of Chinese
studies, at Harvard and at Stanford.
b. OER: As reported in the first Newsletter, five
specialists were completing a year of Chinese language
study and would continue with a year of academic study:
of OSR when i was rormed (see above
at GW or Georgetown; GW; 25X1A
Columbia; U. of California 25X1A
in Bert e1eyp Harvard. became a part 25X1A
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NEWS FROM THE ACADEMIC WORLD
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.
2. 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.
to the Center for Chinese Studies, U. ofv
Ca i orn a er a ey), will use the recent Ford grant for
25X1A research, training and librarianship for the next five years,
and that the money has definitely been allocated for "Modern
China" studies, with emphasis on Communist China.
added that the term "Modern China" would be interpre e
liberally to include Nationalist China studies if they prove
relevant to the primary research on mainland China.
25X1A 4. reports that the University
of Pittsburgh has 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
the Soviet Revisionism Contemporary China No, -and
The Case of Comrade Feng Ting and the Three Main Issues In the
Great Proletarian Revolution Conteiipo aar^y China N6-..' "he
25X1A will- sen us additional items as they are
published.
5. Under sponsorship of the National Science Foundation
several Acta Sinica series are being translated cover-to-cover.
Specifically--T A-athematica, Entemologica, Geologica,
Automatica, and Physics are in process. -Plans for translation
of the- ectronica have been discussed but not implemented.
25X1A 6, has informed us of the
"reactivation" of the Institute of Chinese Culture in New
York City on 30 April. report includes the 38 names 25X1A
of the members of the Board of Directors and 15 of the Board
of Supervisors. Anyone interested in a copy of this item may
call either the Secretaria o ext. 2096. 25X1A
Reference is
25X1A ?6?
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7, With reference to the release of the Red Guard
newspapers to the academic world, reported in the previous
Newsletter, the China Task Force has sponsored the publication
of two volumes of "Samples of Red Guard Publ8q gpJtC
copies o. each were made available for distribution to
academic insititutions by the External Research Staff and the
25X1A
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 11 tons of materials are
involved.
9, The Inter Documentation Company AG, Zug, Switzerland,
describes its 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 AAS, A copy of the list is on file in the CTF Secretariat.
10, The China News Analysis (Father LaDany, Hong Kong)
is now public ang a inesuage text of Chicom provincial
broadcasts. A sample subscription has been made by the PPO
on behalf of Asia Division Items are sold a?t $2 TSPEC
each for up to 2,000 words. Longer items cost $4,00.
further information call Acquisitions Branch, 25X1A
OCR, ext. 3404,
11, According to the Newsletter of the AAS, a group of
American correspondents in Asia publish on:Asia Letter,-,
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 (TOHO 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 AmConGen Hong Kong; Union Research Institute,
Hong Kong;
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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 Univo_Vol I of this dictionary
was puishd 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
available in the Secretariat)
The World Significance of China's "Second Revolution", W. A.
C. Adie, Mizan, May/June 167 and Chinaas'Second Liberation",
by same author, International Affairs, (London), July 1967
Moscow and the Chinese Missile, Fritz Erinarth, 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 167
From the "Big Leaps" to the "Cultural Revolution", A. Nekrasov,
International Affairs (Moscow), May 1967
Industrial Aid To Agriculture In Communist China, Leslie T.
C. 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. Hinterhoff, Contemporary Review, June 1967
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Red Against Red (USSR vs Red China In the Middle East),
Victor Zbrza, Atlas, August 1967
The Mind of China (Time Essay), Time, 1.7 March 67
On Understanding Asia (Time Essay), Time, 1 July 67
We Are Slaves Who Have Been Betrayed, Ma Sitson, Life,
14 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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