FDD MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT - MAY 1960

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2005
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 9, 1960
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
: Assistant Director for Operations
DATE: 9 June 1960
FROM : Chief, Foreign Documents Division
SUBJECT: FDD Monthly Progress Report - May 1960
1. The forthcoming reorganization of the Division was announced
to FDD personnel on 17 May. This constitutes the first major reorgani-
zation of FM since 1949. For practical reasons actual reorientation
of operations and personnel will await our move to Matomic Building.
2. During the month the Division began phasing out its scheduled
reporting program and moving into its planned program of documentary
research on the Sino-Soviet Bloc. FDD serial reports on North Vietnam,
Indonesia, North Africa, Africa South of the Sahara, and North Korea
were discontinued. Required coverage of these areas will henceforth
be provided by specific FDD studies or by selected JPRS translations.
The Division also planned a foreign press bulletin to present
on a daily basis significant news on the Orbit.not otherwise reported.
3. After the General Counsel's office had tapped other CIA
sources with negative results, FDD was asked for any available data
concerning unrest in the USSR and Satellites. A quick survey of USSR and
Eastern Europe branch reports and of the CTS yielded several hundred
pertinent items. Requested material was to provide grist for a speech
by Senator Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut.
4. On 13 May, Chief, FDD, and the AD/CR testified before the
House Subcommittee on Science and Astronautics. Although the Subcommittee's
purpose was to explore the progress and prospects of machine translation,
considerable interest was shown in the relative efforts of the Soviets
25X1A and the US in the exploitation of foreign publications.
On 25 May, Chief, FDD, attended a demonstration of machine
25X1 A translation at the and was
25X1A impressed by the progress achieved through practical approach. 25X1A
conferred with the staff of the
2 5X 1 A on 26 May regarding tnat company-s
development of machine translation of Chinese. with
sufficient subsidizing, to produce acce table machine translation within
25X1 A one year, FDD, Secretary of the
Subcommittee on Machine Translation, are preparing a report on the
proposal. 25X1 A
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6. A meeting of representatives of CIA offices was informed by
Chief, FDD, on 10 May, that their requirements for unclassified
translation in the future would not be subject to established annual
page quotas. This was accepted by all except ORR which requested, and
was allotted, a guaranteed minimum quota of pages.
FDD is developing plans to expedite its classified translation
service by responding to all such requirements on dictaphone tapes,
excepting requirements for translation into foreign languages where
the method is not applicable.
10. A collection of articles by Russian "Journalists" on the
U-2 incident was published in Moscow on 18 May as a 190-page paper-back
booklet, To the Pillory with the Aggressors (Agresserov k Pozornomy
Stolbu.). Received from SR DD P as a translation requirement on 26 May,
Enclosures:
1. Statistical Report
Details of Personnel Actions
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