FDD MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT - APRIL 1963

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00500R000100120008-3
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 2, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 10, 1963
• Content Type: MEMO

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Memorandum
To Assistant Director for (~>erations DATE: 10 May 1963
F~xoM Chief, Foreign Documents Division
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1. Qn 2 April, P-4r. Richard. See of the National Science
Foundation and Chief, FDD, upon the request of the AD/CR,
briefed
concerning our views on
machine translation developments in the United. States.
Also on 2 April, Chief, FDD and Chief, USSR Branch,
2 5X1A FDD Met with the Chief, Reports of SR Division, DDP to discuss
re..uirements for translation of 40-50 thousand pages annually
a:E language materials..
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this material and. the volume which is expected.
thief, FDD discussed in detail tl~e effect of
the priority SR requirement on the Division's economic reporting
program on the US5R. Agreement was reached on reduced reporting
in some areas of the program
At a meeting 11 Aril with
n 30 April, Chief, FDD m.et with
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the C!SI Staff to determine OSI priori ies wrt
respect to translation of the 5R document workload and discuss
ntassibilitics of 05I financial su~nport to FDD.
By the end of. April 1,740 pages of the top priority
SR documents had been received. and 29 Russian linguists had.
been reassigned to expedite the handling of these materials.
S:imultaneausl the work being done by these linguists was
(?n 19 April a Zs page listing of documents
w;~s received and work will begin on these as soon as the top
priority material is completed.
2. Chief, ADP Staff and Chief, FDD briefed the DD/I and
the ADD/I on May 3rd on the Stenoc~rriter/MT system. The
reaction of Messrs. Cline and Sheldon to the IBM x~roposal was
entirely favorable,
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Chief, Budget Division was similarly briefed on the IRM
proposal, 18 April.
On 22 April senior officers of the Agency headed by the
DD/S received a briefing; on the Stenowriter/MT system froir} IBM 25X1A
at the itilatson Research Center in Yorktown Heights,. New York.
On 29 April, Messrs, visited
Chief, Support Branch, FDD fora rie zng on t e tenowriter system.
Their interest was in the promised speed of the Stenowriter compared
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3. The Division effort to maintain adequate coverage of an
incr.easi.ng number of source publications from the Latin American
area has been additionally strained by a recent heavy inflow of
Cuban provincial press sources. The receipt of a number of specific
requirear~ents, over and above the established and. cantinuing program
of reporting on Latin America, ha.s also over burdened existing
exploitation facilities, Such requa.rements have been levied by
DDP; e.g., information on dissidents in the Cuban armed forces,
Cuhan recruitment of foreign technicians; State Department, informa-
tion on Latin American Ma Day visitors to the Sino-Sov' t Bloc;
The
necessity or an a itional manpower commitment to the Latin America
a.r('a. at the eXpense Of Other area E'nyPraxrt?_ is tmr~lar ct>>~v
?.. ne~tails of personnel actions
Enclosures:
1. Statistical Report
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