MINUTES OF THE SIXTY-FIRST MEETING OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON EXPLOITATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03130A000100030068-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 3, 2007
• Sequence Number: 68
• Publication Date: December 16, 1955
• Content Type: MIN

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SIXTY-F MEETING PF THE SUBC~
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GN LANGUAGE PUHLICATIQNS
16 December 1955
Dr. John Anderson. AEC (for Dr. Reichardt)
Consultants: George Pughe, AID, Air Force
William R. Hudson. Navy
1. The 61st meeting convened at 1400 hours. The minutes of the 60th
meeting were approved.
shed to correct a statement in the 59th minutes,
page 4, in-which NSA stated that "little use could be made of FDD reports
on North Korea and North Viet Nam." The statement should have read that
those reports were used but were of lesser value than the China reports.
2. Continuation of Review of Scientific and Technical Exploitation
Army: Mr. Bauer said that Army was in favor with the proposed
program with one exception viz., that electronics should be added as a
category of coverage. He added that abstracts were of value to some
analysts but that this use does not warrant the effort which must be put
into it, and cover-to-cover abstracting necessitates more reading of
extraneous material than the analysts can afford. Mr. Bauer pointed out
that in the G-2 Intelligence Collection Memorandum #2, Army had established
"Priorities for the Collection of Soviet Bloc Research and Development
Information." These are:
a. Atomic Warfare
b. Guided Missiles
c. Biological and Chemical Warfare
d.' Electronics
e. Materiel and Special Devices
Members: Richard Bauer, Army
John S. Shearer, Jr., Navy
Maj. Howard G. Neumann, Air Force
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AEC: Dr. Anderson indicated that ABC was quite satisfied with the
proposed program.
NSA: I stated that NSA was pleased with the proposed
program provided it will include selected coverage in the electronics field.
25X1 CIA:
CIA is very pleased with the way the current program is
working; the "Science News Items" have been outstanding and considerable
use of these reports is being made. CIA is not in favor of Rummarizing
material in the fields set forth in the proposed program, if it is meant
to include material found in scientific and technical research papers. If,
however, it is meant that the science now type of thing is solely concerned,
then CIA would be in favor of it. felt that it would be a mistake
to include information on research results. He continued that the area 25X1
coverage suggested is totally inadequate to cover the responsibilities of
CIA which cover among other things NIS and watching for a techrireak-
through in any area. suggested that the science new type of 25X1
report should be expanded into fields to meet the needs of the Agency. He
stated that it is impossible to set forth one's requirements in sufficient
detail so that another person can select adequately. aid that 25X1
it was not clear from the last meeting whether the proposal is to take the
place of the program we have been operating under for the past twelve months.
The Acting Chairman said that the proposal would take the place
of the current program.
Air Force: Major Neumann said that Air apparently misinterpreted
the proposal as stated. In a visit with Capt. Colville of ATIC for two
days they found that ATIC have the same requirements as those in 1954.
Those requirements haven't changed in the least with the exception that
with the increased take of periodicals they are trying to expand to take
care of additional periodicals. They feel that the original proposal is far
more acceptable, with the understanding that they get an increased effort
over and above what they have now, using the old approach. They feel they
are mostly interested in cover to cover abstracting. After talking with
some of the analysts, the same views were expressed as those of ATIC. First
of all, they are not at all convinced that the contracting idea will work.
They feel there will be a gap. Secondly, no contracting activity is going
to put the material out in a timely fashion as our own Air and FDD translators.
Thirdly, there is the matter of reproduction. They feel that the original
program would meet their requirements.
said that if the Agency has to choose between selective
abstracting of the publications and cover-to-cover abstracting of selected
number that the choice would be cover-to-cover abstracting of the selected
number of periodicals.
Major Neumann added that abstracting could be done in a more
efficient manner on the same or greater amount of periodicals from cover-to-
cover.
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The Acting Chairman asked whether the entire requirements of
Air Force would be for abstracting.
Major Neumann said yes, he would say 100%.
the abstracting of articles plus added manpower put on the "Science News
Items."
said this wee not true of CIA. He would like to see
The Acting Chairman said that FM will go ahead and prepare a
summary of our findings so far, and see what can be done to meet the
established requirements.
Mr. Hudson presented a list of the vital electronic subjects which
should be exploited in the Soviet open literature which are of particular
Navy Interest. This list is appended to these min-,tee.
W. Bauer said that he had found it has always been a great
complaint that the analyst does not want someone else to dig the material
out. Some analysts always seem offended if anyone tries to use a selection.
Cover-to-cover abstracts are fine but Army does not have the manpower to
properly exploit them. Army is willing to take: the results of sacrificing
a few things and rely on the FM personnel to get the "nuggets." Army does
not feel they would be losing anything by dropping the cover>to-cover,
abstracts. PDD is producing material for the attaches which they could not
possibly obtain otherwise. The proposal of FDD is much in line with Army's
requirements and with its capabilities to utilize the material.
Dr. Anderson said that AEC has a need for the coverage of research
reports as well as support type of information.
The Acting Chairman said that this apparently concludes the
Subcommittee's review of scientific and technical exploitation, and that
FM will now draft a program for the review of the Subcommittee based
upon those findings and within the capabilities of the Division. If
agreement can be reached informally the new program can be inaugurated.
If not, it will probably be necessary to call a special meeting to iron
out the difficulties. The new draft will be distributed to the members
as soon as it can be prepared.
3. I brought the following matter to the Subcommittee's
attention, stating that in going over the program on the USSR, referring
to material on farming, weather and crops, he would like to work out an
arrangement for getting one or two copies of type-script of this material
delivered directly to the requestor without going through reproduction
as this information was only desired by CIA. He proposed that P'D) have
this particular information only translated regularly on contract,
delivered in type-script directly to the one consumer, and omitted from
the summary series. He said that the reason for presenting it to the
Subcommittee is to be certain that it is not cutting out material anyone
else is using. He proposed that FM have this very limited job done and
delivered directly to ORR.
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Dr. Anderson said that AW was interested in weather reporting,
but if this were solely farm weather reports then AEC would have no
interest.
No other objections were offered and the Acting Chairman said
that this would be considered with the USSR program and handled in
4. The agenda for the next meeting will be the Ron-Communist Par
East and Western Europe.
5. The meeting adjourned at 1505 hours. The next meeting will be
held 6 January 1956 at 1+00 hours in Room 2125 M Building.
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Electronic Subjects which should be Exploited in the Soviet
Open Literature which are of Particular Navy Interest
16 December 1955
1. Radio astronomy, with emphasis upon actual Soviet equipment, antennas,
and frequencies on which measurements are made.
2. Underwater Acoustics, with emphasis upon actual equipment including
simple fathometers and any Soviet measuring devices and propagation
tests under water.
3.
Electromagnetic wave propagation, with emphasis upon troposperic
scattering and other long range work at very high frequencies and
above,, and propagation at very long wave lengths.
4. Electronic Aids to Navigation., with emphasis upon navigation devices
of Soviet concept for ships at sea and for aircraft.
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Radar, again with emphasis upon actual Soviet equipment and concepts
rather than general treatises on how it works.
6. Cozmnunications, with stress on antenna design and actual equipments
In use.
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Laboratory-type electronic instruments, with emphasis upon Soviet
equipment
6. Microwave and radio-frequency spectroscopy with emphasis upon equip-
ment and techniques used and actual Soviet experimentation.
9. Vacuum tubes' with emphasis upon actual tubes of Soviet origin, catalogs.
or characteristic performance, and upon microwave devices such as
traveling wave tubes, klystrons, magnetrons, or carcinitrons.
10. Recording devices., emphasizing magnetic tape recorders, including graphic
recorders.
11. Television, emphasis upon actual Soviet transmitter and receiver design.
12. Amateur radio, with emphasis upon work at wave lengths below 10 meters.
13. Diathermy and radio frequency heating with emphasis upon actual equip-
ment parameters.
14. Transistors, semi-conductors, and miniaturization techniques.
15. Radio aids to meterology, Including radio sondes, tracking radars and
recorders, with emphasis upon actual Soviet equipment.
16. Infrared research and devices.
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