Central Intelligence Agency

1. The enclosed Intelligence Information Special Report is part of a series now in preparation based on articles fram a SEm Soviet publication called Information Collection of the Headquarters and the Technical Committee of the comb med Armed E orces. Thi s article discusses the success achieved in the East G e m Amy in accelerating the flow of information to all command levels through the introduction of standardized combat documents and the automated transmission of them. The advantages of standardized documents are discussed in the context of their use not only within the East G e m Army, but also among the allied armies of the Warsaw Pact, in that they avoid language difficulties by not requiring translation of information from one language into another. Examples of standardized documents are presented. This journal is published by Warsaw Pact Headquarters in Moscow, and it consists of articles by Warsaw Fact officers, This article appeared in Issue No. 1, which was published in 1970. #$