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Csr 381-1, Military Intelligence, Technical Intelligence Relationships, 12 November 1958., Us Army Chief Of Staff, Robert Bolin , Depositor

Department of Defense Military Intelligence

This document was issued by the Chief of Staff to prescribe relationships between different officers in the Army staff. Specifically, it was inteded to “prescribe relationships between the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ACSI), the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics (DCSLOG), and the technical Services in the field of intelligence activities.”

It was published as part of an attempt to solve an ongoing organizational problem: how to coordinate the intelligence activities of the US government.

In the 1950s, military intelligence was decentralized. There was no national-level military intelligence agency. In theory, the Chief of Staff and the army …

Sheet P 5 Series M641 (Ccm), Cross-Country Movement And Terrain Map, Halberstat, Germany, 1958, Robert Bolin , Depositor

Department of Defense Military Intelligence

In addition to a basic legend of the topographic map showing symbols for roads, railroads, and urban areas, this map contains a “Map Explanation” in a column added on the left-hand side. The Map Explaination describes the purpose of the map as follows:

This map deals with cross-country movement, or movement away from roads. It examines specifically the influence of terrain features on [the] movement, including maneuvering, of a standard medium tank, like the type used by United States military forces.

The explanation describes and provides a key to the 9 levels of passability shown by coloring or cross-hatching on …

Engineer Intelligence Guide 15, Collection Of Information On Coasts And Beaches, 1958, Robert Bolin , Depositor

Department of Defense Military Intelligence

In 1958, geographic intelligence in the US Armed Forces was decentralized. US Army Corps of Engineers was primarily responsible for creation of military intelligence concerning the surface of the earth excluding the oceans and seas for the armed forces of the United States. The Beach Erosion Board, originally an agency performing civil functions, had been preparing coast and beach intelligence since early in World War II. Engineer intelligence guides were issued to provide guidance concerning collection, processing, production, and dissemination of geographic intelligence to elements of the Corps of Engineers.

This Engineer Intelligence Guide contains a definition of Coast and …

Fm 3-130, U.S. Army Chemical, Biological And Radiological (Cbr) Intelligence, 1958, Robert Bolin , Depositor

Department of Defense Military Intelligence

An appropriate alternative title for this manual would be “Chemical Corps Intelligence.” When this manual was issued the Chemical Corps was a bureau in the Headquarters, Department of the Army, headed by a general officer called the Chief Chemical Officer (CCO), as well as a branch of the army to which officers and enlisted men were appointed. Among the duties of the CCO were the development and supply of chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) weapons and equipment, the training of chemical units for service in the field, management of the careers of officers in the Chemical Corps branch, and the …

Da Pamphlet 30-115, Weapons And Equipment Recognition Handbook, Middle East, July 1958, Technical Division, Office Of The Assistant Chief Of Staff For Intelligence, Robert Bolin , Depositor

Department of Defense Military Intelligence

This handbook includes pictures and brief descriptions of small arms, artillery, armored vehicles, aircraft, mines, and demolitions devices in use in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordon, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. In addition, it includes aircraft markings and illustrations of uniforms and rank insignia. The descriptions of mines also include instructions for disarming them. Much attention was given to small arms, artillery, and armored vehicles, and little to aircraft.

This handbook covers a wide range of weapons and equipment used in the wars in the first half of the 20^th century. Most of the equipment covered was manufactured in …

Tenants Of Arlington Hall Station, Fiscal Year 1958, Arlington Hall Station Garrison, Robert Bolin , Depositor

Department of Defense Military Intelligence

This is a single-page, typewritten document listing new tenants which moved to Arlington Hall Station (AHS) in 1958. It was prepared by the AHS garrison.

In the 1950s, Army technical intelligence production activities were divided among the seven Army Technical Services the Chemical Corps, the Corps of Engineers, the Ordnance Corps, the Quartermaster Corps, the Signal Corps, the Army Medical Services, and the Transportation Corps. In 1958, an effort was made to improve coordination among technical intelligence agencies by collocating them at Arlington Hall Station which had been the home of various Army intelligence organizations since World War II.

This …