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Approved For Retéase 2002/08/08 ¢ CIA-RDP79M00095A880300030006-3 management of exchanges with the USSR was eliminated, and control over them was dispersed among eleven US Executive Branch agencies, which now handle Soviet exchange relationships under eleven Specialized Coopera- tive Bilateral Agreements. The number of Soviet ex- change, commercial, tourist, and official visitors in the US expanded, totalling over 25,000 in CY 1976. 25X1C 25X1C b. Soviet Human Resource Collection Strategies Against the US (1) Overt The Soviets have consistently engaged in a large-scale vacuum cleaner-like overt human resource collection effort in the US. This overt program makes extensive use of publicly available documentary purchasing; a major and increasing flow of scientific, technical and other exchange visitors to the US; commercial visitors to the US; and the sizeable over- seas establishments of such Soviet organs as the Foreign and Trade Ministries, TASS, Novosti, and representatives of the Institute of World Economics and International Relations and the Institute of the USA and Canada. The overt effort is competitive, relatively uncoordinated and likely to so continue. Soviet problems with overt material lie primarily in its effective collation and analysis -- not in its collection. , 25X1 2 titre: SECP ET Approved For Release 2002/09/03 : CIA-RDP79M00095A000300030006-3