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Show Experts Culling Mass of Secret Data on Germany WASHINGTON. World's biggest editing job is under way in Germany Ger-many as experts of the Office of Technical Service screen an estimated esti-mated 3 billion pages of once-secret once-secret technical and scientific data on German factories, industrial and scientific processes. From this mass of data, experts probably will select about 3's million pages to be returned re-turned to this country for study by industry, schools, government Agencies Agen-cies and other interested organizations. organiza-tions. Less than one million pages have been returned to this country Approximately 100 OTS editors supervisors and microfilm operators, opera-tors, 600 Germans and an undisclosed undis-closed number of military personnel person-nel are engaged in the task. The data now being culled is in addition to first-hand reports which 650 technical experts have made on German secret data. OTS, which is the outgrowth of five former war and postwar government gov-ernment agencies, publishes a weekly week-ly "Bibliography of Scientific and Industrial Reports." Work is now in progress on the second volume of reports, the first containing 26.000 abstracts of industrial indus-trial and scientific data, both for eign and American. The latter also were secret during the war. Best sellers on the agency's current list are reports on German soap, electronics, leather, adhesives paints, varnishes, lacquers and synthetic syn-thetic waxes. |