MONTHLY REPORT - APRIL 1957
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December 9, 2016
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December 4, 1998
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Publication Date:
May 1, 1957
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e Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, Industrial Division, ORR
FROM : Acting Chief, Aircraft Branch, D/I
SUBJECT: Monthly Report - April 1957
DATE: 1 May 1957
1. Accomplishments
a. Branch projects submitted
v (1) Project No. 33.1659, Quarterly Estimate of the Production
of Aircraft in the Sino-Soviet Bloc, January-March 1957.
(2) Project No. 33.1753, Recent Information on the Production
of Aircraft in the Sino-Soviet Bloc.
b. Other projects submitted
(1) Contribution on commodity trade for Project No.. 10.1509,
Progress and Problems of the European Satellite Economies
in 1956.
(2) Contribution on production of aircraft for Project No.
10.1509, Progress and Problems of the European Satellite
Economies 1-n-19-5-6--
c. Special research
13.0 hours Country time.
d. Others
(1) Summary of Production of Bison and Bear Aircraft submitted
to Chief, Industrial Division on 9 April.
(2) Memorandum of 19 April to Chief, Medium Machinery Branch, D/I
on exploitation by the Soviets US open-source literature.
(3) Memorandum of 22 April to Chief, Non-Ferrous Metals and
Minerals Branch, D/M, on 1956 Aluminum and Magnesium
Requirements of the Soviet aircraft industry.
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SUBJECT: Monthly Report - April.1957
25X1X7 (4)
2. Training
25X1A9a a. - External Training Course at Boeing
Airplane Company, Renton, Washington - 8-26 April.
25X1A9a b. - Weapons Orientation Course X8 at Sandia Base,
Albuquerque, New Mexico - 22-27 April.
25X1A9a c. - Economic Russian Reading (Phase II) -
March-July 1957.
25X1A9a d. - Elementary Russian Reading (Phase II) -
February through May 1957.
3. Trips
25X1A9a
visited the Wright Aeronautical Division of the
Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Wood-Ridge, New Jersey on 1, 2 and
5 April and the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation,
Bethpage, Long Island, New York on 3 April.
4+. Administrative
25X1A9a a.
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was on Military Leave 1 through 15 April.
visited the branch on 25-30 April.
5. Plans
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c. Security arrangements are being made for these companies
to undertake these studies based on information supplied
by this branch.
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6. Problems
None
7. Recommendations
None
8. other information
a. CIA/SC/RR 167 (Part I), Personalities Connected with the
organizations under the Ministry of the Aviation Industry
of the USSR, Part I: Plants was published on 15 April.
b. Current Intelligence Digest item titled Hungarians See Work
on Soviet 11-18 Transport was published on 4 April.
25X1A9a
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