MONTHLY REPORT FOR APRIL 1957

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00137A000100020087-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 87
• Publication Date: May 1, 1957
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, Industrial Division, ORR
FROM . Chief, Medium Machinery Branch, D/I
SUBJECT: Nonthly Report for April 1957
1. Accomplishments
A. Branch Projects Submitted -- None
B. Other Projects Submitted --
DATE: 1 May 1957
10.1509 -- Progress and Problems of the European
Satellite Economies in 19 final contribution th26 Apr 57)
Special Research --
6 hours country time --~
Total for FY 57 -- 59 hours
D. Other --
2 April -- Review of jIS 18, Czechoslovakia, Section 60
10 April -- Proposed External Research Project on
Industrial Production in ~ornamunist China
10 April -- Review of preliminary draft of NIS 23,
Section 16, Bulgaria
24 April -- Requirements -- Hungarian Refugees
Spanish repatriate
Ho. 1, 2, and 3
?'ar East Periodic
Requirements
25 April -- Comments on OSI Suggestions on Project
No. 30.1089, Trends in Automation in the USSR.
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2. Training
continue to attend a
course entitled Summalry of USSR in Russian.
3. Trips -- None
It. Administration
The branch research program for FY 58 was reviewed and
approved by members of St/PR.
5. Plans
Several members of the branch have mentioned that they feel
it would be helpful if they had a better understanding of the
operations and problems of some of the other branches in the
Division.. While we work closely with I/1N on a number of problems
we have much less contact with the other branches of the Division.
It is proposed, thercefore, that a series of informal meetings be
arranged between T/i-ui and representatives of the other branches
in D/I to discuss common methodological problems, research
tec mi.ques, sources of data, recent accomplishments and planned
'tY 58 research. Discussions with VIM would be a logical
starting point followed by discussions with the various military
branches. We feel that such meetings would be valuable in
promoting the Division's total research effort.
6. Problems -- No comments
7. Recommendations -- No comments
8.
The Branch Chief I/1,2,1 was appointed a member of a working
group to prepare a DD/I briefing on the value of open-source
literature to the US and the USSR for technological and
intelligence use. Contributions from numerous branches in D/N,
D/S, D/I, and D/A were received and a summary position presenting
25X1A9a the EPA viewpoint was submitted to the working
group cha .n-ian.
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