MONTHLY REPORT FOR JUNE 1958

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62S00231A000100100071-5
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: July 2, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

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Chief, Industrial Division, ORR t6)
Chief, Manufacturing Sectors Branch, D/I
DATE: 2 Jul: 1958
suBJECT:Monthly Report fort' 1958.
1? Accomplishments.
A. Branch Projects Submitted --
25 Jun -- Transmittal of Section 64+, Manufacturing and
Construction, NIB i4+ Poland., (ORR Project No.
30.1513).
no
y cause a delay of over two weeks.
32.488 -- Industrial Investment Policy in East Germany.
The RAMP =+n+1- 1--J.
B. Status of Projects --
30.1535 -- Industrial Capital Investment in Communist China.
An edited draft copy has been retyped. I intend to work on this project
as soon as the Soviet NIE is completed.
30.20..3 -- Capital Investment in the Producers' Equiyxient
Industry in Communist Ch na. Six basic research chapters are completed
in draft form. Two others are expected to be completed by the end of
July. A final basic chapter will probably be ready in early August.
Material prepared up to the latter part of July will be given a
preliminary review in the branch at that time. Recently acquired data
on investment indicate the possibility of significant findings on the
proportion of machine-building capacity devoted to military production,
and, hence, the potential contribution of the present diversion of
production capacity in military industries to civilian uses. Rigorous
exploitation of these data is deemed necessary and justifiable, but
this would nrobabl
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return from vacation--on TJuly. We hope e to 1 have, a draft completed 1125X1 Aga
July.
34.894 -- The Determination of Cost and Price in Soviet
Machine Buildin . Little additional progress has been made on this
project. as been engaged exclusively in Soviet con r bution. 3' preparing the
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34.1928 -- European Trade in Machine and Transport
Equipment, 1950-57. Project returned t or revision; also 25X1A9a
undergoing division reviezr.
34.1930 -- Fauns Production - A Major Bottleneck in Soviet
Machine Building. No progress because of assignment as 25X1A9a
9 Jun -- Contribution on Foreign Trade in Machinery and
Equipment for the Soviet 1IE, ORR Project No. -10.1806.
D. Other --
4 Jun -- Evaluation of Rtnnanian Light Industry.
24 Jun -- Review of preliminary draft of Section 60, NIS 22.
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30 Jun -- Reading Requirements for
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2. Training.
ing Seminars in French and Russiann.
the Russian Economic Reading course.
completed the Hungarian Area Study.
3. Trips.
25X1 A9a returned from foreign travel in Western Europe in
connection with the trade control negotiations in Paris and an orien-
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connection with trade control negotiations in Paris.
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4. Administration.
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