ACTIVITY REPORT FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST 1959

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62S00231A000100220013-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 1999
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: September 8, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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8 September 1959
TO: Assistant Director for Research and Reports
rell(Ri: Chief, Economic Research Area
`B9TERCT: Activity Report for the I+ anth of Augast 1959
S rt Activ. ties
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1. During August, about half of ORR support for OCI concerned Soviet
economic activities in the free world--Afe)manistan, Indonesia, UAR, North
Africa, Yemen, Ethiopia, and West Africa. Other subjects of
articles prepared in ORR and appearLng in OCT media included the E.Sats
half year economic report, crop prospects in the Sino-Soviet Bloc, new
Soviet "closed areas," and modifica .ion of the Chinese Agricultural Program
:, Support for the DCI/DDI--l.mited by the cancellation of several
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N'3C meetings--.consisted of contribu::ions to NSC Briefings on China, Afghan-
iRtan, and the Near East-UAR. In addition, notes were prepared for DCI
use at a Draper Committee luncheon as was a briefing on Soviet Civil
fense for DCI presentation to the US Governors Conference.
3. Chief, D/I, was detailed to support ONE in its production of
certain key estimates now in preparation.
ki. I/GM support to ONE on NIE 11-8-59, Soviet Capabilities for
Strategic Attack throughMid-1961+, continued throughout August. The
GwAIC, in accordance with recommendations of the Hyland Panel, has now
revised its estimates of probable Soviet ICBM warhead weights and ICBM
accuracy. This will require a new .et of calculations and findings by
OUR as to probable Soviet requirements for ICBMs.
5. Chief, I/(24 briefed the DC-.,'.'a ad hoc Special Consultant's Panel.
("Hyland Panel") on current evidencee of-&a-et ICBM production and deploy-
ment. The briefing was prepared by I/GM and coordinated with AFIC. Thin-
Panel was convened to provide an inOOependent assessment of the status of
the Soviet ICHi program in con junct:.on with national estimates now being
drafted. A major conclusion of they Panel was that the continued absence
of direct evidence of ICBM production and deployment was alarming, and
intensification of collection cfTor,ss on these aspects of the program should
be vigorously pursued with all available collection means.
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At thy! request of the Special Assistant to the DD/I (Planning),
.s:/GM prepared a special ;Study related to an important aspect of Soviet
IC deployment. The study, which required a sizeable allocation of branch
affort, was concurred in by other DDT offices and. became the basis for
an agreed position in the cornnunity on this aspect of the ICBM problem.
7. A special collection guide on Soviet surface-to-air missile systems
was prepared at the request of D/P and OO/C. The guide is intended to
project known information on a surface-to-air facility in Fast Germany
into the context of SAM deployment in the USSR. This is one of terse guided
missile collection guides which are now in St/PB for publication.
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8. 1411 7 reviewed and commented extensively on an N)/03I draft
lager entitled Estimate of Electric Power Supply to Soviet Atomic Energy
Plants in the Urals.
9. M/FP prepared cxnenta for the T)D/I on published information
concerning the feasibility of transporting natural gas from Algeria to
Western Europe by pipeline.
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13. M/NP prepared a report on the current USSR copper situation
h srieeifin details on the Degtyarca copper mines in the Urals, for
September.
12. M/AG has prepared material for a briefing to be given to Secretary
Agriwlt"* B mg= Dom'?or to his p -oposo . vioit to Pow and the USSR
reports of &tSats unrest, missile de^loyment in East Germany and newly
x.Aiosed Soviet areas.
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11. I/PE, provided; information on the DnepropetrovaK
.,tor Vehicle Plant to ACSI, and on he production of tractors in the
USSR and Communist China to Mrs. 25X1 X7
current Chinese econcarnic developmeatT4 and weather, background on supply-line
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