ACTIVITY REPORT FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST 1959

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2005
• Sequence Number: 175
• Publication Date: September 8, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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8 September 1959.
TO: Assistant Director for Research and Reports
FROM: Chief, Economic Research Area
SUBJECT: Activity Report for the Month of August 1959
Support Activities
Intro-Agency Support
1. During August, about half of ORR support for OCI concerned Soviet
economic activities in the free world--Afghanistan, Indonesia, OAR, North
Africa, Yemen, Ethiopia, and West Africa. Other subjects of
articles prepared in ORR and appearing in OCT media included the FSats
half year economic report, crop prospects in the Sino-Soviet Bloc, new
Soviet "closed, areas," and modification of the Chinese Agricultural Program.
2. Support for the DCI/DDI--limited by the cancellation of several
TNSCmeetings--consisted of contributions to ISC Briefings on China, Afghan-
istan, 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
Defense 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.
4. I/GN support to ONE on NIE 11-8-59, Soviet Capabilities for
Strata c Attack through. Mid-1964, continued throu out Au must. The
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revised its estimates of probable Soviet war weights and ICBM
accuracy. This will require a new set of calculations and findings by
ORR as to probable Soviet requirements for ICBMs.
5_ Chief- T/(, ,briefed the DCI?a ad hoc Special Consultant?s Panel
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Panel was convened provide an independent assessment o the status of
the Soviet ICBM program in conjunction with national estimates now being
drafted. A major conclusion of the Panel was that the continued absence
of direct evidence of ICBM production and deployment was alarming, and
intensification of collection efforts on these aspects of the program should
be vigorously pursued with all available collection means.
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6. At the request of the Special Assistant to the DD/I (Planning),
I/GM prepared a special study related to an important aspect of Soviet
ICBM deployment. The study, which required a sizeable allocation of branch
effort, was concurred in by other DD/I offices and became the basis for
an agreed position in the community on this aspect of the ICBM problem.
8. M/FP reviewed and commented extensively on an NID/OSI daft
paper entitled Estimate of Electric Power Supply to Soviet Atomic Ea
ergy
Plants in the Urals.
9. M/ FP prepared comments for the DD/I on published information
concerning the feasibility of transporting natural gas from Algeria to
Western Europe by pipeline.
Extra-Agency Support
10. USIB Watch Committee support concerned Sino-Soviet Bloc arms
and aid to the Middle But and Africa, tower construction in East Germany,
current Chinese economic developments and weather, background on supply-line
to the Laotian-Vietnam border, increased S.)viet military construction,
reports of HuSats unrest, missile deployment in East Germany and newly
closed Soviet areas.
12. WAG has prepared material for a briefing to be given to Secretary
of Agrie1t=a SwAm Prier to his proposed visit to Poland and the USSR
in September.
13. M/NF prepared a report on the current USSR copper situation
with specific details on the Degtyarka copper mines in the Urals, for
14. M/FP prepared a memorandum for the Department of S.`.ate covering
background information on the proposed oil pipeline system from the USSR
to four European Satellite countries and Kleypeda on the Baltic.
15. M/FP has prepared material for a briefing on hydroelectric
power in the USSR to be given to Senators Mirray, Noss, and Gruening
prior to their proposed three week visit to the USSR beginning in
September.
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19. S/TD furnished intelligence support to the Department of Com-
merce on propoaala to export to Bloc destinations technical data related
to the production of petrochemical equipment, manufactured gas, higa alpha
cellulose, spectroscopic and gravimetric equipment, and cotmnmercial aircraft.
20. At the request of the American Embassy, S/TD prepared a summary
of the role played by a Brussels firm in a 1958 diversion of 1500 tons
of Argentine borax.
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