DEAR MR. SULLIVAN:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00798A000600100037-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: May 7, 1974
• Content Type: LETTER

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DCPARTMEN T OF STATE
DIVISION OF LANGUAGE SERVICES
May 7, 1974
N[r. E. F. Sullivan
Deputy Special Commissioner
Bureau. of Reclamation
Department of the Interior
Washington, D.C., 2024C
meeting of specialists in the second half of June in the U.S.
Tihe Soviet side is prepared to send a delegation of specialists to
the U.S. at that time.
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LS N0. 41894
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*DOI Waiver Letter In ERU FILE*
Dear Mr. Sullivan:
We received your letter No. 1300 of April 3, 1974, with technical
literature, and were glad to learn that you agree to organize the first
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D ~~C~,r~ A~ agreed previously, we will work out, at that meeting, the program
~~ ~ for ou;r joint work in the field of automation,-and tentatively coordinate
~~~n it.
inclosed with this letter you will find the Soviet draft of a cooper-
ai:ive program on that topic.- It should be regarded as tentative, subject
to fort=her definition and amplification during our meeting in the U.S.
A;~ I pointed out in my previous correspondence, we put as the funda-
mental aim of our cooperation on this topic the development of a theory
and technique for the automated control of technological processes of
reclam~ition systems. To achieve this aim as rapidly as possible, we
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intend to use modern systems methodology: systems analysis, theory of
decision making, etc., as well as modern computation and control tech-
piques, methods of automatic control, information and measurement theory.
We would like, in the first place, to separate out the problems con-
cerning automation of the technological processes of water distribution
and use, i.e., the basic technological processes in an irrigation system,
taken as a unit, and select as a technological object on irrigatian system
with controlled water intake and water outlets into a closed network. Such
systems, provided with power-driven or gravity intake of water from large
river> and reservoirs, and with power-driven outlets of water into the
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