SOVIET BLOC NEED FOR COPPER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01443R000200370007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: July 21, 1954
• Content Type: BRIEF

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21 July 1954
SOVIET BLOC NUD FOR COPPER
trade.
A. hip*en
has been so actively and so rs is
. Copper's importance to Soviet Bloc is such than
corper to
,
Intensity of Sloe
in 1051-52, whoa We
outbreak)
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d at h i hes t (following Korean
procurement efforts are still at a
evidence shows iocreas in
y t is copper in all forms.
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NSA review completed
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embargo=
by clandestine
arts circuavent controls react%ad peak.
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Copper is ea seutial in industrialized economy
production of mil itary? equipment and materiel
and equipment needed f
vehicles, artillery, aircraft, naval
fire-control e
eeever,
:r duc.ed ens t iaated 13% of w or
eueu e 18% of orld copper.
my by imports from free
d Sloe copper requirement 195 was
670 * 001 0.
I. Bloc production - 422.000
2,
3. Total
4. Thus, Unsatisfied
Bloc
I , n i t tons
522,000
of 522.000 a.
000 e. t. .
. : irec t support of military
3.
4. This roughly half
le copper , way
:o tr Production now hampered by gene
and by lack of extensive natural sae.
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)0 a. t.
for .ra~aced
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naion largely dare appr
ely
~wtton from extentve deposits in
i . a~sa1~ t ~ ores
L X RO $tjO IC
wtater
estimated to be narrowing. a i a (thousands metric tons):
(Produce)
Ue' is t
248
I Asia.
reed and nroduc
480
ZY. Most o free world has
of copper.
pie trade tra
of controls
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a ted to controlling 31+1: purchases
problea eospl Bated by coup
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Indicates al
j 92touo tons, with success Bible
It stopped or disc
resulting
world d #ad for supper dace: *Sr
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i testa t>t
Lation largo ansold stocks.
,able* during period Was aggravated by
total l?' h, 1* tons
B,, At present
available
rreahas.d
there
asttilled Order
,,0 tons
bait tit
kyMarch 19
Chile
sizeable, stock, l* of copper
a vend market (Chile yen has so"
should s3 taisste so*e of the pressure,
let Bloc.
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 Approved For Release 2003/08/26 : CIA-RDP80RO1443R000200370007-4
Approved For Release 2003/08/26 : CIA-RDP80RO1443R000200370007-4