CITY PLANNING EXCHANGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00680R000100210007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 5, 1959
• Content Type: MF

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SUBJECT: City Planning Exchange
REFERSNCE: Your demo for the Record, dated 24 September 1959,
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of important establishments is lacx )$r most Soviet cities.
1. In our opinion, an exchange of US-USSR city planners
would produce a net intelligence advantage for the U.S. The extent
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of the U.S. advantage would depend upon,USSR cities visited and
the accessibility of the U.3. group to intelligence briefing officers
prior to departure.
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City planning specialists, properly
Sho~~Id briefed, be able to contribute uniquely to the acquisition of
elements of this information, not only through observation but also
through elicitation in the course of technical discussions with their
Sovict hosts. We would also anticipate some possible return in the
form of unique urban mapping which this specialist group may have
access
3. We feel that the Soviet group, on the other hand, is not
likely to obtain new information of intelligence significance. .~
wide variety of open sources provide information on the U.S. cities
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cited in your memo. In addition, data on U.S. urban planning
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theory and practice available to +Ile Soviets through a variety
of professional publications and international planners meetinr-.
the last of which was held some r. ago in P,Ioscow.
4. It is recommended that the proposed exchange be encouraged.
Recognizing that the exchange will of necessity include such fai^ly
adequately covered cities as ;:.oscow, Leningrad, Minsk, Kiev, and
Kharkov, it is recommended that one half of the itinerary (three
cities) be made up of such cities, and the second half include
three of the following cities: Gor "_{iy, Kuybyshev, Angarsk,
Novosibirsk, and Irkutsk. These cities are less frequently visited,
and therefore more important intel l igencewise . They are plausible
as selections to be put forward by a city planner group. If
negotiations core to a standstill over the selection of these
cities, Chelyabinsk, Baku, Kazan', Noril'sk, Stalinsk, Tomsk,
Komsomol'sk, or Yerevan may be substituted for cities in the second
group. If feasible, the itinerary of cities in the U.S.A. might
be expanded to include at least one additional closed city to
strengthen our bargaining position in the negotiations for the UJSSR
cities.
5. Additionally, it is recommended that after the itinerary
is firm/steps be taken to insure that appropriate members of the
J.S. delegationbriefed in detail on key intelligence gaps .
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