LETTER TO MR. JOSEPH ALSOP FROM [HILLY]

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• Publication Date: November 15, 1949

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Mr. Joseph AlssP
2720 Dumbarton Avenge
Wagillnitem 7, D. C.
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15 N(A 1949
Dear Joel
Thank yen very mach for your comment en Klee Lames data.
The contradiction between estimates et Seviet uranium
resolves* is actually only apparent. The 10ROORROS are probably
there but met readily espleitSbleAmmunual of quality of ere.
It is entortmentely true that there are large rseersoirs of
low grade uranium materials. la sax ova Case. se you /Jaw. we
have then but vs also import quantities from *par esuntriss.
The piblications that Miss Long refers to. spsoifisollY
the 3sahllev report OR the Itadshl aspedition of l933..
sr. familiar toss and that Infoimation. iegotbar with a great
deal more Dm ether soaroos has all boa* cossidowei in nor
evatiatims.
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JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP
1.*AotitrAEAP,V4"Ato 2720 Dutbarton Ave.
Washington 7, D.C.
Dear Hillie:
Telephone
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Columbia 3781
November 9, 1949
I would not like to sugge,ct that your research
analysts have overlooked any bets, Zut what is the ex-
planation of the apparent violent contradiction between
the estimates of Soviet uranium resources now prevailing
here.,and the extremely impressive information published
on page 27 of Sunday's NEW YORK TIMES, in a story by
Tania Long, with London dateline?
It seems to me that the data which Miss Long
has apparently secured from Isaac Deutscher are partic-
ularly impressive, since the supposed uranium deposits
are located in the same Turkistan region where I too had
heard rather authoritative reports of uranium deposits
on the Chihese side. Moreover, if the figures given
about the areas of Russia subjected, at different times,
to thorough-going geological survey are truly reliable,
the documents which you mentioned to me must surely be
regarded as only partial evidence. Again, I repeat, I
do not want to seem contentious, but I am honestly
puzzled by the difficulty of reconciling what I have
heard her4 in Washington and this information which now
comes from London.
Sincerely yours,
JA:co JOS
Admiral Rosette Hillenkoetter
2430 E Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
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JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP
108 C Street,N.W.
Washington I,D.C.
Dear Admiral Hillenoe'ter:
Telephone
District 3578
January 26, 1948
Thank you so much for your note of
January sixteenth and its enolosure I have
read it with deep interest, and return it
herewith as requested.
I greatly enjoyed and benefitted by
our talk the other day, and hope that we may
meet soon again.
JA: cc
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ncerely yours,
S H AL
Rear Admiral R.H. Hillenkoetter
Director, Central Intelligence A7ency
2430 E Street, N.W.
Washin7ton 25, D.O.
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16 Anuary 1948
laMORASMIS OR IR. JOSEPH ALSO? - 108 C Street, NW
Attached is the article I spoke to you about
yesterday which, although containing nothing classified,
presents the picture of a Communist dom.tnated country
(Yugoslavia) in a little different way than normally.
If you can use it, you are at liberty to do so, but,
when you have finished, please return it to Mo.
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H. H. Hillenkoet
Hear Admiral, USN
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*Which tkike us the kind of impression
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why those impressions are wrong."
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