EXCHANGE VISITS WITH THE SOVIET UNION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00798A000800020003-5
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 19, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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May 19, 1975
1 4ORANDUM. FOR Dr. Richard W. Roberts
Director
Through, Dr. Z. Ambler
Deputy Director
From: Edward L. Brady C 13
Associate Director for
Xnformation Programs
J/! Jack L. Tech 15~
rdationai Bureau of >andard
Washington. D.C. 20234
Optical Physics Division
Subjects Exchange Visits'with the Soviet Union
The general picture that emerges as a result of a'survey conducted among
NBS staff members involved in cooperative activities with the USSR under
several intergovernmental agreements is that (a) the program is a healthy
one with an increasing pace of implementation, (b) the projects are.largely
regarded as having medium to very high priority, and (c) individual N:PS
project coordinators are generally able to fund the cooperation from other
agency support or from their own section funds, except for certain visits
that are still highly tentative and that may not be implemented.
The total cost of 14 projects currently agreed or foreseen (see attachment)
is estimated to be $40,500. This figure includes the cost of visits by
19 NBS staff members to the USSR and by 10 Soviets to NITS over roug,hi.y the
next fiscal year. This sum can be broken down into the following categories:
Visits by NBS staff to USSR. $13)500
Visits by NBS staff supported by outside agencies. 12,000
.Visits by Soviets to NBS, if on receiving side pays basis.
Subtotal
500
$29, 000
More or less agreed visits by NBS staff... Cannot be 4,000
supported by own project funds.
For those visits by NESS staff mr,mbers that are not
yet agreed upon but that are considered mildly
by own
possible. Cannot be supported by own projects.
*DOC Waiver Letter In ERU. File*
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Since outside agencies are paying $12,000 in support of NBS participation,
the total cost to NBS for foreseen projects amounts to $28,500. This
figure should probably be raised by about 25% for planning purposes: in
order to accommodate desirable activities that may be proposed later
by new NBS or Soviet initiatives. This sum does not include such items
as salaries that would be paid anyway.
There are two important items that are not included in the above figure.
If NBS enters into a direct exchange relationship with the USSR Academy
of Sciences, the cost of perhaps fOSovi~ nptersonnelpattNBby NBS S wouldehao~netQ
in the USSR and a similar quota, be factored in. Assuming a receiving side pays basis, this would amount'
to roughly an additional $20,000. (So far, 13 NBS staff members have
expressed an interest in working for a short term at a Soviet institute.)
Also) HUD has indicated a desire to involve NBS expertise in implementing
the Agreement on Cooperation in the Fields of Housing and other Construc-
tion. It is to be expected, however, that HUD would provide most of the
funding for such involvement, just as ERDA now does for NBS participation
in-the Energy Agreement. . .
As a ballpark figure, therefore, the total cost to NBS for its involve-
ment in joint activities with the USSR will almost certainly not exceed
$50,000 per year.
cc: A. 0. McCoubrey
H. S. Peiser
B. W. Birmingham
Executive Board
,JLTech/dea/May 21; 1975
Coordinated with Dr. Brady
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