ACTIVITY REPORT FOR THE MONTH OF JULY 1959

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2005
• Sequence Number: 198
• Publication Date: August 7, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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7 August 1959
TO Assistant Director for Research and Reports
ROM: Acting Chief, Economic Research Area
SUBJECT: Activity Report for the Month of July 1959
Current and Other:, SVpgrt Activities
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1.. ;:RR support for CCl during the month involved preparation of
articles dealing with probable modification in Sino?'Soviet Bloc agricultural
organizations, pipeline construction, midyear economic plan results, and
>w deve1cpssents and negotiations in Bloc trade, aid and arms programs.
Attention continued to be focused on new developments in the Chinese communes
Khrushchev:s doctrinal problems with the Soviet architects also were examined.
export to the DCI and the Di)/I included preparation of briefings
on civil defense and Soviet Bloc offers to Ethiopia. D/I updated and revised
portions of a briefing paper for the DC es aircraft,
submarines, and military expenditures. Sf TR,
prepared a briefing on the Northern Sea Route which was presented by the DCI
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5. Support for the USIB Watch Coittee was largely concerned with
Bloc arms trade, the effects of weather conditions on Gina, and the
negative implications of internal Soviet developments.
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i participated in briefing Dr. Kosin and Mr. Tishinin,
the official representatives for the Department of Agriculture at the American
khibition in Moscow.
16. As a result of conversations between M/FP and representatives of the
Atomic Energy Commission, the ANC will assist in answering questions concerning
costs of the Soviet nuclear program.
17. Mrs. I S TR, prepared a briefing
on Sino.'Soviet Bloc Maritime Fleets which , I, will deliver at a 25X1
conference of the National Maritime Research board chaired by Admiral Radford.
1.9 -1 Scompleted the preparation of intelligence statements on
approximately two-thirds of the items on the COCOM lists during the month.
Members of S/TD and other ERA analysts also participated in KDAC Technical
mask (rours which formulated recommendations for redefinition of some of the
Items.
rO. An "Alphabetical Index of International Lists" prepared by S/TD was
puolished and disseminated. At the request of State Department, copies were
provided for distribution to all U.S. Foreign Service Posts. Copies have
also been distributed to Departments of Defense, Commerce, and Treasury, and
to DD/P.
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