Project Initiation Memorandum

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP60-00346R000100290017-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 1998
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: August 17, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENC`
Geography Division, ORR
Project Initiation Memorandum
To: Chief, Geographic Research Project No.s 61.12166
From: Chiefs Geography Division Date: 17 August 1956
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Subject of Proposed Project: Socio-Geographic Factors in the Collectivization
of Agriculture in Communist China
Statement of Problem: a.:) To analyze the progress made by the Chicom regime in
the collectivization of agriculture, with emphasis on rel
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regions. b.) To point out significance of certain regional trends that are
apparento c.) To identity and evaluate certain socio-geographic factors that
will influence the success or failure of the Chicom collectivization drive
and, in turn, the entire 12-year Plan for improvement of agriculture.
3. Requester: Self-initiated 25X1A9a
4. Responsible Analysts Far East Branch
5. Kind and Extent of Cooperation Desired from:
a.3 Other Divisions of the Geographic Area: 3 maps from D/GC
b? Other parts of CIA: Coordination with Agriculture Branch and with
Population and Manpower Branch, ERA
6. Eat mated Man Hours: 350 professional
7. Probable Completion Date: October 1956
8. Probable Form of Final Publication: CIA/RR-G
9. Coro entss This subject was originally intended to form the basis for an
article in the Geographic Intelligence Review, but research to date has
resulted in a draft that is considered to justify issuance as a separate
geographic intelligence report.
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