MONTHLY REPORT FOR JULY 1956

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00137A000100010050-4
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2001
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: August 1, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum -UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Chief, Industrial Division, ?1t.R
FROM Acting Chief, Medium Machinery Branch,,
SUBJECT: Monthly Report for July 1956
DATE: 1 August 19 56
1. Accomplishnnents
A. Branch Projects Submitted
CSR Project 34.1611., Ruble /Dollar Ratios for Machine
Tools, Metalforming Machinery, Textile Machinery an
Abrasives.
This project was an outgrowth of ORR Project
10.824.
ORR Project 34.1016, Pattern of Crude Abrasive Use
in the USSR.
This roject was again reviewed in the branch and
submitted with the recommendation that it be published
as a supplement to CIA/R'R PR-103.
B. other Projects Submitted
Evaluation of industrial equipment displayed at
the Chi Cara Commercial Exhibit in Cario.
ORR Project No. 10.803. Submitted revised
estimates of agricultural machinery production in
view of recent information announced by the USSR.
C. Special Research
16 hours were spent in special research in July.
Confe r~ences were held in the country regarding materials
that could be used to support the series of Chinese indus-
trial investment projects scheduled for FY t57.
D. Other
CSI No. 394, New Research Institute for Metal-
forming prepared by 25X1 A9a
Current Intelligence Digest, 11 July 1956, item
on establishment of metalforming research institute.
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A CSM was submitted outlining difficulties the
Russians are having in producing a satisfactory cotton
picker and of their attempts to purchase this type of
machinery from the West.
Submitted recommendations to EIC Subcommittee on
Industrial Machinery and Equipment regarding the pro-
posed Forge-Press Exchange Visit.
2.
Training
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sponsored Russian Language course starting in the
near future.
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B.
Trips
has started a training course on
atomic energy.
A.
None.
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Administration
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of sick leave.
Plans
6.
No Comments
Problems
7.
No Comments
Recommendations
No Cou nts
8.
other Information
From July 23 - 25 the Acting Branch Chief,, I/NMs,
participated in Ope2Sj4pA .ert.
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