MONTHLY REPORT FOR MAY 1956

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00137A000100010066-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2001
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: June 1, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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Qt~T7tTemorandum UNITED
STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Chief, Industrial Division
FROM Acting Chief, Consumer Industries Branch
subAcT: Monthly Report for May 1956
DATE: 1 June 1956
1. Accomplishments
A. Branch Projects Submitted
1. Project 38.909 (Light Industry in China) is part of
25X1A9a a backlog in redoubt-,--
editors. 2. Project 30.830 (Soviet Consumption) is ready for the
B. Area-wide Project
I/Cl.'s substantial contributions to Project 10.804 have
been submitted.
C. DDP Project
Project 30.1081 (Selected Aspects of Economic Welfare in
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland) has been sent to the customer.
D. Current Intelligence
1. An i/CI article on living standards in Poland was used
d mutilated) for the Weekly Review.
25X1A9a 2. has negotiated with CS5 for the publication
of a CSM do the decline secondary rural production in Con nunist
China.
2. Training
25X1A9a is about to complete her Russian language
course.
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3. Trips
None.
h. Administration
I invoke the 5th amendment.
5. Plans
See research program for the next fiscal year.
6. Problems
The branch without a problem to its name.
25X1A9a
RIM: i11
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