TRADE BRANCH SERVICES DIVISION MONTHLY REPORT FOR OCTOBER 1958

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2000
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• Publication Date: November 3, 1958
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3 November 1958
TRADE BRANCH
SERVICES DIVISION
MONTHLY REPORT FOR
OCTOBER 1958
1. Accomplishments
The following reports were submitted by Trade Branch in October:
Project Number Title
42.1949 Soviet Bloc Military Assistance to the Free
World Underdeveloped Countries
1i-2.2256 Contributions to OCB Studies:
Yugoslavia
Philippines
Economic Relations Between Iceland and
the Soviet Bloc
112.2262 Sino-Soviet Bloc Economic Activities,
July-Sep 1958 (CFEP)
112.2270 Biweekly
42.2271 Biweekly
112.21129 Soviet Bloc Medical Assistance to Under-
developed Countries (ICA)
S-380 Economic Relations of the European
Satellites with the West
S-385 The Future of the Sino-Soviet Economic
Offensive in the Underdeveloped Areas
Through 1960
S-391 Soviet Bloc-Latin American Trade 19118-58
CSS Contribu-
tion Soviet Foreign Trade in 1957
Analyst
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Project Number
CSM
CSM
Recent Developments in Soviet Foreign Trade
Motivations for Recent Soviet Commodity
Sales in the West
IPC Targets
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia and Rumania
Hungary
Albania
Poland
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This Branch also contributed 16 evaluations.
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On 3 October Mrs* visited
DFI/State to discuss the exploratory steps to be taken in a proposed
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gaged in a pilot study to determine the feasibility of and problems
entailed in such a project.
3. Administration
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25X1A9a Bloc Tr e. Mr. - took part in a debriefing o o s trade mis-
5X1A9a sion at the Department of Commerce. Miss helped brief a State
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briefed of ICA on 14 October. Members of the Satellite
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on 2 October.
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participated in a conference at NSA called to review branch
requirements on NSA.
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13 October 195 .
Mrs. attended a meeting of the EIC Sub-
committee on Trade, 28 October.
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4+, Problems
None,
5. Recommendations
None..
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