TRADE CONTROLS BRANCH MONTHLY REPORT FOR APRIL 1958

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00527A000200200060-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: May 2, 1958
• Content Type: PERRPT

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2 May 1958
TRADE CONTROLS BRANCH
MONTHLY REPORT FOR
APRIL 1958
A. Accomplishments
1. Reviewed about 100 combined CIA-BFC fact sheets for release
to USDEL in Paris for COCOM item discussions and approximately 70
requests for exceptions to COCOM security trade controls.
2. Considered 30 to 40 redefinitions, modifications, and other
aspects of US proposals on items in Chemicals and Metalworking
Machinery Categories for instructions to USDEL to COCOM.
3. Supplied appropriate fact sheets and other information and
briefed some 8 or 10 CIA industry and commodity specialists who will
attend COCOM item discussions during April - June.
4. Completed.3 EDIC intelligence documents on glass fiber industry,
phthalic anhydride supply and requirements, and strategic importance
of aluminum and its source materials, all pertaining to Sino-Soviet bloc.
5. Chief, S/TD, reviewed feature article for S.ientific Intelligence
Digest, briefed AD and Chief, E, on UK tire manufacturing factory to
USSR , difference between current International Lists and US proposals
for strategic trade controls, and USSR interests in US taconite pro-
cessing equipment, and prepared memorandum for OSI/NED on Soviet bloc
efforts to procure lithium.
6. Prepared memoranda for DCP action on diversion of natrium borax
to China, companies insuring Western credits for satellite importers,
and name intelligence report for on activities 25X1A6a
of firm suspected cC diverting mil ary vehicles and parts to unauthorized
destinations.
'7. Transmitted to Treasury Department information on use of
$250,000 in US currency, which may have been purchased by Chinese
Communists in Hong Kong,'by Yugoslav purchaser of West German military
equipment.
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8. Coordinated in negotiating DD/P-EDAC joint en-
forcement venture and serviced 20 requests for name intelligence from
State, Treasury, Commerce, DD/P, IR, BR, and S/TF.
9. Provided intelligence support to EDAC Working Group II on
33 Administrative."Action cases.
10. Participated in two meetings of Working Group I relative to
COCOM Export Control Subcommittee conference in Paris and three
meetings of Administrative Action Panel; attended other meetings as
follows: EDAC WG I - 12, WG I Munitions. Subgroup - 1, ACEP OC - 2,
BFC technical task groups - 3-
11. Checked clearance of four CS reports for WG II, two approved,
two refused; prepared evaluations of seven CS reports and two CS
requirements.
12. Scanned 2,699 documents for illegal trade information,
selected 196 for multiple carding.
13. Established 3 case files on possible diversion of strategic
materials to Sino-Soviet bloc.
Administrative
completed OTR courses in Basic
Supervision, Communist Party Organization and Operations, respectively.
began course in Economic Geography of
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