THE GLASS FIBER INDUSTRY IN THE SINO-SOVIET BLOC.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00328A000100430001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 27, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT
The Wass Fiber Industry in the Sina-pSoviet Bloc,
REQUESTING A CY AN DATE
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EDIC.0ase lick, 26
Control Nc- 486431
2? March 1958
Department of GcAmecelv 25 March l9580
DEADI4NE vp4 RECIErel OF INFORMATION
As soon FA possible?
?ROWED USE
To complement the review currently undertaken by a Department.
of Commerce Technical Task GrOup in order to determine whether glads
fibers are of sufficient military-industrial importance to warran
addition to the U.S. Positive List and possibly a recommendation Zor
their inclusion in ths International Listsf,
REFERENCE
Memorandum to Chairman of EDIC from Departmont of Commerce
representative?, 25 March 195e.
BACKGROUND
- The Department .of Commerce is currently reviewing a 'license
application filed by OMNI PRODUCTS CORPORATION of New York (Export
Agents for Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company) requesting permission to
export 40 tons of glass fiber roving (reduced from an original order
f 150 tons) to East Germany, Glass fibers are not now on either tilt,
U.S. Positive List or the International Lists, since -their predcathant
use has been in general industrial equipment or in consumer goods
However, there have now been developed a muMber of highly strategic
applications for glass fibers as reinforcing materials in plastic
laminates used in the production of rocket and guided missile bodies
as well as in aircraft, The superior strength to weight ratio of such
glass fiber reinforced plastics reportedly makes them an extremely
suitable structural material for such purposes. In view of these
new developments in applied glass fiber technology9 the Department
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of Defense has objected to the
East Uernany and has suggested
be placed on the U oS Positive
Technical Task Group review is
Defense suggestion and related
licensing of the proposed export to
that certain types of glass fibers
Idist. The above indisated Commerce
an outgrowth of this Department of
Operating Committee Action.
ACTION nom
It is requested that EDIC prepare an intelligenne summary eetting
forth Sino-Soviet Bloc uses and requirements for and supply of glees
fibers.
ASSIGNMENT OF PRODUCTION RESPONSIBILITY
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CIA is assigned responsibility for this project.
Chairman
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