INTELLIGENCE REQUIREMENTS - SOVIET BLOC PROCUREMENT AGENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL CHARTS AND RELATED INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00328A000200070004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 9, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 25, 1957
• Content Type: MEMO

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Mr. Henry Shavell
April 25, 1957
Advisory Committee on Export Policy
FC-2010
2.71$3-114
John P. Hebrew, Agent in Charge
BFC Investigation Staff
Intelligence Requirement - Soviet Bloc Procurement Agency,
Organizational Charts and Related Information
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As you were recently informed by our we have
been attempting, since the October 1956 revolution in Hungary, to interrogate,
directly or through other U.S. inrrestigative-intelligence organizations, those
Hungarian escapees who formerly were concerned with purchases of U.8& and other
Wontern.origin security goods for their governments. We are, of course, simi-
larly interested in defectors of this type from other Sovbloo nations.
We know that it is frequently the added duty of such Sovbloc governmen-
tal personnel to travel throughout the Free World in contacting and instructing
firms which they may use as covers in securing strategic goods in contravention
of the export controls of the United States and other nations friendly to the
United States.
In setting up the Hungarian project, it was discovered that much infor.
oration on the various purchasing groups of the Hungarian Ministry of Cemsmeres
(e.g. Metalimpex, Nikex, etc.), as well as on the personalities working there,
was h3milable in the form of numerous raw and mostly unevaluated reports. It
was necessary that we spend considerable time in extracting the pertinent infor-
mation from the hundreds of reports available before we could proceed.
Since one of our permanent targets will be these Soviet Bloc purchasing
agenoies and the activities of the personnel involved therein, it is requested
that you discuss with your contacts in EDIC the need of the Washington export
control eoaunity for finished, up-to-date intelligence in this respect, to in..
elude organizational charts describing and identifying the persons engaged in
the various offices. In addition, regular information with regard to the trips
these individuals make to Western cities, the firms with which they establish
contact, and the instructions which they give to such cover firms, would also be
a continuing requirement.
This would place us in ready position to know something about the polit-
ical leanings of these people, to understand their work and the organisations by
which they are employed should they, at time, defeat or contact ua, the
Economic Defense officers in the fief s- or JR-eials of other U.S. agencies. It
would also enable us to study methods and techniques employed and policies ad-
hered to by Our direct adversaries in the Economic Defense field and would, it is
hoped, in a number of instances, enable us to take steps to prevent the diversion
of U.S.-origin security goods to the Soviet Bloc.
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