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

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CIA-RDP62-00328A000200070004-4
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December 9, 2016
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July 9, 1998
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April 25, 1957
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Approved For Release 2000/08/26 : CIA-RDP62-00328A000200070004-4 CONF 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 25X1A9a 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. 25X1A9a Approved For Release 2000/0f 2-00328A000200070004-4