MEMORANDUM FROM THE UNITED STATES DELEGATION CONCERNING EXPORT OF COBALT METAL TO POLAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00647A000200020051-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 1998
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: April 6, 1960
• Content Type: MEMO

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CONFIDENTIAL
COCCM Document No. 3948
April 6, 1960
1. The United States Government has been requested to license the
export to Poland of 11,000 pounds of cobalt metal (IL 1648) valued at $19,250.
2. This material, reclaimed from scrap of United States origin, is for
export to Impexmetal, Warsaw and for ultimate consignment to the Baildon Steel
Works and the Institute of Iron Metallurgy and Non-ferrous Metals in Gliwice,
where the cobalt is to be used in the manufacture of non-embargoed magnets.
3. These magnets, which have a cobalt content of 24% and an energy
product of 4,000,000 Gs03 and are therefore excluded from embargo coverage,
have a wide variety of civilian uses. Such civilian applications include
apparatus and instruments used in the je-stuff, textile, and food-stuffs
industries; in motor-cycles; in automobile receiving sets; in watt hour meters;
and in related civilian uses. The United States authorities have estimated
that this contemplated export represents approximately one-half of the
Polish annual cobalt requirement for magnets.
4. Considering, in light of the above, that this six months' supply
of cobalt is reasonable and necessary to the Polish civilian economy, and
having obtained the usual assurances against trans-shipment or re-export, the
United States authorities have instructed the United States Delegation to
seek the Committee's consideration of this request under the special Polish
Exceptions Policy.
5. The United States Delegation would be grateful for the views of
member Governments by April 25.
CONFIDENTIAL
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