COORDINATING COMMITTEE MEMORANDUM BY THE FRENCH DELEGATION MAGNESIUM OXIDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00647A000200030025-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 11, 1998
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: February 11, 1960
• Content Type: MEMO

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111th February, 1960.
C O N F I D E N T I A L
COCOM Document No. 38768
COORDINATING COM ITTEE
iWIL] 1ORANDUa BY TIM FRENCH DELEGATION
iYL GNESIUM OXIDE
The French Delegation would remind the Committee that Item 13
on the Atomic Energy List embargoes "materials suitable for use in refractories,
composed of 97io or more by weight...... of magnesium oxide ".
The French Delegation note that:
(a) Upon study, it has been found that the quantities used for
purely civilian purposes account for 99% of total usage.
(b) The raw material (giobertite), which is abundant in the
Eastern Bloc, is free from all strategic control.
(c) The UoS.S.R. is among the biggest world producers of electro-
melted rsagnesia containing more than 97g. magnesium oxide.
The French Delegation therefore believe that electro-melted
magt_esia should be deleted from the International Lists, and would be glad if
the other delegations would give views within the shortest possible time.
C O N F I D E N T I A L
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