MONTHLY REPORT FOR NOVEMBER 1958.

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• Publication Date: December 1, 1958
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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, Industrial Division, ().R
FROM : Chief, Producers' Equipment Branch, ORR
suBJECT: Monthly Report for November 1958.
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DATE: 1 December 1958
1. Status of Branch Projects
? a. Project No. 32.2115, Participation of the Soviet Rolling 25X1A9a
Stock Industry in the Guided Missile Program,Analyst:
Major effort on this to begin during December. Research to date has
produced no leads on installations engaged in either design or
production of rolling stock for the Guided Missile program.
. b. Project No. 32.2119, Recent Developments in the At:_tomotive 25X1 A9a
Ind~~ust~r ~ of the USSR, Analyst t Work on this to be
resumes when analyst finishes revisions to motor vehicle trade paper
and statistical anlysis of motor vehicle production.
c. Project No. 32.2120, Recent Developments in Trade of Motor
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Analyst maki=eg final
Vehicles and Tractors, Analyst:
revisions to paper. Will be resubmitted to D I by 15 December. 25X1 A9a
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. d. Project No. 32.2363, Soviet Personalities Involved in Atomic 25X1A9.
& g. Project No 32.2366, The Construction r uipment Lxdustr of
the USSR, Analyst: Further work on this ?postponed
until a ter USSR HIS and CHICOM NIE, probably in mid-January.
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on this after analyst has completed CHICOM NIE,
of the European Satellites, Analyst: Work =,o begin 25X1A9a
Enemy Compressor Work, Analyst: MENIpm Research to be resumed
in January after completion of USSR NIS and CHICON NIE.
? e. Project No. 32.236, Production of Large Gas Turbines,
Steam Turbines and i'ydroturbines in the Sino-Soviet Bloc, .Analyst:
Analyst will begin work on this after completion of USSR
NIS and CHICOM NIE, probably in February 1959.
f. Project No. 32.2365, The Motor Vehicle and Tractor Industries
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a- j. Project No. 32.620, Statistical Analysis of Production of
25X1A9a i- otor Vehi.cles in the USSR, Analyst : Revision almost
completed. 1957 markings data is being added. Completed manuscript
will then be sent to St/FM for another round of coordination.
Project No. 32.383, Soviet Locomotive Industry, Analyst:
25X1A9a At the printer's.
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m. Project No. 31L.1927, Production of Metal Cuttin Machine
Tools in the European Satellites, Analyst: Research
25X1A9a will be commenced after completion of USSR and CHICOM NIF, probably
1. Project 'No, 3 .1558, Production of Chemical E ui_pment
in the USSR, Analyst: Being revised. Will probably
be submitted to Chief, y. e end of December, we hope.
SUBJECT: Monthly Report for November 1958
` h. Project No. 32.2367, Oilfield Equipment in the iJSS:.
No analyst available to work on this.
i. Project No. 32.2363, Production of Petroleum Refining
E ui merit in the USSR, Analyst: ancellation will
be proposed.
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n. Project No. 3..1931 Production of Chemical Equipment in
Czechoslovakia, Analyst: Statistical review completed;
now in St/PB for editing,
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2. Status of Su ort Pro ects
a. Project No. 30.1830, NIB 13A East Germany, Section 64,
Manufacturing and Construction. 1 contributions submitted to D /I
except for electrical equipment. .s now melding the
contributions from I/EE with his own to obtain a final draft. His
first draft, reviewed by branch chief before the arrival of I/EE
contributions, reflected careful research and good writing.
b. Project No. 30.1826, USSR NIS. Contributions on bearings,
chemical equipment and locomotives and rolling stock have been completed,
reviewed by branch chief and are being typed. The remainder -oaill be
completed during December.
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3. Relationships with Other Components
a. Information found in a Soviet handbook of tractor parts
published in 1956 indicated that 'lByelorustt tractors, in addition to
bein manufactured at the Minsk Tractor Plant, were produced-
25X1 X1 This proved our contention that these tractors were
ma e in ano er plant besides Minsk and also helped I/GM in their
efforts to identify missile production at Dnepropetrovsk.
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b. prepared a comparable list of US and Soviet
truck models and prices for I/ME for use by the Comptroller'. Office,
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ce rovided considerable assistance to ACSI
during November on production of Soviet motor vehicles and tractors,
including one seven-hour session with the ACSI representative.
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d. prepared a chart of diesel
engine models produced in Poland and supplied this, along with other
25X1A9a information on production to of the Economic Warfare
Section, OSD ?for his use in preparing an appeal against the shipment
to Poland of internal grinding machines for grinding fuel injection
nozzles for diesel engines.
).. Future Plans
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met with an interagency group at the
Department of Commerce on 26 November to consider a proposal for
extending US unilateral control in the field of technical data.
Apparently the US is considering increased use of the criterion of
technological know-how for preventing exports to the Soviet bloc,
particularly in the fields of petrochemicals, metalworking equipment
and electronics. The chairman of the meeting, Michel George,
requested that technical groups be established to prepare lists of
items which would meet the criteria for this increased US control.
25X1 A9a The CIA representative, suggested that a preliriinary
selection be made by members of Commerce and Defense since they
cover Free World capabilities, and that specialists from CIA later
evaluate the effect that this control might have on the bloc. The
Chairman and the BFC representative, however, requested that CIA
also participate as much as possible in the initial selection of items
since past experience had shown that CIA specialists had considerable
knowledge in the area of Free World capabilities. The CIA
specialists agreed that they would participate as requested unless
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prevented from doing so by other cor9tments, s prepared
to participate in the technical sessions. feels that in25X1A9a
his field there is little, if any, fundamen a technology in the
metalworking equipment field that the Soviets are not already
aware of and that he should stay out of these meetings until the
preliminary list of items is prepared, and the group is ready to
consider the Soviet bloc position on the items. Since he is heavily
involved with the USSR NIS, it would be better for us if he could
avoid these preliminary meetings.
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I understand that ave called for a review of COCOIT
items in the spring and that CIA is to begin work on the fact sheets.
In most cases this will involve only an up-dating of those done last
year. As a result of the technical group meetings mentioned above, there
will be some new items not previously on the control list, for which
new fact sheets will have to be prepared.
We can therefore anticipate that I/FE will have to devote
considerable time during the next three or four months to meetiz ;s,
consultation with S/TD, and some research concerning COCOM matters.
25X1A9a Analysts other than 11 probably not have to invest
25X1A9a much time on this. aran wi have sufficient time to contribute to
the program;~_11 not. It is in the metalworking equipment
field, therefore, that the COCOM support will moot adversely affect
the branch research program. This lends additional force to your
suggestion that Tony handle the satellite studies on a country-by-
country basis. 25X1A9a
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