MONTHLY REPORT FOR MARCH 1958

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62S00231A000100100109-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 109
• Publication Date: April 1, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

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TO Chief, Industrial Division, ORR
FROM : Chief, Consumer Industries Branch, D/I
SUBJECT: Monthly Report for March 1958
DATE: 1 April 1958
1. Accomplishments
a. Projects Completed
(1) ICI's contribution to "Economic Intelligence Statistical
Handbook, 1958" (00.2066) was completed by Carrie
Edwards with the assistance of other members of the
branch.
V b. Status of Other Projects
25X1A9a (1) MW worked on "Soviet Industrial Production
Index 10.2029), mostly on the paper products
component, and on the two projects for which estimates
of light industry's consumption of electric powe-? are
needed, "ghe Soviet Atomic Energy Program" (20.1183)
and "Electric Power Consumption in the USSR" (20.1881).
He also collaborated with CSS in writing an artit.le on
the new consumer goods program in the USSR.
25X1A9a (2) as finished most of the computations fur
Expenditure on Consumer Services in the USSR"
(30.1'171) .
25X1A9a (3) nearly completed her work on "Soviet
strial Production Index" (10.2029).
25X1A9a (4) ontinued work on the domestic trade
subsection of Section 65 of NIS 13A on East Germany
(40.2068).
25X1A9a
(5) worked on Problems raised during divisional
plow o his formidable report "The Housing Problem in
the European Satellites, 1949-58" (38.1741).
25X1A9a (6) continued work on "Communist China's Tr: de
an Transport" (40.1833)?
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25X1A9a
(7) continued to work with the draft
of Section 64 of the Albanian NIS (30.1823).
v 2. Training
25X1 A9a
a.
25X1A9a
b.
25X1A9a
__ _-___ _ ___ continued to conduct the ORR course
"Economic Statistics (Introduction)".
continued the ORR Report.
Writing Course.
Statistics Introduction)
25X1 A9a d. tarted the OTR course Russian Economic Reading,
Phase I.
25X1A9a e.
3. Trips and Speeches
None
4. Administration
continued the ORR course "Economic
completed the 20-hour Basic Typing Course.
a. Reorganization of branch and redeployment of branch personnel:
In memos of 17 March and 19 March, Chief, Economic Research
Area announced plans for the reorganization of ERA a:.id the
redeployment of ERA personnel in response to new priority
research requirements. I/CI is to be broken up, fou of
its members to remain in D/I in a new Manufacturing sectors
Branch (I/MS) and six to transfer to D/A to a new Population
and Consumers Welfare Branch (A/PC). The tentative _ature
assignments of members of I/CI are:
------------- A/PC
A/PC
-----------,-- PC
A/PC
----------- -- A/PC
______________ A/PC
------------- A/PC
------------- I/MS
------------- I/MS
------------- I/MS
------------- I/MS
25X1A9a b. GS-5 analyst in the European Satellites section,
will resign cob 11 May to get married.
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c. , GS-5 branch secretary (typing), will resign
co pr to follow her husband.
25X1A9a d.
oined the branch, 13 March, as a GS-9
analyst in the European Satellites section.
25X1A9a e. former G3-9 analyst in the European
Sate ites section, who had left the branch permanently on
LWOP on 1 November 1957, resigned from the Agency, eff
1+ Mar.
f. Security: The combinations of all safes in the branch were
changed 11 March.
Charity campaigns: The two minor charity campaigns conducted
in the Agency in March were received poorly in the branch
and will act to take the edge off the one big campaign in
the fall.
5. Plans
a. Branch planning for FY 59 was changed during the month to
assisting in the planning for the two new branches - A/PC
and I/MS - to which members of ICI are to be assigned.
Chief, Economic Research Area reviewed the FY 59 programs
for both new branches.
6. Problems
Nothing to report.
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