ORR COMMENTS ON 'SEMI-FINAL DRAFT OF REPORTS ON SECURITY OF STRATEGICALLY IMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL OPERATIONS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES (NBC 163/1)'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62S00346A000100020031-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: September 26, 1958
• Content Type: MF

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While the material contained in
scope of ORR's responsibility,, we be
my be of some use to You in reviewing this
a. At the present time, chile produces about 435,C I metric
tons of car where" Peru produces only 60,000 metric tons.
Cerro de Pasco gyration and the Southern Peru Copper Corporation
plan, however, to increase their copper output in Peru by a total of
300,000 metric tons per year. It may be desirable, therefore, to
add thee Peruvian oopper facilities to the list of strategically
important industrial operations which should receive protection.
Both the above fires are J.S. owned.
b. Annex A surveys a number of commodities,, and notes for esch
a percentage of "possible de ,e." This in defined an the bottom
of the first page as "the percentage of 3-year U.S. emergency rr ire-
ments that might need to be met fron sources other then the U.S.,
Cam, and Mexico." The paper never states eatplicitly whether or not
U.S. stockpiles are considered in arriving at this percentage of
dependency. In the discussion of timany (p 2), the statement is
mac that the "U.S. has a sizable stockpile.' This stn t implies
that the percentage of depokloncy was calculated by ignoring stock-
piles and that sizable U.S. stockpiles reduce the calculated dependency
The discussion of fluorspar (Poo 7), however, says that there is going
to be a substantial decline in require marts, and that additional
quantities are being stockpiled. "Because of them factors," the paper
says, "it is probably [sic!) that little or no overseas dependence wiU
n a short period of time." This statement implies that
after taking stockpiles into aunt, stages of de y
calculated. Other statements seem to support the later interpretation.
I think it would be worth while to clarify this point at the outset.
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D/14/RR: 11 Research and Reports
OAD/RR: /8666 (26 September 1958)
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