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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62S00346A000100050024-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 24
• Content Type: REPORT

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Statement by RIC Subcommittee on Chemicals Begirding the "Not Gain"
Aspect of the Nev Soviet Proposal for Long Term Recharges of Chemical
industry Delegetions
1. Promotion of long term exchanges of ehemical industry
delegations between the US and the USSR in principle ihould be
encouraged since much useful on the Soviet chemical 25X1X1
indistry could conceivably be secured by thie method.
2. The exchange of long-term chemical industry delegations
with the USSR mould result in the accrual of "vet gain" to the
US under properly controlled conditions, There probably could. be
a net gain to the US from an exchange in the fields of 25X1X1
citrogee compound*? fluorine compoundas. the electrethermal and
electrolytic chemical induatries and perhaps others. Converseleo
in fields sueh as petroehemicals, eynthetie fibers, and perhaps
plastiese the USSR probably would obtain a great deal of impor-
tant tecnnological information ehith would outweight the US 25X1X1
gain so that the net god* would be en favor of the USSR.
3. As indicated iu parageaph 2 above the accrual of "net
gain" to the US would depend upon the observance of certain con-
ditions, These conditions are as follows:
a. No blanket approval should be given for eechange
of chemical industry delegations. The various sectors of
the chemical industry should be considered as separate
Industries and proposed exchanges for each sector shoald
be wei Ned separately.
b, US approval of an exchange for any particular
sector of tbe chemical induotry should be mede contingent
upon what Soviet iertallations the US delegation would be
permitted to visit, Th w US delegations should be permitted
to travel widely and visit all of the important installations
manufacturing the particular group of products being studied.
4? Regarding the question of the duration of exchange visits
no firm committment should be made by the US. In prac'ecally all
eases involving exchanges of chemical delegations, the US would stand
to gain little in the way of technology and, as a result, US companies
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AThe term, "net gain to tne US," means that secured
by the US delegations would mare than counterbalance the technological
information secured by the Soviet delegations.
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probably would have to be persuaded to allow thiair representatives
to remain in the USSR for even 60 or 90 days. It would not be in
the best interests of the US to allow a Soviet delegation to remain
in the US for six months if the corresponding US delegation could
remain in the USSR for, say, only 2 or 3 months. It Is recommended,
therefOre? that each proposed exchange be negotiated separatelyvith
regard to the duration of the exchangs visit.
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