MATERIALS DIVISION MONTHLY REPORT OCTOBER 1958

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62S00346A000100150067-8
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 1998
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: November 4, 1958
• Content Type: PERRPT

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4 November 1958
October 1958
BRANCH: Chemicals
I. Accomplishments
A. Scheduled Projects Completed and Forwarded
Project No. 30.1830, "NIS 13A East'Germany, Section 64, Manufacturing
and Construction" - M/CH contribution completed and forwarded to I/MS.
3. Support Projects
Project No. 30.2431, "Reexamination of Intelligence on Soviet ICBM
Production and Deployment Program" - M/CH contribution completed
and forwarded to I/GM.
C. Other Support Activities
Lists of Soviet chemical plants and chemicals in which M/CH has a
priority interest were provided to the DD/P for use in connection
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A memorandum was prepared for NED/OSI in response to a request
from their for further information on the
Soviet fluorine situation.
Nine evaluations of clandestine reports on the chemical industries
of the Sino-Soviet Bloc countries were completed and forwarded for
the DD/P.
Requirements were provided to the DD/P for collection of intelligence
on the chemical industry of Communist China.
II. Program - No changes.
III. Administration
A. Personnel - No changes.
B. Branch Structure - A reorganization of the Branch was carried out
30 October in order to utilize more efficiently existing supervisory
talent and thus effect closer control over the research program.
The reorganization involved essentially the division of the Satellite
Section into two sections. The structure of M/CH is now as shown
below:
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USSR Section
Secretary
Clerk-Typist
Satellite Section No. 1 Satellite` Section No. 2
- E. Germany g.
- Poland, Bul
ar East
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Rumani
- Chief 25X1A9a
n - Czecho,
a,
Albania
Trade
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Branch Monthly Report (Continued)
C. Training
25X1A9a - Started 0/TR Course in "Effective Writing."
- Continued 0/TR Course in "Basic Chinese Language,"
25X1A9a an camp e ea 0/TR Course in "Southeast Asia Survey - Economic
Factors."
D. Trips, Conventions, Professional Meetings, etc.
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visited Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC),
Dayton, Ohio, in order to consult with members of the Propulsion
Division on problems related to Soviet missile propellants. He
also visited aatelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, for the
purpose of evaluating the Institute's files as a source of informa-
tion on the chemical industries of the Soviet Bloc.
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