REPORT FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 1958

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• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: November 4, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

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MATiaZIALS DIVISION MONTHLY REPORT
4 November 1958
TO . Chief, Materials Division
FROM . Chief, Nonferrous Metals and Minerals Branch
BRANCH: M/NF Report for the Month of October 1958
I. Accomplishments
25X6A A. Commented on OCDM.Draft "US Restrictions on Imports of Aluminum
Which Affect -
B. Prepared a critique of performance as a translating
25X1A8a organization particularly wi respec to its summary on USSR Materials
and Materials Processing Equipment, No. 1, 19 September 1958
C. Prepared an item for the OCI Daily on current output of diamonds
in the USSR.
D. Submitted a contribution to the NIE on East Germany.
E. Commented on Position Paper CFEP 574 which concerned lead and
zinc.
F. Completed CSM No. 616, Soviet Intrigue in the International Tin
Market. A copy of this memorandum was delivered to the State Department
for use in advising UK and other members of the International Tin
Council of what appears to be a clever and subtle Soviet scheme.
G. Prepared specific requirements for St/I/R on the following:
1. Gaps in Information Statement on Nonferrous Metals and
Minerals in Poland.
2. IPC Requirements for nonferrous metals and minerals in each
of the European Satellites.
3. Requirements to be answered from a trip from Moscow via
Leningrad to Murmansk.
4. M/NF requirements for biographic data.
5. Requirements for use in interrogating Greek repatriates.
6. Requirements on the aluminum industry of the USSR for use
in briefing an exchange delegation of engineering educators that
may have occasion to visit the Siberian Metallurgical Institute at
Stalinsk.
II. Program -- The research program of the branch has been reviewed as a
result of the D/M critique of our contribution to ORR Project 20.1776.
Another contribution to this project is being prepared and should be
ready for submittal on or about 24 November 1958.
25X1A9a III,
lectured on the production of economic
intelligence in 0 to an IOC class.25X1A9a
IV. Comments - None
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