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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP71T00730R000500010125-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2008
• Sequence Number: 125
• Content Type: REPORT

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p u t to t h e B u r o p e a n Satellites and C
.Fall av the, rela do n of C+tC 4 restrictions
to Bloc countries in Au st of 1958
,
anted by about 3#300 two from tree world sources.
sales
Were reported to ha" been made to Commamij
ickel supply position in the d
POUnds of nickel per ton of steel Production r
eatir ted as follows:
Nuropea,n satel-
lites and
C st China
5, 1 uv tons, of which b5.5W were produced in the US;
' -c+ Soviet Bloc production of nickel in 1958 is estimated at
oi+et Bloc Nickel
9r
uer=WY- 38: t is believed to have exported
59,,
Ills. of Nickel
per Ton of
was 1.9 lbs. of nic,
(Net Tons
1.95
0.70
ton of steel production.
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of 1958 C0CCil placed nickel metal and nickel-based,
th a tentative maximum of 1#000
ent of 13,E net tons per year.
tamed during the few
ring 1959 are reported to
quota.
Ebility of 13,500 tons of free world nickel to Coe wist
Satellites during 3,958 and the coasequent
of the 6,500 tons furnished to t' a in that
in an apparent supply of nickel in the
nickel in the Situ-Soviet Bloc in 1959 will approxi-
nickel per ton of steel. It is estimated that the
Satellites and Cemonist China would have increased
2.17 lbs. in 1957 and 1.9 lbs. in 1"S. Availability
o 2.18 lbs. per ton of steel ption, c+d to US
program, inch the output of
not exceed that of the US. Matel.1m
of nickel we substantially the
,equiremaeut for nickel for military applicatious
. the 36,...750 tons consuned by the
in 19517, or 62 percent of the USSS apparent supply
nickel in 1958.
this essential metal. In
il,g few years during which the t SSFt ban produc
t quantities and of the probable demands
current Soviet allocations for stockpiling are
imum of 5,000 tons per year.* 5odiet arequiremen,
military programs and for strategic
count for 41,750 tons.- 1.38 lbs. of nickel Per
, and 71% of the apparent suypply in 1958.
nt supply of 0.70 lbs. of nicke
man Satellites sad Comm
the highest priority,
d in excess of 25,000 tons of nickel in
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is unless C0 restrictions are reimposed.
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i billion rubles steed to double Soviet nickel pro
seven Year Plan period represents an investment of 76
on of annual, refined nickel amity, equivalent to
~ car eretan. rate's of 5 rubles of $1.00. The Internet
Tb aim in ern Mani
i avers ratio of Soviet/f?
Soviet nickel cos'
2.26 per lb.,, three tines the
.75. Put another w+',
is 18 tiaaes the free world price in a il.ars,
ices for steel mill products average 6 times
latively high costa of 4evelopont and extraction
in proceeding energetically to avoid dependence
2#8W tons of contained nickel by 1962/63 and further increaaa is
Ined by conperingg and a
d equipment prices.
coastru
latie a
and difficult Operat
Soviet nickel price
or 13.60 rubles per pound. Converted
of nickel by expanding its I digen
l +:
ferr+onickel copse Ity
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lterion (a) in that it is used prix ci . r
for the developaeut, procUxtio or utilize
Implements of war.
(1) dip
ityor(2)
contrary, arm inc
iu d the U availabilit;
to the us tel.
Of
kpi,ling DIY the U &S. It
steam piling feasible and has
iclleel per ton of steel
C = The availability of UICX--l frc the free world will riot
the Bloc to become d+e - t c that source.
ckel at free vorld primes
and permits re-e portstion at
the absorption of internal costs.
aLVP11+es are nV*ni*jttly available
and permit flexibility in
motion Of nickel
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