Contest of (Sanitized) of ORE with Mr. Ball of the Oil andGas Division, Department of the Interior

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00662R000100070041-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 1998
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: October 19, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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Director, 0'
t Director, R,porta and Estimates:
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t of of o with Mr. i of the Oil
Gas Division, Department of the Interior
Director for Operations, dated 12 October
,learanoe with 00 by ORE Before
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aped by the Office of Operations? was to seek an opi
The purpose of the visit to Meter York of
q of two widely differing estimates of the crud
a USSR. The representatives of the oil companies
ooperatitre, but were inconclusive in their
estimates presented to them for evaluation..
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hington an on 30 September 1948, Messrs.
Mr. Ram Sall of the Oil and Gas Division,
or, in order to solicit from him,, as a
an informal basis, his opinion and evaluation
ea erring thhe aoour*oy of the two widely differing estimates. The
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Of the sums of the estimates. The Office of Collection and Dissemina-
tion was contacted on 7 October 1948, to obtain clear erases to present
the rra material to lam. liar. The Office of Operations (Mr.
was informed on 8 October 1948 that this material was being
25X1 A9a t to Mrs ells and that it had been learned that qtr, Ball was
consulting with geologists of ccs rcial oil companies on 11 October
1, and that CIA representation was not desired.
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predicated on the latter's
of the Interdepartmental Petroleum Committee of which
constituted C member, In this connection, suoh
regular, and requires no ordination,
th the Otfi of Collection and Dissemination and the
In the present instance, the sole reason for pre-cle
because it was desired to present certain classified data
for his export consultatjve esvaiuation. Such pro-clearance
an the advice of Office of the Executive
one and Security.
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us, and was in accord, with proeedures
does not appear that CIA *an presvne to
tal uoy how it may or not utilize
omeu,ta ut a erriae i and the fact that such persons chwuw to be
Identified - the cam eoc erc al organisations as provide the
Office of Operat
8. It is oo *idered ease
au i to that evaluatio
a tea be eocplo . , as was done in this sae.
not be *iso r d by the Dffiee of Operations as being in
with prodi*ions of ACID 7 or prompting the '? tf ioe of Opera:;
eet a?
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13istri ut on:
Asst. Director, R&,E (2) 1
Plans & Policy Staff (2)
Acting Director, CIA (I)
Asst. Director, OCD (1)
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