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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01096A000100080005-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 11, 1953
• Content Type: LETTER

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Washington 13 .C.
25X1A5a1 11 August 1953
The enclosed materials are sent to you on loan because they
may be oi value to the project. Kindly acknowledge the loan of
these items by returning the signed receipt. 25X1X6
We have just learned that two Norwegian geodesists,
25X1X6 and are coming to Washington to spend some time
with USGS, UBCGS and the Bureau of Standards. They also plan
25X1A5a1 to visit Will this be a visit to your
Thstitutelfsyomaybeeo that with them informally
sn?ead to a discussion or the Norwegian experiences with the
ov lets in the surveying of the Soviet-Norwegian boundary in 1947.
li they themselves participated in the mixed survey commiesion
they may be able to offer some observations on Soviet survey
methods, personalities, instruments, and other Soviet geodetic
activities. You might also ask them about their knowledge or
opinion or what the Soviets know about Norwegian geodetic date, or
possibly about Soviet geodetic activities in Norway for purposes
01 tying the Norwegian area to the Soviet geodetic network. This
latter point, as you well know, is something on which we will be
concentrating in order to determine Soviet plans or intentions for
tying all or Europe to this Soviet geodetic system.
25X1X6
Your work in astronomy and you Russian origin would seem to
oiler a reasonable basis for some general initial questions that
would indicate whether they have the knowledge or interest in
developing an extended discussion on Soviet geodesy. If their
information is significant enough we would like a detailed report.
I am also enclosing the first portion or the interrogation
of The transcriber of the recording indicated that her
;greatest difficulty was in understanding your soft-spoken Russian.
would you, therefore, correct the manuscript and return it at your
earliest convenience? In doing this, of course, you will be able
to obtain the information you need for our project.
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You may be Inters ted in a brief ptth1t&ttOflentitl
I The
Structure of the Russian Academy ok Sciences from its beginning
to 1949 by D. Krassovskiy, Lexinaton, Kentuchy, 19,2, 21pp.
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Informitionmerorts:
25X1A2g CS-0-12227,
C3-C-12229, CS-G-10237,
C8-1-12220, CS-G-4273,
CS-i-131300 CS-G-7051,
C:;--7027, CS-G-11061,
C3-';-1106
25X1X6
Sincerely yours,
25X1A9a
flovernment Adminis rator
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