EDIC Seminar on High-Energy Fuels

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01203A000100090025-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: June 8, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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S June 1956
MEMORANDUM
TO: Chairman, Economic Defense Intelligence Committee
FROM: Chairman, Working Group on Propellents and Fuel Additives
SUBJECT: EDIC Seminar on High-Energy Fuels
1, A "Propellents Seminar," under the auspices of the EDIC
Working Group on Propellants and Fuel Additives,, is scheduled to
be held on 13-14 June in the CIA Orientation Room, Central Buildings
The purpose of thissss+minar is to provide intelligence officers and
US officials concerned with export control programs with a working
knowledge of the strategic materials and production equipment re-
quired for missile propellents and other high-energy fuels, The
Defense member of the Working Group, in collaboration with the Office
of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Development,,,
has arranged for two government-contract groups, the Battelle Memorial
Institute and the Solid Propellent Information Agency, to make the
actual presentations. A transcript of the seminar proceedings will
be made,
2, Late in 1955, in response to an EDAC request, EDIC completed
an evaluation of the strategic significance and military uses of
boron, Subsequently,, EDIC was asked to study various other materials
of possible significance in the development of high-energy fuels,
After the completion of the original boron paper, the Working Group
on Propellents and Fuel Additives decided on a propellents seminar
as the most efficient way to establish a common working basis among
technical staffs, intelligence components, and action agency officials
concerned with high-energy fuels in the export control context,
3. An agenda for the seminar and a preliminary attendance list
are attached,
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4, It is requested that EMC members be asked to give this
memorandum appropriate circulation in their respective agencies
and to report any changes in, or additions toe the attendance list
not later than c,obb, 11 June to the Secretary of the Working Group,,
dodo 143, extension 4247,
5, The classification of the seminar will be "Secret/Hoforna94
Attachments:
1, Agenda for Propellents Seminar
2, Preliminary Attendance List
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ECONOMIC DEFENSE INT ,IGENCE COMMITTEE
Working Group on Propellents and Fuel Additives
PROPELLENTS SEMINAR
CIA Orientation Room,
2430 E Street, N.W.
13-14 June 1956
0930 Introduction
I~3 d Rocket PMgLUents
0945 Criteria for selection
1015 Break
1030 Monopropellents, oxidizers, fuels
1200 Lunch
1300 Monopropellents, oxidizers, fuels (cont.)
1430 Break
1445 Summary:
Materials of importance
Sources of information
1545 Discussion
1615 Adjournment
JUNE
Solid Propellenta
0900 Research and development program in the US
0945 Nitrocellulose-type gun propellents
1015 Break
1030 Composite propellents
1130 Nitrocellulose-type rocket propellents
1200 Lunch
1300 Manufacturing processes and equipment
1330 Igniters, primers, squibs
1345 Some aspects of foreign technology
1430 Break
1445 Recent developments
1515 Discussion
1615 Adjournment
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Col.; R6bert W. Green
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Mr. Edwin G. Davis
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2rm William P. Semaiett
Navy,, BuAer
Mr. Oscar Besaio
(Others not yet named)
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Dr. Edmund L. Finegold
Dab nt of Cow
Office of the Secretary
l~~ro Jo Michell George
BDSA
Mr. Hugh M. Bashers
Mr. L. Allan Davis
tfir. Wesley R. Koster
Mr. Herschel W. Meblett
Mr. Daniel W. Mikaitia
BFC
Mr. Earl Jeffrey
Mr. Leon Kelaton.
Mr! Prod Mean
Mr. Rauer Layer
Mr. Murray Rennert
Mr. Wilson Sweeney
Bureau of Standards
Dr. R. E. Ferguson
Dr. F. L. Howard
Q+ ssileInteUi ence Cammittee
Mr. Russell H. MaGuiney
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