SOVIET BLOC NEED FOR COPPER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A000300040046-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2008
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: July 22, 1954
• Content Type: BRIEF

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'ost actively sought
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Efforts :still at high level:
increasing Bloc interest =wire,
electrolytic copper.
Soviet now
attempting purchase in larg
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upper esseut.ia x Advo,"ONY)
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Bloc in 1953rQdced
COpper c?nsum". 7,8x re-
. -imports .
E*arple, Bloc re
670,000
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derv war. (Usk nammua1t on
hicles, artillery, aircraft, naval
"eSsels, communications and fare--(ontro.l
etujpment, etc.)
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lot , 000
2-9,000
Thus, deficit 148,000
despite imports.
Bloc 1953 use of copper:
Munitions, military
equipment
- 20%
2.
Direct support of
taT
-17%
3.
Stockpile
This roughly half total
- 10%
available (say 250,000 ri.t.)
Kazakhstan and Central Asia sbo
In USSR, rich Ural ores being
exhausted, new production in
`- *, _---
Bloc copper production now hampered
need advanced technology, lack natur
resources.
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n,tral Asia ores present
a1lurgicat problems.
harsh weather.
igazakhstan has water shortage,
owever, gap narrowing. Example
thousands m.t.'):
trolling Bloc, pur-
Yost free world co n '
Chases. However- problem comrl1catec
y multiple trade trInsacttons,, lack
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31 tried
t 1.921000 tons more, maybe _got
k-If. , Other half s toped ~r
disrupted by, ACM.
Control _ problem aggravated by slum
in copper since early 1953`; aou7
mn1atioii Iarge unsold stocks.
I, Chile tion especi4 .ly
ba4 by March 1954 total
375~f{ cs. unsold.
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2. US then 'purchased 1OO, t l o
from Chile-
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majority Chiles' 75,t tons p
ably solditfmately.
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