USSR TURNS TO FREE WORLD FOR HIGH-CAPACITY TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T01003A002500040001-9
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 1, 1965
• Content Type: BRIEF

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USSR TURNS TO FREE WORLD
FOR HIGH--CAPACITY
TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT*
Summary
The USSR for the first time is trying to procure high-
capacity telecommunications systems from firms in the
Free World. These efforts to benefit from superior Free
World technology reflect the failure of the USSRto.produce
enough first-class telecommunications equipment. In
addition, several Eastern European Communist countries,
which already had been importing Western equipment and
technology, now have stepped up the pace of their orders.
The success of these new Communist efforts to use Free
World sources for high-quality telecommunications equip-
ment depends on a relaxation of COCOM embargo restric-
tions that are enforced by all NATO countries and Japan.
The estimates and conclusions in this brief represent the
best judgment of this Office as of 30 December 1965.
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