SOVIET BLOC MARKET RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS OF THE UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES

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CIA-RDP80T00246A027600020001-3
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December 22, 2016
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February 4, 2010
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November 26, 1958
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REPORT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/02/04: CIA-RDP80T00246A027600020001-3 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY This material contains Lnformation affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law. COUNTRY Soviet Bloc/Underdsveloped Areas SUBJECT Soviet Bloc Market Research and Ana]1.-sis of the tirderdeveloped Countries D E OF I O:' PLACE & DATE, ACQ. SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITI w us neld In anuary 1953 JLn East Berlin of representatives of Soviet Bloc trade organizations The purpose of the meeting was the implementation of car- taro directives of the permanent ccma fission of the Council of PUtual Sconomic Assistance ( i&) for ccm4plete factory installation. The two principal topics 25X1 of discussion were to be market research and analysis of the underdeveloped countries and possibilities of sales of ccnulete factory i, *t*lltatirm f., ??a. developed countries, REPORT L DATE DISTR. NO. PAGES REFERENCES 16 NOVMCO low 25X1 meeting NAVY I AIR (Not.: Washington distribution indieat.d by "X"; Field distribution by Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/02/04: CIA-RDP80T00246A027600020001-3 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/02/04: CIA-RDP80T00246AO27600020001-3 l SECRET BLOCI/UNDER-DNVELOPED COUNTRIES. ECONOMIC/POLITICAL. Market Research on and Delivery Possibilities to the Under- Developed Countries. 1. A meeting to be held in East Berlin on 28th January 1958 under the auspices of DIA INVEST-EXPORT will take the form of a consultation of experts from CMEL countries and will be carried out in agreement with certain directives laid down by the permanent CMEA Commission for complete factory installations. 2. taking part are: For East Germany: DIA INVEST-EXPORT. For the USSR: TECHNO-EXPORT. For Poland: CEKOP. For Bulgaria: TECHNO For Rumania: MAgINIMPORT 3. The official Chairman of the meeting will be the head of DIA INVEST-EXPORT, BOULANGER. It is however already accepted that the real power behind the scenes will be the two Russian foreign trade exports, MJELNIKOW and KRUPIN, who are believed to be representatives of TECHNO- PROM-IMPORT... 4? The two main subjects to be discussed at the meeting will be: (a) (b) Market research and analysis of the under-developed countries. Delivery Possibilities to the under-developed countries of complete factory installations. 6. A typical argument arose with the two Russian representatives mentioned above when the head of the section for international cooperation in DIA ,INVEST-EXPORT, JUNGBLUT, suggested that the various People's Democracies shoal submit their respective market research # e to their-fin, language. The Russians insisted in no uncertain terms that all the analyses submitted had to be translated into Russian first and from Russian back into the language of the other partaking countries. This is creating a major problem for the various interpreting sections apart from nnnaiAarn'h1v ra?nninv thA intnllirribility of the various analyses Produced. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/02/04: CIA-RDP80T00246AO27600020001-3 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/02/04: CIA-RDP80T00246AO27600020001-3 Next 6 Page(s) In Document Denied Iq Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/02/04: CIA-RDP80T00246AO27600020001-3