Annual Report, Subcommittee on Chemicals

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
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• Publication Date: July 27, 1956
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27 July 1956
TO : EIC Secretariat
FROM : Chairman, ETC Subcommittee on Chemicals
SUBJECT: Annual RepOrt Subcommittee on Chemicalsj 7t I
1. The EIC Subcommittee on Chemical has held one formal meeting
during the fiscal year 1956, on A June, Room 2130 1M" Building. ?
2. This meeting was called to consider the Soviet Six-Phase
Rechange Progrem, as requested by the Ike Standing Committee on Exchangeae
-Reneeeentatives of the IAC Agencies were in attendance. However, it was
evident that there is little interest in the other Agencies On Chemical
itntelligence of the Sino-Soviet Bloc. The Military services are interested
in,militery end-products only, and are leaving intelligence in the general
field of economics of the chemical industry to the Cheeicals Branch,
Materials Division of CIA. Also, as explained in our previous report
for fiscal: year 1955, the DePartment Of State writes special reports on
segments of the industry if reenested.
3. During the last year we have had continual and close _contact
with AFOIN of the Department of Air. Within the last year an extensive:
neorganization has tahen place in MIN, and at the-present tiMelethey are
? merely rag taring production reports on a limited group-of:basicech teals..
Th eee figures are Obtained from published documents. They depend Upon CIA
for estimetes of production of ehemicale in the Sino-Soviet Bloc.
4. As etated in our previous report, ONI of the Department of the
.Nevy is no longer a member of the SUbcommittee. We have been in touch
ulth the Technical Branch, intelligence Division, Office Chief of Staff,
Department of the Army. This group has the responsibility for Chemical
intelligence for the Army, but concentrates on military end-items only.
At the present time their effort is Concerned largely with atomic energy --
problems. They have Stated that they accept the AFOIN and CIA figures
for chemicals in the Sino-Soviet.Bloc.
A. ACTIVITIES OF Th s SUBCOMMITTEE DURING FISCAL YEAR
a(1) Review of the IntellAgence Product in the Subcommittees
Field of_Sompetence
There ha been no committee review of reports produced.
The Chemicals Branch, (IR, has been the producer of chemical reports on
the Sino-Soviet Bloc, and close contact has been kept with 3e&-2 of AFOIN
as the reports were being written.
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) Research and Collection Deficiencie
Some of the eeps in intelligence are as they were in our
peel:ions report. We have as yet received no estimates of requirements
for chemicals for the military propellants of the Sino-Soviet Bloc.
Paralleling this, is the deficiency in data on the types and composition
a the propellants used by the Sino-Soviet Bloc in their Guided Missile
Proaxam. 3-A-2 of AFOIN, and the Chemicals Branch, ORR, have been
attempting to close :the information eep on the availability of the
chemicals required-for the fuels and oxydizers of the Guided Missile
Program. The two groups have cooperated closely. Based upon the
programs covering chemical intelligence in the IAC Agencies, these
are the only two deficiences on which joint effort should be made.
(3) Review of Substantive Papers
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Review of Proposals for External Research
None were suggested.
(4)
(5)
MaintenancLRLAgreed Basic Statistics
As the producer of statistics on the production of basic
chemicals in the Sino-Soviet Bloc, the Chemicals Branch, OFR, has forwarded
to the other IAC Agencies all changes that have been made in their estimates.
The other Agencies were requested to acknowledge receipt of
the corrected estimates, and to advise the Chemical Branch of their concurrence.
if their estimates were different they were requested to advise Chemicals
Branch of their estimate, so that the figures could be reconciled. There
was only one case where the CIA and AFOIN differed appreciably, and these
eere promptly reconciled.
(6) Projects Undertaken at the Request of the RIC or proposed to
the RIC.
None Requested.
(7) intellieence Research Techniques
None.
(8) Special Coordination Functions of the Subcommittee
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(9) Evaluation -of the Role of the SUbcoMmittee
As explained above, the areas of responsibility in the
chtmicals field 'lave changed radically since the organization of the
Subcommittee, However, the Subcommittee has served a good and useful
purpose, and it is recommended that the committee be kept alive. It
allows the members of the IAC Agencies interested in Chemical intelligence
to contact each other with ease, and Ad Hoc meetings can be held by the
mewbers of the Sdbcommittee if they have mutual problems. It also enables
the LAC Agencies to assemble Ad Hoc Committees for special purposes, such
as the study of the exchange program for delegations of the Plastics,
and Agricultural chemical and Insecticides industries.
B. FUTURE PROGRAM OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE
Chemical Subcommittee will hold at least one formal meeting
per year to consider problems of mutual interest in intelligence on the
chemicals industry.
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