WEEKLY SURVEYOR

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86T00608R000700040017-4
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2005
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: April 28, 1975
• Content Type: IR

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The main purpose of social psychology in the
USSR is defined as political indoctrination of
the Soviet populace. The leading research
centers e -e indicated. This research appears to
he exploratory, but it eventually may provide
the leadership with the data needed to exer-
cise greater control over the Soviet individual.
Early Soviet concern about the threat of leaf
rust disease to the winter wheat crop is
justified. Mild fall and winter weather condi-
tions could lead to large concentrations of
infecti :'e spores much earlier than usual. Wind
dissemination of these spores could affect
winter wheat in parts of the Ukraine and
other regions of the European USSR.
The Soviets have developed a prototype
250-MHz oscilloscope designated the S1-75.
This is the first Soviet Bloc real-time UHF
DC-coupled oscilloscope with millivolt sensi-
tivity. Although the S I-75 represer4s a con-
siderable advance in Soviet state-of-the-art, it
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lags US technology by 6 to 7 years. If the
S1-75 is successfully introduced into produc-
tion, it could facilitate Soviet work in such
areas as high speed computers, fast integrated
circuits, cryptographic equipment and high
speed digital communications.
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The UK has banned the import of animals
and meat products from Belgium because
of foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks.
Thirty-four outbreaks have occurred in Bel-
gium since October 1964. Control proce-
dures have been implemented in the coun-
try and the origin of the disease remains
unknown.
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BEIAVIORAL SCIENCES
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Soviet Social Psychology's Main Goal Is Defined As
Political Indoctrination of the Soviet Peo le: The main
purpose of social psychology is defined as political in-
doctrination of the Soviet people. A person's attitudes,
interests, emotions, habits an3 most importantly his
dedication to the state are seen as being amenable to
control through psychological techniques. The article
indicates that the main centers of Soviet research are
the Soviet Sociological Association, the Institute for
Concrete Social Research, USSR Academy of Sciences; the 25X1
Leningrad Social Research Institute; the Social Psychological
Laboratory, Leningrad University; and several institutes of
the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences.
Comment Most of the research appears to be preliminary
or exploratory. The Soviets are aware of US studies on
political socialization and sociology which would be relevant
to their stated goal. Since the Soviet leadership tradi-
tionally has been preoccupied with ensuring the political
reliability of the populace, active research will provide
the leadership with data to exercise more control over the
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United Kingdom Bans Belgian Animals and Meat Products: The
UK Ministry of Agriculture has banned the import of live
animals and meat products from Belgium because there have
been 34 outbreaks of type "0" foot-and-mouth disease in
Belgium since October 1974. Travelers to the UK are being
advised to be certain their clothing is disinfected before
exposure to animals in the UK. The origin of the outbreaks
in Belgium is unknown. Control procedures being employed
include immunization of susceptible animals and slaughter
of infected and exposed animals. Indemnities paid by the
Belgium government for the destruction of infected animals
has reached approximately $1 million.
Comment: The suspension of Belgian imports illustrates
the determination of the IJK to protect its animal populations
from FMD even though the affected country is a fellow
member of the European Economic Community. The actions
and measures being employed by the UK are consistent with
accepted measures employed to protect a susceptible animal
population from infectious diseases.
FMD is one of the most devastating of animal diseases.
The losses associated with an FMD outbreak can be of major
economic significance since the disease has a morbidity rate
near 100 percent and a mortality rate of 5 to 5Q percent.
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Mild Soviet Winter Poses Threat of Wheat Rust Disease Outbreaks:
In the Kuban area Krasnodar Kray , early reports indicate
that three-fourths of the grain fields have a potential for
high production, while the remaining fields will require in-
tensive care. The latter, because of lush growth, warm
temperatures and lack of snow cover are susceptible to leaf
rust. As preventive measures, scientists have recommended
that these fields be thinned and then treated with potassium
and phosphate fertilizers. Application of nitrogen fertilizer
Comment: This very early Soviet concern about the
potential threat of wheat leaf rust disease is justified.
This disease can reduce yields by 20 to 30 percent or more
in susceptible varieties. Mild fall and winter conditions
have been conducive to overwintering of the disease. The
formation of uredopustules, which produce the infective
rust spores, already may have occurred on some wheat fields.
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In the 1973 leaf rust epiphytotic in the Kuban area, heavy
spore concentrations in the atmosphere began to occur during
the last 10 days in May. But this year, unless spore production
and dissemination is curtailed by weather unfavorable to disease
development, heavy spore concentrations could occur much earlier.
Wind dissemination of these large quantities of spores could
affect winter wheat in parts of the Ukraine and other regions
of European USSR, if the weather remains favorable.
All Soviet commercial varieties of winter wheat are sus-
ceptible to the new virulent biotypes of leaf rust which now
predominate in the European USSR, race 77 (biotype 1) and
race 77/B (biotype 103). The application of P-K fertilizers
and prohibition of nitrogen application will have little
appreciable effect on the course of early rust disease de-
velopment.
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PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES
ITSSR Develops Prototype 250-MHz Oscilloscope: A 1974
catalog of Soviet instruments announced a new model Sl-75
oscilloscope "planned for introduction into production in
1975-1976." The S1-75 is described as a portable, real-time,
dual trace unit with a bandwidth of DC-250 MHz. Maximum
sensitivity is 10 millivolts/centimeter (mv/cm). The cathode
ray tube has a passband of at least 600 MHz and a sensitivity
of 2 volts/centimeter (v/cm). The catalog states that all
functional elements of the oscilloscope are implemented with
Comment: The Sl-75 is the first Soviet Bloc real-time
UHF DC-coupled oscilloscope with millivolt sensitivity. Its
nearest Soviet or East European competitor is a Polish unit
at 150 MHz and 50 My/cm. Although the Sl-75 represents a
considerable advance in Soviet state-of-the-art, it lags US
technology by 6 to 7 years.
The USSR has been meeting its needs for UHF high sensitivity
scopes with a line of domestically-produced sampling scopes
and, for high priority users, with Free World real time units
acquired in violation of export control regulations. Sampling
scopes are less versatile and more difficult to use. Illegally
obtained Western scopes may not be available in sufficient
quantity and, in any case, are expensive. If the Sovietz,
are successful in introducing the S1-75 into production, it
could facilitate their work in such areas as high speed com-
puters, .fast integrated circuits, cryptographic equipment,
and high speed digital communications.
The brochure does not indicate whether the Sl-75 will
use monolithic or hybrid iinea.r, TCs. To avoid vertical
amplifier problems with c:ompu:ient parameter matching, un-
wanted capacitance and inductance, and thermal drift,
monolithic linear ICs would be preferable. Successful
construction and production of such ICs, however, would b
a technical step forward for the So?,-iets.
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