CIA Reading Room cia-rdp62s00346a000100050050-7: COMMENTS ON SOVIET PROPOSALS FOR LONG TERM EXCHANGES IN MINING AND METALLURGY BY M/FM AND M/NF

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1. An assessment of the “net [TE cain", as defined, 25X1X1 
in categories as broad as mining and metallurgy cannot be meade on 


an overall basis. A net gain might accrue to the US under some 
circumstances and in some aspects of these broad fields but the 
advantage would accrue to the Soviets in others. Assessments of 

net [D gain have been mde in the past only in more restricted 


fields and then only on the basis of specific itineraries. 


2. A condition precedent to a net J gein on the part 25x1X1 
of the US would be the full cooperation of the affected US industries. 
In no case is it probable that cooperation for a long term exchange 
will be offered by US industries in these fields until the short 
exchanges previously proposed by the Soviets have taken place, and 
unless the observations then made suggest that a more extensive survey 
would be rewarding. 

3. At present the short term steel exchange is in abeyance 
because of the Soviet failure to approve the suggested itinerary in 
the USSR and the short term mining and nonferrous metallurgical 
exchanges are without US industry sponsorship. The latter situation 
is largely due to skepticism on the part of the US nonferrous industry 
that the USSR possesses installations comparable to those the Soviets 
wish to see in the US, which in turn may result oe ie pourey practice 
of concealing their operations in this field. It ik pellrea that if 


the Soviets were to provide evidence of the existence of such 


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installations, including appropriate details of mining and metal- 
lurgical practices and output » the US nonferrous industry would 
be willing to participate in a short term exchange in these fields, 


after which exchange of longer duration could be considered. 


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