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This Central Intelligence Agency release is a Scientific Intelligence Study, TCS No. 4425/65. The Scientific Intelligence Committee prepared it with other intelligence community committees and approved it on 3 June 1965. It assesses Communist China's capabilities in science and technology through 1970, with particular attention to military and industrial programs. The study concludes that China will lag far behind advanced nations. The exceptions are a few priority areas such as nuclear weapons, missiles and air defense. It contains no discussion of UFOs.
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#3 0-. t. 9 -fa I Approved for Release: 2018/01/30 C00659420 —-reP—sEcREr TCS 4425/as riculum heavily biased toward those scientific and engineering subjects especially significant in ad- vanced industrial and military technology. A 4-year graduate training program has been operat- ing since 1956. Facilities of the Academy are lo- cated in many parts of China, but the largest con- centration is in Peiping, with Shanghai ranking next. 66. One pattern of organization found among some of the technical ministries consists of a sci- entific committee and a research academy (yen- chiu-yuan) with subordinate research -institutes (yen-chiu-so). The scientific committee is a gen- eral planning and overseeing body, probably com- posed of representatives from both those agencies needing the research and those doing it. It would probably be the body in direct contact with the State Scientific and Technological Commission. The research academy and its subordinate research institutes carry out research on key problems or problems common to the field of responsibility of the ministry. Major industrial plants usually have plant laboratories attached to handle local prob- lems. In the cases of both the Ministry of Agri- culture and the Ministry of Public Health, the status of the central research body may be higher than in the cases of other ministries, the central bodies being called the Chinese Academy of Agri- cultural Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Med- ical Sciences. (The term used in the name is k’o-hsueh yuan.) Both have extensive research fa- cilities extending throughout China and operate the major higher educational institutions in their respective fields in China. 67. A definitive description of the organization for planning, controlling, and supervising defense research and development at all levels cannot be made. Nevertheless, a few facts are available. At the top is the Party’s Military Affairs Commit- tee in whose hands rests basic policy direction. Within the government, the highest level body is the National Defense Council, but its role in re- search and development is not known. 68. The Ministry of National Defense is the logical locus of responsibilities in military research and development, but the degree to which it is responsible for planning and managing the vast military research and development effort that ex- tends into many other ministries and the Academy of Sciences is not clear. Within the Ministry of National Defense, the same pattern of organization for research that is seen in other ministries is indi- cated by the organizational names—a Ministry of National Defense Science Committee and an Acad- emy of Military Sciences. Also under the ministry is the.People’s Liberation Army Academy of Medi- cal Sciences. Some research and development fa- cilities are operated by the Ministry of National Defense, and they may be subordinate to the Acad- emy of Military Sciences. Research organs also are known to be subordinate to the Defense Science Committee. 2nd Ministry of Machine Building—nuclear energy ELEMENTS OF CONTROL 70. The control of research for defense in these various organs may center in the Ministry of Na- tional Defense or possibly in the State Scientific and Technological Commission. Within the Com- mission there is believed to be a Division for De- fense Technology; whether this division has a co- ordinating and supervising function or is limited to collating for plarming is not known. Some key projects, however, are believed to be supervised directly by the Commission; some of these could be military projects. A 13 Approved for Release: 2018/01/30 C00659420 (i (bx (b)1 (b)1 —?-1-1': ?= 1-.—.=|=l=, b>4 .L ,. ;=—.= ‘ff; - 1 3) 3 r
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 95 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.