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H. S. BERGER - B2SL January 15, 1973 GEHBRAL ELECTRIC AND THE SOVIET UHIOS P. J. A. Marsh - BRUSSELS 5040 W. R. Richard - T3A T. L. Gossag/C. Paton/P. G. Benignus R. Thompson - BRUSSELS 5040 Th* attached news clipping from ths Janaary 15 MALL STREET JOURHAL is ss 1f-explanatory. Would all of you concerned, in your contacts with G.E. or ths Soviet Union, try to find out specifically what is involved and in particular will this help us eell more Aroclor to the Russians. Ed Hood is a friend of Prank Langenfeld and I' asking Frank to check this contact for anything he can learn. Ton Goasags would you assume responsibility for pulling together the worldwide strategy on this aspact of General Electric. /jf Attachment H. S. BERGER DSW 234593 STLCOPCB4053941 / GE, Soviet Union Sign Broadly Based Accord To Share Technology **# ' Making GE Products in Russia, Value of Hundreds of Millions 4 Of Dollars Termed Possible A f\ by r. 'iV.vi.L STKKKT Joi'KN'AL Staff Reporter General Electric Co. said it signed a ' broadly based agreement with the Soviet Union calling for mutual exchanges of technology, which could lead to licensing arrangements for manufacture of GE products in the Soviet Union. Thomjts^O. Paine.- GE. vice president and' group executive of the i>c\vcr.gcnerationJgroup. ! was'quoted by Untied Press International as saying in Moscow that the agreement "could be worth tens and hundreds of millions of dol lars." The agreement establishes' a formal policy .betweetTJCtE"an(J the Soviet Union of general scientific and technical cooperation, and it specified power generation technology, IncTud- ing'sfearh and gas turbine, and nuclear energy teeh:i<jk'gy~fdr power generation, as command ing imt'nedi;:te_atie;;lio;; tor mutual'exchange and development. ! Moscow Signing " Edward E. Hood. Jr.,_OE vice president and group executive of the.international and Cana dian group, and Mr. Maine, former director oi the "National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration, signed the pact in Moscow Friday, it was also signed by Djerman Gvishiani, vice chairman of the Soviet Union's State Commit tee for Science and Technology. The science and technology committee--re sponsible to the Council of Ministers, the high est executive and administrative body in the . Soviet Union--is charged with the supervision and coordination of all research and develop- ' ment activities in the country. ; "We know the Soviets arc interested in 1 many phases of U.S. commercial technology . and there are areas of Soviet technology that ' have interest for us," said Mr. Paine after the 1 signing of the agreement. Mr. Hood said the accord was consistent with the agreement signed between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during President Nixon's trip to Moscow last May. and the one Signed in Washington in October. Other Areas Covered i j Beyond thejccoperalion on power generation technology, the agreement ca!!.-> for exchange of'specialist deic-ga'.!i:ns''and. i'.fovmntion and production samples, for exchange, acquisition' oNTra ns ft; r_ of 1 i c e n s cs. ar c! for feint research j and development projects. Mr. 'Paine "was "also"quoted as saying the agreement 'would Involve certain exchanges of techridlcgy"`in~Which'"no~~pvmc:it~jw6uTtT be caljecNfdr, and some purchase o( Soviet tech- nology"'by'GEl - '"Last"October. GE's Research and Develop ment Center and the Soviet Union's Ministry of Electrical Engineering Industries signed a pro tocol providing for exchanges of research and development data on current commercial proj / ects. --*--------- f Six months earlier, GE entered a similar DSV\| 234594 agreement on gas turbines with the Soviet Union's Ministry of Heavy Equipment and Transport Engineering. Several technical serai;-wv: ?' large steam tf-bines arm sterf-iv.iors STLCOPCB4053942