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There is no doubt that, through contracting, expert knowledge from outside the Government was brought to bear on this problem and contributed to this effort. A similar effort has been underway for several years to establish a "base line" for Communist China; this effort has been handicapped by lack of information and thus far contracting, with exceptions in some areas, has not added significantly to the internal OSI effort.
IV. Studies on General Aspects of Science and Technology
A series of studies done on general aspects of science was handled much as those in the physical sciences and engineering and paralleled them in time. The types of contractors and effectiveness of contracts were very much the same. These projects included such items as the study of characteristics of scientific breakthroughs, environmental problems affecting science in various countries, Soviet scientific and technical education and manpower, and Soviet organizational problems connected with science and technology.
One of these studies is of particular interest because it illustrates some of the difficulties caused by differences in orientation between
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