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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT

Regarding the Feasibility of Establishing in Korea with U. S. Cooperation an Institute for Industrial Technology and Applied Science

SUMMARY

1.  Following up your offer to President Park to have me look into the possibility of establishing in Korea with U. S. cooperation an Institute for Industrial Technology and Applied Science, I assembled an advisory group which included Dr. James B. Fisk, President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, which many consider to be the best research and development laboratory in the United States, Dr. B. D. Thomas, President of the Battelle Memorial Institute, a distinguished laboratory which provides research services on a contract basis to industry, primarily in the United States and Europe, and Dr. Albert H. Moseman, Director, Agricultural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation, whom you have just appointed to be Assistant Administrator for Technical Cooperation of the Agency for International Development.  We were in Korea from July 8 to July 15, and in a closely packed schedule conferred with top Government officials, key industrialists, scientists, and educators, and visited laboratories in universities, industrial plants, and governmental and private research establishments.

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