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Fiat Reports: A Bibliography And Index Of Reports Resulting From American Investigations Of German Industry, United States Department Of Commerce, Office Of Technical Services, Arlene Blackburn, W. Kenneth Lowry, Inez C. Wallace, Robert Bolin , Depositor
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After World War II, American forces in Europe set up the Field Intelligence Agency, Technical (FIAT) to host and provide administrative support for visiting American experts who were studying German industry. FIAT prepared reports of those experts and assigned FIAT report numbers to them. Those reports were distributed in two ways:
1) FIAT reports were sent to the Office of the Publication Board (OPB), in the Department of Commerce, which had been set up to distribute the fruits of American research and development during World War II and of American studies of Axis science, technology, and industry. The OPB evolved …