COMMENTS ON NEW DRAFT, 21 APRIL 1951, PREPARED BY CIA IN COMPLIANCE WITH NSC ACTION 282

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00662R000300040024-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: April 21, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2000/08/27 : CIA-RDP75-00662R000300040024-2
COMMENTS ON NEW DRAFT, 2L April 1951, PREPARED BY CIA IN COMPLIANCE
WITH NSC ACTION 282
Nowhere in the text do I find specific reference to the original
NSC 282 request to conduct and organize a study of foreign economic
intelligence requirements relating to the national security,"including
requirements for mobilization planning." It is, therefore, suggested
that this reference be included on page 3, as follows (underlining
indicates amendments):
Page :
"6. Therefore, what is needed is a continuing machinery for inswing
that the available economic intelligence resources are mobilized around
security issues, including requirements for mobilization planning, problem
by problem, and that where adequate economic intelligence on a particular
security issue is not being provided by any
agency, responsibility for its provision will be clearly allocated."
The writer does not concur in statement as worded on page 6. In previous
discussions of the subject, it has not been implied that the proposed
Economic Intelligence Committee should be a committee with powers of
final decision, but rather a committee for purposes of facilitating
coordination and for preparing recommendations. The following changes
on page 6 are therefore suggested (deletions and underlining indicate
amendments):
Page 6
"(e) In the establishment of priorities and allocation of
responsibilities for the collection and analysis to fill specific
gaps in the economic intelligence needed for national security, the
deeieieas e? the recommendations of the Economic Intelligence Committee
with regard to such intelligence, shall gevepa the activities of the
1AG ageaeies in the same maaaer as deeisieas of be submitted to the
Intelligence Advisory Committee for decisions. Similarly, Disagreements
disagreements as to priorities and allocations may be referred to the
Intelligence Advisory Committee. Where disagreements arise with
respect to the activities of non-IAC agencies, the Intelligence Advisory
Committee may refer these to the National Security Council."
Page 14+15: Section E."Economic analysis relating to the
availability, the importance to either set of powers, and the vulnerability
to interruption of the flow of specific strategic materials and.,services from
other areas, principally Africa and Latin America."
The following change is suggested:
"The general economic situation in areas other than those outlined in
B, C, and D above is important for many aspects of United States policy.
Rewever; the The impact on our national security position of general economic
conditions, capabilities, and intentions in such regions as Africa and
Latin America is of less immediate impertaaee than the seatribat4ea these-
areas make to supplies e9 eritieal raw materials needed by considerable
since the United States depends vitally upon the strategic raw material
resources of these areas, the exportable surplus of which has to be shared
by the Western Allies. It should also be noted that part of these raw
materials are being exported to the Soviet Bloc and-the Western Allies.4he
intelligence most urgently required on these areas, then, is specific
details on a limited number of resources and facilities, actual and
potential7-rather-than-exhaustive--ee$erage*
Approved For Release 2000/08/27 : CIA-RDP75-00662R000300040024-2