MEETING WITH RICHARD KAUFMAN, JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE STAFF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000100180003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 24, 1975
• Content Type: MFR

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December 24, 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Meeting with Richard Kaufman, Joint Economic
Committee Staff
STATINTL 1. Mr. Kaufman was in the building yesterday to see
I Ion matters pertaining to next year's JEC brief-
ing. He asked to see me on the Soviet defense spending
question.
2. Kaufman was concerned about our dollar cost com-
parisons. He knows they were completed by this time last
year and did not-seem wholly assured when told recently that
it would be several months before we could produce the 1975
figures.
3. 1 told Kaufman that we were redoing the ruble side
of the equation. He is quite familiar with that. aspect. I
also reminded him that the same people who were doing ruble
costing now were the ones who would normally be doing dollar
'costing and we simply could not do both at the same time.
He raised the point that new defense appropriations would be
going to Congress early next year and, that coincidental with
the budget, he anticipated the release of dollar cost figures
by DoD. I told him that if DoD did that they would have done
their own costing because we were not doing it for them now
for the very reasons I had mentioned. I tried to make the
point quite clear we were not playing games with the Com-
mittee but were sincerely trying to do the very best we could
on a situation already complicated enough and now compounded
with new information. I told him we were very much aware of
the Committee's interest and when we had finished dollar cost-
ing he would be among the very first to know.
4. Kaufman too?K all of this in good grace and I think
he believes us. At any rate, there were no threats to re-
sort to Proxmire letters in an effort to obtain something we
do not have.
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5. Kaufman wants to build a Committee data base on both
the military and civil side of the economy and with regard
to the latter asked if he could see such things as OER's
analysis of the Soviet five-year plan. He will be out next
week to talk about China with nd I will let him
read the five-year plan analysis at at time.
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