LETTER TO THE HONORABLE WRIGHT PATMAN FROM RICHARD HELMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000300120056-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2003
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: May 31, 1966
• Content Type: LETTER

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3 1 MAY 1966
The Honorable Wright Patman
Chairman. Joint Econonuic Committee
Congress of the United States
Washington, D. C. 20515
Dear Mr. Chairman:
This is in response to your letter of 17 May 1966 request-
ing the Agency's cooperation in the preparation of a study on the
economy of Communist China. Mr. Leon Herman of the Library
of Congress has been in touch with us, and we will be pleased to
cooperate with the Committee in the submission of specific papers
as suggested in your letter.
Sincerely,
'/.s/ Richard Helms
Richard Helms
Deputy Director
OGC/LC/GLC:jmd (24 May 66)
Rewritten: O-ExDir (31 May 66)
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C.IARD BF LINO, MO.
GALE BOGGS,-LA.
'HENRY S, REUSS. WIS.
MARTHA W. GRIFFITHS, MICH.
THOMAS B. CURTIS. MO.
WILLIAM B. WIDNALL, N.J.
ROBERT F. ELLSWORTH. KANS.
JAMES W. KNOWLES.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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PAUL H. DOUGLAS, ILL.. VICE CHAIRMAN
JOHN SPARKMAN. ALA.
J. W. FULBRIGHT, ARK.
WILLIAM PROXMIRE. WIS.
HERMAN E. TALMADGE, GA.
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JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE
(CREATED PURSUANT TO SEC. I(?) or PUBLIC LAW WA, 70TH CONGRESS)
May 17, 1966
The Hon. W. F. Rayborn
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
Dear Mr. Rayborn:
The Joint Economic committee has undertaken to pre-
pare for publication and submission to the congress a study of
the economy of Communist China. The study will cover the prin-
cipal sectors of production and distribution, as well as provide
an analysis of the main trends in the current domestic and
foreign economic policies of the Chinese Government.
It is intended that this study be supplemented by a
session of public hearings, during which experts on the Chinese
economy will be heard. The project will serve the important
purpose of providing a body of current factual information and
competent analytical comment to the Congress of the United
States, on a large segment of the world economy that obviously
has important implications for the economic policies of our own
country.
In the past year, your Agency has been most coopera-
tive in assisting us in our several studies of the economy of
the Soviet Union. We would like you to help us in the present
study of the Chinese economy. Specifically, we would like the
Central Intelligence Agency to prepare, on the basis of its
continuing research program in this field, the following three
chapters for the contemplated study:
1. Main Directions of Economic Policy
2. Energy Resources
3. Industrial Production
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Hon. W. F. Rayborn
We are asking all participants in the preparation of
this study to deliver their contributions to the Committee by
August 31, 1966. Dr. Leon M. Herman, of the Library of Congress,
has been working with Committee staff in coordinating arise materials
and it is requested that any questions that might
directed to him: Room 207, Library of Congress Annex, Washington,
8014)
.
D. C. (Telephone: Code 173) extension
Sincerely yours,
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON 25. D. C.
OFFICE OF DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
25X1
Honorable Wright Patman
Chairman Joint Economic Committee
Congress o the United States
Washington, . C. 20515
This is in rsponse to your letter of 17 May 1966 requesting
this Agency's cooper tion in the preparation of a study on the
economy of Communist\China.
of the Library of Congres
We will be pleased to 'No operate with the Committee in the
submission of specific papers as suggested in your letter; =3
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MEMORANDUM FOR: DEP~Y DIRECTOR
Attached is a suggested reply to a request
from the Joint Economic Committee for our
assistance in their preparation of a study on the
economy of Communist China. As you know, we
have provided this type of assistance in the past
and ORR has no prob}~ ;r mac; Gt;r~r in this
instance.
(DATE)
ACES FORM
10-101
FORM H lol REPL
AUG 54 WHICH MAY BE USED.
STAT
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