TRANSMITTAL OF, 'SURVEY OF PROFESSIONAL PERSONNEL ENGAGED IN PRODUCTION OF ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000500160007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 8, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 28, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE 17
28 April 1967
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT : Transmittal of, "Survey of Professional
Personnel Engaged in Production of
Economic Intelligence"
1. This memorandum is for your information. The accompanying
survey was recently conducted by the Economic Intelligence Committee
of the United States Intelligence Board. The report was compiled from
individual submissions made by each EIC member Agency, or associate
members, having professional personnel engaged in economic or military-
economic intelligence production on 30 September 1966.
2. The findings are given on pages 1-3 of the subject survey and
are compared with those of a similar survey conducted in 1958. Some of
the highlights are:
a. On a community wide basis, there has been a decrease
of approximately 20 percent in overall manpower assigned to the pro-
duction of economic intelligence in the eight years ending with 1966.
Compared with 1953 strength, the 1966 manpower 'total represents about
a 45 percent reduction in professional personnel. Most of the cuts have
been made on Communist country research staffs.
b. The economic intelligence community is now concentrated
largely in two agencies, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). However, as between these two agencies,
manpower allocations are very different, with DIA concentrated largely
on transportation and military-economic research, whereas CIA's
research is much more diffuse. There exists some economic intelligence
research effort in nine other agencies and departments.
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c. Although the Department of State still carries the primary
responsibility for the production of economic intelligence on the Free
World in the current applicable DCID 3/1, State employs less than ten
percent of the professional manpower in the economic intelligence com-
munity devoted to such Free World studies.
3. If you wish, I shall be pleased to discuss the findings in
depth with you at your convenience.
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