LETTER TO MR. GEORGE H. BECKER, JR. FROM (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000800010023-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: May 14, 1959
• Content Type: LETTER

The members of the United States Intelligence Board bars boon
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of your request. They wished um to assure you that the
WILL DESTROY
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Special Assistant to the Secretary
Department of Commerce
Washington, D. C.
Mr. Georg* IL Becker, Jr.
~r. Recker:
14 May 1959
Thank you for your recant letter suggesting that the Department
of Commerce be placed on the distribution list for National Intelligence
Estimates and other studies that touch upon East-West trade and
related matters.
teraliy produces relatively few estimates bearing directly on the
Department of Commerce will be provided with the information con-
tained in those estimates produced in the future which fall within the
scope of your request. At the same tine. I might note that the Board
special interest. Estimates such as the one on "I
cations of an Increase in US-Soviet Trade. " for example, are usually
done to most a specific requirement. On the whole, therefore, much
of the material such as you are particularly Interested in would appear
in the form of specialized studies rather than estimates.
produced by the EIC and other components of the
community. We, are informed, for sna -ple that the.
EIC and of the Office of Research and Reports (ORE.) of CIA,..
on such subjects are normally distributed automatically to the Commerce
EIC representative. Also, the Department of Commerce receives
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With respect to studies other than estimates, I understand that the
of Commerce, particularly through its a repraserrntation on
,gnomic Intelligence Committee (ETC) of the Intelligence Board
y receives, or has access to, studies on East-West trade and
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C repraasswivs the sawsst tIC survey listings of sssno do
niejs cts o* Sim-Sores Rlse, the sortrsy ills an
is od .eta-Riot ems, sod the OR.A Swiss of Pss sets Report.
Co mer+ o repress es the 1 o(Is *b ee iu.. of the
CtCo as well as CIA tr~rrs+e+ aR s so as 9*000mit Defea a Advisory
Committee end oar the Advisory Committee os Eiost l icy are fir
chsa*sls bT*q1h which ralsvt istsfl#gaass is made avenablo to the
spsrtm st.. of Commerce. Nevertheless, despite these set ia-t ar.
ma N i s seas we Sr. passisd year totter ea to the tIC wd the trsfs t
arms of-CIA is etrdsr that they may aao-attswe to hews pew specific
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2 - USIB/S
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