CIA PARTICIPATION IN THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R004000060020-2
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 21, 2012
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: December 20, 1957
• Content Type: MF

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20 December 1957
MEMORANDUM FOR : Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT : CIA Participation in the Council on Foreign
Relations
1. The following is in response to your request for information
on the subject. Of the fifteen study groups for 1957-1958 CIA
participates in three:
Germany. of ONE has attended all
three meetings held since mid-September when he was
invited to join. The meetings were heldton 30
September and on 21 and 25 October. Subsequent
meetings are scheduled for January, April and May
1958.
Officers from State,USIA and Defense are
included in this study group.
enjoys and. profits from parti-
cipation. Conversations with Mr. Mosely and with
the research secretary, Mr. Freund, suggest that
approach-speaking as an individual
rather than as a CIA representative-- meets with
their satisfaction.
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Philippines. of ONE has attended four
of the five meetings held since early October when
he was invited to join. The meetings were held on
10 and 23 October, on 7 and 21 November, and on
17 December. The sixth and final meeting is to be
scheduled for late January or early February 1958,
finds the meetings generally
stimulating and informative. The personal and
detailed knowledge of many of the participants
on Philippine personalities, business and polit-
ical practices, and financial problems provides
especially useful and interesting information.
The group generally is seriously dis-
turbed by the economic situation in the Philippines.
The most forcefully expressed view held by nearly
all the group members concerns ICA, which they
believe has been grossly inept and inadequate
throughout; and there are repeated references to
the dire need for effective, high-level economic
and financial advice to the Philippine government.
Soviet Policy Toward Underdeveloped Countries. I will
participate in this study group when activated.
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2. Richard M. Bissell, SA/P/DCI, has participated in the
Council on Foreign Relations for about six years. This year he
attended meetings on 14 February, 21 March and 15 May with the
study group continued from 1956 on U. S. Foreign Economic
Policy.
Deputy Director (Intelligence
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COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
Committee on Stu.iea_.
STUDY PROGRAM FOR l957'-58
Continued from last year:
/ National Policy
Study Groups
M cs'a't M fi k r, _;, `s)
Chairman: Langbourne M. Williams, Jr.
Study Director: Percy W. Bidwell
on Raw Materials Cho
r` United States Foreign Economic Policy
Chairman: Willard L. Thorp
Study Director: William Diebold, Jr.
United States Policy in Indochina (no me,t ML%Jh "s
Chairman: Joseph E. Johnson
Study Director: William Henderson
Germany.
Chairman: James B. Conant
Study Director: Gerald Freund
/ Human Factors in Economic Development
Chairman; Gardner Patterson
Study Director: Edwin J. Cohn
/ The Role of the Military in Latin America
Chairman: Edward G. Miller, Jr.
Study Director: Edwin Lieuwen
The Philippines in United States Policy
Chairman: Myron M. Cowen
Study Director: George E. Taylor
The United States and Burma
Chairman: John D. Rockefeller III
Study Director: Frank Trager
Yugoslavia, National Communism and the Future of Eastern Europe
,Chairman: Frank Altschul
Study Director: John C. Campbell
Soviet Policy toward Underdeveloped Countries
Study?Director: Philip E. Mosely
Argentina and the Inter-American System
Study Director; John J. Kennedy
France as an Ally
Chairman: August Heckscher
Study Director: Edgar S. Furniss, Jr.
United States Military Policy
Study Director: Henry A. Kissinger
F;STAT
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Discussion Groups
European and American Capitalism (continued from last year)
Chairman: David Rockefeller
Staff: William Diebold, Jr.
Western European Integration
Chairman: George W. Ball
Staff: William Diebold, Jr.
Neutralism in Asia
Chairman: Philip K. Crowe
Staff: William Henderson
United States Policy and the United Nations
Chairman: Joseph E. Johnson
Staff: Philip E. Mosely
Canadian-American Relations
Staff: Joseph Barber
In press:
Manuscripts
-r- P
.y j-, Defense of the Middle East, by John C. Campbell
India and the United States, by Sundarlal Poplai and Philips Talbot
Economic Development in Africa, by William A. Hance
~t The Future of NATO, by Ben T. Moore
Soviet Economic Aid to Underdeveloped Countries, by Joseph S. Berliner
Social Changes in Latin America, Philip E. Mosely, editor
To be completed during the current year:
U4+.t The Schuman Plan, by William Diebold, Jr.
United States Policy and Colonialism, by Robert R. Robbins
-FAA The United States and World Air Transport, by Oliver J. Lissitzyn
United States Policy in Indochina, by William Henderson
National Policy on Raw Materials, by Percy W. Bidwell
Power and Purpose: Foreign Policy Since 191+5, by Thomas K. Finletter
United States in World Affairs, 1957, by Richard P. Stebbins
Documents on American Foreign Relations, 1957, by Paul E. Zinner
Political Handbook of the World, 1958, by Walter H. Mallory
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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