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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00283R000100040004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 5, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Content Type: NOTES

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
DIA proposed external research project: Weapon System~~ of
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being revised and will be resubmitted shortly.
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Revision of DCID 3 /1, Production and Coordination of Foreign Economic
Intelligence:
USIE; has approved revision of para. 3.b. setting forth membership
on the EIC. When copies of the revised DCID are received they
will be disseminated to EIC representatives of USIB agencies and
Chairmen and Executive Secretaries of all EIC Subcommittees and
Working Groups. ~-~ _,p, ri S I . t/ OZ4
Commerce Representation on the EIC Subcommittee on Agriculture:
At the last meeting, EIC members concurred in the SC on Agriculture's
recommendation that representation from the Office of Climatology,
US Weather Bureau would be beneficial. The Chairman extended an
invitation to the Department of Commerce to participate in the work
of this Subcommittee and the Deparment of Commerce has designated
Mr. David Smedley, Chief, Foreign Area Section, Office of Climatology
kxxmxvxxfim as their representative on this Subcommittee.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS (Continued)
US-USSR Exchange Program:
on Electronics and Telecommunications
The EIC Subcommittee /has agreed to act as technical advisor to
the Interagency Intelligence Advisory Group on Exchanges on
a proposal-for a reciprocal exchange with the USSR in the field
of communications.
Revised Directory of EIC Personnel
Has been received from re duction and will be disseminated
by the Secretariat this week(hopefull~.
EIC-R16-S4, A Summary of the International Trade and Transport of
communist China.
Proof copy was received on Friday, and the report should be
disseminated shortly? probably the first week in September
since the cover has to be redone.
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Attachment A
to EIC-A-101
ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
MEMORANDUM FOR: EIC Representatives of the USIB Agencies
SUBJECT: EIC-R16 Series, "A Summary of the
International Trade and Transport of
Communist China"
Provided below are the views of the Economic Research Area,
ORR and of the Navy Member of the EIC with regard to
the sections on shipping for the subject report.
A. ERA View.
The Economic Research Area of ORR believes that its
contribution to the sections on shipping in future EIC reports on
International Trade and Transport of Communist China should be
substantially reduced. A brief discussion would be included of
Communist China's total seaborne trade and estimated total Free
World tonnage chartered by Communist China. Discussion on the
utilization of liner service would be reported only if the situation
had changed drastically from the previous years. The ERA con-
tribution would also include brief narrative descriptions of those
developments in Chinese merchant shipping that appear to have
significance enough to warrant analysis and reporting. Overland
transport would be handled in like manner.
ERA believes, partly because of the large clerical effort
involved and the nonavailability of competent staff to undertake the
analysis, that it could provide a general estimate of the chartering
situation during the year, but not a detailed analysis of the manner
in which the chartered shipping was utilized, and believes the
differentiation between time-chartered and voyage-chartered
vessels should be dropped,.
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Attachment A
to EIC-A-101
B. Navy View.
The Navy Member, EIC, does not concur with either the
necessity nor the desirability of reducing the transportation data
now being presented in the EIC-R16 series. While there are several
internal reasons for this conviction (such as the incentive and quality
control factors that publication under EIC auspices places upon ONI
analysts), Navy Member, EIC, invites the attention of other members
to the following two comments:
I. The R16 series should not be "streamlined" for the benefit
of upper echelons at the expense of reducing the data presented to
planners. It may be desirable to do an editorial review of the present
format so that there may be a clearer break between the highlights and
the more detailed data. Within Navy however, EIC-R16 finds its real
value in presenting an authoritative and comprehensive review to
planning levels, and not in the presentation to commanders of a brief.
Navy disseminates EIC-R16 to all fleet and area commands, and to
several subordinate commands in the Pacific, where the document is
put to work whenever source material on CHICOM trade and trans-
portation is required.
2. Departmental (Navy) production of the transportation data
will not be an adequate substitute for USIB production, and will only
invite frequent and time -consuming &d ho# coordination throughout the
year. USIB production of these data facilitates its use by national and
joint military planners who are rightfully prejudiced against unquestioned
acceptance of departmental data. At the present time, the availability
of the transportation data in R16 is obviating the need for similar
staffing of the data to backup the production of 14 TIE 13-3-63, E_c_onQmLjC_
Prospects of Communist China. (It is this document, NIE 13-3-63,
that should not be cluttered with statistics, not EIC-R16o) Concurrently,
the transportation data in Rl6 are incorporated in a Joint Chiefs of
Staff paper as to the utility of maritime sanctions against Communist
China, and the data is accepted as authoritative due to its USIB parentage.
During the Cuban crisis, national planning and command levels made it
well known that they are interested in community and not departmental
maritime intelligence.
As an alternative, and in furtherance of the observation in sub-
paragraph 1, above, Navy would concur with the production of the
detailed transportation data as an attachment or appendix to R16
under separate cover, but still under USIB auspices.
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Attachment (1-1/
to EIC -A .101
PROPOSAL FOR ABBREVIATED VERSION
OF FEBRUARY ISSUE OF SEMIANNUAL REPORTS
The Working Group on Sino-Soviet Bloc Economic Activities
in Underdeveloped Areas has submitted, for EIC approval, the
following proposed modifications in its semiannual reporting
program:
1. That the February issue of the Semiannual be
published in summary form and the August issue be
published in its present form.
20 That the February issue will, in effect, be of the
composition and scope of the present summary plus
appropriate tables. Thus, the issue will begin with a
brief introductory statement referring to relevant general
developments and will contain abbreviated sections on
economic and military credits and grants, technical
assistance, and trade development during the period under
review plus area summaries. In addition, summary tables
will be inclucshowing military and economic credits and
grants extended during the period and cumulative totals,
technicians and students currently in underdeveloped
countries and the Bloc, and trade. If and when the project
table is automated, a print-out could be included with this
issue.
3. Thus, the February issue will be about 20 pages in
length and will provide virtually all the statistical data
contained in the larger issue. It will exclude the "Patterns
and Trends" section, the lengthy writings on "Activities,
by Type of Activity," and individual underdeveloped country
sections. Because its size would be more like that of a
Biweekly, one year-end issue of the Biweekly could provide
the medium for this Semiannual, or it could be issued as a
supplementary to the biweekly series. A significant amount
of publication time could be saved through either process
and the data might be provided to the community at the end
of January rather than late in February.
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