ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE Minutes of Meeting Held in Room 1121, Temporary M Building 26th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W. 1000 hours, 15 September 1961

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• Publication Date: September 15, 1961
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Control No. 497789
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15 September 1961
Minutes of Meeting Held in
Room 1121, Temporary M Building
26th Street and Constitution Avenue, N. W.
1000 hours, 15 September 1961
*Dr. Otto E. Guthe CIA, Chairman
CIA, Vice Chairman
*Mrs. Doris S. Whitnack, Department of State
*Baxter Wood, Department of the Army
Lt. Col. Robert A. Henderson, Department of the Air Force
John W. Easton, Joint Staff
Dr. Edward R. VanSant, Office of the Assistant Secretary of
Defense, ISA
National Security Agency
*Ernest Rubin, Department of Commerce
*J. Mishell George, Department of Commerce
*Murray Rennert, Department of Commerce
*John Mellor, Department of State
Simon Tucker, Department of State
IA
Executive Secretary
CIA
APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
1. The minutes of the EIC meeting of 15 August 1961 (EIC-M-93)
were approved.
Present for part of meeting.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS BY THE CHAIRMAN:
2. Copies of the ORR contribution to the SIC study on Soviet Science
and Technolo X will be disseminated to the EIC representatives o the
agencies early in the week of 18 September. Comments or concur-
rences will be due to the Secretariat by c. o. b. 22 September.
3. The Annual Report to the USIB of the EIC is presently in repro-
duction. Copies will be disseminated about the end of September.
4. Morton Pomeranz, International Activities Assistant, Technical
Review Staff, Office of the Secretary, has recently been designated the
Department of the Interior representative of the EIC, vice Harry M.
Shooshan, Jr.
CONSIDERATION OF EIC-R-19, "THE STRATEGIC IMPACT OF THE
INTERNATIONAL E BLOC"":
5. The Chairman noted that the report had been prepared by the
Subcommittee on Economic Defense, in accordance with terms of
reference provided by Working Group I of EDAC, to fulfill a requirement
for an intelligence study on this subject of the Department of State. A
revised version of the Summary and Conclusions, a draft Foreword, and.
an errata sheet incorporating changes suggested by the Chairman were
distributed.
Substantial discussion followed as to whether or not the coverage
of the paper should be confined solely to strategic aspects of the embargo
program or whether it should include discussion of the effects of the em-
bargo program on over-all Soviet economic growth and development. The
Chairman stated that, in his opinion, the report met the terms of ref-
erence, and expressed the hope that the paper would be helpful as back-
ground for future negotiations.
The report was approved after a, page-by-page review was under-
taken and a considerable number of revisions were proposed and accepted.
The Chairman instructed the Secretariat to incorporate the revisions
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which had been agreed upon and to check on certain paragraphs that
had been questioned. The editors and the EIC/S will make whatever
additional editorial -changes are considered necessary.
Executive Secretary
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