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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ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
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EIC -M-94
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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PRESENT:
*Dr. Otto E. Guth A, 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
CIA
, Executive Secretary
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 Technology will be disseminated to the EIC representa-
tives of the USIB agencies early e week Comments or concur rence5will be due to the Secretariat by c. o. b. 22 September.
3. The Annual Report to the USIB of the EIC is presently in
reproduction. Copies will be disseminated about the end of September.
4. Morton Pomeranz, International Activities Assistant, Tech-
nical Review Staff, Office of the Secretary, has recently been designated
the Department of the Interior representative of the ETC, vice Harry M.
Shooshan, Jr.
CONSIDERATION OF EIC -R-19,
5. The Chairman noted that the report had been prepared by the
Subcommittee on Economic Defense, in accordance with agreed terms
of referenceAe4 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 er-
rata 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 embargo 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 beI
i n Qt atisans with the.B ash.- Cva
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containina, :FUOFQR N , , it
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ORN h orn,,ation w9ulcl be sue marked
on th c'e s of the report used at OCOM gotiat~s.
The report was approved after a page-by-page review was
considerable
undertaken and a/number of revisions were proposed and accepted.
The Chairman instructed the Secretariat to incorporate the revisions
which had been agreed upon and to check on certain paragraphs that
had been questioned. The editors and the EIC IS will make whatever
additional editorial changes are considered necessary.
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