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

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• Publication Date: September 15, 1961
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ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
D-R-A-F-T
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. 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. Van Sant, Office of the Assistant Secretary of
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Defens I
VSimon Tucker, Department of State
National Security Agency
*Ernest Rubin, Department of Commerce
J. Mishell George, Department of Commerce
*Murray Rennert, Department of Commerce
*John Mellor, 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 &r i?at -~ contribution to the SIC
study on Soviet Science and Technology will be disseminated to the EIC
representatives of the USIB agencies early next week. Comments or
concurrence will be due to the Secretariat c. o. b. 21 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 EIC, vice Harry M.
Shooshan, Jr.
CONSIDERATION OF EIC-R-19, "THE STRATEGIC IMPACT OF THE
INTERNATIONAL EMBARGO PR GRAM ON THE IN - VIE LO C":
5. The Chairman noted that the report had been prepared by the
Subcommittee on Economic Defense, in accordance with the agreed terms
of reference of Working Group I of EDAC, to fulfill a requirement for an
intelligence study on this subject from 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.
followed
Substantial discussion/as to whether or not the coverage of
the paper should be confined solely to strategic aspects of the embargo pro-
gram or whether it should include a brief discussion of the effects of the
embargo program on over-all Soviet economic eve opment.$ 3?Xt
p ess d as to-?-wh-ether-ter not the th4rd seeticrsr- f-the-paper-.was
e~se~saeprtnent. The Chairman stated
that j-the report met the terms of reference, and expressed the hope that the
paper would be of real assistance in negotiations with the British.
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The Chairman mantionea that there would Jibe wry,
few pages containing NOFORN material and that, if clearance of this
material could not be obtained, the NOFORN information would be so
marked on the copies of the report
The report was approved after a page-by-page review was
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undertaken and a considerable 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/S will make whatever
additional editorial changes are considered necessary.
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