Minutes of Meeting Held in Room 1121, Temporary M Building 26th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W. 1000 hours, 1 August 1961

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ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
Control No.
EIC-M-92
1 August 1961
Minutes of Meeting Held in
Zoom 1121, Temporary M Building
26th Street and Constitution Avenue, N. W.
1000 hours, 1 August 1961
Acting Chairman
Doris S. Whitnack, Department of State
Baxter Wood, Department of the Army
Howard Bliss, Department of the Navy
Lt. Col. Robert A. Henderson, Department of the Air Force
Dr. Outten J. Clinard, Department of the Air Force
John W. Easton, The Joint Staff
Dr. Edward R. Van Sant, Office of the Assistant Secretary
of Defense, ISA
National Security Agency
CIA
CIA
scecutive Secretary
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. The Acting Chairman introduced Lt. Col. Robert A. Henderson,
the Department of the Air Force representative, who was attending his
first EIC meeting.
2. The Working Group-a draft of EIC-R14-Sl1, "Sino-Soviet
Bloc Economic Activities in Underdeveloped Areas, 1 January through
30 June 1961", will be distributed to EIC representatives on 10 August 1961.
An EIC meeting to review and approve this draft report is tentatively
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scheduled for 1000 hours on Tuesday, 15 August 1961, in Room 1121,
Temporary M Building.
3. The Secretariat is preparing midimak- Annual Report to the USIB
of the Economic Intelligence Committee covering activities during Fiscal
Year 1961. The draft eport will be a e the Committee for its
approval mid-Aug t.
4. The Acting Chairman noted that the annual survey listing com-
bining internal and external economic research projects on the Sino-
Soviet Bloc and on selected non-Bloc areas is now in .eproduction and
will be disseminated during mid-August.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
5. The minutes of the EIC meeting of 6 July 1961 (EIC M-91)
were approved.
CONSIDERATION OF EIC -R18-S2, "VULNERABILITY OF THE EAST
GERMAN ECONOMY WESTERN RME S
to describe and interpret developments in the vulnerability of
the East German economy that have occurred since the original report
on the subject was issued in December 1960. The draft xmplairremt report
was reviewed on a page-by-page basis and a number of changes and
modifications were suggested and accepted.
7. Action: The EIC approved EIC -Rl8 -S2, and the Working Group
was instructed to incorporate the revisions which had been agreed upon.
The editors and the EIC/S will make whatever additional editorial changes G
considered necessary. The EIC approved the release of this report to
6. Discussion: The Acting Chairman noted that EIC-Rl8-S2 was
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