ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE Minutes of Meeting Held in Room 1121, Temporary M Building 26th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W. 6 July 1961, 1000 hours

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• Publication Date: July 6, 1961
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Minutes of Meeting Held in
Room 1121, Temporary M Building
26th Street and Constitution Avenue, N. W.
6 July 1961, 1000 hours
PRESENT
25X1A9a Dp? ZStt? E. Guthe, CIA9 Chairman
CIA, Vice Chairman
William A. Smithy Office of the Secretary of Defense
John W, Easton, Joint Staff
Col. Leo M. Braun, Department of the Air Force
lar=nnett V. S. Davis, Department of the Navy
25X9A8 National Security AUency
I3axte r Wood, Department of the Army
Lewis M. White, Department of State
D:r. Outten J. Cunard, Department of the Air Force
Dr~ .Edv~ard R. Van Sant, Office of the Assistant Secretary of
Defers e
'~~Jerome Forrest, International Cooperation Administration
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1. The Chairman introduced Col, Leo M. Braun, the Department
of the Air Force. representative, and his alternate, Dr. Outten J. Cunard,
who were attending their first EIC meeting.
~r^s~nt-ry part of meeting.
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2, The Chairman announced that Dr, Norris G. Kenny, Office
of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, has retired from Government
service, and that a letter has been written to Dro Kenny noting his lon~5X1A9a
and valuable association with the EIC, Dr, Edward Ro Van Sant has
been des?i Hated to replace Dr. Kenny, It was also noted that
formerly of the Secretariat, had been. forced to retire ecause
of ill healthy
EIC ~Rm 18, 1?VULNERABILITY OF THE EAST GERMAN ECONOMY TO
E R EASUR '
3o The Chairman. noted that the- Task Force on Berlin, set up by
the Operations Center of the State Department, will re-quire information
on the vulnerabilities of the Communist position in East Germany and our
capability for exploiting these vulnerab?6.litieso In this connection, the
USIB has directed the EIC to review and update or issue an annex, as ap-
propriate, to EIC-R-18, 1?Vulnerability of the East German Economy to
Western Countermeasures," published in December 1960 (see USIB-M-
1619 27 June 1961yo The Chairman stated that there have been a variety
of developments since .December that should be discussed in the forth-
coming annex, As a result of the requirement levied upon the Committee,
the Working Group that prepared EIC =R-18 has been reactivated to pre -
pare a draft for review by the EIC e The dissemination date to the EIC
will be about 24 July, .and it is hoped that the paper will. be ire the hands of
the users by early August,
EIC ~SR~5, "POPULATION OF THE COUNTRIES OF THE SINO-SOVIET
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4e The Chairman announced that a revised version of EIC -SR~5,
??Population of the Countries of the Sino-Soviet Bloc, Selected Years, 1938-
751? (EIC-SR5-S1~, prepared by the 5ubcomrnittee an: Population and,jVian-
power, is presently in reproduction .and will be disseminated sometime this
montho The Chairman proposed, and the members agreed, that the report
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5, The Department of State has requested from the EIC an intel~
ligence study of the strategic impact on the Soviet Bloc of international
embargo controlso The Chairman suggested to the members that the
Subcommittee- on Economic Defense could very appropriately prepare
the type of intelligence report that is req~.ired, and stated that he -would
pass on the request to the Subcommittee for preparation of a study a,n
accordance with the agreed terms of reference prepared by Working
Group I of EDACo The study will be reviewed by the EIC and sent to the
requestor by the target date of 1 September 1961.
CONSIDERATION OF EIC-816-52, '~A SUMMARY OF THE INTERNA-
bo Discussiono The draft of EIC =R I6-S2n approved for forwarding
to the EIC ~ tie two rresponsible Subcommittees, was reviewed on a page-
by~page basis and a number of modifications and revisions were proposed
and accepted,
7, Actiono The EIC approved EIC?816-52 and authorized its rem
lease to the~$~?so
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Executive Secretary
The following documents have been. approved, by -interim action on
the dates indicated, by the EIC representatives of the l'JSIB agencies:
1 o EIC mD~469, Nomination of as Chairman of the
Subcommittee o~. Agriculture, 3 March 25X1A9a
2, EIC -Dm476, .Intelligence Support to the US Disarmament Ad~
ministration, 23 May
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SECRETARY'S NOTES: (Gont'd)
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3, EIC vD-477, Nomination of as Chairman of
the Working Group on Sino-Soviet Bloc Economic Activities in Under-
developed Areas, 9 June
4o EIC-D-478, Terms of Reference for SIC Study on Soviet
Science and Technology, 19 June
Distribution:
USIB Agencies
Agriculture
Commerce
Ex-Im Bank
Federal Reserve
ICA
Labor
OCDM
Treasury
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