ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE Minutes of Meeting Held in Room 2101, Temporary M Building 26th and Constitution Avenue, N.W. 6 December 1951

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• Publication Date: December 13, 1951
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ECONOMIC INTE,L,LIGENCE CC TTTTEE
Minutes of Meeting held in
Room 2101 Temporary WMITding
'2i ann "Coztn Avenue"-, LW.
6 December 1951
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PRESENT:
Dr. Max F. 2,illikan, CIA, Chairman
Ear. Eduard Doherty, State
Ur. Howard Wiedemann, State
Mr, John Kullgren, Army
Lt, Colonel Byron Cowart, Army
Cdr, Donald C. Deane, Navy
Lt, G. C. Stock, Navy
Dr. Joseph Coker, Air Force
Mr. John Easton, JCS
Mr, Fred Rossiter, Agriculture
Mr. Emil E. Schnellbacher, Commerce
Mr. William J. Welk, ECA
Mr. Joseph C. McCaskill, Interior
Mr. P. L. Brokaw, Interior
Dr. Edward I, 1iu11ins, Munitions Board
UNNENEW., CIA, Secretwty
APPROVAL OF M iUTES
EIC M-9
13 December 1951
CIA #1130951L
1. Action: The minutes of the Economic Intelligence Committee
meeting af' ovember 1951 (EIC-M-8) were approved.
NEl7 MELTING TIME
2. Action: It was agreed that meeting.-% of the Economic Intelli-
gence Comm! ee will normally be held on Thursdays at 131155 hours. An
attempt will be made to adjourn each meeting bar 1530 hours.
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REPORT BY CIIAIRM&N OF THE TRANSPORTATION SUBCOMMITTEE
3. Discussion: Lt. Colonel Cowart,, Arur, reviewed the activities
of the Transportation Subcommittee, He pointed out that the Trans-
portation Subcommittee has a good point of departure for a study of
intelligence gaps in the Chapters III of the HIS. Further benefits
derived from past work on the NTIS are the working relationships established
'with other agencies and the knowledge of what types of information are
available and where it is to be found. This subcommittee has gone
through its organizational phase and is now working on such matters
as the preparation of travel folders for guidance in the collection
of data by US personnel traveling in the Soviet Bloc. A sub-group
has been established to study the merchant shipping problem and to
makea report to the EIC on the coverage presently available on this
subject and the inadequacies which exist,
PROPOSAL FOR A STUDY ON THE SOVIET 13100 MERCHANT FLEET
4. Action: The EIC members agreed: (a) that it would be
desirable eve available in the intelligence community., a coordinated
statement of information on the Soviet Bloc Merchant Fleet and the
Impact on Western Europe of Controls on the Sale and Chartering of
Merchant Ships to the Soviet Bloc and (b) that the Transportation Sub-
committee should be requested to examine available studies and data on
these subjects and to make recommendations to the EIC as to form the study
could take and available sources of information which could be used,
5, Discussions Mr. Doherty,, State, discussed the need for a stud
on the So Bo_c erchant Fleet to provide support for the US Govern-
ment position in OOCOM that merchant shipping is a strategic item and should
be controlled by (1) placing the sale of certain types of merchant ships
on the International Control List; (2) controlling the servicing, bunkering,
and repair of Soviet Bloc merchant vessels; (3) controlling the chartering
of merchant ships by COCOM countries to Soviet Bloc countries; and (4)
preventing the carrying of List I and II items-in excess of limits by
ships flying flags .of COC0M countries.
60 An outline for the study was distributed in two parts. The first
was designed to show the impact of .merchant shipping controls on the
Soviet Eloc. The second dealt with the impact of these controls on
Western Europe. Mr. Doherty explained that the second portion of the study
would have somewhat lower priority than the first., but that it.would be
most helpful if he two parts could be done concurpently.
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70 Action: The members agreed that subcommittees are not appropriate
bodies to uncle take production resp nsibi11ii ff h}, s dies with
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short deadlines. The subcommittee machinery may be employed on such
studies, however, to provide information as to the extent and location of
available raw data and intelligence studies and to elicit professional
judgements on the proposed projects including informal review of pre-
liminary drafts. CIA indicated its willingness to assist in arranging
for such studies as a service of common concern.
8. In considering research projects which do not have a short
deadline, the EIC agreed that-such studies may be taken up for discussion
by the subcommittees but that the subcommittees do not have authority to
actually produce these projects without approval from the EIC. It is,approp-
riate, however, for the subcommittees to discuss the importance of
} particular research studies, the feasibility of undertaking them through
the facilities of the subcommittee, and the extent and location of
available material on the subject. On the b_sis of such discussions$
recommendations including terms of reference and statements of the
capabilities of the respective agencies for contributing to the project
should be submitted to the E IC.
9. It was also agreed that before any subcommittee begins work
on such a research project, final approval on terms of reference and
allocation of production responsibility must come from the EIC.
10e The Committee members agreed that established liaison channels
outside the EIC framework are still available to funnel requests for
special projects from one agency to another. In those instances where
the requesting agency has no channel to the producing agency or where
the requesting agency does not know which agency is best equipped to do
the project the requesting agency may go either to CIA or to the appropriate
subcommittee for advice,
11. Discussion-question was raised as to whether the best pro-
cedure for n iating-a research study sear to fiat proposed by State
(4aragraphs-%5,6).is to launch a National `Intelligence Estimatl4j-J There
followed some discussion of the difference between an EIC project such as
the JIG study on the Economic Capabilities for tar of the USSR and the
Eastern European Satellites and a National Intelligence Estimate. It was
pointed out by C;r that there was a need for coordinated research studies
which would differ from the National Intelligence Estimates in at least
two important respects: (a) ETC projects would be primari v cwt
supplying for any interested user the best available agreed data and
information on a topic. The purpose of such projects would not be primarily
to present finished conclusions in brief form for the use of high policy
officials, but rather to provide basic dzi+A fnr +hp imp ,.f An,alvsts
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preparing future studies, for estimators, for officials engaged in activities
of an operational nature, and for policy makers requiring more factual
material than a National Estimate contains, (b) These projects would
be carefully documented, indicating sources and in some cases the analytic
methods, and would evaluate the adequacy and limitations of the data,
Secretary
Economic Intelligence Committee
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