ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE Minutes of Meeting held in Director's Conference Room, Administration Building 2430 E Street, N.W.16 August 1951

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 1998
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• Publication Date: August 16, 1951
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Dr. ?.tax '.-1`Zill-i:kan, CIA, Chairman
Mir. Henry I rodic State
Mr. Howard ~;iodemann, State
ltr. F cad $.and, rgon,, State
Ma'. Jiohn T1, Kuilren., Army
Lt. Colony ,,4 Georgo B. Russell, Army
Cor,T-i ndor ;Donald C. +Deane, Navy
Dr. Janos T. Loive, Air Force
Dr, Jioso nh D. Coker Air Force
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Aston, Jcs
(2. bcrt . VVo V1le r, ECA
CIA, Secretary
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of r.iinutes
i ction; Itera.18 of EIC-M-3 was amended as follows; The fourth
The minutes of the meoting of 9 -lugust (EIC-M-3) wore approved as o-n.onded.
fifth sent nc , the za=ords "it semis" were substituted for in sore respects".
the d lQolra. b . ;ity of establishing a central file of markings . . ." In the
se tc ce vi c inugod to road "rIn this role it has given some thought. to
Lp_cju4rcd b the Viorking Group on lestern Eurcne
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Tgr;m of Reference
25X1 Aan 2. ,Action; 'A _mo for anduxa, of conversation outlining?' a discussion
-a. The SIG r auc st for an extension of the doadlin,. on Tti1TT -),n
to -L( November was approved.
b. Greet and Turkey are not included in the terms of z eferez~c ,
c. With regard to the questions on extrapolation of dntn .r, -i qr;A
v ews th. , Co.nrittee concluded the following:
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d, On thy; subject of studies on the Soviet Orbit, it was
.greed that these analyses should be based largely on past research
papers and that little new research on this area u as anticipated
or nT'r _-1,n
C Dec~.slQn oil the Priorjt of NIS Program in Relation to NIE; Lt0
ction: Dr. Millikan reported that the IAC had taken u
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question o"relative. priority of the NIS program and NIE-40 at its
moetix}g that morning. It was agreed by the IAC that NIE-40 had priority
over the NIS and that, work on NIE-40 should proceed as scheduled even
thou r it resulted in.a delay of the .NIS program.
0 I Views on Atomic Energy Section of "TIE-40
4,. D14gwoa,Qn: OSI views have not yet been obtained. Dr. Millikan
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will be made' at the ne t E
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p e;sQ an unv+r.~llingness to contribute to NIE-~.Q, Dr.
Millikan is to contact the EIC associate member in those agencies to solicit
their assistance.
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Y o e non-.LAC agencies represented
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.t Was the sense of the meeting that individual contributors to the
eeoi oiaic sections of NIE-40 would, within the limits of personnel
aailable fox the job, generally follow the outline suggested by
the Working Group, with a liberal use of ranges and qualitative
estimates in those instances where more exact quantitative data could
not be supplied.
VI ews oaf Subcommittee can A'icu ro Agricultural Section of NIE-ISO
S* 4tien: In the event that an f t
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f ~It was reported that the Subcommittee on Agriculture
had not ye een consulted to dote
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ore might be some dl pq -.i nr, CIA, stated thzt, 25X1A9a
the Food mine whethe be able to prepare
4 Agriculture s. ctiorrs of NIE4{~ r F
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to assist an the preparation of these sections.
Re .ease of TVSEG Paper
7? Disousslon: The JCS representative Mr. Easton, reported that
the"AEG paper re a ing in content to NIr-40 would not be completed for
approximate' y two weeks. At that time, after clearance vri_th Dr. Allen of
AFOIN, the paper in question will be made available to the Working Groun.
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gage.
Re ort on Dr. hillikant s Discuss;ians with JiiE .
iaillikai has an appointment with the Director,
d o:lnt, L atorials Intelligence _, oacy, on Friday, 17 Aurcust. A report of
the rpsults of this discussion will be made at the no-111t EIC meeting.
RRaort on the Pro ress of Subcommittees General
9. Action: The Secretary, LTC, was asked to check with the Sub-
cOrrmittee on Rcquirements and Facilities for Collation in regard to their
system for notifyE in members about mecin:: s.
m It was stated that at least
one member, ,was not notified of the first meeting.
meeting last orcok. A subgroup is currently drafting terms of reference
for the Subcommittee while; other member. s are making; arrant ements for the
propagation of reguirornents for the State Department Division of Foreign
This Subcommittee has not met si ,e its first
~zng
drafted and arl?angemunts are being mad:: to prep xr c requircments for the
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~, . llisc 95 .on: The Subcommittee on Agriculture held its first
meet .pg la week. Terms of reference for the auhhcom-111 t1-.
Subco zttoe on Agriculture
a
e Depar merit, Division of Foreign Reporting.
l bon: The first mooting of this Subcommittee; will probably
be hold next week. oprosentatives from the Petroleum Administration for
D fer e, th Munitions
~Board
, and the Department of State have agreed to
servo on the proposed Petroleum Advisory Panel,
Subcommittee on lransnortation
s< e irNt MOO ,Ing vvzll be held as soon as they return.
1 l1iocu ,s port.. an the Chairman and Secretary of this Subcommittee
are on 1e~ve
:To lsit ' Group on the Economy of Western Europe
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14,?sisn: There was no further report on this Working Group
except as coverecTan pars h 2 1.
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 on the Status of jconomic Intelligence R e.oearcli Projects
l5. Action The proposal that the Econcmic Intelligence Committee
iss. a po ,Q. c re# ort on the Status of Economic Inte11i ;enco Research
Projects was temporarily tabled.
1,6. Discussion; Some members of the Committee felt that the need
that the s attex s4o, d be reconsidered at ; 5 q ;
future d.cz . unwhi 3 e
the survey of Soviet orbit programs agreed to in item 19 below would
offer, an opportunity to explore on a more united scale the problems
for ;;itch ;~eriWc report had not been clearly demonstrated and that
the s Omission of the, necessary information would be a burden on the
contrbutiizg agencies; others felt that such a report would be useful
a d should be attempted. It was indicated that such periodic reports
had been issued in the past and had been found unsatisfactory; however,
severra1 moabors pointed i out that the utility of those reports had been
limited by the form in which they were published. The Committee agreed
involved in preparing such a document.
I andbook of Sources of Econommio intelligence in
18. Discussion; It was. generally agreed that this subject could be
Govcr.rr. opit was tabled for consideration at some future date.
P t { a 'r_ a a an peek of Sources of Economic Intelligence in the United States
17. Action: The proposal that the Economic Intcllinence Coemit;tee
most usofu y con..c7orod in connection with the proposal fora Govorrinent-
wide Survey and it was felt that the preparation of such a handbook should
be w-:) kod into this survey and not considered as a separate item at this
Px c ads al for aGovernment-wide Survoy of Research Programs on the Economy
L . Action: The Committee agreed that CIA should initiate a Government-
wido survey research programs on the economy of the Soviet orbit, Letters
arc to be directed to all of those United States Goverr~;ac r.t dPpartments and
agencies presently engaged in economic research on the orbitrc.guesti? that
they furnish information on their current research str}die,s in this fie.7 d,.
Iniforriation is also to b roquestod on continuing research activities which
night not be reflected in a list of research studios. CL, will ask th t
ros-od sos be sub pitted within two weeks of the date of the letters. Cn,
r .ceiw~t of the ronlicsa CL will prepare a report of its findings for
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prc.se
.tation to the economic Intelligence Committee.
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 1~,kan road extracts from the; Terms,, of Reference for the Eoonumic Intel-
1igence Coinnittee (IAC-D-22/1 (Rev)) which states muong other things that
20. D1scus4 -c? ,.ln connection with his proposal for a GovernTrien t-
vvid. sure r of research programs on the oconor.y of the Soviet orbit Dr
rr f, rq, ntoan a continuing review of the foreign economic
.ntO1li;ence activities of the United States Government as they
e earch r ;lata.ng to the national security t hroughout the
United States Government .
re-La-;4 Teo tine nate.Qnal security. '- .
21 It was agreed that, initially at least the survey to be conducted
.0e included in the initial phase of the survey.
would be confined to the Soviet orbit.
It was felt that studies bossing on
East- ,`est ;trade au s4iiilar international aspects of Soviet relations should
Plans for the Next EIC Moetinry
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22. Act.ioA; The Committee agroed to meet a ain on ` hlirsd - 30
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