ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN ROOM 2101 'M' BUILDING CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, ON 26 JULY 1951

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• Publication Date: July 31, 1951
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ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE CMITTEE
Minutes of etin held in
oom, 2Y61 Buildi ~..
Central Inigence A enc , on 26 J 191
PRESENT:
Dr. Max F. Millikan, CIA, Chairman
Mr. Howard M. Wiedemann, State
Mr. Henry Brodie, State
Mr. John F. Kullgren, Army
Dr. Edward L. Allen, Air Force
Dr. James T. Lower Air Force
Commander Donald C. Deane, Navy
CIA, Secretary
Aral of Minutes
were approves
Subcommittee Membership and Programs - General
2. Action: The EIC members expressed a desire to review the
qualifications of the following persons proposed as chairmen of ETC
subcommittees:
Mr. Nordbeck (State) - Subcommittee on Requirements and
Facilities for Collation
25X1A9a lppp~ (CIA)
Mr. Pollite (Air Force)
Mr. Bloom (Air Force)
Colonel Cowart (Army)
25X1A9a (CIA)
Subcommittee on Petroleum
Subcommittee on Petroleum
Subcommittee on Transportation
Subcommittee on Transportation
Subcommittee on Agriculture
Curriculum vitae were to be submitted to the EIC Secretariat by the 25X1A9a
agencyccencer concerned before 31 July. It was agreed that (CIA)
would chair the Subcommittee on Agriculture and that Mr. Sanderson (State)
would chair the Working Group on Western European Studies. Selection of
other chairmen was deferred pending a review of the curriculum ui vitae by
the EIC.
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1. Action: The minutes of the meeting of 16 July 1951 (ESC 1,2-1)
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3. The name of the "Subcommittee on the Economy of Western
Europe" was changed to 'lNrorking Group on the Economy of Western Europe"
in order to distinguish its functions from those of the permanent sub-
committees.
4, It was the sense of the meeting that each subcommittee should
be given some fairly specific guidance as to its mission and functions
and Dr. Millikan agreed to do this at the first meeting of each sub-
committee. Specifically, they are to be informed of their responsibility
to rationalize their total research effort and to fill major intelli-
gence gaps. In addition, they will be asked as the first order of
business to prepare terms of reference for their subcommittee based
generally on the terms of reference of the EIC. Initially at least,
their major effort will be directed toward the Soviet Orbit. Papers
relating to the activities of these subcommittees - terms of reference,
production programs, finished studies, agenda and minutes - will be
referred to the EIC, through its Secretariat, for review.
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Subcommittee on Requirements and Facilities for Collation
5. Action: It was generally agreed that this subcommittee should
devote its a ention primarily to the following tasks: (1) formulating
of priority requirements for collection of economic information (including
the procurement of documents) and selecting of sources most suitable for
collecting various kinds of data; (2) indexing of literature on the Soviet
economy, particularly that available in the US Government; (3) processing
And collating of data in a manner which will make it readily available
(machine indexing,, etc.) to the economic intelligence community; and (Li)
locating registers (biographic, industrial, etc), determining their scope
and coverage, and rationalizing their utilization.
6. Discussion: It was noted that requests for statements of
economic .ine. gone requirements had already been received from the
TAC Requirements Committee and the State Department Division of Foreign
Reporting.
Subcommittee on Petroleum
7. Action: It was the sense of the meeting that this subcommittee
would be concerned principally with the Soviet Orbit. In view of the
fact that thip is to be a working level committee, it was agreed that
25X1A9a Admiral Biggs, and Colonel Worchester would not servo as
mem ors. In order that the EIC might have a group of top-level advisors
on the non-Soviet petroleum situation, it was agreed to explore the
possibility of establishing a Petroleum Advisory Panel (or Group) which
would be composed of such people as Admiral Biggs of the Munitions Board
and Mr. Snodgrass of the Petroleum Administration for Defense. CIA agreed
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to contact those people in order to get suggestions both as to Panc;1
membership and the functions that such a Panel could most usefully
perform.
Subcommittee on Transportation
8. Action: It was generally agreed that this subcommittee is
to be composes oaf the SAC representatives and the ECA representative as
permanent members. Other non-IAC agencies with specialized knowledge on
certain aspects of transportation will be asked to sit with the committee
when problems concerning their field are being discussed. The subcommittee
is to decide whether Mr. Ashton of the Department of Commerce may be a
permanent member of the subcommittee as an exception to the general rule.
Subcommittee on Agriculture
9. Action: It was agreed that the IAC agencies, ECA, the Department
of Agricul and the Munitions Board should have permanent representation
on this subcommittee.
Handbook of Sources of Economic Intelligence in the US Government
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11. Discussions Postponed until the next meeting.
Periodic Reports on the Status of Economic Intelligence Research Projects
12. Discussion: CIA distributed a sample report form containing
the status of 0 projects. It was suggested that all of the member
agencies could submit periodically similar status reports to the EIC
Secretariat, which could then be combined into one status report for
distribution. This, suggestion will be discussed at the next meeting. It
was requested that each representative come prepared to discuss such matters
as: the desirability of producing such a report, changes in the sample form,
and the most useful method of indexing.
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Proposal for a Government-wide Survey of Research Pro erns on the Economy
of the Soviet Orbit
13. Discussion: CIA proposed that when action has been taken on
items 11 and. above,~the EIC take a look at all of the research programs
concerned with the economy of the Soviet Orbit to ascertain whether the
EIC might usefully attempt a rationalization of the whole program. In
connection with this, ORR, CIA, has recently made a "survey of ignorance"
to determine the major gaps in ORR+s knowledge of certain fiylds of
economic intelligence. This survey will be made available to EIC members
on request, Discussion of this subject will be continued at the next
meeting.
secretary
Economic Intelligence Committee
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