Annual Report for 1972

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00283R000200030013-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: June 27, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM 17OR.: Chairman, Economic Intelligence Committee
SUBJECT Annual Report .fpr 1972
DIA DECLASSIFICATION/RELEASE INSTRUCTIONS ON FILE
1. The Subcommittee on Shipbuilding during the past
year intensified its review and coordination of interagency
research in the shipbuilding and. related fields. A signifi.-
cant result of the discussions In the .bcommittee' s regular
meetings was a r.re-evaluation of Soviet ballistic missile
submarine construction programs and subsequent better grasp
of the scope and pace of these programs. in order to
provide improved coverage of the fast-growing problem of
Ch..-ina's maritime development, the Subcommittee established
a China Seapower Working Group.
2. Although no formal research projects were under-
taken or assigned, the Subcommittee was informally involved
this month, have
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3. The Subcommittee participated actively in the above-
mentioned conference This conference
was the first under joint EIC/DIA sponsorship, as the
successor to the former
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new conference format proved to be as valuable as anticipated
from the point of view of both improved intelligence coverage
and savings in man-hours and travel expenses.
4. One innovation introduced during the past year
was the convening, about quarterly, of a special panel to
discuss questions of broad Soviet shipbuilding, shipping,
and maritime policies. Entitled the Soviet Maritime Policy
Forum, this panel solicited participation by representatives
of some of the intelligence community's most important
consumers. The reaction to this innovation has been highly
favorable and the Subcommittee plans to continue to employ
it as a vehicle for stimulating exchanges of ideas and
improving its economic intelligence research.
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HERMAN DWORKIN
Chairman
Subcommittee on Shipbuilding
Executive Secretary
Subcommittee on Shipbuilding
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3 March 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: Dr. Maurice Ernst
Chairman
Economic Intelligence Committee
SUBJECT: China Seapower Working Group
1. I wish to inform you of a reorganization
within the Shipbuilding Subcommittee. The repre-
sentatives of the Subcommittee have approved changes
in working procedures which in effect form separate
China and Soviet Working Groups within the Sub-
committee.
2. The China group, to be known as the China
Seapower Working Group, will have equal status with
the Soviet Working Group under the direction of the
Shipbuilding Subcommittee. Each group will be
equally represented on the Executive Council of the
Subcommittee by representatives appointed by EIC
members.
3. The Soviet working group will continue
responsibility for Warsaw Pact maritime intel-
ligence matters and the China working group will
assume similar responsibilities for Asian communist
areas.
4. The mission of the new China group is to
provide an organizational framework for carrying
out within its field the basic review and coordi-
nation responsibilities of the EIC and the Ship-
building Subcommittee and for ensuring that, on
those intelligence matters of China affecting the
national security, the intelligence community is
supported by the full economic knowledge and
technical talent available in or to the US Govern-
ment.
5. I think it best that the Executive
Secretary of each working group be a CIA member.
The Chairman of the China Working Group will be
elected by the EIC members of the Subcommittee,
each having one vote. I will continue to serve as
Chairman of the Subcommittee and will assume the
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same responsibilities'within the Soviet Working
Group. Each Working Group will normally meet once
each month and informal minutes will be submitted
to the Executive Secretary of the Shipbuilding
Subcommittee.
6. The recent approval by USIB of a separate
conference for discussion of Chinese maritime matters
requires that the China Working Group meet soon to
consider conference organizational matters including
agenda items. I have therefore asked that the first
meeting of the China Seapower Working Group take
place on 4 April 1972. Prior to that date the
Executive Council will elect a Chairman for the
group.
7. I have asked each EIC member of the Sub-
committee to appoint a representative to serve on
the China Seapower Working Group and to submit a
nominee for Chairman.
8. I have taken these actions because of the
USIB endorsement of an international conference on
China seapower and because of the continuing indi-
cations of Chinese maritime growth. I am confident
that these changes in the organization of the Ship-
building Subcommittee will meet with the general
approval and support of the EIC.
HERMAN DWORKIN
Chairman
Shipbuilding Subcommittee
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