Annual Report to the EIC, Fiscal Year 1959

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 20, 1959
• Content Type: PERRPT

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman and Executive Secretary, EIC Working
Group on Sino-Soviet Bloc Economic Activities
in Underdeveloped Areas
SUBJECT: Annual Report to the EIC, Fiscal Year 1959
1. The officers of your Working Group are invited to submit a
brief annual report to the EIC summarizing the activities and
accomplishments of your group during Fiscal Year 1959 to be used as
an. aid to the EIC in its over-all evaluation of the operations of its
Subcommittees and Working Groups. This report should be coordinated
with the other members of the Working Group and should follow in
general the outline attached. It should cover activities scheduled
through 30 June 1959 as well as those accomplished during the year.
2. It is requested that your report be submitted to the EIC
Secretariat on or before 15 June 1959. If you have any questions in
connection with the preparation of this report, the EIC Secretariat
is available for consultation.
25X1A9a
Executive Secretary
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Suggested Outline for Working Group Annual Report, FY 1959
1. Activities during FY 1959-
a. List special reports, if any, prepared during FY 1959,
including those scheduled through 30 June 1959. (Biweeklies and
Semi-annual Reports need not be reported since the EIC Secretar-
iat has a complete record on these.)
b. Identify problems encountered and their resolution (for
example, meeting community needs for unclassified data; consid-
eration of priority deficiencies in research and collection;
coordination of special reports prepared by ORR or IRA; etc.).
2. Evaluation of the Role of the Working Group.
a. Evaluate the extent to which the Working Group is realizing
its potential as a medium for inter-agency review and coordination,
as a mechanism for improving economic intelligence within its
field of interest, and any general views regarding definition of
its mission. Include such comments as individual agency represen-
tatives may wish to submit as to the role of the Working Group or
suggestions as to how its work may be more effective.
b. In connection with the above, list the factors, if any, which
tend to impede or hamper effective functioning of the Working Group
and any remedial suggestions which appear appropriate.
3. Future Program of the Working Group.
Describe plans made as to the future program of the Working Group,
considering the manner in which the Working Group can most effectively
perform its functions, *s-- out in its Terms of Referenu'e:
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