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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000200030020-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: May 5, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Preliminary report on attached 5/5/50
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1. According to Commander , OCD, who discussed the whole matter in
detail over the telephone with a Mr. king, State-Defense Military Information
Control Committee (SDDICC) is SANACC reincarnated and now calledd, phonetically,
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SWARMAC. Our observers are Mr. - and Mr. , one of them
characterized as an alternate.
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2. It is the policy of SWARMAC to deny to the anything about Latin
America* whatsoever it may be. The reasons for this stand were not given,
presumably on account of the danger of discussing classified information over
the telephone. Should CIA especially desire, the policy continues, to send
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some particular piece of intelligence on-EX LA to CIA is em-
powered to put each special case before SWARMAC, giving cause why it should be
made an exception.
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3. It was the volunteered opinion of CDR - that should be
made a test case in the matter of just why LA is quarantined. I should agree
except that I can think of no reason offhand why SR-53 should, or should not
be sent to any given country including the Scandanavian.
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4. I should suggest instead, assuming that there is no hurry and that Mr. _
will be back some time from wherever he is, that I talk with him and try to
find out why the prohibition. If makes
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Final Report regarding Exchange of SR-5$ with (will give you
in writing if you want to nake it formal.)
1. The committee that overrides the DCI on recommendations for exchange
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with is SANAC-MIC, one of the many committees under the original
SANACC. SANACC is dead)in much the same manner as the Office of Seeds and
Standards, but SANAC-MIC ha s gone marching on because it is indispensable.
CIA is not represented on this committee but has observers. CIA does not,
I take it, have to follow the polcies of SANAC-MIC but does so as a matter
of choice for fear of offending someone.
2. SANAC-MIC has many a gladsome policy, covering the exchange of military
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information tm countries ranging ba4ween Abyssinia - Zululand. among these
might be enumerated'
(a) No information concerning LatiA America or Canada
i) No information derogatory to the US government'vc an agency
thereof, its commerdial firms, or the citizens that dwell therein
(c) No information that discloses sources of intelligence or the
means of acquiring it
3. The real reason? behind Section 2.(a) above seems to be the same as that
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sense---it's just our policy. Mr.
, who was kind enough to give me
all this information, alleges that intelligence is exchanged on a need-to-
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know basis---a close relative of an overall picture---and that the do
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not need to know about the Western Hemisphere. I pointed out that the
own considerable real eatate in the Western Hemisphere---an idea that seemed
to come as something of a shook to him---but he said. that there was no use in
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letting the - in on our hemisphere defense plans. He advanced the opinion
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that if, for example, we planned -takw-MOM in the
, we should not want to apprise them of the fact.
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4. We are at liberty to insist on the forwarding of SR-53 on
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grounds that there are pressing reaosn why the should have it. The
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committee, Mr. - thought, might look with favor upon our ipetition.
5. It is also a present policy of NANAC-MIC TlZ K to exchange nothing with
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the concerning China or points relating to that area because the
have recoggized the Communist government while we still recognize
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that of Chiang Kai-Shek. Hence the - are allied with one group and
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we with another which means that the - might pass on our intelligence
to Mao Tze-Tung.
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AM, Policy regarding material detrimental
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to US agencies might give us a reason, if we wanted one, for withholding a
report merely because it made CIA or the IAC look silly.
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7. Mr. is going to look into the matter of whether mxzaet we or they
shou3d be considered responsible for checking souce material in reports to
make sure the document is eligible under Section 2. (c) above.
8. Recommendations:
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a. That Colonel be told we shall not make a special request
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to the committee in the matter of SR-53 (Mr.
agrees)
b. That responsible parties look into the matter of the general pro-
hibition against intelligence on Latin America with a view to liberal-
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ization of the policy. (Mr. - again agrees)
c. That the whole matter of exchange of intelligence with the
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M be reviewed by those whose interest is not that of a narrow and
spurious security but of the vast amount we stand to gain through free
and hank exchange of information versus the small risk we run o6 taastgg
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loss through possiblereache
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