DEAR DR. GUTHE:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 11, 2000
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• Publication Date: January 18, 1957
• Content Type: LETTER

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January 18, 1957
Dr. Otto E. Guthe
Central Intelligence Agency
2).30 E Street, N. W.
Washington 25, D. C.
Recently the EDAC Community, through Working Group I,
has initiated renewed consideration of the question of multilateral
controls over the provision of ships and ship services to the
Soviet bloc. Two papers on this subject, one prepared by Defense
(WG I D-53) and the other from Commerce (WG I D-53.1), have been
discussed in the Working Group.
The Group has agreed that further analysis of the sub-
ject by CIA and the other agencies of the economic defense intelli-
gence community would be desirable, before consideration of action
possibilities, and has agreed on the attached outline for the
study, recognizing that some modifications might seem appropriate
as work progresses.
Representatives of the Group who have been consider-
ing this problem have suggested, through the WG I Chairman, that I
write to you on it. I believe further analysis is important, and
I should like to request that CIA take responsibility for conducting
an inter-agency intelligence study, along the lines of the attached
outline, through such organizational arrangements as CIA sees fit
to make.
As you know, this is a difficult subject, with a long
history, and the question of what to do about ship controls has
from time to time enjoyed considerable high-level attention. Prior
to the next CG meeting, we shall have to decide what the U.S. posi-
tion should be on the subject. For these reasons, I hope that the
study can be pursued with the best-equipped personnel available in
the appropriate agencies. I hope the study can be transmitted to
Working Group I within the next four or five weeks. With that in
hand, the Group will be able to consider, and prepare its recom-
mendations on, the action problem.
Sincerely yours,
W. S. DeLany
Deputy Director for
Mutual Defense Assistance Control
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