SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FINANCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00283R000200210114-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 114
• Publication Date: December 1, 1965
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FINANCE
Chairman.- Morris H. Crawford, State
-Executive Secretary: C z5X1A9a
Agencies Represented: State Navy Commerce
DIA CIA FRB
Army NSA Treasury
Meetings: Last meeting, June 1963
Activities during FY 1965 and First Half FY 1966
The subcommittee members maintain a continuing critical review of
intelligence needs and intelligence research on Sino-Soviet Bloc trade.
The CIA /ORR program to code and store basic Soviet trade data in an IBM
system has been continued,
publications: At the request of the EIC, CIA has published, after pre-pub-
lication review and comment by the Departments of State and Commerce,
two studies on Trends in Soviet Foreign Trade. In December it is planned
.=:o publish an Annex updating the details of commodity trade for 19640
During the first half of FY 1966, the subcommittee coordinated the trade
:section of EFC-R16-S6., "International Trade and Transport of Communist
China, 1964" (published annually) .
Because of the open channels of communication that have been established
in past years, an effective and harmonious system exists for coordinating
intelligence on matters of mutual interest. These channels are used as needed
with resulting benefits to all participating agencies.
In trying to assess the particular sorts of activity which the subcommittee
could most usefully undertake in the future, one member has raised the
possibility of holding, under subcommittee auspices, irregular informal
discussions of selected substantive questions among specialists from the
?participating agencies.
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