NEWPORT SPEECH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R001700010180-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2006
• Sequence Number: 180
• Publication Date: August 13, 1947
• Content Type: MEMO

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ce Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO
FROM
SUBJECT:
The Director.
Legislative Liaison Officer.
Newport Speech.
DATE: 13 August 1si7.
1. If, daring your speech at Newport,' yon are asked n !afl
for an example of how cm coordinates the collection of intel-
ligence., you might cite the study of port data which we are
coordinating at the request of the Joint Merchant Ship Statis-
tics Board. A list of the Board's user agencies is attached
herewith, showing the varied types of information that are
needed -- port-facilities, dock space, connecting transport
tion facilities, defenses, fuel supply, available labor, tides,.
weather,, hospital facilities, ousto a, etc.' If each ages
were to go into thinsork separately, it would swamp the
various attaches. Therefore we coordinate the whole, tie it
up in one bundle, see that the information is collected, and
then disseminate it as appropriate.
2. You aq wish to secure from ICLPS a cow of the
latest OCD report, in order to have with you. the current vol--
ume of requests from the various agencies and the nuaber of
requests we fulfill each month.
TALM L. PP ZEKL
Legislative Liaison Officer
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Excerpts from letter from
Hugh D. Butler
Chairman
Joint Merchant Ship Statistics Board
to
Lt. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Director of Central Intelligence
dated February 11, 1947
"The Joint Merchant Ship Statistics Board was created by an exc:iange or com-
munications between participating agencies on April 13, 1944. The &,encies par-
ticipating are:
United States Maritime Commission
Commerce Department (Office of Domestic Commerce)
(Office of International Trade)
Treasury Department (Bureau of Customs)
U. S. Coast Guard (Intelligence Division)
Department of State
National Federation of American Shipping, Inc.
American Merchant Marine Institute
Shipbuilder's Council of America
Association of American Ship Owners
American Bureau of Shipping
U. S. Navy (Office of Naval Intelligence)
(Naval Transportation Service, Office of the
Chief of Naval Operations)
U. S. Army (Office of the Chief of Transportation)
The express purpose of the Board is to submit recommendations to the heads D:'
the participating agencies with respect to the consolidation and deve_opwnt of
information on vessels, ports, shipyards and other related facilities with a
view to eliminating duplication of effort in the compilation of more v.ccura`,e!
and reliable marine data.
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