COCOM CONTROL ELIGIBILITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00527A000100180014-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: August 31, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDU??,
To: Chairman, Working Group I
From: Chairman, Executive Committee
Subject: COCOM Control Eligibility
At EDAC meeting No. 47 (August 30), the Chairman of EDAC
noted that certain members expressed the view that some of the items
now controlled are no longer "strategic", or do not meet the require-
ments of present criteria for international control.
If the foregoing is accurate,?we can anticipate proposals
by other countries that certain items be decontrolled-or downgraded
and perhaps they will start coming soon. It therefore appears de-
sira.ble that any item now considered to be susceptible to attack by
others be re-examined.
The Chairman of EDAC requests that WG I canvass all mem-
bers to determine which International List items, in the view of any
member, might have lost their eligibility for their current rating
with respect to the European Soviet bloc, and promptly obtain an up-
dated technical review to which all interested agencies should con-
tribute. This does not suggest a total list review exercise, but
rather a quick search for susceptible items and then a thorough re-
view of those.
The Executive Committee should be kept aware of current
findings by the Working Group.
Distribution:
ED List Part II
WG I
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