ECONOMIC DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE MINUTES OF 18TH MEETING 11:00 a.m., 18 OCTOBER 1956

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
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• Publication Date: November 8, 1956
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8 November 1956
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CIA, Acting Chairm*
Richards, 031)
Mr., Ha,rsd.itonq AFOIN
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Mr:ahon, ONI
Mr" laght, ICA
Mr. 'ucker, MDAC
Mi s Worthing, State/OIR
Mr Poneroy, 3tate/44C
Ure.sann, Treasury
MMir Drennan., ODM
Mr SereckelmyVer, ODM
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,L, 'tune Acting Chairman noted that each subcommittee of the IAC h .e
er instructed (in IAC D--96/2) to prepare a wartime plan of operation
+-.nr. -e.o: _est corroboration of its opinion that it has no wartime
'mx?ti on, He suggested that the members of the committee confine their
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discussion to intelligence coordination in support of economic
warfare, excluding psychological warfare and covert activities
and without reference to non-intelligence organizations and thi:,Ir
responsibilities, Attention was called to t'e allocation of
intelligence functions prescribed by DCID l5/".. The Chair
expressed the thought that intelligence collection could be
disregarded at this stage, although some special arrangements
might be necessary for economic warfare purposes, as in the ca,,=.a
of censorship materials,,
2, The discussion was informal, and touched an a number of poir_t.s
of which the most salient are summarized below. Some of these
points were treated very briefly; others were discussed at sorcw
length.
3,, In general the members of the committee agreed on the wartif: e^
need for coordination of economic warfare intelligence. 4, numt~er
of questions were asked, however, about the progress of ecoriom:",
warfare planning among the policy and action agencies. The
Chairman expressed the view that a useful plan of inter-agency
intelligence coordination could be formulated in general tex, s
without precise knowledge of the plans of these agencies, Taw: 4 er,
some- members seemed to feel that planning for the coordination of
economic warfare intelligence would be premature until more de:f';aite
information became available on non-intellig&rnce planning for
economic warfare. r~
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4,, Moreover, the State/OIR member is ed whether EDIC` was { -ta
proper forum for this type of planning,' and suggested that the
Economic Intelligence Committee or some committee not now in e~ t_stence
might more appropriately be directed to coordinate economic aa< fare
intelligence.
AgUant
The committee agreed:
as That there will be a wartime need for a coordinatin;
intelligence committee in the field of economic warfare,,
ba That certain aspects of economic warfare intelligent
require advance planning and preparation.,
Go That L~IC may be activated on a simulated wartime b -.:is
for purposes of the next "Alert Exercise,',
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In view of these cgnclusigns and the 1pck of precise information
on planning for the wartime administration of economic warfare the
Chairman was instructed to frward these f I ninutes to the IA4 Working
Group on urgency Plana with the request, that, if the Working Group
eonsiders such action approp,iate, further guidance and assistance
be sought from the Office of Defense Mobi.ization'
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