DATA REGARDING THE ECONOMIC DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00328A000100490037-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: April 14, 1955
• Content Type: MF

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on 8 April 1955.
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The Intelligence :I'drkir Group was established at the request of
the Director of Mutual Security and the Secretary of State,, and with
the approval of the Director of Central Intelligence and the Secretary
of Defense. Its Term of Reference were approved by the IAC on
25 July 1952 (IAC-D-53 ). Coneurrenee-comaents an I', Terms of Reference
were dissected to IAC members by IAC- ")-53/2 of 12 August 1952.
Members of ZAC were asked to concur in a revision of paragraph 8 of
these Terw of Reference by IAC-4)-53/3 of 12 Febru iry 1953. This revision
approved in IAC-C-53/3.1 of 25 February 1953. 4 IAC-D-53/6 of
15 October 1954, the secretary of IAC circulated for approval an r .
proposal for a. change in the name of the Intelligence Working Group to
that of Economic T) tense Intelligence Cc itteea. IAC approval of this
change in namo,, effective 26 October 1954, was notified to the Executive
Secretary, ItG,;, by randum of that date from the Secretary of the IAC.
Its Ter* of Reference provide that the i DIC shall "develop and
furnish intelligence to the iAC for policy making and operations in
the economic defense field .... and develop closer continuous relation-
ships among the operational, policy-formulation and intelligence-research
eleaents engaged in the economic defense program." Under these Terms
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C is responsible for arranging the mobilisation
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,tee (.1 C),, for, recr ing to appropriate
and
data relevant to needs of the tconoadc
its designed to fill specific gaps, and
A,ted intelligence reports and
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The intelligence sectors of the Department of '--'tat*., regr, Navy
a Air Force and the Centrwl Intelligence ency have each appointed
a r and an alternate e; giber to serve upon the !XC. The Office
of the Director for Foreign Operations (FOB, and F'QA)kDAC), the Office
of the 3ecre r7 of Defense, and the Departments of "tabs? Coeamerce,
and the usury have designated representatives to serve as associate
members.
Associate e:
and voice in all wark of the Com.ttee except for those
fall within the elusive responsibility of the IC
-ther agency having interest or competence in the f
telligence be invited to sit with the
the Terms of f efa uce, the principal representative of CIA
as Chairman and shall designate the Executive Secretary,
4..ea uses
Sdmpw* an 'Intelligence an Trade in Decontrolled C ties"
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G& .at a Working Papers and Intelligence ft.queats are
irlated to sabers only; other papers are distributed on a need-
o4mow basis to members, selected CIAO offices, to the Executive
ecret ary(s) of EDAC and JOC, to the Executive Committee and appropriate
orkiag Group(s) of the E)AC.
6. Ax1 Rrts
as Report - 18 September 1953
7.
regress Report -
tember 1954 (MA-19)
c cuiated as L4 -D-53/5)
eg nning in 1955, the P IC has not once a
normally held on a Thursday morning at 1000 hours in Rom 1005
Building.
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