Commerce Project on East-West Trade

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00662R000100160015-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: June 30, 1953
• Content Type: MEMO

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Chief, Adr..,drdstrative Staff
s C; ief, Services Division
Chief, Services Divisi
30 June
'1:) provide funds for the continued joint.-financing ty the
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5ecur ty Agency (and/or its successor agency) and CIA of the Department of
Commerce's ?roject, *lrade i t ;en tht Free `;4erld and, the Soviet bloc."
2. 1icki7ound
The ;project plan is divided Into three paarts. (a) Compilation of
trade statistics from the national statistics availeblp. iron individual
countries (at a m . ) . cost of 61,227) 3 (h) Tabulation an. analysis of
statistical information roportr- d by CUCJter (at a f-:1. cost of , ll,f s5);
(c) Analysis of trade la ormation developed in (a), plus basic and current
analysis of trade agreements and export control systems (at a T..r. cost
of JO , 70 0) ? Co merc(~ absorbed an additional .:L42,OOO cost
about 1O,0-Q in non *?:-currin,.} costs.
e:?nc-i-mar(?s for the Trzid and 1-iliarnce i3rarnc i, rvir es o .visiun. in
o Aled for part (a) serve as one of the indispensable
v ding strategic intelligence on Soviet bloc trade and finance.
partment of C .coerce possesses peculiar advantages in undertaking, this
(art of the project. It is the established focal point for official trade
statistics for the entire r overrnment and has a. viell-devel-oped statistical
library. It has loin;,. experience It, ble idtn div rse trade data from, a
variety of foreif i language s- )urces into uniform, statistical st#ud.ii s.
But even with these advantag s it h: taken the Department of Commerce
bell over a year to recruit, train and or anize its prresent pro ect
In the event the Department of C
, CIA would need to perform, the same ser
Cosrnaerce experience, CIA. would probably be earn
p a similar service before sometime in the
tinue this
.in view of
sfactorily
ar 1955?
The statistical tabulations for part (b) are essential for the
intelligence support fished by the boonomic fense Division, to the
Secretary of Comm rce and the Director for '2.utual c wit r in their
administration of the ryxport Control Ac ; and th battle Act.
analysis of trade inf on-,ziat ion, trade agreements, and export control
has not ma aterialized In a form usable for C { _ to date.
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d that the allot .t
z,-on,ttnued for FY l ftt. The: service & t .
La bo its and .3/i ' and coulL ! ;ot be
her, the T-'. cost alone On parts (a)
thiL 1 Cry 4.:'ndt*.4 allocation OL L%11kQ bs: some -610 ?J.
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Ls rt. cimroen i t - ri hp s thL Joint
,. _ ccfly #..~ere ~'iisCa i the Project.
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Indispensable
FY 1954*
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