EXPORT CONTROL AND TRANSHIPMENT DETECTION FUNCTIONS OF D/A.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00662R000200150071-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 13, 2001
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: February 9, 1951
• Content Type: MEMO

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Chief, SIC 9 February 1951
Chief, D/A
Export Control and Transhipment Detection Functions of D/A.
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As will be noted in the attached memorandum this division (And
previously Economics Division of ORE) has participated rather extensively
in the work of the Export Control Prop-ran of the Department of Commerce.
This participation has taken the form of membership on the Advisory
Committee on Export Policy and its subcommittees and has involved
the furnishing of intelligence support to those committees.
With reference to the case of suspected transhipment under
immediate consideration this division intends to proceed as follows.
will contact Mr. Moffitt of the Department of Comtmerce,
the responsible licensin? officer for electronics equipment in that
department. Mdr. Moffitt will be requested to allow to
review all cases of electronic testing equipment for India for which
any of the following U.S. Companies are license applicants: 25X1X4
If a license application covering the equipment suspected of
being involved in transhipment to Czechoslovakia is detected, itr.
Moffitt will be requested to disapprove the application. No referencc
will be made to intelligence sources as the basis for requesting this
disapproval. Since Mr. Moffitt has been extremely cooperative in the
past (re the ARAB cases), there es every probability that this export
will be prevented.
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ATTACHMENT
CIA RESPONSIBILITIES 11 COYN
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General Statement on port Control Progrua
to control exports on grounds of national security,
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foreign policy and short supply was delegated to the President by the
Export Control Act of February 1949. This act required that the agency
or official exercising such authority should consult with other agencies
which are concerned with nPa.tional security; authority to control exvor`4os
was delegated by the President to the Secretary of Co;s aeroe.
Under this delegation of authority, the Secretary of Cormerco esta-c-
lisped the Advisory Committee on ftequirsmonts, subsequently, the Advisory
Committee on Export Policy (ACEP), and its sub-committees. Representa-
tives from the Departments of `;ef ense. State, Agriculture, and Interior.
as well as B`SPB, AEC, EC.A, CIT and OIC were invited to parta.cipste In
the program.
(a) Advisory Committees on fort Palioy (ACEP)
This is an interagency co -ittue which acts in en advisory
oapaoity to the Secretary of Co rce regarding pragrazs determinations,
revisions of the export control lists and other policy datsrminstions.
It also reviews, an appeal from the R Procedure and operating, Ceamitteen,
unre$olved applications for export licenses.
(b) Operating Committee (OC)
This As an interagency connittee responsible for (1) addition
to the Positive Lint of items from both the standpoints of conservatir.;rr
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of domestic supplies and denial to the amem,Y; (2) ?stab
export quotas for commodities controlled for reasons or short supply;
(6) determination of strategic ratings of items placed rider export
control; (4) review of unrosolved license applications, sent forward
dure Sub-con ittee; and, (6) support of the J.S. del(
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tion at the Paris Coordinating Committee, which formulates and implemrcnts
multilateral export control policy.
(c) R Procedure Sub-come4ittee
This is an interagency committee which (1) reviews license
applications for all Positive List items (other than those to destina-
tions covered by special delegation of authority to 01T; (4) re-examines
those license applications which r-rain unresolved; (s) recommends
delegation of authority to OIT to grant or deny licenses for export ci
specified items or items to specified destinations; (4) examines etiaenr=e
presented by the Appeals Board on license applications prev-ously denied.
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(d) Technical Task Groups
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For the purpose of esta3lishing and reviewing strategic ratings
of various coxr odities under export control, a number of task groups were
formed under the auspices of the Operating Committee. Among the groups
upon which CIA was represented were the following: Abrasives and Refrac-
tories, Chemicals, Diamonds, Fuels, General Industrial Equipment, Iron
and Steel, Nonferrous etala and kinerals, Petroleum Equipment, Alec-
trical and Electronic Equipment, and Technical Data.
(e) NBC East-West '.rade Committee
This Division is also called upon from time to time to serve
in an ad hoc capacity upon various other interagency committees.
2. Nature of CIA Support
CIA representatives have participated in the work of the several
committees to the extent of givii intelligence support as required. This
support has often been expressed in terms of a vote in the aozaiaittee:
(a) in the R Procedure Sub-committee, in favor of or in opposition to .he
granting of a particular license; (b) in the ACE' and Operating Corn ttees,
in favor of or in opposition to proposed program determinations, recoza-
mandations as to export quotas, or policy recommendations to the Secretary
of Commerce. It should be borne in mind ghat all of these committees
are purely advisory to the Secretary of Coarce.
3. Proposed Future CIA interagency Responsibilities
It is proposed that in the future CIA representatives continue to
serve primarily by giving; intelligence support to the committees.
This support is often given informally in committee discussions. Usually
time does riot permit formal presentations and security regulations
frequently inhibit documentation. When, for the purposes of preventing
the export of strategic oo modities to suspected consignees, it becomes
necessary to transmit documentary material to the Department of Commerce,
special clearance is obtained from CIA Liaison officer. 25X1A
This cleared material is then transmitted to the Department of Commerce
Investigation Staff, formerly Enforcement Branch.
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