ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE Minutes of Meeting Held in Room 1121, Temporary M Building 26th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W. 1400 hours, 11 February 1959

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ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
Control No. 4896+5
EIC 44 79
11 February 1959
Minutes of Meeting Held in
Room 1121, Temporary M Building
26th and Constitution Avenue, N..W.
1400 hours, 11 February 1959
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Dr. Otto .E. Guthe, Chairman
Mr. Bennett V. Davis, Department of the Navy
Mr. Kingsley W. Hamilton, Department of the Air Force
Mr. J. Duncan Holmes, Department of the Army'
Norris G. ,Kenny, office of the Secretary of Defense
.M'. John. Perkins, Department of State
National Security Agency
Mr. Wendell Woodbury., Department of State
Mos. Doris Whitnack, Department of State
National Security Agency
Dr. Wilhelm Anderson, Department of Agriculture
Mr. Frank M.. Charrette, International Cooperation Administration
Mr. Jerome Forrest, International Cooperation Administration
"Mr. Ernest Rabin, Department of Commerce
-Mr. Robert E. Simpson, Department of Commerce
CIA.
CIA
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Execuutive Secretary
APPROVAL OF MINUTE,:
1. The Minutes of the EIC meeting of 18 December 1958
(EIC-M 78) were approved.
Present during part of meeting.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
2. The Chairman introduced NSA who has been
designated as the NSA. representative to the EIC and
who has been designated as NSA alternate representative to the EIC.
3. The Chairman announced. that the EIC Handbook had been distrib-
uted to the USIB members of the EIC and the Subcommittee Chairmen and
.Executive Secretaries and had been very well received. He stated that
General Truscott, CIA-Deputy Director (Coordination) had commended the
EIC on the publication of the Handbook. A second edition of the Hand-
book, designed for the use of the Associate Members of the EIC, is
.being prepared and.will be disseminated shortly.
4. The Chairman announced that the EIC, as of 29 January 1959,
had completed its review of and had approved new Terms of Reference for
each of the EIC Subcommittees.
5. The Chairman announced that the Director of CIA had received a
letter from General C..H..Eoyce of the Military Assistance Institute,
through the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Affairs, requesting copies of the Biweekly and Semiannual reports on
Sino-Soviet Bloc economic activities in underdeveloped areas. The
Military Assistance Institute is.conducting for the Department of De-
fense a course of instruction for officers of all branches of the Armed
Forces ordered to...duty with the Military Assistance Advisory Groups
(MAAG) throughout the world. The EIC/S has arranged for back issues to
September 1958 to be sent MAI and has placed the Institute's name on
the distribution l.iststo.receive future issues as published.
6. The Chairman brought to the attention of the EIC its responsi-
bility to the USIB for the preparation late this spring or early summer
of a summary report on: the subject of Communist China's trade and
related. problems. A CIA/QRR proposed draft outline and time schedule
for this summary report was distributed to.the members (EIC-D-360,
11 February 1959) The BIC members of the USIB agencies were asked to
review the proposal and advise the EIC Secretariat of their comments,
suggestions, and/or approval by 24 February 1959.
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7. It was announced that the proposed "Organization and Functions
of the Economic Intelligence Committee in Wartime" (EIC-D-346,, 19
January 1959) had been forwarded to the USIB for noting. It was also
announced that the forms and background materials relating to the imple-
mentation of the EICOapproved "Inventory of Economic Intelligence Per-
sonnel at Relocation Sites" had been sent to appropriate associate member
agencies requesting their cooperation in a test of the procedure during
the forthcoming 1959 Operation Alert.
EIC APPROVAL OF EIC-R14-S6 "SINO-SOVIET BLOC ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN
UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS, 1 JULY THROUGH 31 DECEMBER 195 it
8. The members discussed the Draft Report submitted by the Working
Group. The report was approved subject to several additions and cor-
rections suggested by the members, who complimented the members of the
Working Group on the quality of the draft. The Executive Secretary was
instructed to incorporate the agreed changes and authorized to make such
editorial changes as were necessary to prepare the report for reproduc-
tion and. dissemination as soon as possible.
9. It was suggested by the Chairman, and agreed, that the Summary
of the report would be published as a separate document as well as part
of the full report, and that both documents would be disseminated together.
10. Discussion of the format and substance of the next semiannual
issuance of this report indicated general agreement that some useful
changes and additions could be made. The Working Group was instructed
to prepare a proposed -outline for R14 -ST, taking into account the dis-
cussions at this meeting. The Chairman suggested that the Working
Group undertake this task well before work on R14-S7 begins so that it
may be coordinated with the EICmembers.
Executive Secretary
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INTERIM ACTIONS:
10 The EIC approved, by interim action, the following Revised Terms
of Reference for its Subcommittees:
Subcommittee Date of EIC Approval
Agriculture 20 January 1959
Electronics and. Telecommunications 28 January 1959
Electric Power and-Solid Fuels 29 January 1959
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. The National Security Agency has designated
- NSA's representative on the EIC and
as NSA's alternate member.
2. OSD, Office of Special Operations, has designated Mr.
W. A. Smith as their representative on the EIC and Dr. Norris
G. Kenny as alternate member.
3. The changes in DCID 3/1, approved by the EIC at its
last meeting will not be considered by the Intelligence Board as a
separate agenda item, but rather as a part of a staff study which
incorporates similar proposals from all the USIB Committees.
Since USIB consideration of this staff study is not scheduled for
several weeks, the EIC Handbook which contains DCID 3/1 will be
produced with the changes approved by the EIC reflected in the
DCID 3/1 copy and footnoted to indicate that USIB action will be
forthcoming.
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