ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN ROOM 2125, TEMPORARY 'M' BUILDING 26TH STREET AND CONSTITUTION AVENUE, N.W. 20 DECEMBER 1955

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EIC-M-19
ECONOMIC 7h!TELLIt ENCE COMMITTEE
Minutes of Meeting Held in
Room 2125, or_u7idin
26th Street and onst tution venue, N.W.
20.December 1955
Mr. Bennett Davis,, Navy
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CIA, vice Chairman
Mr? F ward Doherty, State
Mr. John Easton, JCS
Mr. Kingsley Hamilton, Air Force
Mr. Duncan Ho]med, Army
Coanmar-der Burns Spore, Navy
Mr. Earl Coxe.. Armv-` Chairman, Subcommittbe on Transportation*
ETC/S
ETC, Executive Secretary
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
1. the minutes of the EIC meeting of 10 November 1955 (EIC M-18)
were approved.
APPROVAL OF STATU- 4UTT ON GENERAL CONCEPT AND FUPMCTIO%:S OF EIC SUBMSITTEES
2. Action: The statement "General Concept and Functions of EIC
Subcommittees dated 16 December 1955, was Approved by the EIC after
minor modifications. The Secretariat was instructed to furnish copies
of the approved statement to all members of the EIC and its subcommittees.
REVIEW OF SUI3CC44M1 TTEE ACTIVITIES
tt.''Discussion: It was suggested that the EIC should revive its
former practice of-regularly scheduling a full review of the activities
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committee proposals,,
Executive Secretary, Subcommittee on Transport.ttion*
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of one or two subcommittees at each ETC meeting so that all would be
considered during the course of a year. It was agreed that the present
review of all the subcommittees should not take the place of this fuller
examination, but would serve primarily to identify those subcommittees
with problems which appeared to require early review and possible guidance.
!t. Action: It was determined that the activities of the following
subcanmitteee should be scheduled for earliest EIC review: Armaments,
Chemicals, General Economic Analysis, International Trade and Finance,
and Electric Power and Solid Fuels (which should be considered together
with Petroleum). The remaining subcommittees will be scheduled for ETC
review at later meetings.
PROPOSED INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP ON TRANSPORTATION PROBLEKS
5. Discussions The chairman of the ETC Subcommittee on Trans-
portation was asked to explain his subcommittee's recommendations
(embodied in their annual report) for the establishment of a full-time
interdepartmental transportation working group. It was brought out that
G-2 was planning to establish such a group and to extend invitations to
other interested IAC agencies to participate. The chairman would be pro-
vided by G-2, and also would report to the EIC. It was envisaged that
this group would undertake assignments for the EIC Subccnumi ttee on Trans-
portation (such as, initially; the completion of the study for WSBG),
and also would undertake projects for G-2 and other participating agencies.
Dr. Guthe welcomed this development and noted that CRR/CIA would plan to
,participate.
REV TSI CN OF EI C_1R-9 "CAPABILITY OF IRE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD AND CCtE -
6. Discussions The Executive Secretary of the Transportation Sub-
committee presented-the subcommittee's recommendation for establishment
of an ad hoc working group to undertake a revision of the agreed estimate
of the capaEility of the Trans-Siberian Railroad and its connecting lines
into Manchuria and Korea, which had been published as EIC-R..9 several
years ago. Acting on the IAC-approved recommendations in ETC-Rl-S4 that
an early revision of the EIC-N-9 estimates was desirable, a working group
of the subcommittee had drawn up tentative terms of reference for such a
revision, and an informal agreement had been reached as to the allocation
of responsibilities for producing the principal contributions.
70 Action: The EIC formally approved the undertaking of the pro-
posed revisiof EIC-R-9 by an ad hoc working group of the Transportation
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COORDINATION OF EXCtAN0E OF VISITORS WITH COUNTRIES OF IHE SINO-SOVIET BLOC
which were arising as='aLrblult of increased. inquiries to the Department
of State regarding travel' in this country by visitors from.the Bloc and,
reciprocally, travel of U. S. Nationals in Bloc- aoumtri Be Members of
the intelligence community already had been asked for.a*vice on several
occasions. The Chairman asked the views of the members,as to the suit-
ability of using EIC standing subcommittees in appropriate future cases.
9. Action: It was agreed that the Chairman should explore this
matter f'urter -and report his recommendations to the Economic Intelligence
Committee.
8. The Chairman outlined certain intelligence support problems
10. The Secretariat distributed lists of the new representatives
recently designated to the ETC and its various subcommittees and working
groups.
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Distribution:
Doherty, State - 2
Wiedemann, State - 1
Jones, State - 1
Postlethwait, Army - 2
Baird, Air Force - 2
Spore., Navy - 2
East, JCS - 2
Kenny, OSD - 1
Schnellbacher, Ccerce - 1
Charrette, ICA - 1
Shooshan, Interior - 1
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