BACKGROUND INFORMATION RELATING TO EIC ACTION TO IMPROVE COORDINATION OF PRIORITY ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00283R000200040018-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: November 30, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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B~AC~fORdCND INFORMATICN RSLATINQ~ TCf
EIC ACTIC~ TO IMPROPE CoORDYNATYd~T QP' PRIORITI ECGJ(~'!iC INTELLIGENCE
COL'LECT20i[J REQUZRHKENTS
1. The BIC Terms of Aefsrertoe ETC-D-Z"t/1, 29 May 1951) include
the atateaeent that the EIC, a~eong other things? ahalls
~ 3,d) "Raview and report to the IAC ~oae tame to fifes,- on the
pertinence, extent, artd gna7.itry of the data s~rtd analyses avail-
able' bearing on the issues ana]ysed.
~ 3,~e) "Reconenend to the IAC, for appropriate action j priorities
attd allocation of resgaortsibilitiea for the oollectiort and
analysis to fill specific gaps in the eoonasic intslligenc:e
seeded for natioanal seenrSty.
(3,f) "Maintain a cattinnirtg revieta of the foreign ecortomia
irttelligertce activit3ea of the IInited States C~a~verrneertt as
they relate to the national security."
2, 'Under thin general resportsib3.lity the EIC 9ubca~rsittee oa
Requirem~tta and Fac313tiea for Collation vas inatracted in its Terns
of Reference (21 Serptember 1951) to:
~4~a}+~F'ormalate on a contirnifng basis prf.orit~* ragatrementa
for the ~llection of eoonasic infaa~.atioat Eistcind3ng pub-
lications and statistics);
(4~b)"Reaanatend appropriate aoorcea and collection action
to fill such regnire7eents."
3. Reports and teiantea of the 9ubcaeed.ttee art Requix~seerlta and
Facilities for Collation have made frequent reference to the aotiorta
which thi.a aabcocmni.ttee aaticipated in support of collection efforts.
For ea~mnple, the Semi-Aonual Report of the Snbca~ttee~ dated 23
January 1953] included the following statementas
nThe Subcamai.ttee will in the future continue to devote
its efforts to the acexertplishmertt of its three primary ob~ectivea:
To derPelop appropriate ateasuras far atc@nentfng, so-
ordinating, and guiding collection activittea;
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"It 38 the intsretiare of the Subca~nd.ttee tD analyse requir~-
enez~ta a~tatelnenta eaeanating fray the other- Snbaa~itteea with a
view to maldreg'ea~rpropriate allocation of collection reaponaibili'ty
is accorda~r~iee with the capabilities of the several collectors.
..
"The Subconga3ttoe will cc~aider the need to stau~y the adequacy
of services rendered by the several collection.and proceaadng ac-
tivit3.es of the IAC.
~....
. nThe Subcwmeittse recognises its continu3ag rsaponaibili.~r
to develop on an inter-agency baaf.$, as appropriate, new sources
of foreign ecexea+rLc intelligence informatioa." .
~ .The Annual Progreaa Report of the SubccemRrLttee on Requirements
and F~lities for Collation, dated ~(? June 1953, contained a fall
ama],yais of the nature of the action whichtree aubcoemaittee felt it
shat~.d undertake on priority collection requireatantaQ This laid paur-
ti.calar atrese ~oe~ the problem of interagea~cy coordination in 3mgleaaantin?
the oollectio~n of requirements (see attached e~ ,~'at! , ex A) .
5. The Priority Program for EIC Subcoomd.tteea (tohicats vas dated 20
July 1953) 8asigned as the first ooncern of sl.l aabco~i.tteea tree pre-
paratien. of eearveya of priority research and colleetiosi deficiereciea
in intellig~oe on the, So~vl.et Bloa"~ :~~ tmt3 .eat ~-er, EIC+a
activi.t~sa in eoordineting ctotion were gely rela~te-d to the. coor- 25X1 X4
dinatioa~' of r~aqu~.i+ehtenta certain vial chanreela (arch as those
through :the.- State Departenea~t ,and
had not "included a ayatematic cansideratian of collection gape by arena
of analys#s.. Prior atteaetion of the sabetaative subeamnittees wrae given
to research defidencies, and the first a~vey of collecti~ deficiencies
b'y arenas of analyaia vas approved by ties ~~~tramasdtted to
the 9ixbcon~.ttee on Requirements and Facilities for Co11a13on only on
20 ,April 195lt.;. The fol2Awing extract ie' frQn the minutes of that meetings
"Proposed Procedure far Hanadling EIC Priority Collection
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~~}? ACtiont ~1i8 attri/@p was appra~red and the EIC agreed
to pass ~ ~ F to tie sabca~d.ttee o~ xegnirta ~r-a
Faci.]3.tiea for Collation for preparation of a collection plan.
It was the aenae of the meeting that thi.a procedure would be
adopted ore are eacperime~ntal basis and that the collection plan
would be submitted to the EIC for review and approval prf.or to
ienpleetatian."
'a Ubv3.ously the auticomnctttee means to say that they vvald "reeasm~d"
appropriate sI]ACationa.
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C. The ESC Subcam+dttes on xegn3x~n-ents and Facilities for Colla-
tion raised a number of problems as to ghat was eacpected from t1~
under the term "preparation of a collection plan." The ESC Secretariat
emphasised that use of the words "collection plan" was clearly not in-
tended in the technical sense in which the term is aometi~aes used xithin
collection circles -but that the EIC discassion of 20 April 195t~ ea-
visaged simper that the subcomeaittee should seek to devise a "plea" (iii
the lgymast~a cease of the word) which woald facilitate coordinated
collection action to improve the actual results of collectionn efforts
directed to these EIC-pr~.ority limns.
a. The subco~Ettee met several times with the '4ice Chairman
.and E~ecvttive Secretary of the ESC to tsy to work out a specitY.o procedurs
far coordinated action on the sarvey. A nvnber of proposals were ea-
plored but found ob~ectianable by representatives of one or aeore agencies.
b. At the end of foa:r m~tha the anbcc~rdttee transmitted the
fallor~fng statement to the Executive Secretary of the EIC (memo of lb
September 19S~i):
"At Sts regular meeting of 2~ August 195t~, the EIC
Subcomod.ttete on RecZuiremeats and Facilities for Co3.lation
passed the follonriztg motion:
"That it be recomsrtended that the ESC forirard the
paper BIC-S??16/b{a) minus c:clumns t~ and 5 to each of
its members, pointing out that it is an EIC statement
outlining the priority collection defiatencies in IIS3R
Teleca-nmmicationa and Electsa~ica Equipment Prodnotioa
and that use of this dacuaent is intended to be in aa?
cord with established national priorities and individual
agency priorities."
?. The Vice Chairman and E~recntive Secretary of the ESC c~aaider
that this action does not adequate],y discharge the reaponsibilitiea of
the subcxmmd.ttee~ because:
a. St amounts only to a nonc:oEmr~i.ttal trsasadsslan of the
ESC atatemea~t of priority collection rec;u3.reanerlta -for Whatever action.
the individual agencies may (or msy not) choose to take.
b. There is no pronrision for coordinating any implementiuig
actions among the collection channels of the various agencies.
c. There is no provisioa for reporting back as to the status
of col7,ecticn efforts being undertaken s either to the Subccmndttsa oc~
Requirements and Fao~.lities for Collation, to the substantire sabcam-
mittee which prepared the requirameats, or to the EIC! itself.
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d. It therefore does not revfeer what "action priorities and
allocation of responeibilit3ea ~ +ool].ectfon" me~r be "appropriate"
(see paragraph 3, a of the EIC Terms of Reference, noted shave}.
8. 2'he Dice Chairman and EScecutive Secretary of the EIC propose,
alternatioelpa that the EIC instruct the meetbers of its Subcanmoi.ttee on
Requirements and Facilities for Collation to talcs the Following apecifYc
a.ctiona on $arwreys of priority collection deficiencies appz~oved and
referred to theca by the EIC:
a. 1~i.ther theeeaelves (to the extent that they are individually
representatives of the collection activities of their agencies), or in
consultation with ssaociates {who are representatives of the collection
activl.tiea of their agencies}s ~`"-
(1) Review collectively the detailed lf.stinga of priority
collection items: end "check oft" the channels which are believed to
have the roostuseful collection potentials for giving priority attention
t+o 'the cal3.$ot'tan of individual requirements.
(2} Saving colleativ;ely made a judgment of the "probably
moat affective" channels then as reprasentativea of the separate
agencies review the individual items referred to each agency with other
meanbera of its co3lectiori staff! responsible for the various collection
channels open to that agency. This involves considering two queationss
First, is each requirement already covered by each of the proposed
~hsnnela, with such priority as is consistent with the ezpreased priority
interest of the econaa~ic intelligence aormmanitY? Seed, for any item
not sa covered in all appropriate charmela - ar covered on],y with lea
priority ~ does the agency see its way clear to include the itean with a
relatively higher priority?*
b. The reapoasea of the various agenciea~ channels to this
checklist should be reported back to the EIC SnbcoamrS ttee on Requirements
mud Facilities tar Collation which should, in tm~ns
(1) Consider collectively whether the picture of coordinated
collection actiana being taken is satisfactory, or whether further re-
presentations should be made to eony particular agency to encourage it
to give higher priority to the use of any of its channels for any par-
ticul.ar item ar items.
# It is cronaidered desirable, in most cases, that collection channels
end field collection offices to which ETC priority collection require-
taeaats are assigned be informed that the requiranent is an "EIC-appro~red
prioril~r collection requiraaent" -perhaps by ts~anamisaion of copies of
the EIC-approved ettri-ey, itaelto
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(2) l~otit'g the EIC (with a oapy to the snbatantiv~a
snbca-wd.ttee original],Y preparSng the col].acticu defYoi.ency surrey in
question) of the over-a11 ~otvre of oarmnm~i ty aot3ans h+~ing takext to
imp].ernealt collection of the items listed ca the sur-ery~ and propose
any additional actiaai~ or recom~endatians to the IAC, which ttve EIC
might ~~ to consider a~s a means of tttrttter istpro~ving the conanad.tyts
collectia~t efforts ~xt support of priority EIC rl~qu3san~entse
Attac~nment - Appeon+di~C A
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