EIC Subcommittee Annual Report FY '62

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00283R000200060006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 17, 1962
• Content Type: PERRPT

Approved For lease 2001/03/05: CIA-RDP82 283R000200060006-4
Control 1404
EM-M-12
17 July 1962
ECONOYSIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
BtmCO42fITTEE ON EESCTRIC POWER AND SOLID FUEIS
TO: Executive Secretary, RIC
FROM: Chairman, EIC Subcommittee on Electric Power
and Solid Fuels
SUBJECT: EIC Subcommittee Annual Report FY 162
REPERENG : EIC-D-$U, 4 June 1962
A. Specific Activities During FY t62
1. Review of IntellilLeace Product
No activity necessary.
2. Research and Collection Deficiencies
a. Research Deficiencies
No activity necessary.
b. Collection Deficiencies
The Subcommittee has in the past reviewed ORR gaps in intelligence
statements and decided that there was no specific need to make these into
Subcommittee statements on collection deficiencies, unless the EIC apecifica1ly
so directed the Subcommittee. The BIC did not so direct.
30
Review of Substantive 'Uers
No activity necessary.
Review of Pr22Mls for External Research
ho activity necessary.
~. Maintenance of Agreed Basic Statistics
No activity necessary.
ExCh,ded it
Approved For Release 2001/03/05: CIA-RDP82-00283R000200060006-4
 Approved Forlease 2001/03/05: CIA-RDP82283R000200060006-4
6. Projects Undertaken at the Request of the EIC or Pr2posed to the EIC
None.
7. Inte llii ,gene Research Techniques
No activity.
U. Special Coordination Functions
The Subcomuittee met on l February 19b2, at the request of the
Executive Secretary, USIB Committee on Exchange, to establish a US intelligence
community position on the Soviet proposal that the US receive a Soviet delegation
in the field of thermal electric powerplants and high voltage transmission lines
in return for the Soviet agreement to receive the long plarmd. US delegation
on hydroelectric powerplants and high voltage transmission lines.
It was the conclusion of the Subcommittee that, because of the potentially
great USSR technical gain, compared to marginal US technical and intelligence
gains, the proposed exchange would be appropriate only with safeguards (such as
prebriefing of US nationals who would talk with the Soviets on the production
and installation of thermal electric power of generating equipment) which would
limit the Soviet technical gain. The exchange has not yet taken place.
9. Evaluation of Role of the Subcommittee
The Subcommittee?e responsibility continues to remain outside the main
intelligence activity in the field of electric power. Research on targeting of
electric power facilities is undertaken to a large extent by the Air Research
Division of the Library of Congress, under contract from the Air Force. The
Office of Research and Reports, CIA, participates in subcommittee meetings of
the Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee and submits extensive reports on
electric power to them, but these are also outside the purview of economic
intelligence.
B. 'Puture ft9jpm of the Subcommittee
No plans are pending. 25X1 A9a
Secretary
Approved For Release 2001/03/05: CIA-RDP82-00283R000200060006-4