ELECTRIC POWER AND SOLID FUELS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00283R000200060017-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: November 1, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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EIICTRIC PO M AND SOLID FUELS
Fregue= of Meetings: 2 meetings in 1 months
SC MeMb4rs
ion Valuable? Continue?
AFOIN No
Future Work?
Only 2 agencies
concerned - bi.
lateral relations
better
Yes .. has Yes, "Meet at least
identified every 2 months until
main intel- present problem
ligence gaps resolved - should
formulate a planned
priority research
program"
Could be Little point
unless given
specific
assignment
Yes Yes - "when Meetings held on
needed" meet- ad hoc rather than
ings o periodic
basis
Very valuable To limits- Couplets first
in reviewing tion has per- assignment; continue
areas of intel- mitted only second phase - cata-
ligence and review of loguing intelligence
pointing-up intelligence data to make it more
areas of defi- data in one of useful.
ciencies four categories.
Continue until
review of all
four has been
completed,.
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Faults?
Unnecessary
None
Leadership uninspired -
called meetings only
when prodded by EI;C/S
"Electric power" and
"solid fuels" not dir-
ectly related and handled
b;r separate staffs -
but no immediate change
recommended
Nature of assign ents
requires slows tedious
schedule; no major
fault in process;
Contiawtion would
produce desired results.
S..E, E-T
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Subcommitteess Evaluat on of Itself (From Annual Re rt):
The subcommittee provides a channel for coiramu cation with EIC and also is a
means for such interagency formal action as may be required, For these reasons,
it should be continued. JIcrever, in view of the small number of research staffs
concerned - AFOINs Army Map Service,.and CIA for electric powers and CIA only for
solid fuels* - it is believed that best results will be obtained by continuance of
informal contacts between the representatives of the staffs mentioned above.
"Under these circumstances: meetings of the Subcommittee would be held on an ad hoc
basis for consideration and formal action on matters of common interest to the
represented agencies."'
Secretariats Evaluation of Subcommittee Activities:
The work of this subcommittee covers two essentially separate fields, i.e.s
electricity and coal, "Electric power" is being actively studied by three agencies
(Air Force, AtlSs and OM). There seems every reason why the subcommittee could be
considerably more active in.this field, A tentative program has been agreed and
should be gotten on with. Actually no chairman has ever been appointed and this
has been a major handicap, sinco the executive secretary has understandably been some-
what reluctant to grab the ball and run with it. The problem is more difficult
for -solid fuels. A1thoui the Bureau of Trines used to publish estimates of coal
i roduction behind the Iron Curtains such research was discontinued a year or two
ago and only ORR now undertakes to follow Sino.-Soviet solid fuels production,
Although the location and capacity of deposits is fairly well knawns there is a real
deficiency in knowledge as to the distribution of the separate types of coal to
various consuming groups (particularly by industry) and geographically (i.e., by
transport route). In this field also. however, the subcommittee could become much more
useful by subjecting "single agency?s" (i.e.s Oit/CIA) research programs, publications,
and proposed projects to the comments and suggestions of the rest of the eoi*nunity.
It is emphasized, furthermore, that the over-all supply of energy is an important
element in the total Soviet economic picture, Accordingly: ei IC must - to dis-
charge its assigned responsibilities - keep on top of the state of'-Mlligence
on Stno-Soviet Bloc power.
In short there would appear to be a real coordinating job for the subcommittee to do
in the field of electric power. For solid fuels, however, the subcommittee's function
must necessarily be largely one of assisting ORR research by review and advice.
Mr. J. A. Corgan, Bureau of Mims, was appointed an Associate Ijember of the
subcommittee in order that it might receive the benefit of his past experience
on solid fuels within the Sino.soviet Bloc and his present knowledge of these
fuels in areas outside the SinoSoviet Bloc.
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Recommended EIO Action:
.. - -- chairman for this group. CIA is willing to no mate
(whose curriculum vitae is attached) who has been serving as the
executive secretary.
2. Request the Subcommittee to expedite action on its assigned responsibilities
to:
a. call on the talents of other agencies who might make a contribu.
tion? particularly in the field of electric power;
b, complete its surveys of priority research and collection
deficiencies; and
ce explore and report to the EIC as to other measures which might
be taken to make the subcommittee a more effective instrument of
the community.
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