Minutes of Meeting Held in Room 4 F 31, CIA Headquarters Building 1000 Hours, 21 February 1973

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• Publication Date: February 21, 1973
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EIC-M-134
21 February 1973
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PRESENT:
Minutes of Meeting Held in
Room 4 F 31, CIA Headquarters Building
1000 Hours, 21 February 1973
Dr. Maurice C. Ernst, Central Intelligence Agency, Chairman
Thomas Buchanan, Department of State
National Security Agency
John D. Pafenberg, Department of the Air Force
Defense Intelligence Agency
Defense Intelligence Agency
Paul S. Strasburg, Jr. , Department of the Navy
Elmer E. Glaser, Agency for International Development
Howard Hall, Department of Agriculture
Central Intelligence Agency, Executive Secretary
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Chairman introduced the
personnel within CIA responsible for production of the report to be
reviewed at today. 's meeting.
The Chairman passed around copies of the two OER publications
which replaced the EIC annual report, International Trade and Transport
of the People's Republic of China (EIC R16 Series). One publication is
an unclassified research aid, People's Republic of China: International
Trade Handbook (A 72-38, December 1972), and the other is an intelligence
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report, People's Republic of China: International Transport, 1971 and
Preliminary 1972 (ER IR 73-2, February 1973,' SECRET/NFD). These
publications were submitted to the EIC members for pre-publication
review.
The Chairman announced that the EIC study on economic require-
ments, undertaken in response to requests from the DCI and senior
officials of the US Government was prepared by an EIC ad hoc Require-
ments Working Group and published in June 1972 as EIC R21, Economic
Intelligence Requirements (SECRET/NFD). All EIC members and
associate members were invited to participate in the preparation of this
study.
Abolishment of Subcommittee
The Chairman of the EIC Subcommittee on General Economic
Analysis in his FY 1972 annual report to the EIC recommended that this
subcommittee be abolished. The subcommittee was completely inactive
during this fiscal year and had held no formal meetings for several
years. The Chairman of the EIC stated that a memorandum, recom-
mending abolishment of the Subcommittee on- General Economic Analysis,
would be sent to EIC members at a later date.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
The minutes of the meeting of 1 May 1972 (EIC-M-133) were
approved.
REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF "AID AND TRADE ACTIVITIES OF COM-
MUNIST COUNTRIES IN LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES OF THE FREE
WORLD, 1972 (EIC R14-S27):
Representatives of the Departments of the Treasury, Army and
Commerce did not attend but telephoned their concurrence in the report
to the EIC Secretariat prior to the meeting.
The report was reviewed by the membership present and was
approved.
As in previous years, there was no objection to the report being
released
The Chairman and the EIC members present comiiended the
personnel involved in the production of th
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