PROPOSED INCLUSION OF EDIC WITHIN THE EIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00283R000200170021-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: August 22, 1958
• Content Type: MF

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22 August 1958
1 (ORANDUK FOR: Chairman, Economic Defense Intelligence Committee
SUBJECT: Proposed Inclusion of EDIC within the BIC
1. This is in response to your menAOrandum of 14+ August 1958 in
which you seek assurance that the subject proposal would not adversely
affect the character and quality of the intelligence support presently
provided by EDIC.
2. Although I cannot speak for the BIC membership, which has not
addressed itself to this proposal.. I believe that there would be general
agreement that the inclusion of the present ESC organization within
the SIC structure, either as its Economic Defense Subcommittee or as a
permanent Economic Defense Working Group, would not only be a timely
and appropriate simplification of the coordinating structure within the
intelligence coemunity but would also provide certain benefits not at
present fully realized, such as the ability to obtain direct assistance
more readily from technical experts in other subcommittees and working
groups of the EIC.
3. In order to maintain the present efficiency of the ERIC
organization in carrying out its responsibilities, in nr mind, the SIC
would have to determine that neither the BIC itself nor its Secretariat
would interject more than a limited control over. Incoming 'requests.,
production activities, and dissemination of reports of the types cur-
rently handled by the EDIC. This procedure would not be uncommon to
the BIC. Some subcommittees have issued working papers without SIC
review. For two and a half years the Working Group on Sino-Soviet
Bloc Economic Activities in ilhdezdeveloped Areas has issued a report
biweekly without EIC review. I am confident that the majority of the
EIC members will recognize the need for timeliness not only in accepting
and acting upon requests but also in subsequent reporting in providing
intelligence support to action groups within the economic defense struc-
ture of our Government.
4. At the same time, the SIC would, of course, expect to exercise
its normal authority as the parent body of the new economic defense
subcommittee or working group. This authority would include approval
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St ': Proposed Inclusion of EDIC within the EIC
on the terms of reference; the review and noting of periodic non-
substantive reports, including a formal annual status report; the
right to place upon the subcoenaittee or working group requests that
would legitimately fall within the latter's competence and area of
responsibility; maintenance of EIC Secretariat guidance of the subcom-
mittee's or working group's secretariat to assure conformity of the
latter's activities with normal EIC procedures; and review and approval
of reports produced by the subcommittee or working group which are
deemed by the EtC to be of such significance to the national security
to require issuance as fully agreed reports of the U.S. intelligence
community.
/SGGD/
CTTO E. G(T2BE
Chairman
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14 August 1958
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, EYC
FROM Chairman, FDIC
SUBJECT: Proposed Reorganization of EDIC
I. The EDXC membership considered the proposal to reorganize
economic defense intelligence in such manner as to place the
functions of the subject comittee Within the framework of the EIC.
2. The membership of EDIC, save one, indicated apjJraval, of
the proposal. accepting in so
that no loin; the assurance of the Chairman
basic change was to be. made In the recent form of produc-
tion aasig went or in the t i ness of reporting.
3? The representative of the ACSI, however, objeciwed to the
Proposal. His objection was based upon his allegation that the
reorgal nation would interject an additional layer of control in
the review process of intelligence production, that it Would
reduce the timeliness of reportirg. and that it would tend to
result in the allocation of some intelligence production to groups
Which were not familiar with the format and
of
economic defense matters. The ea
ACS., then
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suggested that the subject committee might of the background
might be given greater
ton EIC so that it might
requestors. report directly to its
4. The merman indicated that he thought the EIC would be
'.oath to accept-such responsibility without requisite authority.
xch as timeliness of reporting was a matter of concern
expressed by all members, he indicated he would seek additional
assurance from the EIC, through its Secretariat, that the pro-
posed reorganization would permit prompt production and dissemina?
tion of reports. He would further upon receiving a reply from
the Y RIC reconvene EDIC and reach a final decision based upon this
response.
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