Annual Report for Fiscal Year 1957, Subcommittee on Chemicals

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 27, 1957
• Content Type: MF

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XMKMAMM TO: EIC Secretariat
27 J ne 1957
FRO(: Chairmen, EIC Hnbcommmittee on Chemicals
SUBJWT: A.anual Report for Fiscal Year 1957, Subcomeittee on
Chemicals
1. The EIC : Subcommittee. on Chemicals held no formal meetings
during the fiscal year 1957. The last meeting was held an
26 .lhne 1956 at which time the Subcommittee considered the Soviet
SIX-'Phase Exchange Program and made reconditions regarding
Soviet px ,sals for chemical exchanges to the IAC Standing
Co ittee on Exchanges. .
2. The Inactivity of the Subcommittee during the fiscal year
is believed to have been the result primarily of two circumstances:
(a) The lack of identical interests on the part of the IAC Agencies
with regard to chemical intelligence. For more than a year CIA
has been the only organization in Washington broadly interested in
economic Intelligence on the chemical industries of the Gino-Soviet
Bloc. Aratr, Navy, Air Force and the Department of State have
specialized responsibilities in fields peripheral, to the chemical
Industry and have tended in general to rely on the chemical estimates
made by CIA. The various agencies, each working in its specialized
field, apparently have felt little need during this particular
period for the formal panel type of coordination provided by the
ETC Subcommittee. (b) The dormant state of affairs regarding
exchange delegations, consideration of which provided the major
activity for the Subcommittee during fiscal year 1956.
3. No EIC papers dealing solely in the field of chemicals
were prepared and no reports of the various agencies were reviewed
by the Subcommmmittee. 2 here were no reviews of proposals for external
research and no projects were under-taken at the direction of the EIC
or were proposed to the EIC by the Subcommittee.
4. No list of critical intelligence deficiencies has been
draws up since January 1955, indicating that this problem should
receive the early attention of the Subcommittee in fiscal year 1958.
The existing list of deficiencies is out-of-date as a result of
changing circumstances and research completed by various agencies.
CIA/CM during fiscal Year 1957 Meted research projects on
fluorine eoarunds, ethyl alcohol, and plastics, which were listed
as critical intelligence deficiencies in the 1955 surM.
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5. With the exception of its role with regard to the
exchange delegations, the Subcormittee on Chemicals has not
realized its potential as a medium for inter-agency review and
coordination. In spite of the diversity of interests of the
member agencies in the field of chemical intelligence, it is
felt that the Subcommittee can serve a number of useful purposes
and that more effort than in the past should be directed to the
realization of its maximum potential.
6. As a result of inactivity during the past year, the
future program of the Subccmuittee is undecided and will not be
resolved until the next meeting which probably will take place
sometime in August 1937-
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