Recommendation for Abolition of Subcommittee on Population and Manpower

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• Publication Date: March 22, 1966
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22 March 1966
CIA Control No. 3892
MEMORANDUM FOR: Members of the Economic Intelligence Committee
SUBJECT : Recommendation for Abolition of Subcommittee
on Population and Manpower
REFERENCE Memorandum from EIC Secretariat to Chairman
of Subcommittee (EIC-D-605), 4 January 1966
T. Background
A. Although quite active in the early years of its existence,
the Subcommittee on Population and Manpower has been very inactive
in recent years. For the past 8 years the Subcommittee has met only
once each year to approve the draft of the Subcommittee's annual
publication of its agreed Basic Statistics, Population of the Communist
Countries. Selected Years, 1938-80, and to exchange information on
research activities. In view of this relative inactivity of the
Subcommittee and in light of the EIC's current review of its subcommittee
structure, the Chairman raised with the EIC Secretariat the question
of the desirability of continued formal existence of the Subcommittee.
The RIC considered this question at a meeting on 9 December 1965 and
directed the Chairman of the Subcommittee to convene a formal meeting
for the purpose of preparing a report and recommendation for further
consideration by the EIC.
B. At the same time, the Deputy Director for Intelligence of CIA
has been reviewing the publications of, the Directorate with a view to
eliminate, consolidate and simplify. A task force established to
review DD/I publications recommended that the task of publishing the
annual estimates of population of Communist countries be turned over
to the Bureau of the Census. The Bureau's Foreign Demographic
Analysis Division, with whom CIA has an external research contract,
now prepares the draft of this annual publication of the EIC. The
DD/I has, in effect, concurred in the recommendation of the task force
and has stated that the EIC would be asked "to consider having the
annual report on population of the Communist countries turned over
to the Census Bureau."
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C. Pursuant to the directive of the EIC, the Subcommittee on
Population and Manpower met formally on 16 Parch 1966 to consider
(1) the question of abolition of the Subcommittee, and (2) the
c~ivw osition of the annual publication, Population of the Communist
Countries Selected Years
The Subcommittee voted unanimously to submit the following
recommendations for consideration by the EIC:
B. That any ad hoc matters that may come up in the field of
population and manpower be referred to the Subcommittee on General
Economic Analysis. Representatives of the Departments of Commerce
and Labor should be invited to participate in any discussions of
ouch matters by this Subcommittee.
C. That the annual publication, Population of the Communist
Countries, Selected Years 1938-1980, be discontinued. Instead,
CIA should continue to publish and disseminate annually the so-
called Population Wall Chart. The Bureau of the Census has aged
to prepare the draft of this Chart, as it dc" now, and to submit
it informally for review by competent analyats in the agencies now
represented on the Subcommittee on Population and Manpower (CIA,
State, Labor, Defense, and Commerce). The published Population
Wail Chart will have the following footnote:
"These figures have been agreed to by
interested agencies of the Government as
representing accurate estimates for past
dates and reasonable projections for future
dates. They have been constructed by the
Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of
Commerce, and any questions as to sources
and methods used should be directed to the
Chief, Foreign Demographic Analysis Division,
who can be reached on Government code 157,
extension 7265."
Chairman
Subcommittee on Population and Manpower
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