Comments on Future Structure and Activity of EIC Vis a Vis Its Subcommittees

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00283R000200210104-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 104
• Publication Date: January 10, 1965
• Content Type: MEMO

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. III
MAY IOYLyRGITtON
C'Nii-EU STATES GOVE.RNMEN71'
To Chairman 'of the Economic Intelligence
Committee, USIB
FROM NSA Member of the EIC
DATE :
SUBJECT: Comments on Future Structure and Activity of EIC Vis a Vis its
Subcommittees
NSA Declassification/Release Instructions on File.
1. On 7 January a discussion of above subject was held between
the NSA member on the EIC and the NSA members of the EIC subcommittees.
From this emerged the impression that the EIC subcommittee structure
may not, as a whole, have been operating effectively, and that many
opportunities for useful communication among community analysts,
directly or indirectly working on specific subjects, may have been
lost; but it was felt that in those instances where subcommittees
have held regular meetings they were of value in orienting the NSA
members to the status of intelligence knowledge and needs in their 25X90
respective fields. This was cited as particularly so in the areas
of From there the NSA
situation drops to where there has been little or no activity for long
periods of time, and abolition of subcommittees might be justified.
2. Clearly, mere inaction on the part of a subcommittee is not,
in itself, justification for abolition, but it does raise questions
(a) Does the US community have adequate
on each and all of these subjects?
(b) Can the gaps, if any, be partially filled by more assist-
ante from agencies not ordinarily charged with primary responsibility
for the subjects?
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lateral contributors of what they can contribute.
3. It's hardly likely we'd admit we know all we need to km i
possible courses of action, varying from subject to subject:
even if we are in most cases agreed on basic statistics. Therefore
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information.
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(c} How can the EIC improve its guidance to the ,ih,u-nr?m44-4
(a) Continue certain present subcommittees but alter method
(b) Abolish some subcommittees but transfer certain of their
functions to either a "general" subcommittee or back to the EIC itself.
to the picture a chance to be briefed, perhaps by the "experts" who do
the final analysis and reporting on the subject.
(c) Broaden the activities of the EIC to include more guid-
ance to subcommittees and to cover sponsorship of periodic intelligence
seminars or some other type of projects to give potential contributors
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(d) Examine for adequacy our liaison with the other committees
of USIB (and their subcommittees) who often, because of specialized
connections with certain subjects
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have been heal at secret levels where meaningful discussions could only
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have been held at higher levels).