CONVERSATION WITH DR. EDWARD BENTZ, MEMBER OF THE STAFF OF THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION POLICY STUDY COMMISSION, (1750 K STREET, NW, SUITE 800 PHONE: [phone])

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82M00345R000700020012-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 20, 2005
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: November 30, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM
FOR: Associate Director-Management,
National Foreign Assessment Center
SUBJECT Conversation with Dr. Edward Bentz,
Member of the Staff of the National
Transportation Policy Study
Commission, (1750 K Street, NW,
Suite 800 Phone: [phone])
1. I called Dr. Bentz in response to your request
that we find out precisely what the Study Commission
wanted from the Agency. I opened my remarks to Dr. Bentz
by saying that the Agency had initially interpreted his
request for Agency participation as a request to repre-
sent ourselves as "transportation users." It appeared
from comments on his meeting with
Dr. Bentz that we may have misunderstood their interest
and that in fact they were interested in CIA participation
as a source of foreign intelligence for data needed to
support their analytical forecast.
2. Bentz made it quite clear that the Commission's
sole interest in CIA participation was to obtain foreign
intelligence on energy supply and demand and on the compar-
ative rate of development of transport technology in the
US and abroad. He pointed out that their transport activity
models were almost completely captive to future supplies
of petroleum and petroleum products. He had been informed
of our work in world energy supply and demand and wanted
to get our estimates in this area to plug into the Commis-
sion's transport models. He also said that he would be
interested in our judgment about the relative status of
US-foreign transport technology.
3. Dr. Bentz had agreed to provide L_ I STA
with a set of questions that he hoped the Agency wou e
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SUBJECT: Conversation with Dr. Edward Bentz,
Member of the Staff of the National
Transportation Policy Study
Commission, (1750 K Street, NW,
Suite 800 Phone: [phone])
able to answer. He is presently preparing these questions
and would expect to have them available before mid-December.
Basically, these questions will identify those elements of
energy supply and demand that they need to operate their
transport models.
4. I thanked Dr. Bentz for the information and
indicated that I thought the Agency would be able to be
forthcoming on this matter. I indicated that we would
internally review the locus of Agency actions on their request
and might well fix it in the Office of Economic Research.
It would also be important for us, however, to notify our
Legislative Counsel of our activity on this program.
5. It is entirely likely that we could do a better
job for the Commission if someone from OER/DAC could work
with them in formulating the Commission request. We will
proceed in whatever manner seems acceptable to D/NPAC?
STATI
Office of Economic Research
Distribution:
Orig & 1 - Addressee
1 - ie , D /S
1 - Chief, DAC
1 - OD/OER
1 - EO /RR
OER/EOA
(30 November 1977)
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