JAPANESE M-7 CONFERENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87T00759R000100020026-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 5, 2010
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: January 9, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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The Director of Central Intelligcncc
Washington. U.C ?OSiO'
National Intelligence Council
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Honorable Donald T. Regan
Secretary of the Treasury
NIC 00121-85
9 January 1985
David B. Low
National Intelligence Officer at Large and
Acting National Intelligence Officer for Economics
SUBJECT: Japanese M-7 Conference
1. At the SIG-IEP last Friday, 4 January 1985, concerning the
President's meeting with Prime Minister Nakasone, you raised the question
of the identity and nature of "M-7." We have looked into this and can
report as follows. (C)
2. "M-7" refers to the Cabinet Ministerial Conference on External
Affairs established in early December. The group consists of seven State
Ministers: Foreign Affairs, Finance, Agriculture, International Trade and
Industry, Economic Planning Agency, Specially Ordered Affairs Policy, and
the Chief Cabinet Secretary, in addition to two high-level Liberal
Democratic Party officials. The Conference is charged with:
-- Following up decisions on external economic policy made by the
Cabinet Ministerial Conference on Economic Policy.
-- Promoting medium-term internationalization of the Japanese
economy.
-- Examining immediate measures to reduce trade friction. (C NF)
3. Prime Minister Na`lrasone pushed the establishment of the Conference
over the objections of the bureaucracy, which felt its control over
international economic policy might be threatened by a new, Cabinet-level
group.
-- Nakasone wanted to make a public show of his real desire to
solve international trade problems before his Summit with the
President. (C NF)
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SUBJECT: Japanese M-7 Conference
4. The recommendations of the Conference are unlikely to have much
effect on Japanese economic policy implementation.
cc: Roger Robinson, National Security Council
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SUBJECT: Japanese M-7 Conference
NIO/AL/DL:rr
9 January 1985
NIC 00121-85
- Addressee
- Roger Robinson, NSC
- C/NIC
- VC/NIC
- NIO/EA
- A/NIO/Econ
1 - A/NIO/Econ File
j2l NIO/AL/DL Files
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