DRAFT LETTER TO ALFRED ECKES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87T00759R000100190030-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2010
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: April 3, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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Mr. Alfred Eckes, Chairman
United States International Trade Commission
Washington, D.C. 20436
Dear Mr. Eckes:
With respect to your request for information regarding the production
and export of goods manufactured by convict, forced, or indentured labor,
we are of course prepared to give you any support we can. Although this is
not a topic on which we have focused, except on the USSR, we will make
available to you any information that we find.
We have examined Soviet use of slave and prison labor in some detail
for ainumber of years. The results of our work on an unclassified basis
have been made available to the Bureau of Customs and, as you know, have
appeared in the Congressional Record. A more detailed classified review of
the evidence, also prepared for Customs, can be made available to your
office under appropriate security safeguards. You should be aware,
however, that the most detailed available information on products made with
forced labor rarely provides any indication of the extent to which these
products are exported.
We may also be of some help on other Communist countries, especially
China. On non-Communist countries, however, we have neither the research
resources, nor probably the sources of information necessary to answer the
questions you raise. Possibly the Commerce or Justice Departments could be
helpful to you.
I have asked Director of the Office of Global Issues, to STAT
look into this matter.
Sincerely,
/S~
Robert M. Gates
Deputy Director for Intelligence
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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
NOTE FOR: DD I
FROM: Maurice C. Ernst
NI0/Economics
SUBJECT: Draft Letter to Alfred Eckes
NIC #02110-84
3 April 1984
This is follow-up request to a conversation I had with one of Eckes'
people. Basically I tried to discourage him, telling him there was little
or nothing we could do for them on Free World countries and that most
usable information on the USSR was too highly classified for their
purposes. I also told them there was some chance he might get something on
China or Eastern Europe, and that, if they felt it necessary, they should
write to you.
Attachment:
Draft Letter
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