DISCLOSURE NO. 1

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00682R000300020015-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 15
• Content Type: REPORT

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ENCLOSURE NO. 1
*DOI Waiver Letter In ERU File*
Foreign Mineral Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..80,000
Proper evaluation of the war potential of foreign produeini and
consuming nations in terms of mineral supplies available in time of an
emergency to the United States and to its possible enemies, makes im-
perative:
(1) Creation of a unit in the Bureau of sines, staffed with per-
sonnel qualified to prepare analytical reports essential to policy-
making agencies of this Government that are responsible for the devel-
opment of our economic foreign policy. Such agencies with which the
Bureau is cooperating closely are the Central Intelligence Group of
the National Intelligence Authority, the several Offices of the Depart-
ment of State that operate under the Assistant Secretary for Economic
Affairs, and the Interdepartmental Committee created to implement
Public Law 520, 79th Congress, approved July 23, 1946, the responsibi-
lity of which is to determine the quantity and quality of materials to
be stockpiled by the United States Government;
(2) Establishment of a unit within the Bureau of Mines staffed
with personnel competent to implement Public Law 721, 79th Congress,
effective November 13, 1916, which authorizes assignment abroad for
special duty of experts qualified to serve this Government's need for
mineral reporting officers in the Foreign Service of the United States.
A proposal by the Bureau for funds necessary to establish this service
was recommended. simultaneously by the Bureau of Nines and the Depart-
ment of'State in their respective appropriation hearings before the
Congress for fiscal year 1947. The recommendation of the Bureau was
disapproved in its entirety by the Congress, although the latter approved
and provided funds to the Department of State for the counterpart of
the Bureau organization as recommended herein:
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