ESTABLISHMENT OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE REQUIREMENTS SUBCOMMITTEE OF NSCIC

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• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
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• Publication Date: October 31, 1974
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
MEMORANDUM FOR:
SUBJECT:
October 31, 1974
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Establishment of International Economic
Intelligence Requirements Subcommittee of NSCIC
The Chairman of the National Security Council Intelligence Committee is
in agreement with your proposal to reactivate a group to provide consumer
guidance to the Intelligence Community on international economic intelligence
requirements.
This group should be constituted as a subcommittee of the NSCIC and should
include senior level representatives of departments and agencies concerned
with for-eign economic policy making. Mr. Robert Hormats will be the
NSC representative.
Dr. Kise.inger agrees that it would be appropriate to have the Treasury
representative serve as the Chairman of this subcommittee.
11.LLa."
Richard Ober
Executive Secretary
National Security Council
Intelligence Committee .
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IRTION'AL SECURITY COUNCIL. 3421
ACTION
SECRET
September 26, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR: SECRETARY KISSINGER
FROM : Richard Ober
SUBJECT: Reactivation of International Economic
Intelligence Requirements Body
DCI Colby seeks your approval, as Chairman of NSCIC, to send a letter to
Secretary Simon reactivating the Requirements Advisory Board (RAE) for
international economic intelligence. The DCIrs letter (Tab A) would:
reactivate the RAB as a senior level body providing guidance on
consumer needs for international economic intelligence,
appoint as Chairman the Tmasury representative, (appa::entl-y- to be
Charles A. Cooper),
authorize the DCI to contact, for nominations to membership on RAB,
the heads of the other Departments and Agencies in foreign economic
policy making".
Back ground
The RAB was established in February 1973, under the auspices of Secretary
Schultz as Chairman of the Council on Economic Policy. At its only meeting in
May 1973, under the Chairmanship of Kenneth Dam, it approved requirements
on France and the Middle East.
In July 1974, the DCI mentioned to Secretary Simon that the RAE should be
reactivated; at that time, Secretary Simon agreed that Charles A. Cooper
would be Chairman of RAE and that the membership initially would include
tp,.. senior officers from Agriculture, CEA, CIA, MEP, Commerce, Export-Import
Aru, Bank, State, STR arid Treasury.
SECRET XGDS
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SECRET
Reactivation of a body for international economic requirements is
desirable.
The requirements body should be clearly subordinate to NSCIC
to avoid the impression of a consumer body parallel to NSCIC,
and perhaps competitive with it. In recent discussions, the
DCI has agreed that.,the requirements body should be a subcommittee
of NSCIC.
Although he favors Treasury chairmanship of the requirements
body, the DCI defers to you on State Department chairmanship as
an alternative.
Recommendations
It is recommended that:
you agree to reactivation of an international economic
intelligence :requirements body ab a subcommittee of NSCIC.
Approve 1
Disapprove
Other,(
you designate chairmanship of the body by
State
Other
Concurrence:
Mr. Hormats(12 tit
Mr. Kennedy /77,,,/,-
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Attachment:
Treasury
Tab A: Draft Letter from DCI to Secretary Simon
SECRET
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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
September 26, 1974
TO: GENERAL SCOWCROFT
Per our discussion. The issue is
whether State or Treasury chair this
NSCIC subcommittee.
Richard Ober
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
0 EICE OF THE DIRECTOR
13 August 1974
The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger .
Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
,The White House
Washington, D. C.
Dear Henry:
With your approval as Chairman of
NSCIC, I will sign and dispatch the attached.
It is designed to activate this aspect of the
economic intelligence efforts of NSCIC.
Sincerely,
7-7
( -u )
IV E. Colby
Director
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THE DIRECTOR OT.: CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE.
WASIINGTON, D.C. 20505
The Honorable WilliaME. Simon
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington, D. C. 20220
Dear Bill:
As we have discussed, I agree that we should reactivate the
Requirements Advisory Board (RAE) for international economic intel-
ligence. I have discussed this matter with Dr. Kissinger, as Chair-
man of the National Security Council Intelligence Committee, and he
is in agreement. The purpose in reactivating this Board is to ensure
that the intelligence collection agencies receive guidance from a senior
level rather than, as has sometimes been the case in the past, solely
from analysts and other specialized consumers. I see the RAB as a
useful and necessary supplement to the informal networks of contact
between consumers and producers of intelligence.
Given the particular focus of my Key Intelligence Questions for
this year and the fact that the Treasury Department is a member of
the United States Intelligence Board, I think it would be appropriate if
the Treasury representative to the RAE were to serve as Chairman.
I understand that -your nominee as the Treasury representative will be
the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, Charles A. Cooper.
also think it would be appropriate if my nominee to the Board, the
National Intelligence Officer for Economics, Robert L. Slighton, were
to serve as the Executive Secretary.
If these appointments are agreeable to you, I have Dr. Kissinger's
approval to make them as Deputy Chairman of NSCIC I will then. he in
tench with the heads of the other Departments and Agencies in foreign
economie policy-making to request their nomination of senior-level
representatives to the Board.
Sincerely,
W. E Colby
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