FOREIGN RELATIONS, 1950, VOLUME I


gram is coordinated with other foreign information activities of the
United States Government in support of national objectives. Policy
coordination is assured through the participation of the representa-
tive of the ECA on the Interdepartmental Foreign Information Orga-
nization. It is further assured by the activities of committees set up
in the capital of each nation in which the ECA is functioning. These
committees consist of the Public Affairs ,Officer, the ECA Information
Officer, the ECA Labor Information Officer, an 'administrative officer
of the ECA Mission and an administrative officer of the Embassy.
Their task is to discuss the information auctivities ,of USIS and ECA
in that country and to work out joint projects where possible. Such
joint projects are financed with ECA counterpart funds.
  The ECA 'Information Officer is required to provide ECA Washing-
ton with usable material-presss and magazine stories, radio programs
and movies-which can be circulated on this side so that the American
taxpayer may know what becomes 'of -the money he contributes to the
Marshall Plan.
  About fourth-fifths of the cost of ECA's overseas information pro-
gram is paid from counterpsart funds.
  [Here follows Annex No. 3, "The Civil Defense Program," pre-
pared by the National Security Resources Board.]
                         ANNEX No. 4 12
             TEE UNITED STATES STOCKPILE PROGRAM
      (Prepared by the National Security Resources Board)
  1. The stockpile program is intended to ,provide the United States
with strategic and critical materials essential for the prosecution of
a 5-year war. Stockpile objectives are the difference between essen-
tial wartime requirements on the one hand and wartime U.S. domestic
production and imports from accessible sources on the other.
  2. These estimates are based on information developed by inter-
agency commodity committees and approved by the Interdepartmental
Stockpile Comimittee on which are represented State, Interior, Com-
merce, Agriculture, ECA, GSA, and Munitions Board, 'and to which
the. Resources Board, Budget, AEC, Army, Navy, Air Force, and
RDB send observers.
  3. Due to the changes in the current military program and an antici-
pated acceleration in current military procurement over and above that
contemplated in the September version of Annex 1,13 although no
change is expected in the objectives, it will be necessary to revise the

  Dated December 7, 1950.
  1Not printed.


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