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USCIB: 9 .3/38 

28 March 1955 

MEMORANDUM FOR THE MEMBERS OF USCIBEC: 

Subject; MRL (Supplemental Guidance Mechanism) • 

1. Further to the decision reached at the 27th mee~ing 0£ USCIBEC 

on 25 March 1955 the enclosed draft is submitted for approval as a 

description, suitable £or forwarding to USCIB, 0£ the supplemental guidance 

mechanism USCIBEC would recommend. 

2. The members are requested to indicate their views on the enclosure 

by telephone or memo by about noontime Friday, 1 April 1955, so as to give 

time to include suitable remarks in the preparation of a progress report 

for the Board. 

Enclosure 

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USCIB~ 9 .3/38 

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Reconun.endations of USCIBEC for Supplemental Guidance 

Mechanism to Interpret or Amplify Basic USCIB Guidance 

in the Production of COMINT. 

1. USCIBEC has noted with interest the views of the Director, NSA 

as presented in the enclosure with USCIB 9.3/33 of 18 March 1955. 

2. USCIBEC assumes that the Director, NSA will appoint as head of 

his Priorities Advisory Group an individl,la]. empowered to act in the 

name of the Director, NSA in matters of consumer-pro~ucer relations concerning supplemental guidance in amplification or interpretation of 

USCIB's stated COMINT requirements. 

3. USCIBEC recommends that the principles of supplemental guidance 

as set f'orth in paragraph 2 of Annexure to TAB llB11 of the enclosure to 

USCIB 9.3/30 of 4 March 1955 be approved by USCIB. 

4. Based on the assumption set forth in paragraph 2 above and 

further assuming that the recommendation in paragraph 3 above is approved, 

USCIBEC recommends that each of the consumer members of USCIB designate 

an individual empowered to act in the name of his USCIB member in matters 

of consumer-producer relations concerning supplemental guidance and to 

instruct the individual so designated to conduct his business with the 

head of the NSA Priorities Advisory Group. 

5. USCIBEC recommends, further, that the head of the Priorities 

Advisory Group, in conducting his business, be instructed to deal witq 

accredited consumer representatives either individually or collectively, 

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at his discretion, and if unable to resolve a matter of supplemental 

guidance to his own satisfaction to ref er it directly to USCIBEC for 

immediate consideration. 

6. It would be expected that accredited consumer representatives, 

if dissatisfied with the action of the head of the Priorities Advisory 

Group, would have the same recourse open to them through their USCIBEC 

members·. 

7. If any matter of supplemental guidance should be referred to 

USCIBEC as the result of the above and if USCIBEC should find itself 

unable to arrive at a unanimous decision in the space of one meeting, 

the Chairman thereof would be expected to ref er the entire matter to 

USCIB for resolution unless USCIBEC should be able to unanimously agree 

that the matter is not of an urgent nature and can be handled in accordance with the procedure set forth in paragraph 7 of USCIB Directive #2. 

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