Records of the Executive Committee of Economic Foreign Policy -- Records of Interdepartmental and Intradepartmental Committees (State Department (RG 353) [CIVILIAN AGENCY RECORDS -- Department of State and Foreign Affairs Records]

The Executive Committee of Economic Foreign Policy (ECEFP) was established in April 1944, as an interdepartmental group, to function as the primary planning and coordinating body for economic policy. The ECEFP studied issues involved in economic warfare, anticipated the economic programs connected with Germany in the postwar period, and took steps to initiate plans which would operated effectively after the defeat of the Axis. It considered from time to time such matters as modification of wartime financial controls over foreign assets. It had, for example, considered the possibility of continuing the Proclaimed List after the surrender of Germany as a method of economic supervision of Axis friends.

The ECEFP assumed control for the special committee of the Division of Commercial Policy and directed the preparation of proposals for the international trade organization. The Committee was terminated at the end of 1949.

Files Concerning Interdepartmental Committees Related to the ECEEP February 9, 1944-  August 3, 1949 (Entry 202)
   
                Box 76. File labeled "5.19F. Interdivisional Committee on  Reparation, Restitution, and Property Rights" This file covers the period  February-September 1944. Also file labeled "Proposed Subcommittee of  the ECEEP on Post-hostilities Control over Foreign Property." This  proposal made by S. J. Rubin 1944. File covers the 1944  period. location: 250/67/35/07

Subject Files 1944-1949 (Entry 204)

        Box 78 contains information about the Safehaven project, covering the 1944-1945  period. location: 250/67/35/07

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