Economic Cooperation Administration

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One of a number of posters created by the Economic Cooperation Administration to promote the Marshall Plan in Europe. The flags, as depicted clockwise from the top, are those of Portugal, Norway, Belgium, Iceland, West Germany, the Free Territory of Trieste (erroneously with a blue background instead of red), Italy, Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, Turkey, Greece, France, and the United Kingdom.

The Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) was a U.S. government agency set up in 1948 to administer the

David K.E. Bruce (who worked at the Office of Strategic Services in Europe during World War II
).

The ECA had an office in the capital of each of the 16 countries participating in the Marshall Plan. In theory the ECA served as joint administrator of the Marshall Plan development projects in each European country. In practice, local officials knew far more about what was needed than ECA representatives, who developed a management strategy of listening to local officials and allowed them to set priorities for reconstruction assistance.[2]

It was succeeded by the Mutual Security Agency in 1951, one of the predecessor to the United States Agency for International Development.

References

  1. ^ "Administrators of the Economic Cooperation Administration". U.S. State Department, Office of the Historian. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
  2. ^ Kaplan, Jacob J. 1999. "Interviewed by: W. Haven North. 22 March". Arlington, VA: Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, Foreign Affairs Oral History Project, Foreign Assistance Series, p. 5.

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