Economic Cooperation Administration
The Economic Cooperation Administration ( ECA ) was an American office established by the United States Congress in the Foreign Assistance Act in 1948 to manage American funds for the Marshall Plan . It was under the State Department and the United States Department of Commerce . The ECA was led by Paul G. Hoffman , a former Studebaker manager , and other business leaders. Although an ECA office was set up in each capital of the sixteen countries participating in the Marshall Plan, the local officials were better able to oversee the necessary measures than the ECA employees.
In 1951 the office was replaced by the newly created Mutual Security Agency (MSA). Some of the settlements financed with Marshall Plan funds in Germany still bear the name ECA-Siedlung or MSA-Siedlung today .