O/NE CONSULTANTS' CONFERENCE

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02996251
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• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2018
• Case Number: F-2013-02252
• Publication Date: October 12, 1956

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
OFFICE OF NATIONAL ESTIMATES
12 October 1956
STAFF MEMORANDUM NO. 82-56
SUBJECT: 0/NE Consultants' Conference
1. Attachment A is a summary of the salient points and major
suggestions made by the consultants during their meeting /
on the 4th and 5th October, 1956. Attachment B la a
record of the discussions.
2. The following consultants and members of 0/NE participated
in the conference.
Participants:
Calvin Hoover
Harold F. Linder
Max Mi1likan
Philip E. Mosely
Joseph R. Strayer
0/NE Members present:
Abbot E. Smith, Board
R. J. Smith, Staff
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Philip Halla
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3. On Thursday morning, October 4th, Calvin Hoover and Philip E.
Mosely0 gave their general Ampressions of the Soviet Union resulting
from Their reports were followed by
a general discussion of the USSR. Discussions on Thursday afternoon
and Friday centered m;
1)
NIE 11,4-560 Soviet Capabilities and Courses of
Action through Mid,19610 and the general allestion
of Soviet-Satellite Relations;
an 0/NE Staff Memorandum on NIE 100-6-56, Estimate
of the World SituatioR and an OIR Draft Outline for
World Estimate by dated 27 September
1956;
3) an 0/NE Staff Memorandum, Soviet Strategy and the
Position and Prospects of the Continental Western
Euro ean Socialists dated 3 October 1956
4) general problems of the Middle East, based on three
recent crash NIE' s on the area; and
5)
the estimates schedule for the six months beginning
1 October 1956.
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