DRAFT MINUTES OF THE 31 OCTOBER USIB MEETING

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: October 31, 1962
• Content Type: MF

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USIB-M-241
31 October 1962
MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
SUBJECT: Draft Minutes of the 31 October USIB Meeting
The attached draft minutes of the 31 October Intelligence Board
meeting will be considered at the next regular Board meeting.
Executive Secret fry
Attachment
GROUP 1
Excluded from automatic
downgrading and
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UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
Minutes of
Two-hundred-forty-first Meeting
United States Intelligence Board
East Building Conference Room
Central Intelligence Agency, at 1100 hours, 31 October. 1962
Director of Central Intelligence
John A. McCone
Presiding *
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Lieutenant General Marshall S. Carter
Presiding`
Lieutenant General Marshall S. Carter, Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence
Mr. Roger Hilsman, Director of Intelligence and Research, Department
of State
acting for Director, Defense Intelligence
Agency
Major General Alva R. Fitch, Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence,
Department of the Army
Rear Admiral Vernon L. Lowrance, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations
(Intelligence), Department of the Navy
Major General Robert A. Breitweiser, Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence,
United States Air Force
Lieutenant General Gordon A. Blake, Director, National Security Agency
Major General Richard Collins, Director for Intelligence, Joint Staff
Mr. Harry S. Traynor, Atomic Energy Commission representative
to USIB
Mr. William C. Sullivan, acting for Federal Bureau of Investigation
representative to USIB
*Part of Meeting
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1. Approval of Minutes
24 October Meeting
(USIB-M-240)
Approved as circulated.
2. Special Daily .Watch Report
No. 8
Approved as amended.
3. Discontinuance of Weekly
Survey of Cold War Crisis
Situations
Noted that publication of the Weekly Survey of Cold War Crisis
Situations had been discontinued, * and with respect thereto, concurred
in General Carter's suggestion that the DD/I, CIA, should develop, for
Board consideration at an early date, proposals regarding the nature
and procedures of USIB review of sensitive situations and their longer-
run implications not covered in the Watch Report.
4. Request for National
Intelligence Estimate
a. Noted, as read by the Chairman, a request from the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. for a National
Intelligence Estimate on. the aftermath of the Cuban crisis, especially
as related, to the Berlin situation. **
b. Concurred in the Chairman's suggestion that, in lieu of pre-
paring such an NIE at this time, representatives of the Board of
* Board members were advised of this action through memorandum from
the Executive Secretary, 29 October 1962 (USIB-D-28. 4/6).
** Circulated to Board members for. information. as USIB-D- 13. 2/ 1,
1 November 1962
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National Estimates should discuss with Mr. Nitze's office on an
informal basis. the current tentative thinking in ONE on the questions
raised by Mr. Nitze.
5. Soviet Bloc Air and Missile
Defense Capabilities Through
Mid-1967
(NIE 11-3-62; revised draft text
distributed 26 October;
USIB-M-237, item 2)
a. Approved the text of this estimate, as amended, except for
paragraph J, in the Summary and Conclusions and paragraph 67 in the
Discussion.
b. Concurred in the. Chairman's suggestion that Board. members
should further consider proposed new text for the above-cited, para-
graphs which was tabled at the meeting and communicate to the Board
of National Estimates either their concurrence in. or. other; views on
.that revised. draft text.
6. Executive Session
The Chairman convened the Board in. executive session at 1230.
After discussion of two other subjects, the USIB concurred in the
Chairman's. proposal that the Joint Evaluations of Soviet Missile Threat
in Cuba, prepared. by the Guided Missile and Astronautics Intelligence
Committee, the Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee and the
National Photographic Interpretation. Center, should henceforth be
submitted as quickly as possible after the receipt of new photographic
coverage or. other. intelligence. information,. rather. than daily as
previously directed.
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. Adjournment: , 1320
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SECRETARY'S NOTES
b. The Military Buildup in Cuba
(SNIE 85-3-62)
:(USIB-D=17.8/ 11, 27 September;
USIB-D-17.8/14, 29 October)
As indicated in USIB-D-17. 8/ 14,. this, estimate has not been
released to any foreign government and no further action will be taken
on this release question,. unless. specific request therefor; is made by a
Board member.
2. Approval of Minutes
(USIB-M.-2'38, 17 October;
USIB-M-239,. 18 October)
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the referenced minutes as circulated.
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4. USIB-D-41. 5/32, 25 October 1962
(Distributed through restricted
channels)
Board action on the scheduling question submitted in.the subject
document is recorded in USIB-D-41. 5/34, 29 October 1962 (distributed- 25X1
through restricted channels).
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