MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTORS CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CIA, ON 14 FEB. 1952

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• Publication Date: February 14, 1952
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14 February 1952
INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Minutes of Meeting held in Director's
Con erence Room, Administration ,Building
Central Intelligence Agency, on l~'February 1952
Director of Central Intelligence
General Walter Bedell Smith*
Presiding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. W. Park Armstrong, Jr., Special Assistant, Intelligence,
Department of State
Major General A. R. Bolling, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2,
Department of the Army
Rear Admiral Richard F. Stout, acting for Director of Naval
Intelligence, Department of the Navy
Major General John A. Samford, Director of Intelligence,
Headquarters, United States Air Force
Dr. Walter F. Colby, Director of Intelligence, Atomic Energy
Commission
Colonel S. M. Lansing, acting for Deputy Director for
Intelligence, The Joint Staff
Mr. Victor P. Keay, acting for Assistant to the Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
ALSO PRESENT
Mr.
Loftus E. Becker t Central Intelligence Agency
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Dr.
Sherman Kent,
Central Intelligence Agency
Mr.
W. P. Bundy,
Central Intelligence Agency
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Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Mr.
William C. True eart, Department of State
Mr.
Mose L. Harvey, Department of State
Colonel F. G. Rothwell, Department of the Army
Lieut. Colonel H. N. Maples, Department of the Army
Mr. Roy S. Tod, Department of the Army
Captain Ray Malpass, USN, Department of the Navy
Colonel Edward H. Porter, Department of the Air Force
Colonel J. C. Marchant, Department of the Air Force
James Q. Reber
Secretary
Intelligence Advisory Committee
2 cP *Presiding for
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Approval of Minutes
1. Action: The minutes of the last meeting, 7 February 1952,
(IAC-M-59 were approved subject to the following comments:
a. The FBI pninted out that what could be done by the FBI
would depend upon future arrangements which had not yet been
worked out in respect of proposed trips by Soviet officials
(ref. para. 2). (Mr. Armstrong said that it was his understanding
that discussions between the Department and FBI were now taking
place. He also mentioned that the Department plans to deliver
on Saturday to the Soviet Embassy the note regarding regulation
of travel with release to the Press on Monday and that the
Department attached importance to the maintenance of the "Secret"
classification of this document until that time. He reported
that investigation showed that there were no TASS representatives
in New York except those accredited to the U.N.)
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b. With reference to the intelligence coordinator for
Austria (paragraphs 11 and 12) Mr. Armstrong noted that while
\ he had concurred in General Smith's pro osal that
serve as -coordinator of intelligence activities in
Austria, he assumed that it is understood that this was depen-
dent on the acquiescence and concurrence of Ambassador Donnelly.
He noted that the Ambassador would be in Washington around the
1st of March and that this could be discussed with him at that
time.
Probable Soviet Courses of
Action with Respect to
Germany During 1952. NIE-53)
2. Action: Approved as amended.
3. Discussion: With respect to the possibility of Soviet with-
drawal from Eastern Germany as pointed out by the Air Force, General
Bolling called attention to recent evidence which casts considerable
doubt on such a possibility in 1952. He referred to the recent increase
of 80,000 Russian troops in East Germany bringing the total to 354,000,
the expansion of the East German alert police from 52,000 to 120,000
and the change in title of such units from "battalion" to "regiment."
The experience of Soviet withdrawal in Korea and the possibility of
similar withdrawal in East Germany, however, was believed by A-2 to
warrant notice in a footnote.
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Intelligence Value of the
Maintenance of U. S. Missions
in Poland Czechoslovakia,
Hungary and Rumania. IAC-D-41)
4. Action: Agreed that an Ad Hoc group should prepare for IAC
consideration at the next meeting a draft memorandum to the Secretary
of State on this question.
5. Discussion: Mr. Armstrong indicated that while this subject
had been given careful attention in recent months in the Department,
the immediate concern as evidenced by this letter related to the
growing feeling of the U. S. public and individuals in Congress that
something needs to be done about the treatment being accorded our
missions in Satellite countries. There is also =wider le doubt in the
eyes of some of the public and senators of the value of continuing
to maintain these missions. Mention was made of the desirability of
25X1A getting the view of the Psychological Strategy Board on this question
but it was left that the State Department would approach the Board
directly for its view.
Intelligence in Saigon
(ref. IAC-M-5 , para. 3)
7. Action: General Smith indicated that because of the reported
composition of the UK and French delegates to the Conference, he had
come to the conclusion that it would be desirable after all for CIA
to have a representative. Admiral Stout agreed to make arrangements
for CIA participation at the Conference.
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