MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTOR S CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CIA, ON 13 MAR. 1952

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IAC-M-61+ (Revised)
13 March 1952
INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Minutes of Meeting held in Director's
Conference Room, Administration' Building
Central Intelligence Agency, on 13 March 1952
Director of Central Intelligence Agency
General Walter Bedell Smith
Presiding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. W. Park Armstrangi Jr., Speeial Assistant, Intelligence.,
Department of State
Major General A. R. Bolling, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2
Department of the Army
Rear Admiral R. 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. Malcolm C. Henderson, acting for Director of Intelligence,
Atomic Energy Commission
Brigadier General Richard C. Partridge, Deputy Director for
Intelligence, The Joint Staff
Mr. Victor P. Keay, acting for Assistant to the Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
ALSO PRESENT
*Mr. Frank G. Wisner, Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. Loftus E. Becker, Central Intelligence Agency
*Dr. Sherman Kent, Central Intelligence Agency
*Mr. Robert Amory, Jr., Central Intelligence Agency
25X1 *Mr. Lyman Kirk atrick, Central Intelligence Agency
1 Intelligence Agency
, Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
*Mr. Richard Helms, Central Intelligence Agency
Mr, William C. Trueheart, Department of State
Mr: P. H, Trezise, Department of State
Brigadier General John Weckerling, Department of the Army
Colonel'0, B. Sykes, Department of the Army
Lieut, Colonel U. G. Carlan, Department of the Army
Lieut. Colonel George Wilson, Department of the Army
Mr. Roy S. Tod, Department of the Army
Mr. R. W.'Guenthner, Department of the Army
Captain Kenneth C. Kurd, USN, Department of the Navy
Commander p. F, Harrington, Jr., USN, Department of the Navy
Colonel Edward H. Porter, Department of the Air Force
*Colonel Charles F. Gillis, Department of the-Air Force
Colonel J. C. Marchant, Department of the Air Force
Colonel S. M. Lansing, The Joint Staff
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IAC-M-64 (Revised)
13 March 1952
Approval of Minutes
1. Action: The minutes of the last meeting, 6 March 1952
(IAC-M-63 were approved. Add Dr. Henderson to those present.
Prospects for the Establishment
of an Inclusive Middle East
Command Organization 5E-23)
2. Action: Approved as amended.
Proposed Estimates on Soviet
Intentions and War Potential
IAC-D-
Action: Agreed that (a) the estimates proposed in this
pape hould be prepared; (b) NIE-63 and NIE-64, dealing with the
capabilities and courses of action of the USSR respectively through
mid-1953, would be published as one estimate, with two parts if
necessary, this being a more practical and efficient use of research;
(c) the scope of NIE-65 should be extended to 1957 in order to be
more useful to policy planning officials.
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IAC-M-64 (Revised)
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Progress Report (IAC-PR-22)
6. The report was noted without suggestion for change.
Coordination in Berlin
7. Action: It was agreed that there should be established a
coordinator of intelligence activities in Berlin, it being under-
stood that the function of this officer was to pull together the
chiefs of the various intelligence organizations for their mutual
benefit in avoiding duplication of effort detrimental to each other
and our objectives. Mr. Kirkpatrick was requested to draft in
collaboration with the other interested agencies a plan for coordina-
tion, taking into account the discussion of the meeting, for submis-
sion to the IAC at the next meeting.
? 8. Discussion: General Bolling presented a structural chart
howing the various intelligence organizations located in Berlin and
map which showed the possible dangers of duplication from uncoordin-
'ated efforts in this area. His plea was that some coordinating device
9.. General Smith noted the change likely to come about as a
result of the conclusions of the German contractual relationship,
bringing with it greater independence on the part of the Germans
as well as more stringent financial circumstances for all the
agencies. He noted the fact that in the field of clandestine col-
lection the DCI does not have authority to tell other agencies what
to do. He stated, however, that by virtue of the statute and NSCID 5,
it would be proper for him to request other agencies to cease and
desist what they are doing in the field of clandestine activities.
In the situation in Germany, however, where there are considerable
opportunities for clandestine collection and all too few resources
with which to collect and where also substantial intelligence acquired
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7 by the other agencies would be lost if their activity was discon-
tinued, it would be wiser to coordinate the various activities. He
conceived that it might be done either through a small general staff
or a coordinating committee whose chairman, it seemed to him, should
be a representative of the CIA. At the moment no officer within the
Agency is available for this function and he had discussed with
General Bolling the possibility of assigning an Army officer who
would be competent and available.
10. General Samford concurred in General Smith's proposal. He
felt certain that if the coordination attempted here were carried on
in the right spirit there would be
ositive rather tha
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p
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I results. He emphasized that too precise an instruction to the various
agencies in Berlin would tend to make them feel that there was no
freedom for independent movement.
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