MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTOR S CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CIA, ON 24 APR. 1952

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 2002
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• Publication Date: April 24, 1952
• Content Type: MIN

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24 April 1952
INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Minutes of Meeting held in Director's
Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, on 24 April 1952
Director of Central Intelligence
General Walter Bedell Smith
Presiding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. Fisher Howe, acting for Special Assistant, Intelligence
Department of State
Major General A. R. Bolling, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2,
Department of the Army
Rear Admiral Felix L. Johnson, Director of Naval Intelligence,
Department of the Navy
Brigadier General John Ackerman, acting for Director of
Intelligence, Headquarters, United States Air Force
Dr. Walter F. Colby, 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
Mr. William P. Bundy, Central Intelligence Agency
ALSO PRESENT
Mr. Loftus Becker, Central Intelligence Agency
Dr. Sherman Kent, Central Intelligence Agency
Dr. H. M. Chadwell, Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. Robert Amor. Jr., Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
, Central Intelligence Agency
central Intelligence Agency
Mr. William C. Trueheart, Department of State
Mr. Mose L. Harvey, Department of State
Brigadier General John Weckerling, Department of the Army
Colonel 0. B. Sykes, Department of the Army
Captain Kenneth C. Hurd, USN, Department of the Navy
Commander Robert H. Caldwell, Department of the Navy
Colonel Edward H. Porter, Department of the Air Force
Colonel J. C. Marchant, Department of the Air Force
Colonel Charles F. Gillis, Department of the Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas J. Grant, Department of the Air Force
Colonel S. M. Lansing, The Joint Staff
James Q. Reber
Secretary
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Approval of Minutes
1. Action: The minutes of the meeting of 14 April 1952
(IAC-M-67 were approved i rith the amendment that the following
should be substituted for paragraph 6:
"6. Action:. Agreed to cancel this project as being
no longer timely, and to substitute therefor an estimate
of the effect upon our friends and allies of the Soviet
attempt to promote a broad relaxation of tensions. Agreed
also that the draft prepared by the National Estimates
Board on this subject should be reviewed by the IAC repre-
sentatives for early consideration by the IAC."
Possible Large-Scale
Communist Attack in Korea
in the Immediate Future
5E-25
2. Actions Approved as revised and to include as an annex
a copy of the chart presented by G-2 (with additions to be prepared
Military Indications of a
by A-2) in its oral briefing on the Korean military situation.
Review of Probable Soviet Courses of
Action with Respect to Germany During
1952 in the Light of Recant Soviet
Moves NIE-5371)
3. Action: Ap roved as revised and with the inclusion of the
Air Force footnote.
Probable Developments in French
and Spanish North Africa IA-D-49)
4. Action: Agreed that the proposed estimate should be under-
taken, with the understanding that Libya should also be included in
order that the study might parallel the policy problem confronting
the NSC Senior Staff.
Progress Report (IAC-PR-23)
5, Action: Agreed that the phrase, "before Mid-Year 1952,"
should be deleted from the title of NIE-40, "Potential Military,
Economic and Scientific Accretions to the USSR Resulting from the
Acquisition of Western Europe before Mid-1952," inasmuch as the data
to be presented will be valid and useful for quite some time beyond
mid-1952.
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