MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTOR S CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMIN BUILDING CIA AT 1045 16 NOVEMBER 1954

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85S00362R000200050009-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 16, 1954
• Content Type: MIN

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'I-NTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Minutes of Meeting Held in Director's
Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency at 1045 16 November 1954
Director of Central Intelligence
Allen W. Dulles
*Presiding
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Lieutenant General Charles P. Cabell
*Presiding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. W. Park Armstrong, Special Assistant for Intelligence,
Department of State
Major General John M. Willems, acting for Assistant Chief of Staff,
G-2, Department of the Army
Rear Admiral Carl F. Espe, Director of Naval Intelligence,
Department of the Navy
Major General John A. Samford, Director of Intelligence, Headquarters,
United States Air Force
Colonel Robert Totten, acting for Deputy Director for Intelligence,
The Joint Staff
Mr. Harry S. Traynor, Atomic Energy Commission
Representative to the IAC
Mr. Ralph R. Roach, acting for Assistant to the Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Central Intelligence Agency
Huntington A. Sheldon, Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. H. Marshall Chadwell, Central Intelligence Agency
* Part of Meeting
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
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Central Intelligence Agency
entral Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
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Mr. Richard M. Scammon, Department of State
Mr. Howard E. Furnas, Department of State
Lieutenant Colonel V. J. Fenili, Department of the Army
Lieutenant Colonel James P. Barry, Department of the Army
Lieutenant Colonel C. A. Reinhard, Department of the Army
Mr. C. A. Strenge, Department of the Army
Captain Bruce E. Wiggin, Department of the Navy
Colonel John J. Morrow, United States Air Force
Major Van A. Woods, United States Air Force
Mr. Donald Benjamin, United States Air Force
Colonel Floyd E. Dunn, USA, The Joint Staff
Colonel Orin H. Moore, USAF, The Joint Staff
Commander Ross R. Hirshfeld, USN, The Joint Staff
Mr. Charles H. Reichardt, Atomic Energy Commission
Mr. Meffert W. Kuhrtz, Federal Bureau of Investigation
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1. Approval of Minutes
(IAC-M-173, 2 November 1954)
Approved as written.
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3. Post Mortem of NIE Production
for the Period 1 January to
30 June 1954
a. The IAC noted the paper after accepting an amendment
by the AEC representative.
b. Mr. Armstrong raised the question of going beyond the
scope of this paper by a review of the estimates made to determine
their validity.
c. It was agreed that it would be worthwhile at least
to experiment with such a review. As a preliminary, the Board of
National Estimates was directed to make available to the IAC
members its study of the validity of certain estimates prepared for
the Clark Committee. Reference was made to Part I of the OIR
contribution to
This
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critique of.NIE-71
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4. Final Report Ad Hoc IAC
Committee (Watch)
(IAC-D- 6 / 5)
This report was noted and the committee was discharged
with a vote of thanks to the Chairman of the Committee and its
members for a job well done. The IAC Secretary was directed to
inform the committee members of this action.
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5. Release of Information
by FBI to NIC
Mr. Dulles referred to his talk with Mr. J. Edgar Hoover
about the arrangements for releasing certain types of information to
the NIC. Mr. Dulles said substantial agreement had been reached
and that he was awaiting FBI concurrence before presenting the
terms of the agreement t o the IAC. (See IAC-M-162, item 8; and
NSC Action 1195).
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"Soviet Gross Capabilities
for Attacks on the US and Key
Overseas Installation through
1 July 19 57"
(ONE Memorandum dated 8 November 1954)
The IAC agreed to release this estimate
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9. Second Annual Progress
Report to the IAC of the
Scientific Estimates Committee
(IAC-D-74/2)
10. Proposed Estimate on Consequences
of Various Possible Courses of Action
with Respect to Non-Communist
Controls over Trade with Communist
China
(ONE Memorandum dated 12 November 1954)
a. Agreed to undertake this estimate proposed by the Special
Assistant, Intelligence, Department of State, for completion by
about 1 January 1955.
b. The Board of National Estimates was directed to
consider the consequences of tightening controls as well as their
relaxation.
11. Executive Session
At 1325, the Chairman called for an executive session to
discuss the status of a proposed revision of certain directives.
Adjournment: 1340
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Secretary
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Secretary's Note
1. NIE 11-4- 54 "Soviet Capabilities and Probable Courses of
Action Through Mid-1959" was releasedl 4 November 1954 25X1
and 5 November 1954. (IAC-M-170)
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