MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTORS CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CIA, ON 15 JUNE 1954

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 2002
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: June 15, 1954
• Content Type: MIN

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Minutes of Meeting Held in Director's
Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, on 15 June 1954
Director of Central Intelligence
Allen W. Dulles
*Presiding
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Lt. Gen. Charles P. Cabell
*Presiding
Mr. Fisher Howe, acting for 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
Brigadier General Millard Lewis, acting for Director of Intelligence,
Headquarters, United States Air Force
Rear Admiral Edwin T. Layton, acting for Deputy Director
for Intelligence, The Joint Staff
Dr. Charles H. Reichardt, Atomic Energy Commission
Representative to the IAC
Mr. Meffert W. Kuhrtz, acting for Assistant to the Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Mr. Robert Amory, Jr., Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
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Mr. Jack W. Lydman, Department of State
Mr. John C. Guthrie, Department of State
Mr. Harold W. Jacobson, Department of State
Lt. Colonel Vasco J. Fenili, Department of the Army
Lt. Colonel H. N. Maples, Department of the Army
Lt. Colonel John Arthur, Department of the Army
Captain Allan L. Reed, USN, Department of the Navy
Captain B. E. Wiggin, Department of the Navy
Colonel Robert Totten, United States Air Force
Colonel C. M. Walton, United States Air Force
Lt. Colonel Julius Z. Mims, United States Air Force
Mr. Donald F. Benjamin, United States Air Force
Mr. John A. Power, United States Air Force
Captain Ray E. Malpass, USN, The Joint Staff
Colonel L. A. Hall, The Joint Staff
Lt. Colonel P. H. Penn, USAF,', The Joint Staff
Commander Richard M. Niles, The Joint Staff
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Secretary.
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Approval of Minutes
(IAC-M-155, 1 June 1954)
1. Action: Approved as revised by page 3 circulated
9 June.
2, Discussion: In connection with the minute (para. 6) on
the Watch Committee Report, Mr. Dulles noted that the NSC
members had now received copies of the Report but had not yet
discussed it in the Council. A paper on which to base such
discussion is being prepared and will be circulated to the IAC
before NSC consideration.
3. General Willems noted that because the ad hoc committee
had not considered budget problems in connection with setting up
the Indications Center, there might be delay in implementing the
Center. Mr. Dulles asked that an estimate of non-departmental
costs be promptly made and undertook to consider whether CIA
might meet such costs as being in the nature of funds for a
"service of common concern."
Probable Military and Political
Developments in Indochina
Over the Next 30 Days (15 June-15 July)
(NIE 63-4-54)
4. Action: Approved as amended; approved release)
Communist Reactions to
Certain U. S. Courses of
Action with Respect to
Indochina
(SNIE 10-4-54)
5. Action: Approved as amended, subject to AEC comment.
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NSC Request for Report
and Estimate as to
Probable Effects of Restricting
Bloc Representatives
(IAC-D-83, 9 June 1954)
6. Action: Agreed that:
a. The State, Army, Navy, and Air Force members will
each make available to ONE in preliminary draft by 22 June a
brief factual report of approximately four pages on overt collection
activities within the Bloc, including the number of personnel, type
of material collected, and a general appraisal of the value thereof.
. b. ONE will prepare terms of reference for an estimate
covering the likelihood of Soviet retaliation, its probable nature
and the effect on the over-all US foreign intelligence effort. This esti-
mate would )use Appendix D of the basic document as a guide, would
also benefit from the reports described in (a) above, and would be
submitted for IAC consideration on 29 June, following customary
NIE procedure.
New Designation of DNI
7. Mr. Dulles noted and congratulated Admiral Espe on the
recent designation of the Director of Naval Intelligence as "Assistant
Chief of Naval Operations (Intelligence). " Admiral Espe pointed out
that he is to continue to be referred to in correspondence and other
matters of inter-agency business as Director of Naval Intelligence.
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Secretary's Notes:
of SNIE 63-2-54, "Military Security and
Political Stability in Laos and Cambodia through 1954" (ONE memo
to IAC dated 28 May), this estimate was released on 14 June.
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3. The Board of National Estimates has recommended the
non-release to any foreign government of SNIE 10-4-54 (memo from
ONE to IAC dated 14 June 1954).
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