MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTORS CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

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• Publication Date: April 12, 1955
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I N T E L L I G E N C E A D V I S O R Y C O M M I T T E E
Minutes of Meeting Held in Director's
Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, at 1045, 12 April 1955
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Lieutenant General Charles P. Cabell
Pre siding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. W. Park Armstrong, Special Assistant for Intelligence,
Department of State
Major General Arthur G. Trudeau, 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 Millard Lewis, acting for 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. Meffert W. Kuhrtz, acting for Assistant to the Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
ALSO PRESENT
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Mr. Robert Amory, Jr., Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. Sherman Kent, Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. H. Marshall Chadwell, Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. Otto E. Guthe, Central Intelligence Agency
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. Howard E. Furnas, Department of State
Mr. Thomas B. Larson, Department of State
Brigadier General Alva R. Fitch, Department of the Army
Lieutenant Colonel V. J. Fenili, Department of the Army
Rear Admiral Robert W. Cavenagh, Department of the Navy
Captain Bruce E. Wiggin, Department of the Navy
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur E. Justice, Jr. , United States Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel Van A. Woods, Jr., United States Air Force
Colonel Orin C. Bjornsrud,- USMC, The Joint Staff
Colonel Hugh D. Maxwell, Jr., USAF, The Joint Staff
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J. Introduction of
Rear Admiral Cavenagh
and Brigadier General Fitch
The Chairman extended a welcome to Rear Admiral
Robert W. Cavenagh, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence designate,
who was introduced by Admiral Espe and to Brigadier General
Alva R. Fitch, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, for Foreign
Operations, who was introduced by General Trudeau.
2 Meeting Scheduled for
NIE 100-4/1-55
"Morale on Taiwan"
The State member indicated that the Secretary of State
would like to have this estimate.by Saturday night, 16 April. It
was thereupon agreed to schedule a meeting of the IAC for the
purpose of completing action on it at 0930, Saturday, 16 April.
3. Approval of Minutes
29 March 1955 Meeting
(IAC-M- 190)
Approved as written.
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6. Anti-Communist Resistance
Potential in the Soviet Bloc
(NIE 10-55)
The estimate was approved, subject to a footnote to paragraph 9
by the State member. It was agreed that the Annexes to the paper would
be published with the estimate but with a separating page containing the
notation that they "have been coordinated among the IAC agencies. "
7. Advisory Committee on
Foreign Language Publications
Second Annual Report
(IAC-D-60/4, 24 March 1955)
8. SEC 3-55: Critical Deficiencies
in Biological Warfare Intelligence
(IAC-D-80/5, 21 March 1955)
The report was approved and it was agreed to call for a
progress report on the implementation of its recommendations in
six months.
9. Release of NIE's to
Foreign Governments
Pursuant to the recommendation of the Board of National
Estimates, it was a reed
"Current Situation and Probable Developments in Hungary" 5X1
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11. Personnel for
Indications Center
The Chairman requested that the members check on the
action taken in their agencies to carry out the agreement reached
on 23 February to recruit up to five additional persons for the
purpose of maintaining the temporary 24-hour watch already
established in the Indications Center. He urged that steps be
taken to provide the necessary personnel. (See 'LAC-M-185, Revised,
item.3)
Adjournment: 1125
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Secretary
Secretary's Note
1. No objection having been raised by a member, the Secretary
has authorized the release to USIA of NIE 12. 5-55 "Current Situation
and Probable Developments in Hungary'
2. Unless objection is raised by a member at.the next regular
meeting of the IAC, the Secretary proposes to release to USIA
NIE 10-55 "Anti-Communist Resistance Potential in the Soviet Bloc. "
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