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

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 27, 2002
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• Publication Date: August 14, 1956
• Content Type: MIN

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14 August 1956
I N T E L L I G E N C E ADVISORY C O M M I T T E E
Minutes of Meeting Held in
IAC Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, at 1045, 14 August 1956
Director of Central Intelligence
Allen W. Dulles
Presiding*
Deputy Director (Intelligence)
Robert Amory, Jr.
Pre siding*
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. W. Park Armstrong, Jr., Special Assistant for Intelligence,
Department of State
Major General Robert A. Schow, Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence,
Department of the Army
Rear Admiral Laurence H. Frost, Director of Naval Intelligence,
Department of the Navy
Major General Millard Lewis, Director of Intelligence, Headquarters,
United States Air Force
Brigadier General Richard Collins, Deputy Director for Intelligence,
The Joint Staff
Mr. Harry S. Traynor, Atomic Energy Commission representative
to the IAC
Mr. Ralph R. Roach, acting for Federal Bureau of Investigation
representative to the IAC
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1. Approval of Minutes
7 August Meeting
(IAC-M-251)
Approved as written.
2. Watch Committee Report
No. 314
3. Annual Report to the NSC
on the Status of the Foreign
Intelligence Program
(IAC-D-55/11.2, 7 August)
a. Approved this report.
b. Mr. Dulles and the members discussed briefly certain
matters relevant to the three-year fiscal projection, which constitutes
an annex to this report. Mr. Dulles then stated that he would circulate
to the members copies of his briefing notes for a forthcoming NSC
meeting at which the foreign intelligence program would be discussed,
in order that members who desired to do so might have an opportunity
to provide him with additional explanatory data pertinent to that
portion of the fiscal projection which covered their respective intelli-
gence activities.
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6. Release of SNIE 30-3-56
Nasser and the Middle
East Situation
a. Agreed to release this estimate to USIA (IAC-M-250,
2 August 1956, Secretary's Note 4; and IAC-M-251, 7 August 1956,
item 3).
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7. NIE 72-56
Conditions and Trends
in Tropical Africa
a. Approved as amended.
b. Noted. the findings, and approved the recommendations
of the post-mortem on this estimate. In this connection, Mr. Dulles
stressed the necessity of stepping up intelligence activities in this
area. During the course of a discussion. of this matter, Mr. Armstrong
noted that the opening of four new foreign service posts should im-
prove political reporting from this part of Africa, and General Schow
referred to certain new activities which the Army was undertaking in
Africa.
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At 1120 the Chairman requested those members who were
also members of USCIB to remain for a brief meeting.
Adjournment: 1135
Secretary
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SECRETARY'S NOTES
3. Unless objection is raised by a member at the next regular
meeting of the IAC, the Secretary proposes to release to USIA
NIE 72-56, "Conditions and Trends in Tropical Africa," 14 August
1956.
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IAC Meeting 14 August 1956
ALSO PRESENT
Central Intelligence Agency
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Mr. Otto Guthe
Department of State
Mr. William McAfee
Mr. Charlton Ogburn
Department of the Army
Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Pratt
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Smith
Major Philip H. Dunbar
Department of the Navy
Captain J. B. Carroll
Department of the Air Force
Colonel C. J. Stattler, Jr.
Colone. P. D. Wynne
The Joint Staff
Colonel E. G. Van Orman, USMC
Colonel Charles H. Dayhuff, Jr., USA
Captain Clarence M. White, Jr., USN
Captain Stephen H. Gimber, USN
Colonel Richard H. Agnew, USA
Lieutenant Colonel Albert E. Stoll, Jr., USAF
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mr. Meffert W. Kuhrtz
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