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 29, 2002
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: February 21, 1956
• Content Type: MIN

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IAC-M-231
21 February 1956
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
IAC Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, at 1045, 21 February 1956
Director of Central Intelligence
Allen W. Dulles
Pre siding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. W. Park Armstrong, Special Assistant for Intelligence,
Department of State
Major General Robert A. Schow, acting for Assistant Chief of
Staff, Intelligence, 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
Rear Admiral Edwin T. Layton, 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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IAC-M-231
21 February 1956
1. Approval of Minutes
14 February Meeting
(IAC-M-230)
Approved as written.
2. Watch Committee Report
No. 289
a. The report was noted.
b. Agreed to continue noting these Reports at IAC meetings,
at which time members can raise for discussion any of the matters
considered in them.
3. NIE 33-56
Turkey as an Ally
Approved as amended. The Board of National Estimates
will revise Table III on page 19a of the 20 February draft, and check
the revision with the IAC representatives prior to publication.
4. Middle Eastern Situation
The Chairman stated that he may be called upon on short
notice for an intelligence appraisal of the situation in the Middle
East, 25X6
He said he would welcome suggestions from the members
on this question, and that he would inform the IAC of any views he
might be required to express to the NSC.
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21 February 1956
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Adjournment: 1230
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Secretary
1. Unless objection is raised by a member at the next regular
meeting of the IAC, the Secretary proposes to release to USIA
NIE 33-56, "Turkey as an Ally," 21 February 1956.
2. All member agencies concurred in the draft reply to SHAPE
concerning release of reports of indications of Soviet military ag-
gression (IAC-D-6/11. 4, 8 February 1956), and it was forwarded
by the Secretary on 20 February.
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IAC Meeting, 21 February 1956
ALSO PRESENT
Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. Robert Amory, Jr.
Mr. Sherman Kent
Mr. Otto E. Guthe
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Department of State
Mr. Charlton Oghurn
Department of the Army
Lieutenant Colonel John E. Arthur
Lieutenant Colonel Wilbur J. Lage
Department of the Navy
Captain B. E. Wiggin
Department of the Air Force
Colonel P. D. Wynne
Lieutenant Colonel Van A. Woods, Jr.
Mr. Sam Rockwell
The Joint Staff
Colonel Charles H. Dayhuff, Jr. , USA
Colonel Ralph W. Wade, USAF
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mr. M. W, Kuhrtz
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