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

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• Publication Date: February 12, 1957
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Minutes of Meeting Held in
IAC Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, at 1045, 12 February 1957
Director of Central Intelligence
Allen W. Dulles
Presiding
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. Alan H. Belmont, Federal Bureau of Investigation representative
to the IAC
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1. Approval of Minutes
29 January Meeting
(IAC-M-276)
Approved as written.
2. Review of Crisis Situations
a. Watch Committee Reports
No. 339 and No. 340
Noted these reports.
b. Situation in Jordan
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The members discussed a CIA report on this situation,
dated 11 February, which had been circulated to the members prior
to the meeting. They also exchanged views on other. information and
intelligence from various sources bearing on developments in Jordan.
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The members then discussed the nature of the formal action
which the IAC should take with respect to this report. After various
members had expressed their views, the Chairman stated, and the
members concurred, that the action in this instance should not be con-
sidered tantamount to IAC approval of, or concurrence in, specific
language in the paper, as in the case of estimates, but rather should
be construed to reflect general agreement that the situation outlined
was sufficiently critical to warrant calling it to the attention of policy
makers and the principals of IAC members. With respect to specific
dissemination, Mr. Dulles proposed, and the members agreed, that
the report, as amended, be passed to the White House, Secretary of
State, Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
and General Cutler, as well as to IAC members. In response to a
query by General Lewis, the Chairman emphasized that he suggested
distribution to these particular recipients because of his responsibility,
as intelligence advisor to the NSC, to keep members of the NSC in-
formed as to such developments, and that individual IAC members should
continue to be the normal channels for transmission of such intelligence
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to their principals. The members also considered and (in renewed
discussion following item 6) approved the form of the covering
memorandum to be used in disseminating this report.
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6. NIE 12-57
Stability and Cohesion of the
Soviet Satellite Structure
After a discussion of this paper, the Chairman suggested, and
the members concurred, that final action be deferred until the next
regular meeting of the IAC. It was also agreed that, prior to further
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action by the IAC, the IAC representatives should consider this
estimate again in the light of this discussion and any additional
review by individual members.
7. NSC Communications
The Chairman outlined and discussed generally with the
members certain communications from the National Security Council
bearing on activities of the IAC or individual components of the in-
telligence community.
At 1240, the Chairman requested an executive session.
Adjournment: 1300
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Secretary
SECRETARY'S NOTES
1. All of the IAC agencies have concurred, as of 5 February,
in the recommendations of the Board of National Estimates with
respect to the preparation of an estimate on the impact of the Middle
East situation on world developments (Memorandum to IAC, 30 Jan-
uary 1957).
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ALSO PRESENT
Central Intelligence Agency
Lieutenant General Charles P. Cabell
Mr. Robert Amory, Jr.
Mr. Sherman Kent
Mr. Herbert Scoville, Jr.
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Department of State
Mr. Thomas Larson
Mr. Richard K. Stuart
Mr. Richard Tims
Department of the Army
Lieutenant Colonel Charles A. Pratt
Lieutenant Colonel Donald L. Husman
Major Philip H. Dunbar
MajoriGeorge Van Laethen
Captain Edwin R. Van Deusen
Department of the Navy
Captain W. S. Howell
Department of the Air Force
Colonel H. E. Cotter
Lieutenant Colonel Boyd Hart
Lieutenant Colonel V. A. Woods, Jr.
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The Joint Staff
Colonel E. G. Van Orman, USMC
Colonel Charles H. Dayhuff, Jr., USA
Captain Gordon Fowler, USN
Colonel E. G. Davis, USAF
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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