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

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 26, 1958
• Content Type: MIN

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26 August 1958
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, 26 August 1958
Director of Central Intelligence
Allen W. Dulles
Presiding*
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
General Charles P. Cabell
Presiding*
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. Hugh S. Cumming, Jr., Director of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State
Major General Robert Schow, Assistant Chief of Staff for
Intelligence, Department of the Army
Rear Admiral Laurence H. Frost, Director of Naval Intelligence,
Department of the Navy
Major General Harold E. Watson, acting for Assistant Chief of Staff,
Intelligence, United States Air Force
Brigadier General Robert A. Breitweiser, Director for Intelligence,
The Joint Staff
Mr. Charles H. Reichardt, acting for Atomic Energy Commission
tativ%,t9, the IAC
representative to the IAC
* Part of meeting
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1. Approval of Minutes*
19 August 1958
(IAC-M-357)
Approved as written.
2. Situation Review
a. Watch Committee Report
No. 42 0
Noted.
b. Watch Committee Report
No. 42 0 -A
Noted. Mr. Dulles stated that he had informed the
President regarding the contents of this report on the preceding day.
c. Review of Sensitive Situations
The members discussed intelligence bearing on the Taiwan
Strait situation, including reports regarding the Chinese Communist
propaganda treatment of recent developments, and their artillery
bombardment and aircraft activities and dispositions in the area.
The Chairman referred to the situation in the Sudan
and he and Mr. Cumming also commented on developments in Indonesia.
3. Review of Draft NSCID*
No. 6
TI-AC-D-123/2, 25 August)
The Chairman and members discussed the changes in the
draft NSCID No. 6 which had been recommended by Dr. Killian
and General Hull, as outlined in a memorandum circulated prior
* Both IAC and USCIB members were present for the first
De
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par men o Defense and N5A respectively.
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to the meeting. (IAC-D-123/2). The members concurred in the
suggested changes in paragraph 6 c, subject to the deletion of the
phrase appearing in parentheses in the first sentence. The Chairman
stated that he would advise Dr. Killian and General Hull of the views
of the IAC and USCIB members prior to the NSC meeting on this NSCID.
discussed certain of the proposed actions in some detail. In particular,
each of the members expressed his views with respect to the question
of whether the new USIB should assign responsibility for COMINT and
ELINT matters to a single subcommittee or to two separate sub-
committees. After discussion, the members agreed to consider this
matter again at the next IAC-USCIB (or USIB) meeting.
The Chairman noted that the President had concurred in his
suggestion that all IAC and USCIB members be invited to attend the
NSC meeting at which the new draft NSCIDs 1 through 7 would be
reviewed and advised the members as to the time and place of the
NSC meeting..
Continuity,of Intelligence
Community Functions.
Following Establishment
of USIB
(IAC -D -112 / 3; 19 August 1958)
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Probable Developments in
the Taiwan Strait Area
a. Approved as amended.
b. Agreed to release this estimate to USIA.
a. Approved as amended.
b. Agreed to release this estimate to USIA.
10. Use of NIS on Lebanon
General Cabell, who was then presiding, referred to a
memorandum from the Joint Staff bearing on the extent._of tie: recent:
use made of the NIS on Lebanon. General Breitweiser noted that no
inquiries had been solicited from the field before writing the
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memorandum. Mr. Cumming and Admiral Frost then indicated
generally the manner in which this NIS had been used recently
within the State and Navy Departments.
11.. Special Air Force Briefing
The Air Force presented a special briefing on "Soviet
Man in Space".
Adjournment: 1315
Secretary
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IAC Meeting, 26 August 1958
ALSO PRESENT
Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. Robert Amory, Jr.
Dr. Otto E. Guthe
Department of State
Mr. Robert H. Thayer
Mr. William McAfee
Mr. Dreesen
Mr. Oscar Armstrong
Department of the Army
Lieutenant Colonel L. D. Terry
Lieutenant Colonel C. H. Pratt
Major P. Dunbar
Major W. Bovee
Department of the Navy
Captain W. S. Howell
Commander C. A. Shaw
Commander D. M. Showers
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Department of the Air Force
Colonel S. H. Kirkland, Jr.
Colonel Charles A. North (present for special
AF briefing only)
Lieutenant Colonel Paul A. Tisdale
Lieutenant Colonel J. G. Pickering, III
Mr. I. P. Huffine (present for special AF
briefing only)
Colonel J. M. Pittman
Colonel U. P. Williams
Colonel M. Cone
Captain Allyn Cole
Colonel Townsend
Department of Defense
General Graves B. Erskine (For joint IAC-USCIB items)
National Security Agency
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