MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTOR'S CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, AT 1600, 18 MARCH 1955

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INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Minutes of Meeting Held in Director's
Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, at 1600, 18 March 1955
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Lieutenant General Charles P. Cabell
Presiding
Mr. Fisher R. Howe, acting for 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 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. Meffert W. Kuhrtz, acting for Assistant to the Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mr. Huntington D. Sheldon, Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. Boris Klosson, Department of State
Colonel Robert 'Totten, USAF, The Joint Staff
Colonel W. H. Smith, USAF, The Joint Staff
Captain Ray Malpass, USN, The Joint Staff
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The Chairman stated that the meeting had been called to consider
what action the IAC should take in response to the President's urgent
requirement for intelligence coverage of the Formosa Straits problem
through one intelligence medium for the duration of the critical
situation.
The Chairman circulated for the Committee's consideration a
draft proposal for the establishment of an ad hoc IAC Current
Intelligence Group for the Formosa Straits Problem.
Considerable discussion followed during which the advantages
and disadvantages of various means of complying with the President's
directive were examined. The relation of the Group to the IAC, to
the Watch Committee of the IAC; to the Indications Center, and to
the operating offices of the several member agencies was examined.
The Committee then: (a) agreed to establish an ad hoc IAC
Current Intelligence Group; (b) directed that representatives of
the members hold an organization meeting the next morning
(Saturday, 19 March); and (c) directed that the first situation report
be delivered to the White House on Monday, 21 March. (Mr. Sheldon
was requested to so notify Colonel Goodpaster. )
Specifically, the Committee agreec that:
a. An ad hoc IAC Current Intelligence Group on
the Formosa Straits problem be established immediately;
b. it be located in the Indications Center, which
shall have administrative and logistical support for its
operation;
c. it be an IAC task group composed of the best
intelligence officers on the area to be furnished by the
IAC members;
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d. it be a recipient of the joint collection and evaluation
effort now being readied under CINCPAC in the field, and
the items that would normally be furnished the Indications
Center under NSC 5438;
e. it receive the fullest measure of support from the
IAC agencies at headquarters in the form of all information
and intelligence bearing on the problem and problems
related thereto;
f. it prepare a situation report each day (or more
often if required) for the President which shall bear the
IAC imprimatur and which shall be available to the
IAC members; and
g. CIA will provide the Chairman of this Group.
Adjournment: 1815
Secretary
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Secretary's Note
1. The Board of National Estimates has recommended that
the following estimates not be released to any foreign government:
NIE 100-4-55: Communist Capabilities and
Intentions with Respect to the Offshore Islands
and Taiwan through 1955, and Communist and Non-
Communist Reactions with Respect to the Defense
of Taiwan
This matter will not be referred to the IAC for formal action except
at the 'request of a member. (ONE Memorandum dated 23 March 19$5)
2. The Secretary proposes to release NIE 100-4-55 (title as
above) to USIA unless objection is raised by a member at the next
regular meeting of the IAC.
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