DRAFT MINUTES OF 18 JULY USIB MEETING

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• Publication Date: July 18, 1962
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UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOAR D
MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
SUBJECT: Draft Minutes of 18 July USIB Meeting
The attached draft minutes of the 18 July Intelligence Board
meeting will be considered at the 25 July Board meeting. A Special
Annex to these draft minutes is being circulated through special
channels.
Executive Secretary
(This cover memorandum may be
downgraded to CONFIDENTIAL
when separated from the attachment. )
SECRET
GROUP 1
Excluded from automatic
downgrading and
declassification
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UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOAR D
Minutes of
Two-hundred-twenty-fifth Meeting
United States Intelligence Board
Central Intelligence Agency, at 1030 hours, 18 July 1962
Director of Central Intelligence
John A. McCone
Presiding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Lieutenant General Marshall S. Carter, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Mr. Roger Hilsman, Director of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
acting for Director, Defense Intelligence
agency
Major General Alva R. Fitch, Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence,
Department of the Army
Rear Admiral Vernon L. Lowrance, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations
(Intelligence), Department of the Navy
Brigadier General. Prefitiss D. Wynne, Jr. , acting for Assistant Chief of Staff,
Intelligence, United States Air Force
Lieutenant General Gordon A. Blake, Director, National Security Agency
Major General Richard Collins, Director for Intelligence, Joint Staff
Dr. Charles H. Reichardt, acting for Atomic Energy Commission representative
to USIB
Mr. William Sullivan, acting for Federal Bureau of Investigation representative
to USIB
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As the meeting convened the Board members welcomed General Blake as
the new Director of NSA and member of USIB,
2. Approval of Minutes
11 July Meeting
(USIB-M-224)
Approved as circulated.
3. Preparation of Draft Sanitized
Top Secret Version of Conclusions
and Summary of NIE 11-8-62
During discussion of the above minutes (with reference to item 5. b.
therein), the Board:
a. Authorized the Board of National Estimates to prepare, in coordination
with the USIB representatives, a draft sanitized Top Secret version of the "Prin-
cipal Conclusions" and "Summary and Conclusions" portions of NIE 11-8-62 which,
when completed, would be distributed to Intelligence Board principals for telephonic
concurrence in the draft text.
b. Noted that the Director would seek the approval of the President to give
"limited distribution" to this Top Secret version subject,to the same caveats as
had been imposed on the other version of the estimate in accordance with USIB-
M-224, item 5. c.
4. USIB -S~29. 19 /4, 13 July
(Distributed through special
channels)
(This item is carried in the Special Annex to these minutes,
)
5. Situation Review
a. Watch Committee Report
No. 624
Approved as amended.
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b. Weekly Survey of Cold War
Crisis Situations, No. 29-62
(Memorandum for USIB, 17 July)
Approved as amended.
61. Special Item
(References: (a) USIB-S-13. 5/4,
3 July; (b) USIB-C-13. 5/70,
13 April;. limited distribution
through special channels)
a. After discussion, approved the recommendations of the SIGINT
Committee contained in the inclosure to reference (a).
b. Noted that the CIA member reserved the right to reopen con-
sideration of paragraph 3 of the inclosure to reference (a) after he had
an opportunity to observe its effect for a couple of months.
7. Statement by the Chairman re
Certain Recommendations of
the President's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board
(This item is carried in the Special Annex to these minutes. )
8. Coordination Staff Report and
Recommendations re
Committee Structure of USIB
(USIB-D-27.1/18, 31 May;
USIB-M-222, item 7)
a. The Board addressed itself, in consideration of this matter, to
the Coordination Staff recommendations set forth in paragraphs 8 through
12 of the attachment to USIB-D-27. 1/18 (entitled: "Committees of the
U. S. Intelligence Board"), in the light of an oral report by General Carter
pursuant to item 7. b. , USIB-M-222 and the Staff's revisions which were
tabled at the meeting.
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b. After discussion, the Board took the following actions:
(1) Accepted the Coordination Staff-proposed revisions of
paragraphs 8 and 9. h.
(2) Approved disestablishment (as recommended in para-
graphs 8. a. , d. , e. , g. and h. and 10. b.) of the Committee on
International Communism, Committee on Procurement of Foreign
Publications, Committee on Exchanges, Emergency nnirig
Steering Committee, Critical Communications Committee, and the
Ad Hoc Committee on the Cuban Military Buildup.
(3) Approved disestablishment of the Ad Hoc Committee
on the Berlin Situation and Ad Hoc Working Group on the Arab-
Israeli Situation, subject to the understanding that the Board's
responsibility for continuing review of those situations would be
accomplished through its normal estimative machinery.
(4) Approved (as recommended in paragraph 9. h.) retention
of the Critical Collection Problems Committee (CCPC), subject to
the Coordination Staff-proposed amendment (as r-ecoi'ded.nn b,;(1) above)
that the present charter of the CCPC (DCID No. 2/2) should be
broadened to permit the Committee to concern itself with
collection problems of general community interest, not only
when referred to it by USIB, but also when identified by a USIB
committee or agency or by the Committee itself, subject to
approval by the DCI of the nature and scope of the Committee
study proposed, prior to its initiation.
(5) Approved the recommendation of the CIA, State and
DIA members that the National Intelligence Survey Committee
be retained, rather than disestablished as recommended by the
Coordination Staff.
(6) Noted that the Chairman would, after further considera-
tion, discuss again with Board members the Coordination Staff
recommended disestablishment of the Domestic Exploitation
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Committee and Committee on Exploitation of Foreign Language
Publications.
(7) Approved (as recommended in paragraphs 9. a.-g. and
i.) retention in the USIB structure of the Security Committee,
GINT Committee,. Committee on Documentation, Watch
Committee, Economic Intelligence Committee, Scientific
Intelligence Committee, Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence
Committee, Guided Missile and Astronautics Intelligence
Committee, Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance,. Interagency
Clandestine Collection Priorities Committee and Interagency
Defector Committee.
(8) Noted (as stated in paragraph 10. c.) that disestablish-
ment of the Ad Hoc Committee on Legislative Proposals re
Personnel Security would be in order, upon completion in the
near future of its Board-assigned function.
(9) Approved the Coordination Staff recommendations
regarding Committee Chairmen in paragraph 11 and the USIB
Secretariat in paragraph 12.
(10) Noted that the Coordination Staff, in implementation of
the above Board actions, would develop draft revisions, of pertinent
DCIDs for USIB consideration at an early date.
Security Committee Report
Regarding Implementation
of Joint Study Group
Recommendation No. 18
(USIB-D-,l. 5/24, 25 June)
a. Noted the Security Committee report on implementation of Joint
Study Group Recommendation No. 18 (USIB-D--l. 5/24) and approved for
issuance, as recommended by the committee:
(1) A USIB policy statement on counterintelligence and
security responsibilities.
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(2) A USIB Guide of Practices and Procedures for
Counterintelligence and Security of Overseas Personnel and
Installations.
b. Noted and discussed the comments and proposal of the Army
member of the Security Committee (set forth in Attachment 2 to the
Committee report) and, with respect thereto, concurred in General
Carter's suggestion that the Coordination Staff prepare for USIB considera-
tion a study and report on the question of establishing a Board committee
on counterintelligence.
Adjournment: 1245
xecutive Secretary
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