NIS COMMITTEE MEETING NO. 18

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 1998
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: January 4, 1955
• Content Type: MIN

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NIB CCMISITTEE WOTING N0?
4 January 1955
1m The following were present:
Mr. Clinton
Mr. Kain
Major Jacobson
Lieut. Madden
2U116WL Hausman
State
State
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Navy
Air Force
CIA (Chairman)
2. Bogies for NIS 100
The Chairman read a despatch from the Military Attache, The
Hague,, to G-2, in which the Attache indicated that the Ambassador was
writing to invite the State Department's attention to NIS maps depict-
ing Netherlands New Guinea as part of Indonesia, He further pointod out
that Netherlands authorities would resent, if aware of this,, and that
documents are not controlled NOFORN.
The Chairman said he had referred the boundary matter to the
,Geographic Area for eationo It appears that the confusion results
r" from interpreting NIS Area 100 title "Indonesia" to wean "The Republic
of Indonesia". There may be some question whether there should be an
international boundary rather than a provincial boundary between Nether-
lands Now Guinea and the adjacent islands which are part of the "Republic
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of Indonesia,,. The fact that the NIS in question i?.3 not con
not permit it to be shown to the Netherlands Governnent sincwhich ective
control is established by IAC D 45/12, except r
releasable by that directive to the international staffs of SHAPE and
SACIA NT.
The Committee decided to defer the matter until report was
received from the Geographic Area.
Designation of Se sent
The Committee further discussed development of a general termi-
nology for segmented areas (refer to NIB Committee Meeting No. l86). The
bmitted a written proposal under date of 3 January 1955
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on designation of segmented areas which favors the use of letter suffixes
ubareas and Roman number suffixes for geographic subareas,
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The Chairman reported that the D/B Staff Study reached similar conclusionso
The Army member said that a study was underway in the Department
of the Army in respect to geographic breakdowns of NIS Areas. It is based
on the premise that geographic areas should,, as far as practicable, coin-
cide with political areas because of the political factors involved in
marry geographic considerations. The Army member said the study could not
be fully coordinated within the Department of the Arn7 for at least a
month.
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The Committee agreed that the Arne proposal should be considered
before taking final action on the terminology to be used for segmented
areas, The Committee held that for the interim contributors should use
letter suffixes to designate political subareas so authorized by the
committee.
4. ellii ence Control Directive
Copies of DCID Noo 11/2, "Control of Dissemination and use of
Intelligence and Intelligence Information" were distributed to the mem-
bers since they had not been able to obtain them through their ova
agencies, The Army member said he was not yet, prepared to voice his
agency's views on the elimination of "control statements with exceptions"
for NIS purposes, but would do so at the next meeting,
5, Production Forecast
The Committee approved the following forecast of Chapter VII
production for fiscal years 1956, 1957, and 1958 as recommended by the
Scientific Estimates Committee under data of 6 December 1954:
Fiscal. Year W-6
Finland 1 January 7.956
Austria 1 march 1956
Turkey 1 June 1956
Fiscal Year 1957
Norway 1 November 1956
Netherlands (M) 1 February 1957
1 June 1957
Fiscal Year 1955
Belgium 1 November 1957
ital.- 1 February 1958
1 may 1958
NOTE: Scheduling of MIS Section 17 production will be in accordance with
NIS Committee production schedule for NIS Chapter I.
Copies of D/B comments on the tentative NIS Production Forecast
were distributed to the members, The Chairman emphasized that the pur-
pose of these comments was to assist contributors in improving the overall
production situation by wrapping up loose ends and by indicating areas on
which maintenance and initial production might be msra effective. He
requested the members to re.oxamine by the next meeting their tentative
production forecasts in the light of these comments,
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6. Miscalls
A. The Navy member distributed copies of a proposed reschedul-
ing of Sections 80 for fiscal years 1955 and 1956, which will be con-
sidered by the Comittee at its next meeting,
B. The Air Force membezitted formal requirements for Sec-
tion 23 (Weather and Climate) on The Chairman said he
wou3A have drafted by the next meeting a m randum settin forth the
Committee's position on all matters raised 25X1X7@
C, The Committee approved the proposal of the Directorate of
Intelligence, USAF dated 16 December 1954 to downgrade Section 83, NIS
26 (USSR) from Top Secret to Secret. ONI concurred in this proposal on
23 November 19540
D. The Ax member raised the question of sending NIS produc-
tion schedules to field activities as a general guide for NIS collection.
The Chairman asked the members to consider this matter for discussion at
the next meeting.
EC, Th, A;p Navy mmbers requested that their copies of the
4~ d.c'''x leaser report of AIS,to SHAFT and SACLANT contain all NIS ele-
ments so that their departments in their capacity as executive agencies
may indicate release to SHAPE and SACLANT on the basis of "need-to-know",
F,, The Chairman reported the following sections have been await-
ing contributor action since the dates shown:
Arn5r NIS 45 - Sections 31 and 32 15 Nov 1954
State NIS 19 - Section 54 19 Nov 1954
7. The next meeting of the MIS Committee will be held at 1000 hours
on Tuesday, 18 January 1955. 25X1A9a
Distributions
4 - NIS Committee
1- Se , JIG
1 - SA/PC/DCI
1 - DD/I
1 - AD/RR
1 - AD/SI
1 - Ch/C
3 - Ch/G
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