MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTOR'S IAC CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, AT 1045, 13 AUGUST 1957

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• Publication Date: August 13, 1957
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IAG -M-302
13 August 1957
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, 13 August 1957
Acting Director of Central Intelligence
Lieutenant General Charles P. Cabell
Pre siding
Mr. Hugh S. Cumming, Jr., Special Assistant, 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, Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence,
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. Meffert Kuhrtz, acting for Federal Bureau of Investigation
representative to the IAG
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13 August 1957
1. Approval of Minutes
6 August meeting
(IAC-M-301)
Approved as written.
2. Watch Committee Report
No. '366
Noted.
4. NIE 22-57
The Outlook for France
a. Approved as amended.
b. Noted the post-mortem on this estimate. In this connection,
General Schow stated that the deficiencies in military intelligence listed
in this post-mortem might be overcome more readily if such reporting
could be done by an assistant attache He also
solicited the assistance of the State Department in making necessary
arrangements for the establishment of such an office and Mr. Cumming
stated he would look into the matter.
c. Noted the validity studies on NIE 22-56, "The Outlook for
France", 10 July 1956, and NIE 71. 2-56, "The Outlook for Algeria",
5 September 1956.
d. Agreed to release this estimate to USIA.
SECRET
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5. NIE 81-57
The Outlook for
a. Approved.
b. Noted the post-mortem on this estimate.
c. Agreed to release this estimate to USIA.
6. Report of Ad Hoc Weapons
System Study Committee
9 August 1957
General Bull outlined the nature of the Committee's approach
to this problem, various of the questions encountered in the course of
their study and the reasons for the specific recommendations made in
the report. After discussing various aspects of this. matter in. con-
siderable detail the members noted the report and approved the
recommendations of the Committee, subject to the insertion of
"possible" before "use" in the first line of recommendation No. 3 and
the addition of a subparagraph (e) in recommendation No. 4 to read: ;
"Determine the security implications". It was also agreed that General
Bull should act as Chairman of the "Soviet Weapons Requirements
Committee" established under the recommendations, and that this
group should proceed in the light of comments by the IAC members
and report back to the IAC no later than 31 October.
7. Executive Session
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The members elected Colonel Earle McFarland, Jr.,
United States Air Force, as Chairman of the Guided Missile Intelli-
gence Committee (GMIC), to be effective l October.
The members also discussed certain aspects of the
Syrian situation.
Adjournment: 1225
JOHN HEIRES
Sec retary
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