APPROVED MINUTES FIFTEENTH MEETING OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY BOARD SEPTEMBER 11, 1952

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2005
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• Publication Date: September 11, 1952
• Content Type: MIN

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PSB M-15
Fifteenth Meeting of the
PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY BOARD
September 11, 1952 2:55 p. m.
Director's Conference Room
Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency
General Walter Bedell Smith, Director of Central intelligence,
Chairman
Mr. WWilliam C. Foster, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Mr. Rowland H. Sargeant, Assistant Secretary of State
Dr. Raymond B. Allen, Director, Psychological Strategy Board
Admiral Alan G.'Kirk, USN (Ret.), D.rector-Designate,
Psychological Strategy Board
OTHER PARTICIPANTS t
Office of the Director of Mutual Security
Mr. Averell Harriman, Director (For Item 1 only)
DeDartment of State
Mr, Evron M. Kirkpatrick, Chief, External Research `Staff,
Office of Intelligence Research
Office of the Secretary of Defense
Brig. General John Magruder, USA (Ret.)
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Brig. General Jesmond D. Balmer
Central Intelligence Agency
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Mr. Loftus Becker, Deputy Director (Intelligence)
Mr. Frank Wisner, Deputy Director (Plans)
Research and Development Board
Mr. Don K. Price, Deputy Chairman
Psychological Strategy Board
Mr. Charles E. Johnson, Secretary to the Board
Major Edmund J, Bennett, Deputy Executive Officer
Lt. Colonel Tobias R. Philbin
Mr. John Sherman
Mr. Edmond L. Taylor
NSC review(s) completed.
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#v onda Item No. 1. - 2octrinal Idoolor-'12a rr w e Aroc,.ins th
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`t`he Board accepted the recommendation that a panel be created;
the panel would be authorized to make any appropriate final revisions
in its terms of reference as given in PSB D-3~, General. Srzith nomin-
Agenda Item Na. 2, atrate~ic CQ_3oo t for a National Psvcholo~ica.1
P ~ Tram .;itch .pant cular Reference Cold .4r
4er Lions under SC .PSB D- 1
The Paper is approved as soon as the comments of the Depurtment
of Dci'onso z:re received by the Director and agreed to by the Department
of State and CIA. General 3i.aith. and 1;` , $argeant approved the paper as
submitted.
A oxide Item Rio ? 3 .
a. "Pricflwze Qn Research in the Social Sciences of Use
to Psyrcholotical StratepT Board Planning and Operations
b. Report on Social Science Research in Cold war 0 Qera bons-
rr ar0d by Hnr= ,oisis SB Staff Co ul -ant
iQB D-? (This item not on agenda.
. ssrs. Kirkpatriclt, Bucker and Price briefed the Board on organi-
zation and procedures for interagency coordination of social science
rose, rch,
The Board did not accept the Loomis report. It agreed that intra-
agency and department coordination for research should be further developed.
A formal centralized mechanism for interagency and department coordination
would not be authorized at this time. The Board noted the informal co-
ordinating procedures now being conducted by OIR of the Department of
State, agreed to PSB Staff association with these activities, and directed
the PSB Staff to make further recomriendations with respect to the pro-
blems elicited in the briefing.
S ecarityIn f orpation
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