MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTORS CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CIA, ON 13 JULY 1954

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 2002
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: July 13, 1954
• Content Type: MIN

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13 July 1954
INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Minutes of Meeting Held in Director's
Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, on 13 July 1954
Director of Central Intelligence
Allen W. Dulles
Pre siding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. Fisher Howe, acting for Special Assistant for Intelligence,
Department of State
Major General John M. Willems, acting for Assistant Chief of Staff,
G-2, Department of the Army
Rear Admiral Carl F. Espe, Director of Naval Intelligence,
Department of the Navy
Brigadier General Millard Lewis, acting for Director of
Intelligence, Headquarters, United States Air Force
Brigadier General Edward Porter, Deputy Director for
Intelligence, The Joint Staff
Dr. Charles H. Reichardt, Atomic Energy Commission
Representative to the IAC
Mr. Ralph R. Roach, acting for Assistant to the Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
ALSO PRESENT
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Robert Amory, Central Intelligence Agency
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Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. Otto E. Guthe, Central Intelligence Agency
Dr. H. Marshall Chadwell, Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
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Mr. William C. Trueheart, Department of State
Lt. Colonel R. L. Kolb, Department of the Army
Mr. Y. J. Skalnik, Department of the Army
Captain B.
E.
Wiggin, USN, Departme
nt of the Navy
Colonel W.
C.
Baird, United States Air
Force
Colonel P.
D.
Wynne, United States Ai
r Force
Lt. Colonel A. E. Justice, United States Air Force
Major Thomas B. Johnson, United States Air Force
Rear Admiral Edwin T. Layton, USN, The Joint Staff
Colonel Robert Totten, The Joint Staff
Colonel J. E. Leary, The Joint Staff
Colonel John G. Ondrick, The Joint Staff
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Acting Secretary
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Approval of Minutes
(IAC-M-158, 29 June 1954)
1. Action: Approved.
Quarterly Revision and Extension
of the National Estimates Program
2. Action: Approved as amended.
Report of Resistance Intelli-
gence Committee
3. Action: Several amendments were approved. Final action
was postponed until the next meeting of the IAC, at the request of
the DCI.
Viability of a South
Vietnam State
4. Mr. Dulles circulated a Board of National Estimates
memorandum dated 12 July on "Critical Factors Underlying the
Viability of a South Vietnam State. " He announced his intention
to brief the NSC on 15 July on the basis of this memorandum and
requested the IAC members to communicate to him before 15 July
any views they might have on the Board memorandum.
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INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Minutes of Meeting Held in Director's
Conference Room, Administrative Building
Central Intelligence Agency, on 29 June 1954
Director of Central Intelligence
Allen.W. Dulles
Presiding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. W. Park Armstrong, Special Assistant for Intelligence,
Department of State
Major General John M. Willems, acting for Assistant Chief
of Staff, G-2, Department of the Army
Rear Admiral Carl F. Espe, Director of Naval Intelligence,
Department of the Navy
Brigadier General Millard Lewis, acting for Director of
Intelligence, Headquarters, United States Air Force
Brigadier General Edward Porter, Deputy Director for
Intelligence, The Joint Staff
Dr. Charles H. Reichardt, Atomic Energy Commission
Representative to the IAC
Mr. Ralph R. Roach, acting for Assistant to the Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Robert Amory, Jr., Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Dr. Otto E. Guthe, Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. George A. Pope, Department of State
Brigadier General Robert A. Schow, Department of the Army
Colonel Edward S. Berry, Department of the Army
Colonel. W. J. Nichols, Department of the Army
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Colonel W. B. Yeager, Department of the Army
Lt. Colonel Vasco J. Fenili, Department of the Army..
Lt. Colonel James G. Martin, Department of the Army
Captain B. E. Wiggin, USN, Department of the Navy
Colonel C. M. Walton, United States Air Force
Major T. B. Johnson, United States Air Force
Colonel R. H. Wade, The Joint Staff
Colonel John G. Ondrick, The Joint Staff
Captain Ray E. Malpass, USN, The Joint Staff
Mr. Meffert W. Kuhrtz, Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Secretary
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Approval of Minutes
(IAC-M-157, 22 June)
1. Action: Approved.
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Proposed Amendment to the
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
3. The Director circulated copies of his letter of 25 June to
the Chairman, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, and of an amend-
ment approved by the Joint Committee on 28 June. He summarized
the purpose of the proposed permissive amendment as discussed in
the letter, pointed out that the procedure for determining whether or
not to release national intelligence (NSCID-1, paragraph 5 b) would
be unaffected, and invited the members' comment.
Welcome of General Schow
and Mr. Roach
4. Mr. Dulles welcomed Mr. Ralph R. Roach, recently
designated by Mr. Hoover as the FBI's alternate representative
to the IAC, vice Mr. Victor P. Keay, and Brigadier General
Robert A. Schow, recently appointed A. C. of S., G-2, Foreign
Operations.
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Secretary's Notes:
1. NIE 13-54, "Communist China's Power Potential Through
1957" was released
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