MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTORS CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CIA, ON 1 JUNE 1954

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 2002
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: June 1, 1954
• Content Type: MIN

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INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Minutes of Meeting Held in Director's
Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, on 1 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 H. C. Daniel, acting for Director of Naval Intelligence,
Department of the Navy
Major General John A. Samford, Director of Intelligence,
Headquarters, united States Air Force
Rear Admiral Ed i T. Layton, acting for Deputy Director
for Intelligence, The Joint Staff
Dr. Charles H. Reichardt, Atomic Energy Commission
Representative to the IAC
Mr. Meffert W. Kuhrtz, acting for Assistant to the Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
ALSO PRESENT
Lt. General Charles P. Cabell, Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. Robert Amory, Jr., Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Dr. H. Marshall Chadwell, Central Intelligence Agency
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Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. James H. Ennis, Department of State
Mr. J. W. Lydman, Department of State
Mr. John C. Guthrie, Department of State
Colonel Robert E. O'Brien, Department of the Army
Lt. Colonel Vasco J. Fenili, Department of the Army
Lt. Colonel John Arthur, Department of the Army
Captain Allan L. Reed, USN, Department of the Navy
Colonel Donald H. Ainsworth, United States Air Force
Colonel Robert Totten, United States Air Force
Colonel John J. Morrow, United States Air Force
Colonel Lawrence D. Bell, United States Air Force
Lt. Colonel Julius Z. Mims, United States Air Force
Lt. Colonel Clyde C. Wooten, United States Air Force
Captain Ray E. Malpa s s . USN, The Joint Staff
Colonel John J. Hussey, Jr., The Joint Staff
Colonel Samuel M. Lansing, The Joint Staff
Colonel John G. Ondrick, The Joint Staff
Lt. Colonel P. H. Penn, USAF, The Joint Staff
JAMES Q. REBER
Acting Secretary
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Approval of Minutes
(IAC-M-154, 25 May 1954)
1. Action: Approved.
Soviet Capabilities and Main
Lines- of Policy Through
Mid-1959
(NIE 11-5-54)
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2. Action: Approved as amended, subject to:
(a) The inclusion of a footnote, to be supplied by
Air i'orce;
(b) An agreed clarification with regard to the
atomic energy paragraph, by the JAEIC;
(c) An agreed clarification of the paragraph
regarding guided missiles, by the SEC.
3. Discussion: Mr. Armstrong and Admiral Layton urged
that, when it is imperative for an ONE draft estimate to go to the
Planning Board for reasons of urgency, some arrangement be
devised whereby the other intelligence agencies are so informed
and have available a copy of the draft. The Chairman undertook
stated
that this would be done in the future.
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Reconsideration of
Release of NIE 11-3A-54
5. Action: Disapproved release
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Admiral Daniels said that ONI, after reconsidera-
tion, still felt that this was military information, but was
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agreeable to its release because of its relationship to
NIE-65,
General Willems said that G-2 disapproved of the release
of the subject estimate on the ground that it was within the
purview of military intelligence and that G-2 would take the
same position if the matter were to be considered by SD-MIC.
Watch Committee
Report
6. The Chairman said that he had intended, but had
not yet had an opportunity, to circulate the. Watch Committee
Report to the NSC (which has on various occasions been very
much interested in the Watch process) in the hope that he
could discuss later with them the recommendations with regard
to strengthening the Watch Committee. He said that the support
of the NSC would be very helpful to the improvement of the
Watch Committee.
Secreta.ry's Note:
All agencies having concurred in the proposed release
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and Political Developments in Indochina over the Next 30 Days"
(Memo from ONE to IAC dated 21 May 1954), this estimate
was released on 27 May 1954
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