MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTORS CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMIN. BUILD. CIA, AT 1045, 7 JUNE 1955

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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 Director's
Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, at 1045, 7 June 1955
Director of Central Intelligence
Allen W. Dulles
*Presiding
Deputy Director (Intelligence)
Robert Amory, Jr.
*Presiding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. W. Park Armstrong, Special Assistant for Intelligence,
Department of State
Major General Arthur G. Trudeau, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2,
Department of the Army
Rear Admiral Carl F. Espe, Director of Naval Intelligence,
Department of the Navy
Major General John A. Samford, Director of Intelligence,
Headquarters, United States Air Force
Rear Admiral Edwin T. Layton, Deputy Director for Intelligence,
The Joint Staff
Mr. Harry S. Traynor, Atomic Energy Commission
Representative to the IAC
Mr. M. W. Kuhrtz, acting for Assistant to the Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Mr. Huntington D. Sheldon, Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. H. Marshall Chadwell, Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. Otto E. Guthe, Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
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entral Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. Howard Furnas, Department of State
Mr. Howard M. Wiedemann, Department of State
Lieutenant Colonel V. J. Fenili, Department of the Army
Lieutenant Colonel C. A. Reinhard, Department of the Army
Captain Bruce E. Wiggin, Department of the Navy
Colonel P. D. Wynne, Jr. , United States Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel John F. Allums, United States Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel Van A. Woods, Jr. , United States Air Force
Colonel John E. Leary, USA, The Joint Staff
Colonel C. H. Dayhuff, Jr., USA, The Joint Staff
Colonel Robert Totten, USAF, The Joint Staff
Colonel Hugh D. Maxwell, Jr., USAF, The Joint Staff
Colonel Ralph H. Wade, USAF, The Joint Staff
Mr. Charles H. Reichardt, Atomic Energy Commission
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1. Approval of Minutes
24 May 1955 Meeting
(IAC-M-198)
Approved as written.
2. Situation in North Africa
The Chairman expressed his concern with the situation in
French North Africa and referred specifically to State Department
telegram dated 1 June 1955 from Rabat (No. 154).
It was agreed that existing estimates should be reviewed
(NIE 71-54: Probable Developments in North Africa, 31 August 1954;
3. Probable Intelligence Warning
of Soviet Attack on the US
through Mid-1958
(NIE 11-6-55)
Approved as amended, and referred to the IAC
representatives for consideration of additional proposed amend-
ments and for conforming the text with the conclusions. The
estimate will not be referred again to the IAC unless the
representatives are unable to complete action.
4. Watch Committee Reports
No. 251 and No. 252
Noted. The Chairman also referred to the action of the
Watch Committee in holding a special informal meeting on
5 June 1955, at which a field report from 6925thRSM, 6920th
Wing, USAF, was evaluated. At the Chairman's request the
Navy member agreed to express the IAC's interest in the field
action.
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8. Operation.Alert 1955
Approved the plan prepared by the ad hoc committee with
the deletion of the words bracketed in para. 5c, it being agreed
that the IAC would not be convened during the exercise except in
case of real emergency or if required by NSC action.
Adjournment: 1300
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Secretary
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Secretary's Note
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2. With the concurrence of AFOIN, the Secretary, on 2 June
1955, referred to the ad hoc Committee on Information Processing
a memorandum submitted by the DI/USAF to the IAC regarding the
adoption of a standard intelligence index code by the IAC.
3. In view of its relationship with NIE 11-7-55 "Soviet Gross
Capabilities for Attacks on the US and Key Overseas Installations
through Mid-1958, " and its special character, the Secretary does
not propose to release NIE 11-6-55 "Probable Intelligence Warning
of Soviet Attack on the US through Mid-1958, " to the USIA.
4. The IAC agencies (FBI abstaining) have concurred in the
proposal that an Electronics Conference be held in the US in April
1956. No agency has requested that the matter regarding plans for
.the Guided Missiles Working Group be placed on the IAC agenda.
The AEC representative asked that attention be invited to the legal
limitations noted in paragraph 9d of IAC-D-81/6, dated 27 January
1955.
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