INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN IAC CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, AT 1045, 18 DECEMBER 1956

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Minutes of Meeting Held in
IAC Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, at 1045, 18 December 1956
Director of Central Intelligence
Allen W. Dulles
Presiding
Mr. W. Park Armstrong, Jr., Special Assistant for 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, Director of Intelligence, Headquarters,
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. Ralph R. Roach, acting for Federal Bureau of Investigation
representative to the IAC
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1. Approval of Minutes
13 December Meeting
(IAC-M-271)
a. Approved the minutes of the 13 December meeting
(IAC-M-271) as written.
b. Admiral Frost, referring to the minutes of the 4 December
meeting (IAC-M-270, item 4), stated that the Navy had decided not to
submit to the IAC any proposal for broadening the mandate of the Ad
Hoc Current Intelligence Group for the Taiwan Strait Problem.
2. Watch Committee Report
No. 332 25x1
Noted this report.
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4. Briefings for Aircraft
Manufacturers
The Chairman raised for discussion the question of briefings
Gtechnical and eneral Lis thentific
for U5 aircraft manufacturers with respect
intelligence on Soviet aviation developments. ew s then, in
outlined in considerable detail the nature of, and procedure
with
vari intelligence briefings given by the ollolwino exchange ofoviews on thos us
types of Air Force contracts. Following an
matter, the Chairman suggested, and thmembers ue concurred s, hat no
specific action be taken at this time, but that the question
briefings, including some in related defense fields, might be con-
sidered further at a later date.
5. Scheduling of IAC Meetings
Noting that the next scheduled IA C ~ eme g during lth would k be
on 25 December, the members agreed not
the next IAC Chairman
unless an emergency or special requirement arose.
also suggested, and the members concurred, that
meeting should be scheduled for the earliest day following 1 January
on which pending business required such a meeting.
6. Syrian situation
After Admiral Frost referred to reports of the movement of
Soviet Bloc shipping to Syria, the members discussed this and
certain other matters related to the Syrian situation.
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8. Executive Session
At 1140 the Chairman requested certain of the members to
remain for an executive session.
Adjournment: 1150
Acting Secretary
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