IAC TASK FORCE ON PRESIDEN'TS PROPOSAL PROPOSED TERMS OF REFERENCE

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• Publication Date: August 18, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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,7.C? IAC-D-97
18 August 1955
ILC TASK FORCE
ON PRESIDENT'S PROPOSAL
PROPOSED TERMS OF REFERENCE
I. INTRODUCTION
1. The IAC asked the Task Force to study US intelligence require,
ments and implications of any program designed to implement the President's
proposal for a US-Soviet exchange of military blueprints and aerial
inspection.
The President's Propomal
"I propose, therefore, that we take a practical sten, that
we begin an arrangement, very quickly, as between ourselves
immediately. These steps would include:
"To give to each other a complete blueprint of our
military establishments, from beginning to end, from one
end of our countries to the other, lay out the establish-
ments and provide the blueprints to each other.
"Next, to provide within our countries facilities
for aerial photography to the other country -- we to provide
you the facilities within our country, ample facilities for
aerial reconnaissance, where you can make all the pictures
you choose and take then to your own country to study, you
to provide exactly the same facilities for us and ve to make
these examinations and by this step convince the world that
we are providing as between ourselves against the possibility
of great surprise attack, thus lessening danger and relaxing
tension."
2. The President's proposal falls under the general heading of
"security," as opposed to disarmament; more specifically under the
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heading of "military security," security of the nation against military
attack by the USSR. More specifically still, the President's proposal
aims at providing against the element of surprise in the event of attack
or as he stated, "great surprise attack." The President's proposal
would superimpose on existing means of intelligence collection a method
which would provide evidence from direct observation, although limited
by the media themselves.
3. It is noted that the President's proposal calls for the
exchange of a. "complete blueprint of our military establishments," and
for "aerial reconnaissance" which appears to be restricted to aerial
photography. Since such limitation nay he more implied than intended,
the task force proposes to consider other means of inspection as well.
4. "Great surprise attack" is interpreted to mean any surprise
attack which would jeopardize the basic strengths and interests of the
United States. (Minor border clashes or incidents would not be included.)
Such an attack would involve direct assault to the full extent of Soviet
military capabilities, including the. use of mass destruction weapons
(atomic, biological and/or chemical),
5. The President's proposal calls for a bilateral arrangement
between the US and the USSR in order to "convince the world that we
are providing as between ourselves against the possibility of great
surprise attack." Because one cannot separate US security realistically
from intelligence of Soviet-controlled and closely allied areas and
because one cannot separate US security realistically from that of
allied powers, especially those wherein US forward bases are located,
the IAC believes that the areas to be inspected nay go beyond continental
limits of the US and the USSR.
11. DEFINITION OF TEE INTELLIGENCE PROBLEM
To develop the intelligence requirements necessary to insure the
US against a surprise attack by the USSR and to analyze the possibility
of their satisfaction under any conditions for exchange of information
and any conditions for mutual inspection.
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a. Method of Procedure: First to establish the requirements
and then to define the media, if possible, in such fashion as to
provide information constituting an acceptable minimum of protection
against surprise attack.
b. The requirements should be developed and organized in a
manner which will cover: first, the strictest interpretation of the
proposal, viz, surprise attack from the USSR proper against the US
proper; second, successively broader interpretations which would
(1) expand the area from which surprise attack could be launched
to include Soviet allied and satellite territory, (2) expand the
target of attack to include US forward bases and US allies, and
(3) provide for protection against the secret development of relatively
Greater Soviet military capabilities.
III. ASSUMPTIONS
It is assumed that:
a. The Soviet Union accepts the President's proposal.
b. The Task Force is not concerned with the various con-
tingencies that will arise in the course of negotiations, but only
with the determination of those intelligence requirements and the
conditions for their satisfaction adequate to insure advance
knowledge of preparations for attack.
IV. DISCUSSION
A. Intelligence Requirements
1. Inasmuch as this section of the study goes to the heart of
our military intelligence problem with respect to the Communist power,
it is proposed that each service develop its own lists in accordance with
II (2) above, and that these lists then be consolidated under the appropri-
ate headings. As for example, the first list:
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