NOTES ON IAC MEETING, 20 OCTOBER 1950

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• Publication Date: October 20, 1950
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1. General Smith stated that OPO and SO, within CIA, are not to
consolidate?but they will coordinate their activities thoroughly in
the future.
IAC will meet much more often in the future, and possibly for
longer periods although it will be the aim to keep meetings as brief
as possible. The IAC must hereafter be "geared for rapid cooperative
work" on the basis that the best intelligence brains of the nation will
be present and must cooperate.
3. A letter written by Mr. Jackson to Welter Lipmann, stating the
purpose and aims of CIA, was read with the endorsement of General Smith.
4. Hereafter, intelligence estimates produced by ORS and to be
issued with the approval of IACI will have a new cover showing plainly
that it is a collective effort, and will be labeled "National Intelligence
Estimates."
The ORE will heart and soulof CIA and of the national
intelligence machinery. It will be reorganized to have a "Division of
Estimates" and a "Division of Basic Intelligence." The latter will con-
fine its activities to the production of reports as a service of common
concern on subjects assigned specifically by law to CIA. Mr. Jackson mode--
that the fact that ORE has in the past produoed both estimates
and simple reports of fact has, in effect, blurred the product&em of
ORE--insufficient differentiation is made between the two products and
the methods ofwroduction.
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6. On General Smith's arrival Ural'. professed himself to be
unhappy in his position, operating under directives generally misunder-
stood. General Smith made the point that the directives were written
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to meet conditions prevailing at the time, and were not currently
appropriate. Re has issued instructions to to coordinate
hereafter with State Defense, and NSRB.
7. General Smith made the point that presently there is no senior
CIA representative in several foreign countries. will be swat
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with It was not made clear whether CIA intends to establish
a senior representative in all foreign countries.
S. The procedure for arriving at intelligence estimates (other
than those which are crash estimates) will be approximately as follows:
a. A frame of reference and assumptions will first be arrived
and approved by IAO.
b. An outline will be drawn up by ORE, and the severalIntel-
ligence agencies asked for contributions with
d. Draft
modification.
a
a
he field of interest.
back to the agencies for comment and
duce a second draft.
approve, after resolving differenc
(The above procedure is iit by the undersigned as bei &I?
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This rendition may be somewhat inaccurate.)
9. Within the new Estimates Division of ORE there will be a panel
of five or six individuals constituting the top brains. Genera]. Smith
is looking hard for a retired General or Admiral to head. Be tried to
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and asked
to talk once more to in an effort to persuade him.
General Smith also said he was anxious to get to be
a member of the panel, and possibly to head the Division.
10. As a matter of urgency, it was decided that an intelligence
plan must be written. This, in effect, will be a list of estimates to
be made under the direction of IA the subjects of these estimates
to be in an order of priority 'of accomplishment.
U. At the next meeting it 1,83 determined to discuss the frame
of reference and assumptions to form the basis of an Intelligence
Estimate of the Situation in Indo-China.
12. General Smith will produce a paper
ho
ion in a Theater of Operations in war. He will circulate this
e time as a matter which needs resolution.
13. The ne
At this meeting
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above):
meeting will be held Wednesday, 25 October,
o intelligence plan and the frame of reference and
0-China will be discussed (see paragraphs 10 and 11
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(Note by the signed: I acquainted with
the last requirement this date, and suggested that ID send to the
Wednesday meeting one individual armed with a list of estimates in
order of priority, and prepared to discuss that matter, and a second
individual, expert on Indo-China, with a frame of reference and
assumptions for an estimate on that area.)
Colon
Assistant Executive for
Planning and Coordination
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