NIS COMMITTEE MEETING NO. 166

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• Publication Date: March 23, 1954
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NIS COMMITTEE MEETING NO. 166
23 March 1954
10 The following were presents
Mr. Clinton
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Major Jacobson
Lieut. Madden
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State
State
Army
Navy
Air Force
CIA
CIA (Chairman)
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a, The members were asked to exmmine the final drafts they have
received on Chapter I and be prepared, to discuss them at a special Aas
Committee Meeting to be held at 1000 hours on Tuesdey? 30 March 1954.
This special meeting will be devoted to a review of the drafts which the
members have, plus Section 11. 111111111111 Chapter I Editor, will be at 25X1A9a
this meeting to go over various points on Chapter I. The Axmy member
reported that his Agency-would like to make an extensive review of the
whele Chapter, and noted this reflects an increased interest in Chapter I.
b, Copies of Section 10 on NIS 33 were distributed to the membere.
The Chairman explained that a. master alphabetical index of the entire NIS 33
has been designed to go with this sections and the members will receive
copies of this index at the special meeting of the Committee to be held next
Tuesday. Section 11 has been held lip as the "A. General" portions of all the
other sections are used as the basis for this section. However, it will be
ready for the special meeting next Tdesday.
c, Because it is anticipated that Chapters I will be used, more
extensively than other parts 'of the NIS, the Chairman requested the members
to determine the dissemination requirements of their Agencies an (1) specific
'dissemination requirements for Chapter I on Iran, and (2) general dissemination
requirements for other Chapters I. The members were requested either to phone
in their requirements or have them for the meeting on 30 March.
3. NIS Questionnaire
The Chairman reported he had received copies of all NIS questionnaire
replies that have come in. These comprise about 315 replies, of which the
largest nudber are from Army users, since the Army questionnaire went out to
attaches, subordinate commands, and the Technical Services, in addition to the
major commands. Oa the other Med, the Navy sent out their questionnaire only
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to?majoi commands. Practically all the replies appear to carer fully the
various aspects of the NIS Progrea and show a wide range of interests and
viewpoints. The high command replies genanaElevreflect a broader appreciation
of the NIS Frogrmi and its significance for plenning and operations in the
event of war. The peacetime uses also are extenatve at these staff levels.
The Chairman said that a complete analysis of the questicenaire
repliee will be made at an early data and report made to the Coueittee. He
felt the Committee should devote considerable time to the study of the
analysis with the view to correcting any weakeesees and deficieecies in the
Program.
h. 1955 Production Schedule
The State and Army members accepted the Chapter I prodection schedule
as proposed at the last meeting. However, this new requirement for Chaeters
would require some changes in the Aryls schedule for 1955. The Vice Chairman
said that OSI might want to have the dates for Chapters I on Norney and Sweden
interechanged since no mink had yet been done on the scientific intelligence
of Norway.
The Vice Chairman requested the State and Army members to re?examine
sections scheduled for maintenance in FY 1955, since analysis by staff
questioned the necessity of mainteaence on some of them.
5. JANIS Classification Notice
The Committee approved the JANIS Classification Notice as revised
to include notice for destruction of JANIS which have been superseded by NIS.
The Vice Chairman will arrange for the dissemination of this notice with an
attached list of JANIS to be destroeed as of 1 March 1954. (Refer to NIS
Committee Neeting No, 164 and 165.) It may not be feasible to Cautroy the
JANIS hold in dead storage, but the Vice Chairman will investigate this point.
Several complete sets of JANIS, will be indefinitely retained by CIA for
reference purepses.
6. USograiea
The State member reported that his agency was still exemining the
problem of classification for the biograehies on the USSR. Although they
had been able to &meagre& the twn 10P SECRET biographies that had been
prone/zed, there remain many biographies from Army and CIA classfIlled SECRET.,
The State and Army members and the Chairman are to check with their
eespective agencies to determine whether or not the classificatton of
SECRET can be reduced to CONFIDENTIAL and Make a report at the next regular
meeting of the Committee.
7. Rquest for
The Committee approved the request of the Operations Coordinating
Board (formerly the Psychological Strategy Board) for sections of Chapters
V and VIII on the Satellitee, as outlined in their request dated. 15 Feb 1954.
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8. Priority for Graphics
The Vice Chairman requested all members to give priority to those
maps and graphics which DiB is sending back to contributors for corrections.
Because of the efforts to eliminate the heavy backlog in rot it has become
necessary to shorten the deadline on these corrections from a month to two
meeks, The Committee agreed that every effort should be made by the
contributors to meet these new deadlines even though it meant SOM9 defections
on new production, since it was in the interests of the NIS Program to reduce
to the absolute minimum the time lag between preparation of contributions and
their publication. The Chairman said that the NB staff was devoting considerable
overtime to clearing up all backlog so that review and publication work could
be done on a current basis by the beginning of the next fiscal year.
9. NISAreaSO
The Chairman reported that the working committee, appointed at the
last meeting, had resolved the problems involved in the production of
Chapters IV, V, and V/ of NIS Area 50 (West Africa). The general production
plan envisages the following:
a. There will be four groupings: 1) Geld Coast and British
Togoland; 2) Nigeria and British Cameroons. 3) French West Africa,
Preach Togoland, and Spanish Sahara; and 4)* Sierra Leone, Gambia,
and Portuguese Guinea.
b. No letter designations of these groups will be necessary.
Instead, the specific territorial groupings will appear on the title
page, for examples
NIS 50 ?West Africa
Chapter V on Nigeria and British Cameroons
0. Production will proceed first on Chapter V on the Gold Coast
and British Togoland. This will take approximately two years to
finish. Following this other Chapters will be undertaken on this
or other portions of NIS 50. Because of the shortage of analysts rpeCialized
? in the African field, the production of NIS 50 will be very prolonged.
d, Dependency areas lend themselves to a flexible outline as
provided by the consolidated Chapter treatment in which Sections
are combined into a single unit. Full advantage mill'be-taken-of
this feature in preparing the contributions on this area. Section
credit for this consolidated treatment will be determined as appropriate
to the work required.
e. The unit of publication will. normally be the completed Chapter.
As component parts of the Chapter are completed they will be submitted
to DA to determine in each case whether or not they should be published.
Under the general NIS policy., State meet' distribute in mimeograph fors
such portions that are not published immediately to a limited number of
users having a pressing requirement for them.
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10. Correlation Guide
Copies of the revised Correlation Guide were distributed to the
members for review. The members were asked to examine the Guide and ommment
on it at the next regular meeting of the NIS Committee, It is intended to
issue the Correlation Guide as part of the Standeed instructions so that
all contributors may have it readily available. -
21. Gazetteers
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25X6A The Chairman reported that the first of the Gazetteers
under the Maintenance Program is scheduled to be publishell!!!!!!!
Since the revised Gazetteers will be much more complete than the Preliminary
Gazetteers, they will be used for a good many years without farther revision.
It is therefore necessary to consider now any desirable changes in their
format and arrangement. The members were asked to determine any desired
changes and to examine the two sample formats and let the Chairman know of
their Agencies' views by the next meting. He said Dit was already considering
the use of loose-leaf binders to permit insertion of correction pages to take
care of significant name changes,
12. Release of NIS to SHAPE
The Army member said that the meeting between the Armed Forces
representatives, agreed to at the last NIS Committee meeting, had not yet
taken place because the Army position VAS still unclear on release of NIS
to SACLANT. He said Army would like to release NIS to SHAPE at this time
since such release is approved by all Agencies.
A fall discussion by the Cammittee revealed the following:
a. IAC policy permits the release of NIS, on specified
areas approved by the NIS Committee and SID-MIC? to SHAPE and
SACLANT and to theli am subordinate commands on a "need-to-
know" basis under security system.
b. The NIS Committee bases its recommendations to BID-
MIC for the release of NIS to SHAPE and SACLANT on the controls
applied to individual Sections by the producing agencies under
the provisions of MIC 206/29.
c. The "need to know" can logically be established only
by the Executive Agency through reference to the commander in
question.
d, Navy has established* "need to know" by SACLANT for
certain NIS elements appearing on the proposed list. Navy desires
to have blanket release for all the elements which MEE receives,
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but will release ;hem only if and when SACLANT eetablishea a
IIIweed to know" for them. This procedure would enable Navy to
fulfill subsequent SACLANT requirements for releasable NIS
without further reference to the NIS Committee or to SID-!AIC.
e, The NIS Committee is not in a position to recommend
release of NIS to major subordinate commands of SHAPE until the
kocecutive Agency determines their requirements.
The Chairman suggested that the Amy member report these considerations
to his Agency and if necessary i call a meeting of Army and Wary representatives
to resolve the SACLANT problem. He farther requested that Army determine any
NIS requirement of major subordinate commands of SHAPE so that the Committee
might act on it. At this time there does not appear to be any NIB requirement
for the major subordinate commands of SACLANT.
13. luplement IV
The Army member distributed copies of the revised Outline and:
Outline Guide for Supplement IV (Urban Areas) to the members.
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14. A special meeting for the purpose of discussing final drafts on
Chapter I of NIS 33 will be held at 1000 hours on 30 March 1954. The next
regular meeting of the EIS Committee will be held on 6 April 1954 at 1000 hours.
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