NIS COMMITTEE MEETING NO. 118

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• Document Release Date: March 13, 2000
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• Publication Date: November 13, 1951
• Content Type: MIN

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NIS COMMITTEE MEE-TING NO, 118
13 November 1951
1.- The following were presents
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Dr. Appleton
Mr. Clinton
Lt. Col. Kiel
Lt. Col, Rogers
Lieut. Jones
Lt, Col. Rush
Major Reesion
'State
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Navy
Navy
Air Force
Air Force
CIA,
CIA (Chairman)
2. Dismiseion if resumed on ways and means of/stabilizing NIS
production (refer to NIS Committee Meetings Nose 13) to 117, inclusive)
The Chairman submitted, for the particular attention of the Army member, a
draft of a Staff Study outlining Armyle interest in exploring the
possibility of obtaining CIA fiscal support for its NIS activities, which
will be submitted to the DCI after coordination with other CIA offices
concerned. It is recreamended therein that Army be given formal notification
that CIA is favorably dieposed to extending such fiscal support. The
Chairman said he would inform the Committee of developmente in respect to
the Staff Study.
The Nov member reported that the Memorandum to the Committee
Chairman outlining difficulties being faced in meeting production' soramitments
was under active consideration in his agency but could give no estimate as
to probable date of submission. Re also advised that the hearing with NOV
Budget Officers with regard to possible reetoration of NIS ,positions, which
were lost as a result of the SecDef personnel cet,direStive, had proved
ineffectual (refer to paragraph 7, NIS Committee Meeting No. 117). Efforts
are now being made to find other means of increasing NIS production
capabilities.'
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3. The Committee approved a memorandum to G..2 De artment of the Army
release of 60 NIS elements on the USSR and its satellites
Forty five (45) elements were recommonde or release on
In connection with the release of NIS it was decided that
NIS Committee members would submit to D/B, on the first of each month, a
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statement indicating the release category of each NIS element produced on
the USSR and the satellite countries during the preceding month. D/H will
then prepare a consolidated statement for the approval of' the Committee, and
for submiesion to G-2.
ee a related matter the Army member reported that the Army Signal
Corps had received a request from =CC (Faropean Military Communications
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(Telecemmunicatione) and Supplements III (Telecommunications) on the NATO 25X1C
countries, and that he had been queried regarding the release status of
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these elements
After discussion it was agreed that the Army
member would notify the Signal Corps that the request from ElliCCC should be
referred to the. NIS Committee for consideration.
The Air Force nemher reported that the suggestions made by 10 on
the pr000sed change of Outline and Outline Guide for NIS Section 83 were
generally acceptable to his agency and changes were being made accordingly
(refer to paragraph 4, NIS Committee Meeting No. 117). He stated further
that the Navy Air Arm portion of the Outline Guide was being enlarged. The
revleee proposal will be comoleted and submitted to D/B for review before
the net meeting.
Li. Copies of a statistical analysis of NIS production were distributed
to the members. The analysis disclosed that during the first four months of
2Y 1952, agency production reached 82% of commitenents in terms of numbers of
oections produced, but only reached 27% in term of particular sections
scheduled for that period. The Chairman pointed out that while a reasonable
attainment of commitments was indicated the elements produced were largely
nem the backlog of overdue elements, which shows clearly that the
contributing agencies do not have the capabilities to absorb the backlog
from the FY 1951 schedule in addition to meeting currently scheduled require-
ments. He proposed, therefore, that the FY 1952 schedule be revised to
bring requirements more realistically into line with contributors/ production
capabilities. It was streesed that all active overdue elements from previous
schedules should be rescheduled, even though this mono advancing to the
FY 1953 schedule some elements that were originally scheduled for FY 1952.
The latter action should be taken, however, only when necessary to keep
commitments within the nazism production capabilities of the contributor.
The Coraraittoo undertook to revise the FY 1952 schedule to become effective
on 1 January 1952. Members agreed to submit proposals for the revision to
D/B on or before 4 December 1951, and the Chairman undertook to have a
consolidated schedule prepared for consideration of the Committee at the
11 December meeting.
6. The Chairmen stated that it would also be necessary to start
planning at this time for FY 1953 production ander the maintenance program.
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He pointed out that a number of published NIS elements on strategically
important areas contained serious gaps in information required by planners,
amid were deficient in other respects as well. In order to fill the gaps,
specific collection actions should be initiated at least a year in advance of
the date the maintenance manuscript is scheduled for submission to fl/B, to
provide time for field collectors to procure the needed information, and time
for the preparation of the manuscript. Members were requested to determine
which NIS elements require revision under the maintenance program and to
initiate collection requirements for those particular elements with a view to
scheduling them for production in PT 1953. The Chairman noted that revisioa
may be necessaey also because information has been found to be impeachable,
or obsolete due to changed conditions in an area. Searching examination of
existing HIS should also be made from those standpoints. He stressed the need
for continuing effort to correct all shortcomings, and said that he regarded
proper maintenance as the crux of the entire NIS program; that without it
the users would lose confidence in the HIS as a reliable source for basic
intelligence. He estimated that at least 10% of the F7'1953 production would
be meineenance? and that maintenance production would increase each year
thereafter, and would eventually be all maintenance when HIS had been
published on all areas.
The Chairman informed the members that in view of the growing
importance of the maintenance aspect of the HIS Program a Maintenance
Editor had been designated in 1)/111 to act as principal advisor and liaison
officer with HIS contributors relative to maintenance matters. Files are
maintained on all information of an errata or maintenance nature coming to
the attention of fl/B, and a continuing study will be made of this material to
determine when need for revision of published HIS is indicat=d. Members were
urged to have their production personnel consult with the Maintenance Editor,
and eine material in the files, prior to actually undertaking maintenance
revision of any HIS elements.
7. In answer to a question by the Air Force member relative to sending
out notices of HIS superseding JANIS, the Chairman stated that it would be
infeasible to send out such notices when individual HIS Chapters and Sections
were published since the format of the two publications is entirely different.
The policy is, therefore, that notice of a JANIS publication being superseded
by the HIS will be given only when a complete HIS has been produced for the
area concerned. 0/B will initiate action for the issuance of such notices.
8. The Naey m! ' stated that the Naval Attache in Turkey had
received a request for a copy of
the "Coasts and Lancl-k,Beaches" element Section 22) of the "Turkey
Tentative" basic intelligence study, and he requested the Committee's position
in the matter. The Chairman said that the "Turkey Tentative" study had been
produced by the IAC agencies as an unfinished intelligence study; that it had
been neither edited nor produced as HIS; and that it had no status in the HIS
?Program. It was not, therefore, a natter for Committee consideration. It
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was pointed. out, however, that Navy could make such dissemination as it
wished of the Navy produced portions of the studY,Trovided these portions
are disassociated completely from the NIS..
9. The next meeting will be held at the call of the Chairman.
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