INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE OF SOVIET INTENTIONS

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• Publication Date: January 19, 1954
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE IF TIME PRESIDENT
NATIONAL, SECURITY COUNCIL 7 9v !1
19 January 1954
MEMORANDUM FOR THE bIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
SUBJECT: Intelligence Estimate.-of Soviet Intentions
REFERENCES: NSC 159/4
NSC Action No. 1010-b
Pursuant to NSC Action No. 1010-b, consideration of
revisions of NSC 159/4 on "continental defense" is now tentatively
scheduled for the first National Security Council meeting in March.
One of the important elements of this report is the
estimate of Soviet intentions contained in paragraph 8 of NSC 159/4.
As now written this estimate applies only to "the period covered
by current estimates (through mid-1955)". Yet many of the most
important continental defense programs are not now planned to reach
a state of readiness until 1957 or beyond.
Therefore, as a basis for reconsidering NSC 159/4 it is
requested that a coordinated Intelligence Estimate of Soviet inten-
ticns, at least through 1957s be prepared before March 1, 1954.
/s/ James S. Lay, Jr.
Executive Secretary
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