PSB STAFF MEETING, WEDNESDAY, 1 APRIL 1953

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01065A000100030077-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 77
• Publication Date: April 1, 1953
• Content Type: MEMO

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NIDIDEANUUM FOR: CPP
SUBJECT t PSB Staff Nlee
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Security Information
1 April 1953
:saw, 1 kpril 1953
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1. At the outset of the meeting noted that the spooifics
of Section II, paragraph 3.B. of PSB 1040? the CIA Annex to the plan on
Fttallnie death, were simplv for the guidance of the working group.
2. Nk. Phillips of State Department advised the meeting that State
had requested the par to eupervise the preraration of a plan for specific
measures to be taken in Iran predicated on certain assumed contingencies;
that this would be ir effect a contingency sueplement to the Middle Eastern
Plan. The formai proposal will be forwarded to CIA in due course.
3. With respect to the agenda for the meeting on April 2, 1953,
first, it is to be noted that the time and plaoe of the meeting have
been changed to meet the convenience of General Smith Who will go directly
from the airport from an out-of...town trip te the meeting.
a. Item 1 of the agenda Is a carry-over item.
b. Item 2: C. D. Jackson will simply report.
0. Item 3: It was the tenor of the disounsion that T)-7c is a
good contingency plan and that the implementing operational plane are
in good shape. However, among the leplioatione to he discussed is
the current preperetion of appropriate coureem of action with respect
to the "Mek and wounded" repatriation question. Nk. Phillips stated
that State had cabled General Clark that he vac to rroceed to ne7o-
tiate on good faith on an exploratory basis pending formlation of
a U. S. position on underlying questions, such as the definition of
a neutral nation. However, in the course of the discussion it was
pointed out that me dboeld undertake to consider the appropriate
courses of action with reepect to the corollary question of the
repatriation of American prisoners, recognising that some brain..waahed
and otherwise mey retie, to repatriate and that eertain hard-core
Communists, representing converts or otherwise, will be an those
repatriated. A collateral aspect of the negotiations appears to be
that the
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that the initiative for the negotiations seems to come free Pig
with echoing endeeemamets from *seem indicating possible shifts in
the venter of gravity on the Commist trout mhieh CIA might mell
exploit. Another related question is whether the current armistice
efforts mAr not be the prelude to a gigantic pea?e offensive with
eoonomie implioatione (particularly on the American home front) as
mell as politioal.
d. /ten 4 was put on the agenda at the instance of Mr. Dulles,
representing a carry-over from last meek; however, discussion indioated
that O. D. Jackson is apparently of the opinion that NSC 80/1 does not
give enough emObasis for the PY exploitation of defection.
e. 'tam 5 vas put on the agenda at the instance of C. D. Jackson,
with the underlyinit purpo!;o o17 diL;cutwing the preparatioY1 of a 'All of
partioulars for the next Assembly. This is in line with Mr. Lodge's
thinking that the UN is the most offective medium for PW that ye have
and that at the next Assembly he would like to move from the defensive
to the offensive an3. that he would like or 9 underlying !toms to
proseoute this offensive.
f. 7Ith respeot to item 6 as to which the DOI has alreay taken
a position as iniicated by the attached memo, the only comment is that
Mr. Phillipe would have preferred that in lieu of the word, "approved,"
in the last paragraph that the word lordoreed," be substituted.
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