MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTOR'S CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, ON 7 DECEMBER 1950

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• Publication Date: December 7, 1950
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INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Minutes of Meeting held in Director's
Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency; on 7 December 1950
Director of Central Intelligence
Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith
Presiding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. W. Park Armstrong, Jr., Special Assistant, Intelligence,
Department of State
Major General A. R. Bolling, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2,
Department of the Army
Rear Admiral Felix L. Johnson, Director of Naval Intelligence
Brigadier General Ernest B. Moore, acting for Director of
Intelligence, Headquarters, United States Air Force
Dr. Walter F. Colby, Director of Intelligence, Atomic
Energy Commission
Captain R. G. McCool, USN, acting for Deputy Director for
Intelligence, The Joint Staff
Mr. Victor P. Keay, acting for Assistant to the Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
ALSO PRESENT
Mr. William H. Jackson, Central Intelligence Agency
Dr. William L. Langer, Central Intelligence Agency
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Mr. Ludwel Montague, Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. Lyman B. Kirkpatrick, Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. Allan Evans, Department of State
Mr. William C. Trueheart, Department of State
Colonel Hamilton H. Howze, Department of the Army
Dr. Samuel McKee, Jr., Department of the Army
Mr. Roy S. Tod, Department of the Army
Captain John M. Ocker, USN, Department of the Navy
Colonel Edward H. Porter, Department of the Air Force
Lieut. Colonel J. C. Marchant, Department of the Air Force
Mr. C. D. DeLoach, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Acting Secretary
Mr. James Q. Reber
Central Intelligence Agency
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Approval of Minutes
1. Action:
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a. The minutes of the meeting of 2 December (IAC-M-9)
were approved.
b. No objections were raised to the minutes of the
meeting of 16 November (IAC-M-6) and 30 November (IAC-M-8).
Presentation on comparative-study of
US-USSR military and industrial strength
No document
2. Action: General Smith directed that Dr. Babbitt, who
headed up the interagency collaboration in preparation of the charts
and who presented the charts at this meeting, should make the
modifications suggested by the members especially showing Satellite
breakdown on USSR bars, and adding to the charts as appropriate
material on China and Japan. General Smith said that the books
containing these charts in color should be given highest security
handling and would be given directly to and for the personal use
of the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense,
the Chairman of the NSRB, and the members of the IAC. The constant
revisions will be handled in like manner.
Draft Terms of Reference: China
IAC-D-7
3. Action: Noted the draft terms of reference and authorized
Dr. Langer, in collaboration with the other agencies, to proceed on
further necessary refinement of the terms of reference and production
of the estimate.
4. It was agreed that hereafter draft terms of reference
will come to the IAC only when staff differences must be resolved.
NSRB Request for an Estimate
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5. Action: Agreed that a national estimate should be prepared
in pursuance of the request from the NSRB with respect to chemical
and biological warfare. It was understood that work had already
been going forward on these questions and the estimate could be
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completed by the requested date of 10 December. Though the IAC
recognized the close relationship between the specific request of
the NSRB and radio-active warfare, General Smith directed that if the
inclusion of the latter subject would hamper our meeting the dead-
line, its consideration at this time be omitted and a notation to
this effect be included in the paper.
Intelligence Requirements re"
Draft of Request to General rad e
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6. Action: Agreed that General Smith should dispatch the
proposed draft letter as revised and its attachment to General
Bradley.
Watch Committee Terms of Reference
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7? Action: Agreed that there should be a single Watch Com-
mittee in the Government properly operated with the full participa-
tion of the IAC members. This Committee should be the Watch Com-
mittee currently located in the Pentagon and headed by General
Weckerling.. General Smith stated that the Watch Committee headed
by the CIA should be abolished and that the terms of reference
before the members would, therefore, not need to be acted upon.
He requested General Bolling to have distributed to the member
agencies the terms of reference under which the present Watch
Committee in the Pentagon is operating and. arrange for such
modification as may be necessary to provide the U. S. Government
the service required. General Smith stated that it was his
responsibility to see that there is an arrangement in the Govern-
ment for carrying out the functions of a Watch Committee, that he
did not consider it necessary for the CIA to head it, that this
Committee should serve the entire Government and should accordingly
be fully supported. He said that he was prepared to provide such
financial or other support as was necessary for this Committee to
fulfill his needs under the statute. It was understood that tele-
type facilities already exist which would ensure communication
necessary to meet the needs of the DCI and the IAC members.
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Crisis Estimate on Germany, Iran
and Indochina
9. Action: Agreed that the current situation requires that
there be prepared an estimate on current Soviet intentions and
capabilities regarding Germany, Iran, and Indochina since these
are most likely to be the next areas of aggressive moves by the
Soviet or their Satellites, it being understood that this estimate
would be issued as a preliminary estimate without elaborate dis-
cussion and with the understanding that a fuller treatment would
be forthcoming.
10. Discussion: Mr. Armstrong called attention to the in-
creasingly ominous developments in Germany which closely parallel
those which preceded the invasion of South Korea., Because of these
developments it seemed to him necessary that there be prepared on
an urgent basis an estimate with respect to the German situation.
11. It was recognized that this situation did require a crisis
estimate but probably should have included with it an estimate of
probable or possible Soviet moves in respect to Indochina and Iran.
Dr. Langer pointed out that an effort had been made to make more
thorough preparations in the development of estimates and that the
quality desired could not be achieved on a crisis basis. He
recognized, however, the urgency of the matter and proposed that
.a fuller study should go on after the preliminary estimate question
had been made.
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