MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTOR'S CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, ON 5 APRIL 1951

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 4, 2004
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: April 5, 1951
• Content Type: MIN

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INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Minutes of Meeting held in Director's
Conference'Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, on 5 April 1951
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,
Department of the Navy
Major General Charles P. Cabell, Director of Intelligence,
Headquarters, United States Air Force
Brigadier General Vernon E. Megee, USMC, Deputy Director for
Intelligence, The Joint Staff
Mr. Victor P. Keay, acting for Assistant to the Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
ALSO PRESENT
Central
intelligence Agency
Mr. Sherman Kent al Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
LFCe-n-t-rJa, Intelligence Agency
Mr. Charles C. Stelle, Department of State
1Brigadier General John Weckerling, Department of the Army
*'Colonel'Edward T. Cowen, Department of the Army
Mr. John E. Jackson; Department of the Army
Captain Ray Malpass, USN, Department of the Navy
Colonel Edward H. Porter, Department of the Air Force
Lieut.'Colonel Charles F. Gillis, Department of the Air Force
Captain R. G. McCool, USN, The Joint Staff
Secretary
Mr. James Q. Reber
Central Intelligence Agency
For part of the meeting.
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Approval of Minutes
1. Action: The minutes of the meeting of 2 April 1951
(IA.C-M-2I.i. were approved.
Census and Verification of All
Armed Forces and Armaments
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2. Action: Work on this estimate, which will probably be
published as.a special estimate., should follow normal procedure..
The limitations of intelligence to provide the answers to the
questions in this paper are recognized but emphasis is placed
on., te to V t the be t . an-w~rs posy i. lei hi~J
Chinese Communis apa ilities
and Intentions wi h Respect to
3. Action: Approved this draft for publication with revi-
sions. It was agreed that a footnote to paragraph 19 would be
provided to state Air Force dissent regarding the question of
Chinese capability to capture Taiwan.
Distribution of NIE's
4. Action: General Smith announced the severe reduction
of NIE's o =e distributed within CIA and requested the other
agencies to give careful reconsideration to their needs with a
considerable reduction as the objective. NIE's being distributed
to the Army, Navy., and Air Force will flow through the heads of
the respective intelligence agencies.
Proposed NIE .. "S ain's Position
in the East-West Conflict"
5. Action: Agreed to initiate an estimate on this subject
along the lines of the terms of reference proposed by General
Cabell in his memorandum of April Lt, distributed at the meeting.
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