MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTOR'S CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, ON 30 AUGUST 1951

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• Publication Date: August 30, 1951
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30 August 1951
Minutes of Meeting held in Director's
Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, on 30 August 1951
Director of Central Intelligence
General Walter Bedell Smith
Presiding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. W. Park Armstrong, Jr., Special Assistant, Intelligence,
Department of State
Brigadier General John Weckerling, acting for the Assistant
Chief of Staff, G-2, Department of the Army
Rear Admiral Felix L. Johnson, Director of Naval Intelligence,
Department of the Navy
Brigadier General Ernest B. Moore, acting for Director of
Intelligence, Headquarters, United States Air Force
Dr. Malcolm C. Henderson, acting for Director of Intelligence,
Atomic Energy Commission
Brigadier General Richard C. Partridge, Deputy Director for
Intelligence, The Joint Staff
Mr. Victor P. Keay, acting for Assistant to the Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
ALSO PRESENT
Dr. William L. Lan er Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
USA(Ret.), Central
Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence
Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Colonel A. C. Boatsman, Department of the Army
Lieut. Colonel Dallas Pilliod, Department of the Army
Captain Ray Malpass, USN, Department of the Navy
Colonel Edward H. Porter, Department of the Air Force
Colonel J. C. Marchant, Department of the Air Force
Colonel James F. Pinkney, Department of the Air Force
Captain R. G. McCool, USN, The Joint Staff
Colonel S. M. Lansing, The Joint Staff
James Q. Reber
Secretary
Intelligence Advisory Committee
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Approval of Minutes
1. Action: The minutes of the meeting of 23 August 1951
(IAC-M-1+2 were approved.
Indications of Soviet Intentions to
Initiate General War IAC-D-33
2. Action: It was agreed that General Bolling's proposal
should be pursued and that the IAC should establish a check list
of most significant indicators in the following manner:
a. Each IAC agency should list all indicators of Soviet
intentions to initiate general war which fall within an agency's
sphere of primary responsibility without regard to length.
b. O/CI in CIA should then combine these lists to be
examined by a representative group for the purpose of selecting
the most significant factors from the combined list.
c. The final list will be submitted to the IAC for
approval.
3. Discussion: Mr. Armstrong expressed his concern that the
effort to select out only the most significant indicators might lead
to a mechanical handling of the watching process. He believed that
certain indications of Soviet intentions could be discovered only
by attending to all information, even the relatively obscure and
seemingly minor facets of Soviet behavior. General Smith indicated
that this venture would not detract from the screening of all possible
information nor was there any thought that the watching process should
or would be made mechanical by the adoption of an IAC check list. He
indicated further that the focusing on major and most significant
indicators could serve to make more systematic our watching process.
11. General Smith noted that there would likely be within the
U. S. indicators of impending crisis, the responsibility for which
would fall on the FBI and that therefore its contribution would be
highly desirable.
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India's Position in the East-West
Conflict (NIB-23
5. Action: This estimate was approved as revised.
6. Discussion: In connection with paragraph 18 of this paper
General Smith raised the question of the desirability of intelligence
indicating to the policy makers the losses in terms of strategic raw
materials in the event certain countries were overrun or lost to the
access of the West. There was general agreement that this was a
proper mission of intelligence and the members were invited to give
this matter some thought in anticipation of such a study in the near
future. It was pointed out that certain of these factors would come
to light in the preparation of NIE-40 which would deal in part with
the value of the satellite and Western Europe to the Soviets and by
inference the loss which the West would sustain in the latter case.
Capabilities of the USSR for Clandestine
Attack on the U. S. with Weapons of Mass
Destruction (NIB-31
7. Action: This estimate was approved as revised. In this
connection reference was made to the digest of this paper for use
in the preparation of SE-10p the pertinent portion of which will be
referred to the Interdepartmental Intelligence Conference by Mr. Keay
who will report its suggestions to Dr. Langer. It was understood
however that the reference of the major part of SE-10 to JIG need
not be held up pending the FBI report.
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