MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTOR'S CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, ON 22 SEPTEMBER 1953

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• Document Release Date: September 16, 2004
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: September 22, 1953
• Content Type: MIN

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22 September 1953
Minutes of Meeting Held in Director's
Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, on 22 September 1953
Director of Central Intelligence
Allen W., Dulles
Presiding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. W. Park Armstrong, Special Assistant, Intelligence,
Department of State
Brigadier General John M. Willems, acting for Assistant
Chief of Staff, G-2, Department of the Army
Rear Admiral Carl F. Espe, Director of Naval Intelligence,
Department of the Navy
Major General John A. Samford, Director of Intelligence,
Headquarters, United States Air Force
Dr. Walter F. Colby, Director of Intelligence,
Atomic Energy Commission
Colonel Samuel M. Lansing, acting for Deputy Director for
Intelligence, The Joint Staff
Mr. Victor Keay, acting for Assistant to the Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
ALSO PRESENT
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Dr. Sherman Kent, Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. James Q. Reber, Central. Intelligence Agency
Mr- Abbot Smith Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. William C. Trueheart, Department of State
Mr. Howard M. Wiedemann, Department of State
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Lt. Colonel T. C. Anderson, Department of the Army
Lt. Colonel T. P. Floryan, Department of the Army
Captain Allan L. Reed, USN, Department of the Navy
Colonel Donald H. Ainsworth, United States Air Force
Colonel John J, Morrow, United States Air Force
Colonel Robert Totten, United States Air Force
Lt. Colonel Arthur L. Cushing, United States Air Force
Captain E. T. Layton, USN, The Joint Staff
Colonel L. A. Hall, The Joint Staff
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Secretary
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Approval of Minutes
1. Action: The Minutes of 15 September 1953 (IAC-M-121)
were approved.
Probable Soviet Bloc
Courses of Action
Through Mid-1955
(NIE-95)
3. Action: Approved as amended.
Soviet Intentions
Toward Germany
4. Action: Agreed to undertake an estimate on this subject.
The Board of National Estimates will circulate draft terms of
reference.
Matters for NSC Briefing
5. Discussion: The Director indicated that, in briefing
the NSC in connection with its consideration of continental
defense, he would provide the Council with a review of recent
Soviet atomic developments. The problem of clandestine delivery
was discussed.
/Secretary's Note:
1. All agencies having concurred in IAC-D-42/4,
9 September 1953 (r'Pdstponement of Revision
of EIC -R - l ") , the r ecoi\mendation of the EIC
contained therein isp3roved. /
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