MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTOR'S CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, ON 1 SEPTEMBER 1953

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• Publication Date: September 1, 1953
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Minutes of Meeting Held in Director's
Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agcncy, on 1 September 1953
Acting Director of Central Intelligence
Lt. Gen. Charles P. Cabell
Presiding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. W. Park Armstrong, Special Assistant, Intelligence,
Department of State
Major General Richard C. Partridge, 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. Charles H. Reichardt, acting for Director of Intelligence,
Atomic Energy Commission'
Brigadier General Edward H. Porter, Deputy Director for
Intelligence, The Joint Staff
Mr. Victor Keay, acting for Assistant to the Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mr. William C. Trueheart, Department of State
Mr. Howard M. Wiedemann, Department of State
Mr. Joseph Chase, Department of State
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Lt. Colonel T. C. Anderson, Department of the Army
Dr. Louis F. Woodruff, 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
Colonel George E. Mc Cord, United States Air Force
Lt. Colonel Arthur L. Cushing, United States Air Force
Mr., Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr., United States Air Force
Captain E. T. Layton, USN, The Joint Staff
Colonel Samuel M. Lansing, The Joint Staff,
JAMES Q. REBER
Acting Secretary
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Approval of Minutes
1. Action: The Minutes of 25 August 1953 (IAC-M-118)
were approved.
Appendices to NIE-90
2. Action: Agreed to refer back to IAC representatives
for review with the. objective of IAC approval, it being recognized
that in the preparation of this document some agencies had not
understood that IAC approval was intended in view of the Minute
of September 4, 1952 (IAC-M-81). Agreed further that policy
with respect to the handling of NIE appendices would be recon-
sidered by the IAC in the near future.
3. Discussion: In the consideration of what action the IAC
should take on the appendices to NIE-90 the following points were
brought out:
a. These appendices are considered by the Office of
National Estimates to provide the foundation not only for
NIE-90 but also for a number of estimates on Soviet capa-
bilities and intentions, particularly NIE-95, and that their
approval by the IAC is therefore highly desirable. It was
pointed out that the appendices to NIE-90 are much more
fundamental to that estimate than in the case of the NIE-69
appendices and estimate, which were the occasion for
the previous agreement last September (IAC-M-81).
b. Concern was expressed that the IAC should issue
with its approval only those substantive products which
have been subjected to the type of refinement accorded.
NIEs. It was also pointed out that in making periodic
estimates required of the JIG there would be constant
difficulties arising from those who would point to the
IAC approved appendix with respect to factual material
which subsequent evidence has altered. It was the view
of some that the personal attention required of the chiefs
of intelligence to enable them to concur in the document
was too extensive to be practicable.
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c. The agreement reached in September 4, 1952 Minute
to the effect that such reports would be noted, rather than
approved, by the IAC arose out of a circumstance in which
the NSC Policy Planning staff needed such background
material for their work. The question was raised whether,
indeed, such need still existed, and if so, whether it
could not be met by the intelligence officers in each agency
rather than disseminating IAC approved appendices
directly to officials outside of the intelligence community.
4. Alternatives considered were:
a. To issue the appendices with the approval of the
IAC, recognizing that this would require the same kind
of IAC consideration as estimates.
b. To issue the appendices as working papers only to
the intelligence community, it being understood that the
intelligence chiefs have the responsibility for making such
documents available as necessary to their policy or
planning officials.
Proposed Rescission of
DCIDs 3/1 and 3/2 and
Issuance of DCID 3/5,
"Production of National
Intelligence Estimates''
(IAC-D-61 / 1)
5, Action: Approved, subject to the deletion of the follow-
ing language at the end of paragraph 6:
''i. e., what IAC members participated in the
preparation and what members concur therein
or dissent therefrom".
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