MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTOR'S CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, ON 18 AUGUST 1953

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• Publication Date: August 18, 1953
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INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Minutes of Meeting Held in Director's
Conference. Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, on 18 August 1953
Deputy ,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 H. C. Daniel, acting for 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
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
ALSO PRESENT
**Mr. Huntington Sheldon, Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence `A.g a nc y
entral Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
*Mr. Ludwell L.. Montague, Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
*For part of regular meeting
**Attended Executive Session
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Mr. William B. Macomber, Department of State
Colonel W. H. Hennig, Department of the Army
Lt. Colonel T. C. Anderson, Department of the Army
*Lt. Colonel' John H. Donaldson, Department of the Army
Mr. Lawrence P. H. Healey, Department of the Navy
Colonel John J. Morrow, United States Air Force
Colonel Robert Totten, United States Air Force
Colonel Charles F. Gillis, United States Air Force
Major. T. B. Johnson, .United States Air Force
Captain E. T. Layton, USN, The Joint Staff
Colonel Samuel M. Lansing, They Joint Staff
Colonel J. W. Moore, The, Joint Staff
Colonel F. R. Moore, The Joint Staff
*For Part of the regular meeting
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Secretary
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Approval of Minutes
1. Action: The Minutes of 11 August 1953,(IAC-M-116) were
approved.
2. Action: Approved
3. Discussion: General Samford indicated his concern at the
inadequacy of present guides as to when or when not to release.
Mr. Armstrong stated that a proposal to release an estimate is
tested, in the Department of State, by both those concerned with the
area about which the estimate is written and those concerned with
the area of the proposed recipients. Various members commented
on the inadvisability of releasing information which indicates the
degree of success of our intelligence, or of providing a country with
a long-term estimate where the continuity of that country's government
is uncertain.
4. Action: (See item 9 below)
Probable Developments
in Chile (NIE-85) '
. 5. Action: Approved as amended by changes circulated
15 August.
Scheduling of Estimate
on Indonesia
6. Action: Agreed to produce as a Special Estimate to reach
the IAC on 15 September, recognizing that it might not be possible
to obtain IAC approval until 29 September.
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Scheduling of Estimate
on Iran
7. Action: Agreed to produce.as a crash Special Estimate in
one week. The NIE on Iran scheduled for the fourth quarter will
remain so scheduled, subject to possible delay until 1954.
.Scheduling of Special Estimate
on Chinese Nationalist
Capabilities
8. Action: Agreed to produce this Special Estimate, as
requested by the NSC, by 1 September as SE-50. Initial terms of
reference were circulated immediately following the meeting.
9. The Committee met in Executive Session and discussed
certain aspects of NIE-90, and
(Secretary's Note:
b. ONE has proposed the non-release of NIE-85 to any
foreign government (memo to the IAC 12 August 1953). This
proposal will not be reconsidered except upon request by a
member agency).
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