MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTOR'S CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, ON 20 APRIL 1954

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 2004
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: April 20, 1954
• Content Type: MIN

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IAC-M - 148
20 April 1954
Minutes of Meeting Held in Director's
Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, on 20 April 1954
Director of Central Intelligence
Allen W. Dulles
Presiding
Mr. Fisher Howe, acting for Special Assistant for 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
Brigadier General Millard Lewis, acting for Director of Intelligence,
Headquarters, United States Air Force
Rear Admiral Edward T. Layton, acting for Deputy Director for
Intelligence, the Joint Staff
Dr. Charles H. Reichardt, Atomic Energy Commission
Representative to the IAC
Mr. Victor P. Keay, acting for Assistant to the Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mr. Robert Amory, Jr., Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Dr. H. Marshall Chadwell, Central Intelligence Agency
Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
.1 Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
*Mr. Henry D. Owen, Department of State
Mr. R. M. Scammon, Department of State
Lt. Colonel Vasco J. Fenili, Department of the Army
L,t. Colonel H. N. Maples, Department of the Army
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Part of Meeting 20 April 1954
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Captain Allan L. Reed, USN. Department of the Navy
Mr. Lawrence Healey, Department of the Navy
Colonel Donald H. Ainsworth, United States Air Force
Colonel Charles F. Gillis, United States Air Force
Mr. Donald F. Benjamin, United States Air Force
Mr. John A. Power, United States Air Force
Captain Ray E. Malpas s, USN, The Joint Staff
Colonel F. R. Moore, The Joint Staff
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20 April 1954
Approval of Minutes of 30 March
(IAC-M-146)
1. Action: Approved.
Approval of Minutes of 5 April
(IAC-M- 147)
2. Action: Approved, subject to substitution of Admiral
Layton for Colonel Lansing as acting for the Deputy Director for
Intelligence, The Joint Staff.
Probable Effects of Increasing
Soviet Nuclear Capabilities
Upon the Policies of U. S. Allies
(NIE 100-54)
3. Action: Approved as amended.
Probable Outlook in Western Europe
Over the' Next Decade
(NIE 20-54)
4. Action: Approved as amended.
Adjustment in NIE Program
(Memo to IAC from Board of
National Estimates, 13 April)
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Matters for NSC Briefing
7. The Director pointed out that the Council is not scheduled
to meet this week but will next week, whereas the IAC is not
scheduled to meet next week. Various members commented on
the situation in Indochina.
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