MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN IAC CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, AT 1045, 23 AUGUST 1955

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23 August 1955
INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Minutes of Meeting Held in
IAC Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, at 1045, 23 August 1955
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Lieutenant General Charles P. Cabell
Presiding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. W. Park Armstrong, Special Assistant for Intelligence,
Department of State
Major General Robert A. Schow, acting for Assistant Chief of Staff,
G-2, Department of the Army*
Rear Admiral Robert W. Cavenagh, acting for Director of Naval
Intelligence, Department of the Navy
Major General John A. Samford, Director of Intelligence,
Headquarters, United States Air Force
Rear Admiral Edwin T. Layton, Deputy Director for Intelligence,
The Joint Staff
Mr. Charles H. Reichardt, acting for Atomic Energy Commission
representative to the lAG
Mr. Alan H. Belmont, Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of
Inve stigation
ALSO PRESENT
Mr. George A. Pope, Department o
Mr. Howard Wiedemann, Department of State
*Major General Ridgely Gaither, the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2,
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Mr. George Muller, Department of State
Lieutenant Colonel John E. Arthur, Department of the Army
Captain C. C. Coley, Department of the Navy
Colonel Willis B. Sawyer, United States Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel Van A. Woods, Jr., United States Air Force
Mr. Donald F. Benjamin, United States Air Force
Colonel Robert Totten, USAF, The Joint Staff
Colonel John E. Leary, USA, The Joint Staff
Colonel E. W. Stewart, USAF, The Joint Staff
Colonel C. H. Dayhuff, Jr., USA, The Joint Staff
Mr. M. W. Kuhrtz, Federal Bureau of Investigation
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1. Welcome to Major General Gaither
The Chairman extended a welcome to Major General
Ridgely Gaither, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, Department
of the Army, who was attending his first meeting of the IAC.
2. Approval of Minutes
23 August Meeting
(IAC-M-209)
Approved as written.
3, Outlook for an Independent
(NIE 25-55)
a. Approved as amended.
b.
The Chairman invited the attention of the Committee
to the conclusion reached by the Board of National
Estimates and IAC representatives that no post-mortem
is required on this estimate. (See Secretary's Notes,
Item 5, below)
4. Watch Committee Report
No. 263
5. Release of SNIE 11-10-55:
"Soviet Gross Capabilities
for Attacks on the US and Key
Overseas Installations and
Forces in 1965"
(ONE Memorandum, 10 August 1.955)
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b.
Agreed that release of SNIE 11-10-55 should not be
construed as a precedent for the release to foreign
governments of estimates which are given limited
distribution within the US.
6. Post-Mortem on ME 11-5-55:
"Air Defense of the Sino-Soviet
Bloc, 1955-1960"
Noted the findings and approved the recommendations.
7. Post-Mortem on NIE 11-7-55:
"Soviet Gross Capabilities
for Attacks on the US and
Key Overseas Installations
and T'nrces Through 1 July
1958"
Noted the findings, as amended, and approved the recommenda-
8. Post-Mortem on NIE 100- 5- 55:
"Implications of Growing Nuclear
Capabilities for the Communist
Bloc and the Free World"
Noted the findings.
9. Terms of Reference for IAC
Task Force on the President's
Proposal to Exchange Military
Blueprints
(IAC-D-97, 18 August 1955;
IAC-M-205, Item 9, 26 July 1955;
IAC-M-206, Item 1c, 2 August 1955)
a. The Chairman stated that the IAC need not officially
approve the proposed terms of reference, although
IAC-D-97 will serve as a working paper. The Chair-
man then suggested, and the members agreed, that
the Task Force should next define the practical problems
which face the intelligence community, taking into
account what individual IAC and other government
agencies are now doing, or can do, and then recom-
mendto the IAC ways of meeting these problems.
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b.
Mr. Amory stated that the various Task Forces
throughout the government which are concerned
with the President's proposal have until 15
October to report to the Defense Department,
and that the NSC will consider the question around
1 December 1955. It was noted that the IAC has
not been requested to make a report by the NSC
or other consumers, and that the nature of final
action by the IAC cannot be determined at this
time.
Adjournment: 1205
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SECRETARY'S NOTES
1. No objection having been raised by a member, the
Secretary has authorized release to USIA of NIE 63. Z-55,
"Probable Development July 1956,11 16 August
1955 (IAC-M-208, Secretary's Notes, Item 1).
2. Unless objection is raised by a member at the next
regular meeting of the IAC, the Secretary proposes to release
to USIA, NIE 25-55, "Outlook for
23 August 1955.
3. The Board of National Estimates and the IAC repre-
sentatives have agreed that no post-mortem is required on
SNIE 11-10-55, "Soviet Gross Capabilities for Attacks on the
US and Key Overseas Installations and Forces in 1965, " 2 August
1955. The special nature of SNIE 11-10-55, and the extent to
which it projects into the speculative future, render a post-
mortem unprofitable. Moreover, the post-mortems on NIE's
11-3-55, 11-7.55, 11-5-55, and 11-6-54 already identify most
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of the existing gaps in our intelligence on the subjects covered
in SNIE 11-10-55, and these gaps are obviously even greater in
any estimate which attempts to project to 1965 (ONE memorandum,
18 August 1955). No post-mortem will therefore be undertaken,
except at the request of a member of the IAC.
4. Post-Morteml rstimate: The Board of
National Estimates and the IAC representatives have agreed that
a post-mortem on NIE 25-55, "Outlook for an
is not required. There was general agreement that the only major
intelligence deficiency encountered in drafting the estimate related
to Soviet administration of the oil and USIA properties in eastern
and that this problem is already being resolved. No post-
mortem will therefore be undertaken, except at the request of a
member of the IAC.
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