MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN IAC CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, AT 1400, 2 AUGUST 1956

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• Publication Date: August 2, 1956
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2 August 1956
INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Minutes of Meeting Held in
IAC Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, at 1400, 2 August 1956
Director of Central Intelligence
Allen W. Dulles
Presiding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. W. Park Armstrong, Jr. , Special Assistant for Intelligence,
Department of State
Major General Robert A. Schow, Acting Chief of Staff, Intelligence,
Department of the Army
Rear Admiral Laurence H. Frost, Director of Naval Intelligence,
Department of the Navy
Major General Millard Lewis, Director of Intelligence, Headquarters,
United States Air Force
Brigadier General Richard Collins, Deputy Director for Intelligence,
The Joint Staff
Mr. Harry S. Traynor, Atomic Energy Commission representative
to the IAG
Mr. Ralph R. Roach, acting for Federal Bureau of Investigation
representative to the IAC
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1. Approval of Minutes
24 July Meeting
(IAC-M-248)
Approved as written.
2. Watch Committee Report
No. 312
a. Noted this report.
b. The Chairman, referring to inquiries he had received from
some NSC members, raised the question of whether a special daily
intelligence report on the Suez situation should be issued. After an ex-
pression of views by the Chairman and Mr. Armstrong, particularly to
the effect that the current situation appeared to be characterized pri-
marily by developments of a diplomatic and policy rather than intelli-
gence nature, Mr. Armstrong proposed, and the members concurred,
that the IAC ad hoc Working Group on the Arab-Israeli Situation should
examine the Suez problem closely with a view to determining whether
intelligence developments warranted issuing special intelligence reports
on the Suez situation.
3. NIE 11-4-56
Soviet Capabilities and Courses
of Action Through 1961
a. Approved as amended.
b. Agreed that the classification of the title of this estimate
should be "Official Use Only."
C. Mr. Armstrong raised a question as to whether this Soviet
estimate should be prepared in the future in the form of separate papers,
which might be brought together later in one paper with over-all conclu-
sions, particularly because such a procedure might permit better
scheduling of work. In the course of a discussion of this matter, Mr.
Armstrong proposed, and the members concurred, that the Board of
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National Estimates should consider this question in connection with the
preparation of next year's estimate.
4. Exchange of Aerial Photographs
with USSR over the North Pole
(Memorandum from Mr. Stassen
to NSC, 25 July 1956)
The Chairman referred to the memorandum of Mr. Stassen to
the NSC, noted that he had also received a communication from the
Department of State regarding development of a US position on this
matter, and stated that he desired guidance from the members since
this proposal appeared to be of general importance to the intelligence
community.. In the course of the discussion, General Lewis stated
that the matter was presently under consideration by the Joint Chiefs
of Staff and noted a number of problems raised by the proposal. The
Chairman then suggested, and the members concurred, that considera-
tion of this matter be deferred until such time as the Chairman deemed
it necessary to obtain further guidance from the members on the in-
telligence aspects of this proposal.
Adjournment: 1720
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