REPORT BY THE IAC TASK FORCE ON THE PRESIDENT'S PROPOSAL FOR INSPECTION

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• Publication Date: September 9, 1955
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MEMORANDUM FOR: The Chairman, Intelligence Advisory Committee
SUBJECT . Report by the IAC Task Force on the President's
Proposal for Inspection
REFERENCE : IAC-M-209, IAC-M-210, IAC-D-97
I. The President's proposal sets in motion a series of
expanding problems involving the formulation of an inspection
system to provide warning of attack, negotiations for the adoption
and implementation of this system, and formulation and negotiation
of an arms limitation agreement together with an inspection system
to insure compliance. While there are uncertainties concerning the
exact form which the solutions will take as they are developed under
the cross-examination of U. S. and allied interests, to say nothing
of Soviet demands and conditions, these uncertainties do not
obscure the key problem in the proposal, which is that of devising
an inspection system for security against surprise attack.
2. It is the IAC's problem at this time to make sure that
the resources of the intelligence community are properly marshalled
to meet the requirements of the planners and negotiators. These
requirements can be summarized under three major headings, cur-
rent intelligence reporting, intelligence estimates, and intelligence
support for the planning of the inspection system itself.
Current Intelligence Reporting:
Mr. Stassen has requested current intelligence support and
is receiving this support through established channels. No IAC
action is required.
Estimates as Required:
National Estimates have been provided to Mr. Stassen at his
request. He will presumably continue to make such requests as the
need arises, whether in support of the development of the plan or
in support of the U. S. negotiators.
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Intelligence Support for the Planning of an Inspection System:
For the development of the inspection plan Mr. Stassen has
appointed eight. task forces to consider the following aspects of
the broad program: Army, Navy, Air, Atomic Energy, Industry
and Power, Steel, Budget and Finance, and Communications. He
has asked the Department of Defense to develop studies and recom-
mendations and to participate in the work of the task forces, at the
same time drawing his guidance for the major outline of the plan,
including guide-lines of definition, from the Secretary of Defense
and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who in turn are drawing on the military
departments. It is Mr. Stassen's intention that the task forces work
directly with the appropriate executive departments and agencies in
developing their parts of the inspection system, including the list
of intelligence targets for inspection.
Mr. Stassen's schedule is as follows:
15 Oct. Task Forces complete their
parts of the plan
15 Oct. - 1 Nov. Consolidation into one draft plan
1 Nov, - 1 Dec. The draft plan in the hands of the
departments and agencies of
primary concern for official
review and comments. (It is
noted that Mr. Stassen will
submit the draft plan to the
Director of Central Intelligence. )
Submission to the President
The IAC has a clear and direct concern with an inspection
system the first purpose of which is to provide intelligence security
against surprise attack. The IAC Watch Committee and its sup-
porting staffs, for example, must have an intimate knowledge of such
a system and the assurance that it provides adequate coverage of all
the places and activities which can provide forewarning of attack.
An inspection list of such places and activities would become an es-
sential part of the watch list and the information produced by any
inspection system would have to be considered by the Watch Committee.
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As the Watch Committee and its supporting staffs are concerned in
the first objective of the inspection system, so the estimates staffs
are concerned in the inspection system as a whole, with its prospect
of unfolding to a coverage of essential information on Soviet develop-
ments and capabilities. Furthermore, the inspection system and
its lists must be carefully studied by all the IAC collecting services,
particularly the covert, for it will be incumbent upon them to
develop any and all means within their power for supplementing and
checking information derived from inspection.
The individual members of the IAC are already contributing
to the development of the inspection plan in accordance with Mr.
Stassen's requests and departmental instructions. When a consoli-
dated draft of the inspection plan is ready it will be submitted to the
departments and agencies of primary concern. At that time the IAC
should take concerted action in effecting a coordinated review of and
comment on the intelligence aspects and portions of the draft plan,
including the inspection lists. There is one action, however, which
it would seeni prudent to take at this time and which can be taken
without prejudice to or interference with the development of the
plan. In order to prepare for the forthcoming review of the consoli-
dated inspection plan it would be helpful to assemble a preliminary
list of those critical intelligence targets which pertain to the pre-
vention of surprise attack. The Watch Committee would be the
.natural facility in the IAC for this preparation.
When the consolidated draft of the inspection plan is ready,
the IAC should effect a coordinated review of its intelligence aspects,
including inspection lists, calling upon the Watch Committee for
assistanre insofar as the plan is or includes an inspection system
to provide intelligence security against surprise attack. Comment
on the plan might well take the form of a systematic estimate of the
nature and degree of the security which the proposed system would
give the U. S. in the light of the limitations inherent in the means
of inspection, the possibility of concealment, the covert capabilities
for supplementing and checking the information, and the general
effect of implementation on the world situation,
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3. Should an inspection system of any magnitude be put into
effect, practical problems will arise involving manpower, organiza-
tion, and administration within the intelligence community in rela-
tion to the inspection system and its reporting. Consideration of
such problems, however, should await review of the plan.
4. Noting that the IAC members are participating through their
own departments in the development of the inspection plan, the IAC
Task Force on Inspection recommends that:
a.
b.
The IAC coordinate the review of and the comment on
the intelligence aspects and portions of the draft
inspection plan as consolidated by Mr. Stassen.
The Watch Committee assemble departmental
intelligence targets lists which pertain to the
prevention of surprise attack, and undertake
a preliminary examination of the whole from the
point of view of their adequacy for the mission of
the Watch Committee.
C. The IAC dissolve its present Task Force on
Inspection.
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IAC Task Force on Inspection
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