MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN IAC CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

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• Publication Date: August 7, 1956
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7 August 1956
INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY C O M M I T T E E
Minutes of Meeting Held in
IAC Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, at 1045, 7 August 1956
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Lieutenant General Charles P. Cabell
Presiding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. W. Park Armstrong, Jr., Special Assistant for Intelligence,
Department of State-
Major General Robert A. Schow, Assistant 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
Colonel E. G. Van Crman, acting for Deputy Director for Intelligence,
The Joint Staff
Mr. Harry S. Traynor, Atomic Energy Commission representative
to the IAC
Mr. Alan Belmont, Federal Bureau of Investigation representative
to the IAC
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1. IAC Membership
The Chairman welcomed General Schow as a new member
of the IAC.
2. Approval of Minutes
31 July Meeting
(IAC-M-249)
2 August Meeting
(IAC-M-250)
Approved as written.
3. Release of Estimates to USIA
(IACM-250, 2 August 195 ,
Secretary's Note 4)
any decision on the~r3leJ se
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At the request of Mr. Armstrong,
USIA of SNIE 30-3-56, "Nasser and the Middle East Situation,
1956, was deferred until the next.scheduled IAC meeting.
4. Watch Committee Report
No. 313
Noted.
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5. Information Report to the IAC
on the Defector Program
(IAC-D-8/20, 17 July 1956)
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6.
Interim Report by Committee
on International Communism
(IAC-D-99/3, 17 July 1956)
Noted this report, and approved the plan for continuing
operations of the Committee on International Communism as outlined
in the report.
7. Annual Report of Resistance
Intelligence Committee for
Fiscal Year 1955-5 .
(IAC-D-75/7, 12 July 1956)
a. Noted this report.
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b. With respect to the recommendation of the Committee,
stated that the Board of National Estimates considered
a revision of NIE 10-55 during 1956 unnecessary, particularly because
the most important aspects of resistance developments could be covered
in the new Satellite estimate already scheduled for completion in the
first quarter of 1957. After an exchange of views with the 25X1
members agreed to instruct the Board of. National Estimates to include
an updating of resistance developments in the new Satellite estimate, and
to direct the RIC to continue its efforts to study resistance movements
in such greater detail as might be needed for operational programs.
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9. Progress Reports on Action
Taken Pursuant to Post-Mortem
on NIE 11-5-55, "Air Defense of
the Sino-Soviet Bloc, 1955-1960"
(IAC-D-57/9.2, 17 July 1956)
Noted these reports.
10. Survey of NIE Dissemination
and Use
(IAC-D-94/ 1, 10 July 1956)
a. Noted this report, as amended, and approved the recom-
mendations of the Board of National Estimates based on the results of
the report.
25X1 b, I expressed appreciation for the cooperation
received from the IAC agencies in preparing the report, and noted that
it had been a useful undertaking from the standpoint of the Board of
National Estimates.
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IAC Meeting, 7 August 1956
ALSO PRESENT
Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. Robert Amory, Jr.
Mr. Otto Guthe
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Department of State
Mr. Allan Evans
Mr. Boris Klosson
Mr. Richard K. Stuart
Department of the Army
Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Pratt
Lieutenant Colonel Donald L. Husman
Department of the Navy
Captain J. B. Carroll
Department of the Air Force
Colonel Prentiss D. Wynne, Jr.
Colonel C. J. Stattler, Jr.
The Joint Staff
Colonel Charles H. Dayhuff, Jr., USA
Captain Clarence M. White, Jr., USN
Lieutenant Colonel James M. Norwood, USAF
Colonel Edward G. Davis, USAF
Mr. Meffert W. Kuhrtz
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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