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

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• Publication Date: November 26, 1957
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I N T E L L I G E N C E 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, 26 November 1957
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Lieutenant General Charles P. Cabell
Presiding*
Acting Deputy Directoi (Intelligenc)e), CIA
Huntington Sheldon
Presiding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. Hugh S. Cumming, Jr., Director of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State
Major General R. H. Wienecke, * Acting Assistant Chief of Staff,
Intelligence, Department of the Army
Brigadier General John J. Davis, * acting for Acting 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,- Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence,
United States Air Force
Brigadier General Richard Collins, * Deputy Director for Intelligence,
The Joint Staff
Colonel E. G. Van Orman, * acting for Deputy Director for Intelligence,
The Joint Staff
Mr. Harry S. Traynor, Atomic Energy Commission representative
to the IAC
Mr. Meffert Kuhrtz, acting for Federal Bureau of Investigation-
representative to the IAC
* Part of meeting
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1. Introduction of General Davis
General Wienecke 'introduced' Brigadier General John J. Davis
to the members.
2. NIE 11-4-57
Main Trends in Soviet Capabilities
and Policies, 1957-1962
a. Approved as amended.
c. Agreed to release this estimate to USIA.
d. Agreed that the summary of this estimate be published and
bound separately from the regular complete edition of NIE 11-4-57
(which would continue to include both the summary and discussion),
and that both publications should be distributed simultaneously to
the same recipients.
3. Approval of Minutes
a. 19 November Meeting
(IAC -M- 316)
Approved as written.
b. 22 November Meeting
IAC-M-317)
Approved as written.
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4. Situation Review
a. Watch Committee Report
No. 381
Noted.
b. Review of Sensitive Situations
The Chairman expressed concern over tension in Israeli-
Jordanian relations, referred to the Hammarskjold mission, and
stated that the Watch Committee proposed to consider this situation.
Mr. Cumming invited the members' attention to recent
developments in the Indonesian situation, commenting in particular
on the UN consideration of the West Irian problem and its possible
consequences. The Chairman noted that policy-makers for some time
had been regularly alerted by the intelligence community regarding
developments in the Indonesian situation.
General Davis, referring to last week's discussion of
Guatemalan developments, circulated copies of an Army report
bearing on certain aspects of that situation.
Mr. Cumming noted that a recent CIA current intelligence
report has proved particularly timely and useful in connection with
diplomatic discussions with Foreign Minister Brentano over the past
weekend.
5. Progress Reports re Action
Taken Pursuant to Post-Mortem
on NIE 11-5-57
a. Progress Report by GMIC
(IAC-D - 57/59.2, 5 November)
The members noted this report, and discussed the draft
Priority National Guided Missile Intelligence Objectives (Tab A)
with Colonel McFarland, Chairman GMIC. Various amendments
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were proposed and the members agreed that a new draft set of
these objectives should be prepared in the light of the discussion
and submitted for reconsideration at the next regular IAC meeting.
In the course of this exchange of views, the Chairman also stated
that any forthcoming modification of the over-all Priority National
Intelligence Objectives (DCID 4/6), which I had indicated 25X1
were currently under review by the Board of National Estimates,
should include an appropriate reference to space-craft under the
highest priority objectives.
b. Progress Report by SEC
(IAC-D-57/59.3, 12 November)
Noted this report.
6. Recommendation No. 4 of
President's Board of Consultants
(IAC-D-111, 4 November;
IAC -D -111 / 1, 21 November;
Limited Distribution)
The members noted the report of the Ad Hoc Subcommittee
on Recommendation No. 4 and discussed a draft reply submitted by
the Subcommittee. After exchanging views on this matter, the
members agreed that the reply should be based on a draft tabled
by General Collins and approved an amended version of this draft,
which included a proposed revision of Recommendation No. 4.
In this connection, the members also concurred in General
Lewis' suggestion (in renewed discussion after item 9 below) that
the Ad Hoc Subcommittee established to consider Recommendation
No. 4 continue on an active basis, in anticipation of probable
further assignments in this same general field.
7. Recommendation No. 1
of President's Board of Consultants
(IAC -D -114, 12 November;
Warning Systems Survey Committee
Report, 18 November; Limited
Distribution) .
a. The members noted the quarterly report of the Warning
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Systems Survey Committee (WSSC) on its activities. In discussing
this report, various members emphasized that the Committee
should attempt to make rapid progress in carrying out its mission.
In this connection, General Cabell, noting the competing demands
for the time of the members of the WSSC, urged the IAC members
to relieve their representatives on this Committee of other duties
to the extent feasible in order to permit them to give priority to
their work on the WSSC.
b. The members considered a CIA draft reply to Recommenda-
tion No. 1 which was distributed at the meeting. Various relevant
matters were discussed, including the type of intelligence information
toward which this recommendation should be directed, the nature of
the communications problem faced by the intelligence community in
implementing it, and various steps which were being., or might be,
taken to ensure the availability of communications adequate to fulfill
the requirements for an effective early warning system. After ex-
changing views the members agreed that the reply should be re-
drafted in the light of this discussion prior to its submission to the
NSC.
c, A CIA memorandum was distributed which outlined proposed
terms of reference for a working group study of elapsed times in
delivery of significant intelligence items, designed to fulfill a White
House requirement. The members discussed matters such as the
possible nature and scope of this study, as well as certain practical
difficulties inherent in carrying. out such a project. Following their
exchange of views the members agreed to nominate representatives
for a working group, which would undertake such a study in the light
of this discussion and generally on a more,limited or restricted
basis than indicated in the draft terms of reference. Mr. Sheldon,
who was then presiding, also stated that he would be in contact with
General Samford, Director, NSA, regarding the activities of this
group.
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9. NIE 13-2-57
Communist China's
Role in Asia
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Agreed to defer consideration of this estimate until the next
regular IAC meeting.
Adjournment: 1330
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IAC Meeting, 26 November 1957
ALSO PRESENT
Central Intelligence Agency
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Mr. Otto E. Guthe
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Department of State
Mr. Howard Wiedemann
Mr. Oscar Armstrong
Mr. William McAfee
Department of the Army
Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Pratt
Major Kenneth E. Buell
Major Philip H. Dunbar
Mr. Ray E. Adcock
Department of the Navy
Captain W. S. Howell
Commander C. A. Shaw
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Department of the Air Force
Brigadier General Robert A. Breitweiser
Colonel S. W. Fitzgerald
Colonel C. J. Stattler, Jr.
Colonel Earl McFarland, Jr.
Lieutenant Colonel Paul A. Tisdale
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Day
Mr. Robert A. Kilmarx
The Joint Staff
Colonel E.
G.
Van Orman, USMC
Colonel J.
M.
Pittman, USA
Captain S.
H.
Gimber, USN
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