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

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I N T E L L I G E N C E A D V I S O R Y C O M M I T T E E
Minutes of Meeting Held in
IAC Conference Room, Administration Building
Central Intelligence Agency, at 1045, 9 September 1958
Acting Director of Central Intelligence
General Charles P. Cabell
Presiding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. Hugh S. Cumming, Jr., Director of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State
Major General Robert A. Schow, Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence,
Department of the Army
Rear Admiral V. L. Lowrance, Acting Director of Naval Intelligence,
Department of the Navy
Major General Harold E. Watson, acting for Assistant Chief of Staff,
Intelligence, United States Air Force
Brigadier General Robert A. Breitweiser, 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. NIE 89-58
The Venezuelan Situation
and Prospects
a. Approved as amended.
b. Noted the findings and approved the recommended action in
the post-mortem on this estimate.
c. No member objected to the release of NIE 89-58 to USIA.
Z. SNIE 36. 6-58
The Outlook in Saudi Arabia and
the Consequences of Possible
US Courses of Action
a. Approved as amended.
b. Agreed to release this estimate to USIA.
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4. Review of Discussion with
Budget Bureau Officials
re Revision of NSCIDs
and General Cabell outlined the nature of the 25X1
recent discussion they had had with Budget Bureau officials with
respect to NSCID revisions, including the specific questions which
had been raised and the substance of replies they had made to those
officials.
The members then agreed that the following non-substantive
changes should be proposed in NSCID.No. 1 as a result of these
discussions with Budget Bureau officials:
(a) Paragraph 2 c - change the first sentence to read:
"The Board shall determine its own procedures and shall
establish subordinate committees and working groups, as
appropriate. "
(b) Paragraph 6 a (1) - at end of paragraph insert "or to"
before "the Government. "
The Chairman also referred to a subsequent discussion that he
had had with Dr. Reed of the Budget Bureau, who had talked with
General Cassidy. The Chairman then informed the members that,
following the receipt of a formal memorandum from the Budget Bureau,
he proposed to communicate with the Attorney General and Executive
Secretary, N$C, with a view to finalizing NSC action on the revised
NSCIDs. The members concurred in this procedure.
5. Approval of Minutes
2 September Meeting
(IAC-M-359)
Approved as written subject to the addition of the following
sentence after the third sentence of item 3:
Both IAC and USCIB members were present for this and the remaining
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"However, the members from the Joint Staff and
Navy--while agreeing to the trial period--adhered to
the view that COMINT and ELINT should preferably be
assigned to a single committee having a function com-
parable to USIBEC. It
6. Situation Review
a. Watch Committee Report
No. 422
Noted.
b. Review of Sensitive Situations
The members exchanged views on the Taiwan Strait situation
in the course of which Mr. Cumming invited particular attention. to the
tone and possible implications of an editorial in the Communist Chinese
"Peoples Daily." The Chairman emphasized the importance of watching
possible Chinese Nationalist moves and the members concurred in his
suggestion that the Watch Committee take specific cognizance of this
problem. After discussion, the members agreed that no change in
their prior estimative conclusions relevant to the present Taiwan Strait
situation was warranted.
General Watson invited the members' attention to recent
evidence bearing on Soviet military aircraft capabilities and missile
activities.
7. Report of Committee on
International Communism
(IAC-D-99/5, 1-July)
Noted this report. In this connection, the members concurred
in the Chairman's suggestion that the Committee on International
Communism consider what the nature and scope of its future activities
should be and make recommendations on this question to the IAC.
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Mr. Cumming noted that certain proposed organizational changes
within the State Department might have a bearing on what this
committee could do for the intelligence community.
8. Executive Session
At 1215 the Chairman requested an executive session.
Adjournment: 1245
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ALSO PRESENT
Central Intelligence Agency
Dr. Herbert Scoville, Jr.
Department of State
Mr. Robert Thayer
Mr. Andrew Wardlaw
Mr. Robert A. Stein
Mr. Theodore Nelson
Department of the Army
Lieutenant Colonel L.
D.
Terry
Lieutenant Colonel C.
H.
Pratt
Lieutenant Colonel E.
Majot W. A. Bovee
L.
Nicely
Department of the Navy
Captain W. S. Howell
Commander Gillette
Department of the Air Force
Colonel Linscott A. Hall
Lieutenant Colonel J. G. Pickering, III
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The Joint Staff
Colonel D. M. Garvey, USA
Colonel W. F. Lantz, USMC
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mr. Meffert Kuhrtz
USCIB
Captain Allyn Cole
Colonel Charles Townsend
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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 1430, 2 September 1958
Acting Director of Central Intelligence
General Charles P. Cabell
Presiding*
Deputy Director (Intelligence), CIA
Robert Amory, Jr.
Presiding*
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. Hugh S. Cumming, Jr.,* Director of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State
Mr. Robert Thayer, * acting for Director of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State
Major General Robert A. Schow, Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence,
Department of the Army
Rear Admiral V. L. Lowrance, Acting Director of Naval Intelligence,
Department of the Navy
Major General James H. Walsh, Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence,
United States Air Force
Brigadier General Robert A. Breitweiser, * Director for Intelligence,
The Joint Staff
Colonel Dale M. Garvey, * acting for Director for Intelligence, The
Joint Staff
Mr. Harry S. Traynor, Atomic Energy Commission representative
to the IAC
Mr. Ralph R. Roach, acting for Federal Bureau of Investigation
representative to the IAC
* Part of meeting
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1. Special Army Briefing
A special briefing was presented by General Schow and an
Army team.
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NSC with respect to the recommended revisions of NSCIDs 1 through 7,
as reflected in the record of NSC Action No. 1978. With respect to
Review of NSC Action
on NSCIDs 1 through 7*
The members discussed the nature of the action
taken by the
b (1) of the NSC record of action, General Cabell advised that he and
officials and-that any proposals coming out of that meeting would be
submitted to the IAC and USCIB members for consideration prior to
any formal action. The members also discussed various other matters
which had been raised in informal consultation with Budget Bureau
officials or at the recent NSC meeting. In connection with b (3) of the
NSC record of action, it was agreed that paragraph 5, last sentence,
of NSCID No. 1 be amended to read:
expected to meet on Wednesday with Budget Bureau
"The DCI shall call upon the departments and agencies,
as appropriate, to investigate within their department or
agency any unauthorized disclosure of intelligence or of
intelligence sources or methods. A report of these investi-
gations, including corrective measures taken or recommended
within the departments and agencies involved, shall be trans-
mitted to the Director of Central Intelligence for review and
such further action as may be appropriate, including reports
to the NSC or the President."
General Cabell stated that if important changes came out of
Wednesday's meeting with the Budget Bureau officials he might call
*Both IAC and USCIB members were present for the first portion of
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senting the Department of Defense and NSA respectively. Actions
on the first six items should be considered joint IAC-USCIB actions.
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a special IAC-USCIB meeting to consider those changes, in order that
NSC action on these NSCIDs could be completed at an early date.
3. Continuity of Intelligence
Community Functions Following
Establishment of USIB
(IAC -D -112 / 3, 19 August;
IAC-M-358, item 4)
The Chairman noted that the members had agreed to discuss
IAC-D-112/3 again and circulated a CIA proposed change to page 3 of
that memorandum. After he explained the purpose of the change each
of the members expressed his views on the proposed amendment and
other pertinent matters.. Following discussion it was agreed that,- for
a telst period of a number of months, the new USIB should assign
responsibility for COMINT and ELINT matters to two separate
committees and that they should support the USIB and generally
o rate in accordance with Action III, as modified by the CIA amend-
ment In this connection, it was also understood that the Director of
NSA (or his Deputy) should have considerable latitude in exercising
his coordinating responsibilities (as provided for in paragraph III c (4)
of the CIA amendment), particularly with respect to questions such as
determining whether problems should be defined or treated as COMINT
or ELINT matters.
General Erskine raised a question about the chairmanship of
the new COMINT committee and the members discussed this matter.
After an exchange of views it was agreed to accept the language of
III c (2) of the CIA amendment with the understanding that the identity
of the chairman of this committee would be considered at a later
meeting.
The members then approved the Actions I, II and III as recom-
mended in IA -D-112/3, subject to the CIA proposed amendment of
III c and the understandings outlined above.
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4. Approval of Minutes
26 August Meeting
(IAC-M-358)
Approved as written, subject to the deletion of "noted this
memorandum and" in the first sentence of item 4.
5. Situation Review
a. Watch Committee Report
No. 421
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b. Watch Committee Report
No. 421-A
Noted.
6. Proposed DCID 1/5
(IAC-D-129, 20 August)
Approved the draft DCID. 1/5, subject to possible later recon-
sideration in the light of an amendment proposed by Admiral Lowrance.
7. Executive Session
At 1610 General Cabell requested an executive session, after
which he and Mr. Cumming departed for a conference with the Secretary
of State and Mr. Amory assumed the chair.
a.
Post-Mortem
(Memorandum to IAC,, 28 August)
Noted the findings and approved the recommendation of the
post-mortem on this estimate.
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b. Validity Study of NIE 34-57
(Memorandum to IAC, 28 August)
Noted this validity study.
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a. Approved as amended. The members also approved a State
Department request that they be authorized to distribute advance copies
of this estimate to certain U. S. governmental departments or agencies
concerned with current financial discussions with Indian officials.
b. Noted the findings and approved the recommendation of the
post-mortem on this estimate.
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C. Noted the tudy of
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11. Annual Report to NSC
(IAC-D-55/13.3, 25 August;
IAC-D-55/13.4, 29 August)
"Consequences of
to USIA.
Approved an Annual Report to the NSC on the Status of the
Foreign Intelligence Program (as of 30 June 1958), as amended.
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d. No member objected to the release of
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12. Procedures for Operation
General Cabell, who was then presiding, outlined certain ro
of New USIB
posed procedures, which were then agreed to, for the operation of USIB,
particularly with respect to the need for limiting the attendance of
support staffs during the consideration of a particular agenda item to
those concerned with that item only. This is in the light of the physical
facilities available and the desirability of adhering to the need-to-know
principle.
13. Executive Session
At 1710 General Cabell requested an executive session.
Adjournment: 1725
Secretary
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SECRETARY'S NOTES
3. The list of "Members Present" at the 26 August meeting
(IAC-M. 358) should reflect that Mr. Meffert Kuhrtz, rather than
Mr. Roach, represented the FBI.
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ALSO PRESENT
Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. Sherman Kent
Dr. Otto E. Guthe
Department of State
Mr. Polyziodes
Mr. Sober
Mr. Dreesen
Mr. McAfee
Department of the Army
Lieutenant Colonel L. D. Terry
Lieutenant Colonel C. H. Pratt
Major Philip Dunbar
Mr. F. E. Lane
Department of the Navy
Captain W. S. Howell
Captain A. D. Kilmartin
Commander D. M. Showers
Commander C. A. Shaw
Department of the Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel J. G. Pickering, III
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Colonel Montie Cone, USA
Department of Defense
General G. B. Erskine
National Security Agency
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Captain Allyn Cole
Colonel Townsend
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