MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTOR'S CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, ON 6 OCTOBER 1953

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• Publication Date: February 26, 1954
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Minutes of Meetin Held in Directorts
Conference Room,
Central Intelligence Agency, on 6 October 19 3
Director of Central Intelligence
Allen W. Dulles
Presiding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Mr. W. Park Armstrong, Special Assistant, Intelligence,
Department of State
Major General Riciard C. Partridge, Assistant Chief of
Staff, G-2, "Department of the Army
Rear Admiral Carl F. Espe, Director of Naval Intelligence,
Department of the Navy
Major General John A. Sanford, Director of Intelligence,
Headquarters, United States Air Force
Dr. Charles H. Reichardt, Atomic Energy Commission
Representative to the I_AC
Brigadier General Edward H. Porter, Deputy Director for
Intelligence, The Joint Staff
Mr. Meffert W. KK'irtz, acting-for Assistant to the Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
ALSO PRESENT
Lt. General Charles P. Cabell, Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. Robert Amory, Jr., Central Intelligence Agency
Dr. Sherman Kent, Central Intelligence Agency
Dr. H. Marshall Chadwell, Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. H. D. Sheldon, Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. Otto E. Guthe, Central Intelligence Agency
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6 October 1953)
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Mr. James . Rebe.~ Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
?ral Intelligence Agency
Intelligence Agency
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rat Intelligence Agency
Intelligence Agency
. , ueheart, Department of State
Mr. Allan Evans, Department of State
Brigadier General John-Y, Willems, Department of the Army
Lt. Colonel T. C. Anderson, Department of the Army
Dr. Samuel McKee, Department of the Army
Captain Allan L. Seed, USN, Department of the Navy
Captain K. C. Hurd, USN, Department of the Navy
Colonel Donald H. Ainsworth, United States Air Force
Colonel John J. Morrow, United States Air Force
Colonel Robert Totten., United States Air Force
Colonel Charles F. Gillis, United States Air Force
Colonel George E. Perry, United States Air Force
Captain B. T. Layton, USN, The Joint Staff
Colonel Samuel M. Lansing, The Joint Staff
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Watch Committee
Indications Center
3. Actions Agreed to forr,i a special committee to conduct a thorough and
prompt review of the watch process and prepare recommendations for the IAC and,
ultimately, the NSC. Tho committee will consider as an initial step a paper to
be prepared and circulated by CIA and thereafter such other papers, including
the subject proposal tabled by Ceneral 14illems, as the agencies submit. The
agencies are to nominate a highly placed officer to Mr. Huntington Sheldon,
CIA/OCI, who will call the first meeting, at which time the committee will se-
lect a chairman and adopt its procedures.
4. Discussion; The DCI stated that he felt that the existing Watch Com-
mittee was -a great improvement over the situation prior to its creation, but
that developments over the past years (including the atomic progress of the
USSR, the increasing pro'-)lem of continental defense, and the concurrent growth
in importance of economic and political factors) made it desirable to reexamine
the scope and limitations of the watch process, how that process can best func-
tion, and what major problems are involved. It was the sense of the meeting
that such a reexamination was desirable.
General Samford said that the watching process is a most difficult matter,
and he was doubtful that we had even accurately defined the problem. It seemed
to him, he said, that since the watching process inevitably transcends the abil-
ityof any one agency or of the military services, the broad leadership of the
DCI was required. General_ Porter agreed that the leadership of CIA was needed
in this important intelligence function. Mr. Dulles stated that he had no pre-
conceived notions regard;_ng the outcome of the special, committee but felt that
General Samford's remarks should be fully considered, along with other ideas,
by that committee.
With respect to gra ihical or mathematical processing of indications, it
was believed that these should hn explored, but the danger of stressing such
methods to the exclusion of analytical appraisal of the indicators and their
implications was pointed out.
General Cabell emphasized that a distinction must be preserved between the
process of watching and the process of estimating, and that, to assure that this
distinction is maintained, clear terms-of-reference and procedures must be pro-
vided the watch mechanise.
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