POST-MORTEMS ON SELECTED ESTIMATES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R01012A005300010013-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2013
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: July 29, 1955
• Content Type: MEMO

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
29 July i955
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Allan Evens (DIR)
Colonel H. J. Lemley, Jr., USA (C-2)
Captain C. C. Coley, USN (ONI).
Colonel Willis B. Sawyer, USAF (AFOIN-2B2)
Colonel John E. Leary, USA (JIG)
SUBJECT : Post-Mortems on Selected Estimates
? 1. Few significant intelligence gaps in current intelli-
gence were noted in the production of the NIE 's cited below,
The Board of National Estimates therefore recommends that no
post-mortems be held on the following estimates:
NIE 11.8-55:
NIE 30-55:
NIE 23-55:
The Implications of the Austrian
Treaty for the Policies of the
USSR and Other States
Middle East Defense Problems and
Prospects
West Germany and the Reunification
Issue
SNIE 11-9-55: Clandestine Introduction of Nuclear
Weapons Under Diplomatic Immunity
DOCUMENT NO.
NO CHANGE IN CLASS.
.DECLASSIFIED
CLASS. CHANGED TO TS S C
NEXT REVEW DATE?
ALITH: HR 70-2
DATE -;t4- l REVIEWER: 6 1151
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2. The above list includes those NIE's published since the
IACts last decision on post-mortems (IAC-M-194, 26 April 1955).
The remainder of the NlEis completed since this date (NTEls
11-3-55, 10-55, 11-7-55, 11-6-55, 11-5-55, "'1/1.5f:y 6-55
63.3-55) will 'fl thG riNccts of I which nIlny
clrc- iy unk?ervay.
3. Please let me have your telephone concurrence by close
of business Thursday, 4 August if the negative action proposed in
paragraph 1 is satisfactory to you. Of course; if any IAC agency
believes that a post-mortem on any of these estimates is essential,
it can request one.
Distribution
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PAUL A. 3CREL
Deputy Assistant Director
National Estimates
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