DRAFT MINUTES OF THE 18 MARCH USIB MEETING

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• Document Release Date: March 18, 2014
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• Publication Date: March 18, 1964
• Content Type: MEMO

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18 March 1964
UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
SUBJECT: Draft Minutes of the 18 March USIB Meeting
The attached draft minutes of the 18 March Intelligence Board
meeting will be considered at the next regular Boa.rd meeting.
Attachment
- JAMES. S. LAY, :111(
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UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
Minutes of
Three-hundred-seventeenth Meeting
United States Intelligence Board
USIB Conference Room
Central Intelligence Agency, at 1000 hours, 18 March 1964
Director of Central Intelligence
John A. McCone
Presiding
MEMBERS PRESENT
Dr. Ray S. Cline, acting for Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Mr. Thomas L. Hughes,* Director of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State
Mr. George C. Denney, Jr. , acting for Director of Intelligence and
Research, Department of State
Lieutenant General Joseph F. Carroll, Director, Defense Intelligence
Agency
Lieutenant General Gordon A. Blake, Director, National Security Agency
Mr. Harry S. Traynor, Atomic Energy Commission representative
to USIB
Mr. Alan H. Belmont, Federal Bureau of Investigation representative
to USIB
*Part of meeting
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1. COMOR Report on High-
Level Coverage of Cuba
(USIB-D-41. 14/116 (COMOR -
D-24/123) distributed through
restricted channels)
(USIB consideration of this item is contained in USIB-D-41. 14/117
(COMOR -D-24/124), limited distribution. )
2. Restricted Session
(An account of this item is carried in USIB-D-41. 13/7 (COMOR-D-
48/63), limited distribution through restricted channels. )
3. Executive Session
(The discussion in this executive session is contained in US1B-D-
10. 1/6, limited distribution. )
4. Approval of Minutes
11 March Meeting
(USIB -M-316, including Annex
distributed through special
channels; and records of action
in USIB-D-64, 6/5 (CCPC-D-
5/64) and USIB-D-41. 12/10,
distributed through restricted
channels)
Approved as amended.
5. Watch Report No. 708
Approved as amended.
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7, Main Trends in Soviet
Military Policies
(NIE ll-4-.64)
The Chairman announced that he wished to postpone consideration of
this estimate for two weeks. He requested the Board of National Estimates
to consider how to sharpen up the estimate in an endeavor to make it more
useful to the policy makers. General Carroll agreed with the Chairman, saying
that as it now stood it appeared to represent "all things to all men".
Dr. Kent expressed the hope that each USIB member would make his
views on the estimate available to his representative to assist in the coordination
of a revised version,
The Board then agreed to:
a. Remand the estimate to the BNE for reconsideration and revision.
b. Coordination of the revised version with USIB representatives.
c. Place the revised version of this estimate on the USIB agenda
for 1 April.
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8. The Outlook for Italy
(NIE 24 -64 )
a. Approved as amended.
b. No member raised objection to the release of this estimate to USIA.
Executive Session
At 1225, the Chairman again convened the Board in executive session
for the following items.
9. Possible Unauthorized
Disclosure in Newsweek
Article
The Board was provided copies of a memorandum from the Chairman
of the USIB Security Committee on the subject. There followed a brief
discussion centering on the great difficulty in tracing the source of the informa-
tion contained in such an article.
The Board then directed that the matter be taken up by the USIB
Security Committee for further analysis and specific recommendations to
the Board, prior to the initiation of inquiries or investigations.
Adjournment: 1235
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