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172. Minutes of a Meeting of the Intelligence Advisory Committee1

IAC–M–145
Washington, March 16, 1954.

Director of Central Intelligence

Allen W. Dulles

Presiding

MEMBERS PRESENT

  • Mr. W. Park Armstrong, Special Assistant for Intelligence, Department of State
  • Major General Arthur G. Trudeau, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, Department of the Army
  • Rear Admiral H. C. Daniel, acting for Director of Naval Intelligence, Department of the Navy
  • Major General John A. Samford, Director of Intelligence, Headquarters, United States Air Force
  • Colonel Samuel M. Lansing, acting for Deputy Director for Intelligence, The Joint Staff
  • Dr. Charles H. Reichardt, Atomic Energy Commission Representative to the IAC
  • Mr. Victor P. Keay, acting for Assistant to the Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

ALSO PRESENT

  • Lt. Gen. Charles P. Cabell, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Dr. Sherman Kent, Central Intelligence Agency
  • **Dr. H. Marshall Chadwell, Central Intelligence Agency2
  • Mr. James Q. Reber, Central Intelligence Agency
  • [name not declassified], Central Intelligence Agency
  • Lt. Gen. Harold R. Bull (Ret.), Central Intelligence Agency
  • *Mr. Ludwell L. Montague, Central Intelligence Agency3
  • [name not declassified], Central Intelligence Agency
  • *Mr. William P. Bundy, Central Intelligence Agency
  • [name not declassified], Central Intelligence Agency
  • [name not declassified], Central Intelligence Agency2
  • [name not declassified], Central Intelligence Agency
  • [name not declassified], Central Intelligence Agency3
  • [name not declassified], Central Intelligence Agency
  • [name not declassified], USMCR, Central Intelligence Agency3
  • Mr. William C. Trueheart, Department of State
  • *Mr. E. W. Doherty, Department of State3
  • *Mr. Miron Burgin, Department of State3
  • *Mr. J. W. Lydman, Department of State3
  • Lt. Col. Roland L. Kolb, Department of the Army
  • Lt. Col. James G. Martin, Department of the Army
  • Lt. Col. Vasco J. Fenili, Department of the Army
  • Captain Allan L. Reed, USN, Department of the Navy
  • Cmdr. James G. Thorburn, Jr., Department of the Navy
  • Colonel Donald H. Ainsworth, United States Air Force
  • Colonel John J. Morrow, United States Air Force
  • Colonel Charles F. Gillis, United States Air Force
  • Mr. John A. Power, United States Air Force
  • Captain Ray E. Malpass, USN, The Joint Staff
  • Colonel Orin H. Moore, The Joint Staff
  • Lt. Col. Perry H. Penn, The Joint Staff
  • *Mr. John Easton, The Joint Staff3
Richard D. Drain
4
Secretary

[Omitted here is discussion of unrelated agenda items.]

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Soviet Capabilities in Guided Missiles (IAC–D–81, 10 March)5

6. Action: Agreed to defer action until a later meeeting.

7. Discussion: Admiral Daniel and Colonel Lansing felt that the subject was one allocated to the departments of the Department of Defense by DCID 3/46 and that to handle a matter primarily in the weapons field through the national intelligence machinery might lead to overcrowding an already overworked mechanism. General Trudeau suggested that the entire community is concerned with at least the collection effort in this field, an effort which needs stepping up before existing estimates can be much improved. Mention was made of a current JIC study (603/16, November 1953)7 pertinent extracts from which the service members felt might be made available to the Federal Civil Defense Administration.

8. General Samford thought it desirable to respond as fully as possible to present and future requestors involved with this subject. He doubted that less than a National Estimate would meet the need.

9. Mr. Dulles recognized that this subject had grown in importance since DCID 3/4 was issued almost two years ago and may require treatment different from that suggested in the Directive. He invited members to consider the matter further, pending a full discussion at a later meeting.

[Omitted here is discussion of unrelated agenda items.]

  1. Source: Central Intelligence Agency, Executive Registry, Job 85–500362R, Box 2. Secret. The meeting was held in the DCI’s conference room.↩
  2. Attended Executive Session. [Footnote in the original.]↩
  3. [Attended] Part of Meeting. [Footnote in the original.]↩
  4. Attended Executive Session. [Footnote in the original.]↩
  5. [Attended] Part of Meeting. [Footnote in the original.]↩
  6. [Attended] Part of Meeting. [Footnote in the original.]↩
  7. [Attended] Part of Meeting. [Footnote in the original.]↩
  8. [Attended] Part of Meeting. [Footnote in the original.]↩
  9. [Attended] Part of Meeting. [Footnote in the original.]↩
  10. [Attended] Part of Meeting. [Footnote in the original.]↩
  11. Printed from a copy that bears this typed signature.↩
  12. Not found.↩
  13. Document 126.↩
  14. Not further identified.↩