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General Hull indicated, with respect to draft NSCID No. 2,
that the Board was concerned lest the implementation of paragraph A
thereof. result in CIA's duplicating the efforts of other agencies in
the overt collection field.
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General Hull stated that the Board had no comment on draft
NSCID No. 3; that draft NSCID No. 4 had been rewritten by the intel-
ligence commmnity along the lines suggested by the Board; that draft
NSCID No. 5 was considered acceptable by the Board; and that, al-
though the Board considered draft NSCID No. 6 to be satisfactory, it
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General Hull said, with respect to draft NSCID No. 7, that
the Board had been encouraged by intelligence community efforts on
this matter thus far, and it hoped there would soon be improvements
in the handling of critical intelligence communications.
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that bhe Board did not feel competent to comment on the technical
or cost aspects of draft NSCID No. 7. The Board did believe, however, that until top management settled the problem of priorities,
the communications system would continue to be bogged dow.
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General Hull said in summary that the Board believed that
the Director of Central Intelligence and the IAC agencies had done
a fine job on the revised NSCIDs; and the Board recommended that they
be approved subject to the modifications outlined by hin.
General Cutler referred to General Hull's comments relative
to the repeated requirements in the draft NSCIDs for consultation by
the Director of Central Intelligence with the IAC, and he asked if
this were intended to apply to the National Intelligence Estimates.
He said that as an intelligence consumer from the Planning Board
point of view, where differing estimates were made on the same point
by different members of the intelligence community, it wes very helpful to have these reflected in the National Intelligence Estimates.
General Hull stated that it was not the intent of the Board
that this practice be altered, and he agreed that such differing views
should continue to be reflected in the estimates.
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Staff, to elaborate on the JCS comments concerning Joint Intelligence.
General Teylor indicated that the JCS comments were merely in the nature of observations and did not affect the over-all position of the
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