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Secretary McElroy agreed that more work must be done on
draft NSCID No. 7 from a management standpoint as to priorities,
computing costs, etc.. Accordingly, he thought it premature for
the Council to act on this directive now.
General Cutler inquired whether it would be reasonable
to list May 1 as a target date for the studies to be made with respect to this matter by Defense and CIA, and Mr. Dulles indicated
that a progress report could probably be made by that time. Ac-
cordingly, General Cutler indicated that May 1 would be set as a
target date for the submission of these reports.
Dr. Killian said that Dr. Baker had some technical recommendations to make which might be helpful to Defense and CIA in
their further work on this problem.
(NOTE:
‘The above summary was prepared by
the NSC Representative on Internal
Security.)
The National Security Council:
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Noted and discussed the draft National Security Coun-
cil Intelligence Directives (NSCIDs) submitted by the
Director of Central Intelligence and transmitted by
the reference memoranda of February 5 (two) and
March 7, 1958; in the light of (1) the views of the
Joint Chiefs of Steff thereon, transmitted by the
reference memoranda of March 4, 11 and 12, 1958; and
(2) the comments by the President's Board of Consul-
tants on Foreign Intelligence Activities, transmitted
by the reference memorandum of March 6, 1958.
b.
Noted the President's statement, with respect to the
comments of the Joint Chiefs of Staff reletive to
"Joint intelligence” as a part of "militery intelli-
gence", that nearly every department and agency of
useful in the preperation of "national intelligence";
and that appraisals which were in effect “national intelligence" would be prepared under the auspices of
the Director of Central Intelligence.
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