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This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record of the Intelligence Advisory Committee meeting on China, held in the Director’s Conference Room, Administration Building, on November thirtieth, nineteen fifty. The minutes are notable because senior officials from the Army, Navy, Air Force, State Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency debated the implications of Communist Chinese and Soviet actions during the early months of the Korean conflict. The document was released to the public under the Freedom of Information Act. It was approved for public release on March twenty‑third, two thousand four, by the Central Intelligence Agency and is available through the Black Vault archive. The minutes open with the attendance list. Present were Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith, Director of Central Intelligence, presiding. Also present were Mr. Patk Armstrong, Jr., Special Assistant, Intelligence, Department of State; Major General A. R. Bolling, Assistant Chief of Staff, G‑2, Department of the Army; Rear Admiral Felix L. Johnson, Director of Naval Intelligence; Major General Charles P. Cabell, Director of Intelligence, Headquarters, United States Air Force; Brigadier General Vernon E. Megee, United States Marine Corps, Deputy Director for Intelligence, the Joint Staff; Mr. Victor P. Keay, acting for Assistant to the Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Dr. William L. Langer, Central Intelligence Agency; Mr. Sherman Kent, Central Intelligence Agency; Mr. Allan Evans, Department of State; Mr. Charles C. Stelle, Department of State; Mr. Melville J. Ruggles, Department of State; Brigadier General John Weckerling, Department of the Army; Colonel Hamilton H. Eae, Department of the Army; Captain John M. Ocker, United States Navy, Department of the Navy; Captain Ray Malpass, United States Navy, Department of the Navy; Colonel Edward H. Porter, Department of the Air Force; Colonel Charles F. Gillis, Department of the Air Force; Captain R. G. McCool, United States Navy, the Joint Staff; Mr. C. I. DeLoach, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Acting Secretary; and Mr. James Q. Reber, Central Intelligence Agency. The minutes note that the prior meeting’s minutes of November twenty‑first, designated TAC‑M‑7, were approved with the following corrections: Paragraph two‑a was revised to read, “The shift of the Communist armies from South China and the building up of forces along the Yalu River, especially in that the build‑up started prior to the North Korean invasion of June twenty‑fifth.” Paragraph twenty‑four was deleted. The revision of NSC document sixty‑eight, annex six, was agreed to be transmitted to the National Security Council as fulfilling the requirement for the annex dealing with intelligence and related programs. The committee then recorded a statement that it is axiomatic that the situation assessed in NSC sixty‑eight and the policy proposed to meet it require the improvement and intensification of…

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Filed OCT 28 · 2026Runtime 1 min

Central Intelligence Agency Record Of The Intelligence Advisory Committee

U.S. public record · FOIAUpdated October 28, 2026

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This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record of the Intelligence Advisory Committee meeting on China, held in the Director’s Conference Room, Administration Building, on November thirtieth, nineteen fifty.

Date: OCT 28 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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What was Central Intelligence Agency Record Of The Intelligence Advisory Committee about?: This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record of the Intelligence Advisory Committee meeting on China, held in the Director’s Conference Room, Administration Building, on November thirtieth, nineteen fifty.
Why was this case declassified?: This material entered the public record through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. Storyflo narrates it directly from the public release.

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