NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
SNIE 63.1–4–55}
13 September 1955
# 032629
SPECIAL
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE
NUMBER 63.1 - 4 -55
CONSEQUENCES OF POSSIBLE US COURSES OF ACTION WITH RESPECT TO VIETNAM
Submitted by the
DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
The following intelligence organizations participated in the preparation of this estimate: The Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence organizations of the Departments of State, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and The Joint Staff.
Concurred in by the
INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
on 13 September 1955. Concurring were the Special Assistant, Intelligence, Department of State; the Assistant Chief of Sta[j, G-2, Department of the Army; the Director of Naval Intelligence; the Director of Intelligence, USAF; and the Deputy Director for Intelligence, The Joint Staff. The Atomic Energy Commission Representative to the IAC, and the Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, abstained, the subject being outside of their jurisdiction.
COPY NO. 11
FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE