CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST - DR. JAMES (Classified)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP59-00882R000300130006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 29, 1956
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: General Counsel 29 October 1956
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SUBJECT : Conflict-of-Interest -
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1. The attached correspondence with is self-
explanatory at least to the extent of indicating to you a problem which
bothers a number of our consultants. It is the far from novel one of a
possible conflict-of-interest between the two roles of advisor to the Govern-
ment and seller to the Government, from neither of which the individuals
wish to be excluded and neither of which is it in the interest of the Govern-
ment that they be excluded.
2. 1 have encountered another example of the same problem in
refusal to permit any contractual relation between the
and this Agency because of his services to us as a con-
sultant. His attitude has denied us access to the preferred or only source
of supply of certain products unless and until we are willing to pay the
price of foregoing his extremely valuable services as an advisor.
3. I wonder if you could (a.) brief me (orally or in writing) before
our meeting in Boston on 21 November, and (b.) be prepared to discuss
it on that occasion with the Directors and with the members of
Spec al Assistant to the Director
f r Planning and Coordination
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