GROGAN DIARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000200030032-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2013
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: July 2, 1959
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @50-Yr 2013/11/08:
CIA-RDP74-00297R000200030032-5
DAILY DIARY
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Sta.nley J..Clrogan ?
rIME STORY ' ?
2 - 2 July 1959
STee.e called-arain to say-they have further information on the Alsop-Schwartz .
s-..ories and are closing now on Harriman's own version of the converpation which
.--Itche: the .17tories of AlsOp and Schwartz. What they are*lookiag for now, PRid
-.7teele., is some tnterpretation as to the validity and meaning of Khrushchevls .
st.atemerAs. 3teele asked, therefore, it he could come and telk-the.matter over
w-lth the 'DU-Actor, with Amory or with anyone at the working.ievel who. could give
hlm qdditional guidance along this line. SJG said he was waiting now to talk to
Amory and would let Steele know..
JOHN-SCALI, AP -- ALSOP-SCHWAR22#41MEMA bEiECTORi STORY ON PEFSC2ORS
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Scall asked if SJC lad read the Alson and- Schwartz stories of this maiming; SJr;
laid that he hid anA that they looked to Aim like a Government plant. Scali
askcd E0,out the validity of the stories. SJG said, "I would toyou'that I
would accept it." Scali.qualitied by saying there was a big difference .between
whht Alison See and what Schwartz said. -SJG referred to Khrushdnevis line of
to-ghness sayine that on the speech of the 29th which is only row coming over
the wire, "you can nick it Out of that." ? ?
3cali s_aid that after things die down a little and Koalav goes homel.he.would. -
like to do another follow-pp story on the defector thing and for this purpose
would like to see the Director again sometime in the future. SJG agreed saying
they would arrange something.
ELMO AMORY-BALDWIN MMITYMO ?
Earman asked if Amory had turned -in to Col. Grogan a report of as meeting with
Ranson Baldwin on J MO said he had not. He said he was away on leave
.STAT Lt the time but that
noting on the schedule thee that Amory
would see Baldwin, c e ry s offioit and said he summed Amory would turn
in his usual report on the meting. SJG'iaid Amory had never turned in to him
any report.
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McDONALD, AMERICAN LEGION -- NAIVINAL.SPCURIIT commIssiop
SJG told McDenald_that Mr. Dulles had asked General C. P. Cabell, The Deputy
Director of Central Intelligence, to address the National Security Commission '
in his place. SR.; asked for-the nwees.ot any of the other military who may .
partiipate on the program with General. McDonald-siid he woad send SJG a ?
copy of the tentative program.
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DDI MAX FARM
SI-AT said, re Max Fransal,Tha had a.place Of AP.on hi* noq. Tbevticker inotod
PRAVDA, and ISVESIIA and ISVESTIA stidilin commenting about Frankfles article on
the ekhibition, that they believe he probably wrote it "taking into considara- '
tl.on the fact that Frankel mdll-limmobn beck at his &Aims 'Mo as ?arra,'"
nn.4n molars: nf 4-A4111 woad.
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