APPOINTMENTS AND/OR MEETINGS FOR 23 SEPTEMBER 1954

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76-00183R000100020011-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: September 23, 1954
• Content Type: AG

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DIARY NOTES
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DD /A
23 September 1954
Jim
1. was in to give me his ideas on the agent cashier system. I
will prepare a separate memorandum on this but his conclusion is that our present
system is entirely satisfactory. We also discussed the bonding of agent cash-
iers, certifying officers, and official custodians. I will include this discus-
sion in my Memorandum for the Record but here again his conclusion is that each
cashier and certifying officer should be bonded and that official custodians
should not be. This coincides very closely with my own views.
2. telephoned to suggest a schedule for CIA Budget Hearings
beginning on 27 October. (See separate Memorandum for the Record on this sub.
ject.)
3. Conducted the usual weekly DD/A Staff Me
eting. (See Minutes.)
4. Sherman Kent was over to discuss an unus
ual tr which a member of the
Board of National Estimates wants to take to
during which he would
be working part of the time and on leave part o
the time. I told him that I
was sure we could work out the administrative arrangements to his satisfaction
if he would first obtain the Director's approval, as a matter of principle, for
the Board member to make the trip.
25X1A9a 5. During my talk wit today he discussed Project PBSUCCESS a
little further and said that had received figures from the Department
of State which seemed to bear no resemblance whatever to figures given to him by
Colonel King and Mr. Preston. He expressed great disappointment at the lack of
knowledge exhibited by Messrs. King and Preston and "shuddered to think" of what
would have happened had a can ttee been listening to their explan-
ations. He also indicated that would speak to the Director about
25X1A this but that he felt the group w asc or a complete audit of the Project.
He also discussed again the question of central administration versus
separate administration for the Clandestine Services and said that he was not one
hundred per cent sure in his mind which system we should have but that there was
one thing he was sure of and that was that the Clandestine Services needed to
get themselves straightened out operationally before any such move was consider-
ed. He also confirmed my feeling of friendliness on the part of the Special
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Studies Group toward the Agency but said that he was awfully glad that this par-
ticular group was making the study and not a congressional comni.ttee, in which
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6. After considerable flapping around determined that Senator Bridges and
do not have any definite plans to go to the
ter on o ay. They are going to and will not go to the Center un-
less questions raised cause them to want to do further sightsee-
ing. I told to et in touch with make sure that he
was alerted as to plans to stop and to be sure to intercept the
party at the gate if they should arrive there and offer to show them anything
they might care to see., etc.
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