DIARY NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76-00183R000100090010-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 15, 1953
• Content Type: NOTES

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DIARY NOTES
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ADD 15 April 1953
1. Spent an hour with General Morris., Mr. Meloon, Mr. Saunders, Mr. Peel., 25X1A9a
Mr. Garrison, Deputy Chief of the Transportation Division, and others
discussing the functions of the Travel Section, Central Processing Branch, vis-a-
vis those of the Passenger Movement Branch., Transportation Division, Logistics Of-
fice.
I concluded, and it was generally agreed, that certain functions now per-
formed by the Passenger Movement Branch could be accomplished more efficiently in
the Travel Section of the Central Processing Branch; specifically, the ordering
and picking up of tickets, etc. In my opinion there has been considerable lost
motion; i.e., a traveler's itinerary is made up in the Central Processing Branch
and the tickets are actually ordered and picked up by the Transportation Division.
This. obviously. leads to a great deal, of confusion inasmuch as the exact itiner-J
ary planned by Central Processing/`, carried out by Transportation; in the ea= e
future, it will all be done in Central Processing. In addition, the Central Pro-
cessing Branch has, up to now, handled travel arrangements only for those person-
nel going overseas, whereas, the Transportation Division has handled domestic
travel. This does not add up to me and I have directed that in the future Central
Processing will handle it all.
I emphasized that it was the responsibility of the Transportation Divi-
sion to insure that competent personnel were assigned to the Central Processing
Branch to accomplish these duties, and Mr. Garrison readily agreed that if he
could do this he would delegate sufficient authority to the Central Processing
Branch so that they could handle the whole operation.
A paper outlining these functions is being prepared by the Organization
& Methods Service. It will be concurred in by Personnel and Logistics and I will
approve of it. This will then be the charter to start the new arrangement, and I
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2. brought over a group of papers addressed to Office Heads con-
cerning overtime worked and leave taken during a four month period. We discussed
the value of this effort and Chuck indicated that since the previous notices only
covered one pay period it was impossible to tell whether or not they were really
doing any good. He feels that these memoranda covering a longer period will be
more useful to the Office Heads and would like to make such an analysis once or
twice more, after which he believes that we can tell definitely whether or not it
is worth the trouble. He did say, however., that as a general observation he
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thought our overtime policy was not a good one, adding that he could see it in his
own Division where the employees have been working a lot of overtime lately on the
budget. He definitely believes that during an eight-hour day we do not get nearly
as much out of an employee who either can work overtime for the purpose of drawing
extra pay or knows that he is going to have to work a substantial amount of over-
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3. was up to discuss the possibility of borrowing one of our
supergrade slots since his Office lost one because of the transfer of Mr. Kirkpatrick
to the Director's Office. I told him that I was pessimistic but that I would look
25X1 A9a to the matter and let him know before too long.
25X1 A9 4. says that Mr. Dulles has some reason to believe that General
may be returning to Washington sometime within the near future and
requests that we attempt to confirm this. I have instructed Personnel to investi-
gate and let me know. 25X1A9a
Deputy) as late as yesterday were
a little unpleasant about this matter and requested that Mr. Sheldon withdraw his
request. Mr. Sheldon was somewhat disturbed and wanted my advice, I told him that
the decision had already been agreed upon by this Office and the Office of the DD/P
and that he should let the record stand "as is." Furthermore, I think that after
General Cabell's interest in the matter it would make us look a little silly at this
stage of the game to decline to transfer to OCI. 25X1 A9a
6. Mr. Meloon reports that telephoned to say that her son, who 25X1A9a
is a Colonel with the Air Force in urope, was definitely interested in joining CIA.
His overseas tour ends in December or January. In view of the fact that Mr. Dulles
had previously instructed me that we should if he wanted
to come, I authorized George Meloon to have proceed in this direc-
25X1A9 ion and to keep me advised of the progress. It is my understanding that Colonel
llllllllllldesires to remain on active duty with the Air Force; therefore, he would be
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7. reports that he considers all of the meat in our reefers
25X1 A6&t the to be usable and does not believe that it is ne-
cessary to have a veterinarian inspect it.
25X1 A9a 8. I asked to expedite final recommendations on the altera-
tions to be made in the water and power systems at the Center.
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9. I asked both and Mr. Garrison to insure that a title and li-
cense plates were procured for General Cabell's car and that the car was ready for
him when he reported for duty.
25X1A9a 10. was up to discuss informally the relocation of Communications'
Engineering Laboratory (previously discussed between and Mr. 25X1A9a
Wolf) which is now located over at Rosslyn and which will have to move either to
on a ail to CIA in a military status.
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or into an installation at I have also discussed this brief-
25X1A9a ly with and Mr. Garrison. Insofar as space alone is concerned I think
that there s pro bly no doubt but that we could put this Laboratory at~.
However, substantial alterations would be necessary at 25X1 A6a
considerable expense and, at best, we would end up with o a makeshift Laboratory
with not too desirable working arrangements. In addition, ' s a lease- 25X1 A6a
purchase Warehouse. 25X1A6a
25X1 A6a I am going to look into this more thoroughly without delay; however, I am
certain not inclined to recommend at the present time that we put this installa-
25X1A6a tion at If the Laboratory cannot be housed in present Agency facili- 5X1 A6a
ties I am inclined to think that we should construct whatever is necessary at
25X1A6~ or possibly which would be designed to meet our needs, be a
permanent structure, and belong to us.
25X1A9a 11. advised me that Mr. Dulles desired that Mr. Wisner remain in
the Awn; stration Building for at least a while after General Cabe].l reports for
25X1A9a duty and that it would be necessary to make available to Mr. Wisner the small of-
fice occupied by I have made arrangements to put a door through the
partition and to complete the move over the weekend* also said that Mr.
Dulles did not desire that the DD/I move additional people into the Building at the
present time. 25X1A9a
12. Made arrangements for and me to see Mr. Dulles tomorrow af-
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at 3:00 p.m. to brief him on the case.
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