DIARY NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76-00183R000100110004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 26, 1952
• Content Type: NOTES

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DIARY NOTES
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26 June 3,952
1, Concurred in a new table of organization and functional chart for the
It, in effect, places N in command of the en- 25X1A9a
tire Mission, merges the SO and PC Mis , administrative support
functions in- and reduces the table of organization to approximately
below that previously antici ate d). I pointed out to Frank Wisner
Na no reservations about the organization but that the adminis- 25X1A6a
trative:organization within the DD/Pts Office might require further resolution
between the two of us.
3. Attended a meeting with a large number of DD/P people on the proposed
reorganization of the clandestine services, i.e., merger or no merger. General
Smith presided. It was a long meeting at which General Smith emphatically ad-
vised everybody that he commanded all field organizations and that DD/P,, as
well as other people In Washington, were merely staff officers acting in his
name. He directed that henceforth all messages world go out signed s"Smith", re-
gardless of who wrote them4. His tentative decision was to group administrative
support, communications, covert training, and TSS under one head under the DD/P.
General Smith's ideas were so far from those proposed in the paper presented
by DD/P that he agreed to rewrite the basic principles. The next morning, prior
to his having done this, I submitted to him a memorandum suggesting that DD/A
be redesignated Deputy Director for Administration and Logistics, that most of
the DD/P support functions be transferred to DD/A&L, that DD/A&L be recognized
as the Director's G-1 and G-14 staff element, and that communications to and
from field commanders in the name of the Director be authorized.
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