DIARY NOTES

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• Publication Date: September 30, 1955
• Content Type: NOTES

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`J^'/-XVa service...this time from- I think that no action on our part is necess-
ary, but this is a subject which will come up again and again unless everybody
concerned does everything possible to improve it.
25X1A 2. raised the question of the TSS budget, pointing out that
TSS had submitted a program calling for funds substantially in excess of those
finally allotted by the Deputy Director (Plans). I suggested that inasmuch as
the Project Review Committee had already indorsed the program this was some-
thing on which the Deputy Director (Plans) and the Deputy Director (Support)
should make a olic recommendation to the Director. This was agreed and I have
25X1A9a directed to get the ball rolling on the matter.
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3. I briefed those at the Meeting on my activities in
particular emphasis on the situation involving the - project.
with
Mr. Dulles
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raised the question as to whether we really needed this base and was reassured
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by Messrs. and Kirkpatrick that we did.
4. Larry Houston asked permission on behalf of
o rent a
larger office for CAT which would increase the rental expenditure for that or-
ganization from $300 to about $600 per month. I approved.
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5. Harry Reynolds telephoned to say he felt strongly that the Office of
Personnel should be included in "Code of Conduct" paper which
is en route to me. I told him that I would consider his position when I got
the paper.
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to date on the status of planning for the proposed new building. We have sched-
uled a meeting of the Agency Steering Committee for 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
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7. Reviewed with Messrs.
Lloyd, and _ a number of changes
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proposed for "administrative" personne
but asked that they be considered by
the current Board before any final decisions were made.
8. Telephoned Bob Macy and asked him to insure that the Bureau of the
Budget took no action on GSA's position involving the building without hearing
our side of the story.
30 September 1955
1. At the Deputies' Meeting Mr. Dulles complained again about slow pouch
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9. Lunched with General Cabell, Lyman Kirkpatrick. Harry Reynolds, Matt
Baird, to discuss
the Public Service Aid Society, our charitable foundation. It was agreed that
we should solicit from within the Agency but not until after the first of the
year. If we need money from the outsid feels very strongly 2 X1A
that we can get quite a lot. Others, includin are not so opti-
mistic. A new Board was selected of whit is the Director 25X1A
Harry Re olds the Secrete -Treasurer and members include 25X1A
Matt Baird, and possibly others. I assume
that I shall get detailed Minutes of the meeting later. 25X1A9a
10. At the Deputies' Meeting Mr. Dulles said that the National Security
Council had had a meeting to discuss whether or not there were any urgent mat-
ters which would require the President taking specific action within the next
few months. It was generally concluded that CIA would not require much of the
President's time. However, the question of abolishing the Planning Coordina-
tion Group was uncertain and Mr. Dulles indicated that he would have Wa e 25X1A6a
25X1A9a explore this further. The question of closing the
was scussed in some detail. Mr. Dulles feels very strongly that we should
hold on until the bitter end. It is questionable, however, whether the Depart-
ment of State will adhere to this point of view.
11. Mr. Dulles expressed again his unhappiness about the fact that many of
our people have been at foreign field stations for considerable periods of
9Fx1Aaa time and have not bothered to learn the native languages. In this case he re-
ferrea specifically to who has been in for a long time but
a,.a v,aavt~, . w%aQ aivv n-ivw 14-Lo way al"VLLLlu Louu wtl11 u cause au uanno speak
12. On the lighter side, General Cabell reported that Dun and Bradstreet
had given a financial report to a client on CAT and that the Dun and Bradstreet
man had speculated that the Rockefeller money was really behind CAT. General
Cabell was seeing t 10:45 a.m. I must ask him the outcome
of this meeting.
13. General Cabell raised the question of whether a seventy year old lady
should be retained on our roles or retired. Mr. Dulles asked me to explore it.
Harry Reynolds says it is mandatory for her to retire; however, the General
'Counsel is checking this further. There may be a loophole, and I believe that
General Cabell would like to keep this lady (Miss of the USCIB
Secretariat) on for at least one year.
14. telephoned to alert me to the fact that Mr. Beebe (Secre-
tary-Treasurer, I believe, of WAEPA) is trying seriously to lay a plan to tie
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up the surplus in WAEPA. WAEPA now has a new President, Mr. William Shepherd,
Acting Deputy Director for Management of the International Cooperation Adminis-
tration, and a new Vice-President by the name of Parsons. In order that we
might control this surplus, or at least. not have it slip away-from us without
our knowing it, John suggests that I call Mr. Shepherd and ask him if we can
have at least one CIA member on the Board.
15. Gates Lloyd has picked up information which confirmed,
to the effect that apaper (approved by has been written in the FE
Division and is now with Frank Wisner wh c wou propose that we not use
- for our I must get into this act inasmuch as we would have
a serious problem on our hands if after having spent $5,000,000 for construc-
tion we do not use it.,
16. There is a CAT Board Meeting in New York on 10 October.
17. Mr._ Dulles buzzed me to say that Andy Goodpasture had telephoned him
with regard to the installation of a set of our secure. communications equip-
ment at the White House. I advised ho said that he and -
Colonel McNally of the White House ion under control and
that it involved a four-unit switchboard which would connect the following of-
fices: The White House; the Secretary of State; the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff; and the Director of Central Intelligence. They hope to get it
set up next week and.I have advised Andy Goodpasture accordingly.
18. Met with to discuss the. presentation to be made on Mon-
day evening to the Reserve cers. He left with me a proposed outline. I
called Jim Garrison and told him to at least approve of what was
going to say and stated that I thought it might be advisable for him to make the
presentation himself.
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