DIARY NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76-00183R000200040178-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 15, 2000
• Sequence Number: 178
• Publication Date: September 22, 1955
• Content Type: NOTES

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DIARY NOTES
DD/S 22 September 1955
1. With General Cabell and Ed Saunders, I participated with Mr. Dulles
in a meeting with Mr. Brundage, Deputy Director of the Bureau of the Budget.
The purpose of Mr. Brundage's visit was to solicit our cooperation in turning
back to the Treasury unused funds from prior years. In our case, our money
is shown as an expenditure when it is transferred from the Treasury. He said
the President was very much interested in this and had.. suggested that every
agency should be able to scrape up three per cent. Fortunately, we were in
a good position on this and were able to advise him that we would turn back
25X1A1a approximately from lapsed appropriations. We then alerted
Mr. Brundage to the fact that we were going to request a substantial increase
in our budget for Fiscal Year 1957. He indicated that he knew that we were
25X1A1a expanding rather than contracting, but I think he was somewhat surprised
when we told him we were o to ask for in our regular budget
25X1Ala plus an additional to bring our reserve back to the
25X1Ala level and that this would not include an additional $49,000,000 for the new
building. I asked Ed Saunders to prepare a detailed memorandum for the record
25X1A9a of this meeting and send me a copy.
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2. Met with Gates and to discuss
25X1A2g the - space problem. This was solved later in the day.
25X1A9a 3. was over to cry a little about his personnel ceiling,
and I think he feels he may have suffered by his conscientious effort to
bring T/Os and ceilings together. I assured him this was not the case. He
said there might be temporary periods when he would ask me for permission
to exceed the total DD/I ceiling. I told him I had no authority to grant
any permanent increase in the ceiling and I hoped that their controls would
be so effective that temporary increases would not have to be requested.
However, I did say that if he found this necessary, to bring his problem to
me and I would see what I could do, emphasizing that any authorization I gave
him would have to be a temporary one.
4. Larry Houston and I met with Mr. Arthur Flemmi Director of ODM, 25 9A2
to discuss the possibility of acceptance of a which
25X1A2g would result in at least partial payment of the outstanding money.
Mr. Flemming said that offhand he would doubt that he could handle this
situation in the normal way, inasmuch as he was discouraging production by
U. S. firms up to the amount for which he was already committed. However,
he said that the Department of Agriculture, through the 25X1A
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Corporation, might be ableto handle this as a part of their supplemental
stockpile, which would not involve a similar public relations problem. He 25X1A
asked us to take this matter up with the and,
if necessary, to contact him again to pursue the matter further. Mr. Houston
will follow up on this. 25X1 A9,
5. Mr. Wolf was down from New York for his briefing prior to taking
his tri to Euro e. He saw in Communications and General
25X1A9a in Logistics. We lunched in the dining room with
25X1A6a facilities to those after a chat with the Director, at which I
25X1A6a was present, after lunch, he told me that he would like to call and chat
with the Chiefs of Station I agreed to have
25X1A6a advice - for him as to how MR d go out contacting these
individuals when he arrives there. (I have asked to supply 25X1A9a
me with this information, but I must double check with Mr. Dulles on this
matter,) Mr. Wolf raised the question of his expenses, emphasizing that
he did not want to be paid for his services, since he would have to pay it
all back in income tax anyway. I told him we would reimburse him for what-
ever expense he thought was reasonable. Since he was making the trip anyway,
he believed that he would have no way of estimating what portion should be
charged, but suggested $500.00 for expenses in connection with his trip,
including the day down here and at least one day when he gets back to re ort25X1A
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the check be deposited to Mr. Wolf's account for expenses incurred in connec-
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tion with the trip. I am also to advise that Mr. Wolf will
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be arriv
on or about 3 October and will get in touch with him
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6. In connection with our insurance business, Mr. Wolf thought he
might be helpful in looking into our hazardous duty problem. In this connec-
tion I said I would have Colonel Edwards d,0 a limited check on Mr. Neville
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to discuss this further with Mr. Wolf when he returns from Europe.
e ec?or. oug . Wolf had planned to limit his look-see at our
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