DIARY NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76-00183R000200070186-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 186
• Publication Date: June 1, 1956
• Content Type: NOTES

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DIARY NOTES
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1 June 1956
1. Participated in a Hearing before the House Appropriations Committee.
There is no question but that the members of the Committee are all in favor of
our having adequate funds to construct a building to accommodate our total
needs. Whether we should get our enabling legislation amended this session was
left a little fuzzy. However, on balance I believe they accepted the wisdom of
our coming back in January inasmuch as we were able to assure them that this
date would not be too late and. would not waste any money. Roger Fisher ap-
peared as an interested witness and. pulled out all the stops in opposition to
the Langley site, requesting specifically that funds for the construction of
the extension to the George Washington Memorial Parkway be denied. Dr. Symons
and two other gentlemen from the Prince Georges County Chamber of Commerce al-
so appeared opposing Langley and urging our location at the Greenbelt site. I
think that their presentations were fairly ineffective.
4. Discussed several things with At the moment he plans to
attend the War Plans Course during the period 30 July to 17 August and do his
two weeks of active military duty with the Strategic Intelligence School in
the Pentagon between 9 and. 23 July. Arranged to see him at 11:00 a.m. each
Monday, with the exception of the first Monday of the month, for the next few
weeks; thereafter I would hope to meet with him about every two weeks. In con-
nection with his planning functions generally, I told him that this was a
pioneering job and that our lines of instruction were not too clear-cut; however,
in my view his first job was to see that in current cold war planning Support
was in on the take-off rather than at the crash landing and that support plan-
ning went forward simultaneously with operational planning; second, that he
should accomplish the same objective with respect to war planning. I said that
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long-range planning point of view and something in which he should play a part.
6. Jim also advised me that the Office of the Deputy Director ) had
completed a staff study which now said that they wanted to keep Have
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9. Interviewed Mr. Office of Logistics, who is departing for
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man.
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12. Talked to Bob Macy about some of the problems connected with the pos-
sibility of having Ben Ellington replace Lyman Hamilton on his CIA budget team.
Unless I hear from Bob further he will have withdrawn Mr. Ellington as a can-
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