DIARY NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76-00183R000200080094-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2000
• Sequence Number: 94
• Publication Date: November 5, 1956
• Content Type: NOTES

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DIARY NOTES
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5 November 1956
1. Lunched withi Chief of Station at 0. There are no
special problems, although I did review with him our impressions of his sta-
tion which I did not have an opportunity to do before I left
2. Shef Edwards andi came to see me. Shef is worried about
the increase in his ceiling that would result from running our own guard force
in the new building. I told him that I thought we should not resort to any
gimmick but merely face the facts of life and add these positions to his ceil-
ing. The Director has already approved of our having our own guard force.
3. Shef is sending a man to New York to work with the architects. He is
going to need some additional people to monitor the construction phase of our
project. I told him that I would authorize whatever was necessary in addition
to his regular T/O. Some of these people, if carefully selected, can. be phased
into the guard force when we actually go into the new building.
ZI.. Shef advised that ould probably submit a recommendation
that we build an underground vault in lieu of adding to our Records Center at
6. Spoke to labout the necessity of arranging for a
plan to evacuate If necessary. This has been done. He also reported
that in the course of disposing of certain documents I I our crypto-
graphic system had been destroyed; however, we are in contact and the operator
is doing the best that he can from memory. Disregarding FCC Regulations, we
have started direct transmissionsi ==I
7. Harry Reynolds reported that ad been terminated in
accordance with the Director's decision to this effect. 0 most certainly
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b. Karl is going to school and apparently was enrolled without
George's knowledge.
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becoming a Vice-President in CAT.
11. Lyman Kirkpatrick mentioned that due to competition in recruitment we
were going to have to get our senior people to go back to their universities
and help if we were going to get the kind of people we needed. I said that
such a program was already started, but I must get Harry Reynolds and[
was in to discuss a number of problems.
a. He is not happy about the effectiveness of
office in coordinating his problems with the FE Division an o ers.
He suggests that if Karl were located in closer physical proximity
tol office this might improve the situation. This is a
part of the over-all problem of sorting out the line of command,
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f. George says that the Contracting Officer at
who is now a grade GS-14, has applied to him for a job. I
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avg a him a green light to go ahead and explore the matter with
13. As a result of the II case (the man who got away with quite a
bit of money and is now in Mexico) Shef thinks that we ought to
someday insta a system of doublechecking on our people who handle large sums
of money.
l1.. Shef confirmed that he had been requested to do a complete investi-
gation, including a CE, of CAT. I should tell about this. 25X1
15. Shef suggests that we conduct a security check of our Latin American
stations at least annually. I think that this is in order.
16. With reference to Mr. letter to Mr. Dulles, Harry Reynolds
advised me that an employee of GHI actually offered to sell a list of 1,000
names to a foreign embassy for $4,000.
17. 1 -1 buzzed to caution me that if any of our people should be
invited to the Soviet Embassy's "October Revolution Party" on 7 November they
should, of course, decline.
18. General Cabell called me after I had gone home and asked me to return
to the office. Here he brief hat the President was concerned at the
I I and directed that I take appropriate actio
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within the DDS area in the event that the war in the Near East should spread
or become eneral. I notified all of our office heads and asked General
particularly to insure that alternate means of communication were
available. He also sent a message to Il and alerted the
The Intelligence Advisory Committee met at 9:30 p.m. and ?urne out a
national estimate sometime after midnight.
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