DIARY NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76-00183R000200120154-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 2001
• Sequence Number: 154
• Publication Date: October 18, 1957
• Content Type: NOTES

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18 October 1957
1. At the Deputies' Meeting this morning, the Director expressed
considerable unhappiness and directed his remarks to both me and Frank Wisner
concerning the fact that the Bureau of the Budget had been so slow in Ming
our release of $4.8 million from the reserve for the project.
Although I accepted full responsibility for this delay, Mr. Dulles seemed to
blame Wisner considerably for not pushing it harder. He said that in the
future when the 5412 Committee signed off on the project he would assume that
the release had been granted within a matter of two or three days unless he
was notified to the contrary with reasons why not. It was agreed that
25X1A9a who assist5Mr. Dulles on OCB matters, would represent the DD/P and
would accompany the Comptroller or his representative, to the Bureau of the
Budget to present these requests. I have talked to Saunders about this at
some length and have emphasized to him that all 5412 matters must be handled
25X1A9a within two or three days and that other requests for withdrawals from the
reserve should also be handled quite promptly.
2. At the Deputies' Meeting also, the question of putting a time group
of some kind on messages originating in the field, the time group to indicate
the actual time that the writer signed the message and not the time it was
dispatched by the Message Center. This is necessary so that intelligence
analysts at Headquarters can know exactly what time the writer of this message
summarized his thoughts, etc. After some discussion, it was suggested that
we might look into our whole cable procedure. I agreed to have General
to do this and each of the other Deputies as well as the Inspector
General agreed to designate a representative to sit on this committee. I
talked to about this later in the afternoon and the first meeting
is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. on Monday, 21 October.
25X1C4a 3. Mr. Kirkpatrick, at the Deputies' Meeting, advised the Director that
another man in as soon as possible, but there are some critical days coming up
during which it is recognized by all concerned that we will not have a radio
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25X1A9a 4. telephoned to say that he had heard that- was going
25X1A6a to accompany Jim Garrison to the field with the idea of succeeding
25X1A9a as the Director of Logistics in hopes that this was not the
case, inasmuch as he doubts if it fully up to this rather sizeable under-
25X1A9a taking. I telephoned 9,n co rmed that there had been some discussion
along these lines. I told him to be sure that neither nor others discussed
une ng into opposition and
it for the time being inasmuch as they were already running-
they would certainly not get Division concurrence if they proceeded in this manner.
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5. I met with Ed Saunders,
25X1A9athe Cover Division and of the Office of Logistics to discuss our
policy on providing quarters for all of our people. This is necessary because
we now have up the question as to whether we should continue to furnish quarters
without regard to the cost thereof or whether we should limit it -- the cost, that
is -- not to exceed 25% of what their allowances would be. Still another question
is whether we should allow anyone to exceed the allowances. It seems the con$ensus
25X1C4ethat our basic policy should be that unless there are operational or other very good reasons for doing otherwise. However, it is not possible with
e confronted around the world,
the many different circumstances, with which we ar
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to have a standard policy at every station. It was agreed that
with the assistance of the Office of Togistics, Comptroller and the Cover Division
would make a station by station analysis orb the situation to see exactly where V
we stood today and come up with a recommendation as to what our new policy should
be. I asked this same task force to study the question of whether we should be
25X1A furnishing the furniture that goes in quarters, which is also our current policy.
In both of these topics, we probably will have to do different things at different
stations. However, generally speaking, I agreed it will be better to have a policy
unless there are operational or other very defensible circum-
stances which dictate otherwise. tUr
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