DIARY NOTES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Sequence Number: 179
• Publication Date: January 27, 1958
• Content Type: NOTES

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DIARY NOTES
DDS 27 January 1958
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1. telephoned to say that had
been invited to accompany one of his contacts on a trip to Latin America and that the
contact would bear all of the Agent's transportation expenses. He wanted to know if
I saw anything wrong in letting him go and paying his per diem while he was there .
I told him that I didn't and that he could accomplish this by issuing a travel order to
this effect.
2. telephoned to say that the Director had signed off on our request-
ing $2.2 mi ion from the R
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eserve
or Project but had stipulated that he wanted
to review the hardware situation before we spent any of the $1.2 million released for
that purpose.
3. I asked Gordon Stewart to talk to about the morale situation
among the military personnel in the PP ff. He told me that he thought the morale
among the military people in shop was not good and that he proposed to
talk to Dick about ii.
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4. Mr. Dulles received a call from And- Good aster at the White House concern-
ing one of our employees by the name of . It seems as thnii h Goodpaster
had hAan o,4.,i__A Lam. - -''-
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nat we were
forcing to go to- against his wi l . Investigation indicated that = had
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been disappointed for some time because he had not been promoted to grade GS-14. He
is in the Office of the Co
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has been
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o grade GS -14 and apparently there is considerable
jealous
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e two sisters. Recently Ed Saunders selected= to
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own statement he had decided to accept this assignment and when
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e became extremely irritated and called ex-Governor-
without his knowled
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overnor then apparently called Andy Goodpaster, or
someone at the Whi
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te House, who ca ed Mr. Dulles. Mr. Dulles relayed the problem
to me thro
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. I talked to both Ed Saunders and about it and with
Mr
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perm
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on telephoned Andy Goodpaster and explained e situation to him.
He was ver appreciative and said that the whole thing had been put to him on the basis
of th
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essignment and since we were no longer pressing this matter they had no
further interest in it.
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5. I talked to a u somewhere e.LSUV to 25X1 A5a 1
or
and about the idea of getting a panel of scientists at
c operate
consider our total research and development problems rather than have them
project. seemed to think that this was a very good idea
wouldsolated profollow through when he took over responsibility for all re -
in indicated on that one isolated
and a vacuum
search and development.
6. Dick discussed two problems with me in connection with Pr ojectiAQUAT ONE.
possible criticism f these contracts
said that they were getting rned ready
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that .
He also sug-
wanted to start having regular meetings betwee
order to insure that Jim was fullYed settledgeable of what they were doing. lements and submit his comments on them be-
total ed
the
ge sted that Jim review the propos
ved
fore they were presented to the contractors. Dick was other problem obviously cou.cern d about the
He prore-
AQUATONE procurement program. Again, procu possibility of being criticized for the way~~~ made a umber of mistakestheir
e
ment; he was quite frank to say that they
posed that a board be set up, composed of Kirk sAr.r F rr e'aa~~ Larry o~ ~~d me
as members, in addition to one member from the , and
whate
make
ver re review the whole procurement program, oarn I told him?that in both of these prob-
ports and recommendations seemed appropriate.
prin-
I was certainly interested in protecting the
but would like to think the matter
ciple I could see nothing wrong with his proposals over further as to just how they should be accomplished.
position at this late date and of
cerned about putting Jim Garrison in s
a record to protect Dick
being pulled in on it myself merely for the sake of building up
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I had lunch with who posed the usual question,
7. At his request,
"How am I doing?" I told him that I had been concerned about his performance recen y25X1A9a
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and that there were three s ecific matters which had
him that not too long ago a
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con had made some rather serious charges a He ass einvolving I ns eed have no c cuct at oncern the
Officers' Club, excessive drinking, etc.
case I was not 25X1 A6a that
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the matter had been turned over to the Inspector G I in-
formed to have things brought up at this late date about his conduct ga-
formed him that the second matter involved this hat the rut oin the r was han
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manta of Support people to the field. I said i" He 25X1 A6a
was trying to rig assignments so that he would succeed doing anything
commented that he would like this job bunk it was Division policy to send to their field
proper. He then proceeded to tell me th
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stations Support people who had served in the Division here at headquarters. I re -
minded him that the Division had no authority to make such policy and, furthermore,
that he was responsible to insure that the Support Career Services were looked out
for as well as the interests of the Division. I also told him that it was generally un-
derstood that he was the individual who was pushing this policy rather than the Divi-
sion itself. The third matter, I said, concerned his drinking habits. I informed him
that I had been told recently that he was doing entirely too much drinking at lunchtime,
taking too much time off for lunch, and sometimes not showing up at the office in the
afternoon without the formality of taking annual leave. He seemed quite surprised at
this but was in a pretty weak position inasmuch as he had had two stiff drinks in my
presence. (I have seen him on a number of occasions recently at the Army/Navy Club
however
ld hi
l
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m,
so to
with a bottle on the table, many times when he was alone.} I a
that I had talked to and that had talked to
about his performance and they had no complaints; in fact they thought that e was o-
ing an entirely satisfactory job. I added that his latest Fitness Report would likewise
reflect a good performance.
8. Gates and I had a long session with Gordon Stewart to discuss possible can-
didates for the position of Deputy Director of Personnel. We asked Gordon to think
about this seriously and to get together with us again in a couple of weeks to try to
come to some definite conclusion.
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