DIARY NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76-00183R000300100145-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 145
• Publication Date: June 14, 1961
• Content Type: NOTES

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DIARY NOTES
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14 June 1961
1. Dick Bissell advised me that he could foresee a shortage of funds in Fiscal
Year 1962 of several million dollars to meet the cost of clandestine operations. At
the same time he has several million dollars of Fiscal Year 1961 money which is not
going to be obligated this year. He therefore proposes to obligate some $5 million for
Project OXCART using Agency Fiscal Year 1961 funds for this advance. During Fiscal
Year 1962 he will take $5 million of the money transferred from
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to this provided the obligations to be incurred during Fiscal Year 1961 were, in fact,
legal. He assured me that this would be the case. I also discussed this matter with
Ed Saunders who saw no objection to this arrangement.
2. We have received 44 reaction from the White House which indicates that
they are very strongly opposed to a Committee on CIA. This is very gratifying, as
well as interesting in a sense, since when President Kennedy was a senator he voted
for a joint committee.
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3. The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board is meeting on Friday,
30 June, Saturday, 1 July, and Sunday, 2 July. The Director is expected to appear for
at least two hours on Sunday to discuss (a) the internal organization of CIA; (b) our
relations with the Department of State; (c) the relatiolAPthe Director to the National
Security Council and to the President; and (d) the methods by which the Government
should conduct covert action projects.
4. Larry Houston advised me that he h.ci received still another letter from
Mr. - in the Office of Training about tie retirement problem. I told Larry
that I would recommend he not answer this letter but agree to meet with him if he so
desired.
5. Ed Saunders telephoned to say that he had been asked to arrange a briefing
for Mr. Hansen of the Bureau of the Budget, Mr. Belk of the National Security Council
Staff, and one or two others who constitute a special task force to study certain areas
of the world. I told Ed that while I thought that this should be a proper Department of
State function I saw no reason. why we should not give it if we were asked and suggested
that he get in touch with Bob Amory and make the necessary arrangements.
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a. I assembled such a meeting at 0900 on 15 June. It was somewhat
discouraging to try to lead this group in common action since there is so
much ill feeling between DPD and CAT. They have a tendency to fight their
past battles all over again and to use specific instances to prove their points
rather than accept one or two fundamentals, principles or objectives and at
least attempt to work in harmony to get on with the job. I believe, however,
that we came out with a firm understanding that the Agency did not believe
that CAT had the e?n1 aie~";1'
eain its present setup to do the things which must
be done in a paramilitary situation such as that which we have experienced
- CAT, therefore, has to beef up its capabilities so as to provide
in one man the qualifications of a Station Manager, Base Commander, and
Operations Officer. This man must have the ecessary stature to be able
to perform in a semi-military capacity.
b. It was agreed that Colonel Beerli would give us a paper by the close
of business on Friday, the sixteenth of June, which would set forth their re-
quirements. We would then send this out to the field and ask the CAT Field
Organization to come up with a plan which would meet these requirements.
I also undertook to write a philosophical piece o go along
with whatever else is laid on the field in the way of requirements.
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