DIARY NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76-00183R000300100202-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 202
• Publication Date: May 17, 1961
• Content Type: NOTES

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DIARY NOTES
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17 May 1961
1. At the Deputies' Meeting this morning:
a. It was announced that the new Killian Committee will meet on the
twenty-sixth of May. In this connection, according to Mr. Kirkpatrick,
some twenty-three requests have been made to the Agency for information.
One of these requests a list of institutions with which we are associated.
This would mean the exposure of a very substantial list of proprietaries,
foundations, etc.
b. The Director shared with us a copy of a letter to the President
which had been signed by all five members of the House Subcommittee on
Appropriations. The substance of the letter was that they, of course,
would not presume to tell the President who should be appointed to strate-
gic positions in the Executive Branch but that they wished him to know that
they always had and still had the highest confidence in Mr. Dulles.
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2. advised me that the meeting with the Department of State NIS
and BR people is now scheduled for Friday, 19 May, at 10:30 A.M. There will be some
four hundred people in attendance. However, there appears to be no way to hold the
group down because of the way in which the Department has administered this program.
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Secretary of D IN e, concerning our request for the recall of
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questions which the Secretary might ask better than he could.
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6. While at the Bureau I explained to Bob the problem that I was having in arrang-
ing a meeting with General Cabell and Mr. Kirkpatrick. He expressed his desire to go
ahead with the meeting and asked me to assure General Cabell that he merely wanted to
philosophize and not discuss dollars at this point in time.
7. Bob Macy advised me that he is leaving for a trip to Latin America on the
thirteenth of June and would like to have some CIA briefings prior to his departure. Also
he would like to be permitted to talk with some of our Station Chiefs while on his trip.
His trip, however, has nothing to do with CIA business. I told him that I would be very
glad to arrange for this.
8. learned from Bob Smart of the Kilday Committee staff that
Mr. Vinson was going to sign a very strong letter to the Comptroller General telling him
not to discontinue his audit activities in CIA. We, therefore, drafted a letter for the Di-
rector to sign to the Comptroller General expressing our regret that he had decided to
discontinue his audit activities in the Agency and requesting that we meet with him to dis-
cuss the possibility of continuing an audit on some scale prior to his taking final action.
The idea was, of course, to get this in the Comptroller General's hands prior to his re-
ceipt of Mr. Vinson's letter which we knew was forthcoming. We were actually able to do
this on the morning of Thursday, 18 May, and later in the day we received a copy of a very
strong letter from Mr. Vinson to the Comptroller General expressing his very strong dis-
approval of the Comptroller General's plan.
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