DIARY NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76-00183R000300110147-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2000
• Sequence Number: 147
• Publication Date: October 20, 1961
• Content Type: NOTES

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DIARY NOTES
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DDS - 20 October 1961
1. buzzed to request that we caution our telephone operators
that Mr. McCone now has a phone in his home which runs off our Agency switchboard
and that if he should call and ask for the home telephone number of any of our people
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to take care of this.)
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2. I talked with Emmett Echols and Larry Houston about the relationship
between their two offices and want to arrange to get together and have a hoe down
with them in the early part of next week. In addition to the general situation, which
is not too good, I want to come to some understanding about throgram, specifi-
cally.
3. reported to me that the temperature control in the USIB Confer-
ence Room was most unsatisfactor esterday and that the Director had complained
about it. I checked with and found that the contractor had shut the
entire cooling system off because he was working on some valves. This situation
should be corrected in the future.
4. - also talked to me about the great problem of how to supply cof-
fee for the people attending the USIB Meetings at the new building. Apparently, Austin
- had declined to do so and the Security boys out there had gone to GSI and bought
$5 or $6 worth of coffee, etc. I contacted Austin and told him that I expected him to
take care of the coffee situation from now on and that I didn't want to hear anything more
about it. He assured me that he would do so.
5. Emmett Echols telephoned to inquire whether or not he should seek nomina-
tions for the various awards which are now coming up. He wondered about this in view
of the fact that we were now being admonished not to seek publicity. I told him y all
means that he should go ahead and that our shyness did not extend to this depth.
6. The Director had his Deputies' Meeting at five o'clock today.
a. He canceled the awards ceremony after a rather lengthy dis-
cussion,
b. We had a rather lengthy discussion about the request from
the Bureau of the Budget to reduce our Fiscal Year 1963 Budget estimate.
We did no arrive at any firm conclusion as to how we were to go about
this but Art Director did say that we would go through with this exercise.
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We will have to get together with the Deputies and come up with
something without any further guidance from the Director. Also in this
connection, we discussed the request from the Bureau of the Budget that
we consider reducing our personnel strength from 10 to 20 per cent. The
Director indicated that he wanted to find out what ten other big agencies
have done during the past several years--since 1956. Although I don't
see any point in this exercise since, regardless of the statistics which
e obtain, we have no way of knowing what their workload has been,
?-owever, the Director instructed me to go ahead and get the statistics
anyway. I think that we can build a good story of our own based on our
own workload and it was the strong feeling of everyone there that the Di-
rector should fight this personnel cut to the end.
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25X1A9a 7. who has been down to - on a special job for DPD, was
in to tell me that he had had a most satisfactory tour and thought that he had done a good
25X1 A9ajob; he is now working in the Military Personnel Division for He was very
anxious to be kept in mind for other administrative-type jobs.
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