DIARY NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76-00183R000400070052-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: November 23, 1963
• Content Type: NOTES

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DIARY NOTES
DD/S ~'+A 23 November 1963
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At about 11:30 p.m. on Friday, 22 November, I was notified that there
would be a meeting of the Deputies with the Director in the East Building at
0830 hours on Saturday morning, 23 November. The meeting was quite brief.
a. There was a brief discussion of what changes should be made in
our procedures to accommodate President Johnson. The Director decided
that we would make no changes unless told to do so, and he left at 0900
hours to meet with President Johnson and to brief him personally.
b. Shortly before the meeting ended, he said that he wanted to see
General Carter alone for a minute. (General Carter had been away since
Tuesday morning, 19 November.) The Deputies waited for General
Carter, who immediately called a special Deputies meeting. General
Carter, Mr. Kirkpatrick, and the four Deputies-- Wheelon,
and White--were the only ones in attendance. General Carter said that
the Director had just "wire-brushed" him thoroughly, had expressed
himself as being most dissatisfied with the way the Agency was being
managed, etc. He went on to say that he, the Director, did not know
what was going on, that people were not responsive to his requests, and
that he was very dissatisfied with the whole situation. He mentioned an
NRO paper and the communications paper as examples of the kinds of
things for which he had been waiting for some time without results.
General Carter admonished us to take an inventory of items which we
owed the Director and to furnish him with a list of these items not later
than Tuesday, 26 November. He further put everyone on notice that he
expected to be much more demanding in the future and that under no cir-
cumstances would he and Mr. Kirkpatrick be bypassed in keeping the Di-
rector advised. As a result of this admonition, I advised General
and that together we would produce the outstanding
communications paper so that it could be delivered to the Director on
Monday morning, 25 November. (This was done, and I handed the paper
to Kirk at about 0900 hours on Monday. He read it in my presence and in
response to my specific question said that he found it entirely satisfactory
and responsive and failed to see how the Director could react otherwise.)
LKW:jrf
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