DIARY NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76-00183R000500030085-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 85
• Publication Date: August 10, 1964
• Content Type: NOTES

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DIARY NOTES
DD/S
10 August 1964
1. At the Executive Committee Meeting this morning:
b. reported that Mr. T. Edward Braswell, Jr.,
Senator Russell's staff man with whom John has been working on the
early retirement legislation, has a negative attitude and that we are
having some trouble with him. I later met with John and
to talk about these problems. Mr. Braswell and apparently Senator
Russell are concerned about the eligibility requirements included in
the bill. Admittedly, as written these requirements leave a great deal
to the judgment of the DCI or the special board which he will set up to
administer the program. Mr. Braswell has asked for considerable ad-
ditional information, which John and Bertha believe is just a delaying
tactic. I suggested that we should honor every request that Mr. Braswell
makes to the maximum extent possible and that we should try in every
way possible to win him over. Since he has never been briefed on the
Agency, I suggested that he be invited to the Headquarters building for
lunch and a general briefing on the Agency by Mr. Kirkpatrick. I also
said that, if there was a chance to discuss these problems with Senator
Russell, I felt sure that General Carter would want to be contacted and
would be willing to return to Headquarters for this purpose. (At the
moment he is not scheduled to return until 19 August.)
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transmit on any fixed schedule because of the uncertainty of the situation there.
They were able to get back into the Signal Center only by digging a hole in the
roof. At the moment, this hole is their only access.
5. John Clarke was down to chat with me about a number of things.
a. He assured me that they would go forward immediately to request
an apportionment from the Bureau of the Budget of $1.7 million to take
care of our printing plant. He hoped that there would be no further hear-
ings. I asked him to get in touch with if further hearings
are necessary.
proceed to study this problem and
that we should approach it on the principle that this would be a better way
to do business over the long pull rather than as a gimmick to evade per-
sonnel ceilings. I told him that we would continue to study the problem
since in this way only does it seem to me that we can determine whether
this would, in fact, be a better way of doing business.
c. John was personally interested in attending either the National
War College or Harvard, but he was not sure whether he still belongs to
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my career service or should look to Mr. Kirkpatrick. I told him that
I would be happy to put his name on either list but that I thought it would
be most appropriate for him to discuss the matter with Kirk. He also
wanted to support the nomination of for the Industrial War Col-
lege. I told him that I had declined to sponsor for the forthcoming
session since he has been with the Agency only two years, which is an
insufficient length of time to be a member of our career service.
6? as in to table a number of subjects with me
which D P would like to pursue. The whole list has been approved in prin-
ciple by Dick Helms, Mr. Kirkpatrick, and General Carter--approved, that
is, for discussion with other interested and affected components. They do
not wish to pursue the following two subjects at this time: (a) a recommenda-
tion that personnel who have been openly identified as CIA employees not be
permitted to travel overseas, and (b) the problem of the number of people
who have access to the DD/P area of the building. The others, however, they
do want to pursue.
to discuss ways ana means which P can play a stronger role In the
recruitment and selection of JOT's. I agreed to convene such a meeting.
Tom said that it was not urgent and could wait until my return from leave
in September.
b. They would like approximately the same group to meet to discuss
procedures for the training of Clandestine Services officers. They have
in mind the establishment of a DD/P Training Board, which would be made
up of three DD/P officials and the Director and Deputy Director of Train-
ing. The objective is for DD/P to have a stronger voice in the training
of DD/P officers. I believe that this grows out of the Action Memoranda
which have been issued concerning the Midcareer Program and which have
been written without DD/P consultation or coordination.
c. They wish to study the feasibility of establishing a procedure to
segregate rosters, payrolls, etc . , of DD/P personnel and to keep such
data under DD/P control. They said that they were satisfied when the
Office of Finance had its own data processing shop but are now very much
concerned because all this information is in Joe Becker's Automatic Data
Processing shop. I suggested that we would need Joe Becker Bob Fuchs
Emmett Echols, Howard Osborn, and either
to discuss this matter. Here again, all this can wait until I return from
leave.
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d. They wish to explore with DD/S the possibility of issuing regu-
lations on a fixed schedule. For example, we would publish new regu-
lations or all changes to existing regulations on 1 May and 1 November.
Their theory is that this practice would permit management to take a
look at all the changes in totality rather than to have to consider each
change individually and piecemeal. I told Tom that I was not too opti-
mistic that this would improve our situation and, in fact, thought that
it might make it worse. I did agree to study it, however. There is no
reason why this needs to wait until I return, and I should like to have
and the Regulations Control Staff make a study for me by 13
September listing the pros and cons of this proposal.
e. We discussed the Employee Activity Association. DD/P is
fearful that the Agency will enter into activities which will bring their
personnel into the public limelight. They also think that the Agency
should stay away from activities in general which will give CIA or its
personnel any publicity. Tom used as a specific example the idea which
he had heard about chartering a plane for a trip to Europe. I said that
I felt we needed an Employee Activity Association, that we needed par-
ticipation to the fullest extent possible, and that we had to have money
to run it. On the other hand, I subscribed wholeheartedly to surround-
ing this Association with proper security controls so as to prevent undue
publicity for the Agency and to provide the necessary anonymity for the
individual members. As long as we follow this line, I believe that we
can count on DD/P to support our Employee Activity Association. (This
information was communicated to the Director of Personnel on 12
August, who should now try to push this activity along.)
f. Tom requested permission to designate a member of _
_ staff to work with our Salary and Wage Division to develop job
descriptions, appropriate grades, etc., for some of the more unusual
positions in the Clandestine Services. I said that I would welcome this,
and there is no reason why this should not go forward immediately.
g. Tom said that he had talked with both Mr. Kirkpatrick and John
Clarke about giving the Deputy Directors more flexibility in shifting per-
sonnel ceiling positions. He understands that a new Action Memoran-
dum or some piece of paper will soon be issued which will restore this
flexibility to the Deputy Directors.
7. telephoned to say that- is now back in
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necessarily, unless Bill wants to see me, " in which case I would, of course,
be available.
8. Jack Earman was in to confide in me that they had found very poor
morale in the Life Sciences Division of the Office of Scientific Intelligence
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to recommending that e relieved. I said that I felt this would be
most unfortunate since, n myv opinion, had done an outstanding
job with our Medical Staff. I thought that he would not be inclined to return
to the Medical Staff if he were "fired" from his present job, and I hoped that
they handle the matter in such a way that he could be salvaged.
25X9A8 9. of the National Security Agency telephoned to say that
NSA ha d been successful in getting Cyrus Vance, Deputy Secretary of Defense,
to sign a very strong letter to the Chairman of the Senate committee request-
ing a retroactive pay increase for NSA.
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