DIARY NOTES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 23, 1965
• Content Type: NOTES

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DIARY NOTES
DD/S 23 February 1965
1. At the Executive Committee Meeting this morning:
a. Larry Houston announced that we now have all the necessary
concurrences from the Bureau of the Budget and our Congressional com-
mittees on our early retirement regulation. General Carter requested
that DD/S implement the regulation immediately and said that the Director
should sign off on the first few cases processed under this authority so
that he will be familiar with the program in case he is asked about it by
Congressional or other outside sources. (Later in the day I met with
Emmett Echols to discuss implementation of the regulation. Techni-
cally, the Director can't sign the regulation until we receive written
sign-offs from the Congressional committees and the Bureau of the
Budget, and he can't appoint an Agency Retirement Board until he has
signed the regulation. However, I asked Emmett to prepare a memoran-
dum promptly proposing a slate of candidates for the Board and confirm-
ing that the Director will formally appoint this Board when he has signed
the regulation. In that way, the Board can begin work immediately.
While I. think that Emmett should chair these proceedings initially, there
remains some question of whether he can properly be the Chairman of
the Board. I will have to sort this out.)
b. General Carter referred-to an article in the Washington Post
this morning about the establishment of an advanced armed forces intel-
ligence training center at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, the head-
quarters of the Strategic Air Command. He requested that the Office of
Training find out what this is all about, specifically whether DIA knows
about this and is pushing it or whether it is a SAC endeavor to which DIA
is acquiescing. (I referred this to the Office of Training and asked them
to prepare a memorandum.)
c. Mr. Kirkpatrick reported that he talked with John Macy on Sat-
urday afternoon, 20 February, about our summer-only employment pro-
gram. Mr. Macy already knew about this as a result of being Chairman
of the Civil Service Commission. Speaking for the White House, he said
that he saw no objection if we were positive that the program was an
absolute necessity and if our administration of the program was above
criticism in all respects. In this connection, Kirk suggested that we
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accept as many dependents of lower-graded employees as dependents
of higher-graded employees. I said that I thought this would not be
easy to accomplish since our proposed announcement says that we will
base employment on the grades made on the battery of tests which each
dependent will be given. I also said that we intended to be very hard-
nosed and to insist that there be a bona fide requirement for each depen-
dent brought on board. General Carter wanted us to go still further and
to have answers ready for the questions which will be received. He
also hoped that we could get the White House and/or the Civil Service
Commission to give the right answer for us; i.e., that due to our
security conditions we have a peculiar problem, etc.
2. I discussed several items with Mr. Kirkpatrick.
a. I talked with Kirk again about delinquent Fitness. Reports in the
Office of the Director and again told him that there were about ten times
as many delinquent Fitness Reports in that Office as in the rest of the
Agency. I also said that I would discontinue sending him these "needling"
reports if he didn't propose to do anything about them. He took the
paper and said again that he would see
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were prepared forthwith.
b. I also discussed the proposal to change the name of the junior
Officer Training Program to Career Training Program. Kirk didn't
seem very enthused about the idea and wondered why we should change
the name of a program which is already well established in the Agency.
I left the paper with him for his perusal.
c. I talked with Kirk about nominating Emmett Echols for the
Warner W. Stockberger Award. He approved, although I didn't detect
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and prepare the necessary papers.
d. I talked with Kirk about the proposal to extend the present au-
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who must reside in
personnel and, in addition, to grant these personnel an 8 percent cost-
of-living allowance. He offered no objection, and I therefore approved
the proposal. an this connection, however, we should now on a very
discreet basis see if we have anyone else, such as Office of Security
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should be given the same allowances.)
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e. I reminded Kirk of my 26 January memorandum to him about the
Rockefeller Public Service Award. He said that he spoke to General
Carter about this over the weekend. General Carter will speak to the
Director, and Kirk will give us some guidance within the next day or
two.
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3. Emmett Echols and I met with Mr. Kirkpatrick and John Clarke to
discuss the following items:
a. We pointed out to them that Action Memorandum No. A-436,
which curtailed promotions to those "absolutely essential, " was not
having the desired effect. I encouraged Kirk to fight this matter with
the Bureau of the Budget but said that I thought we had to have some
guidance in the meantime as to just what was meant by "absolutely
essential" and how rigid we had to be. This discussion resulted in a
suspension of all promotions for a period of thirty days, during which
time they hope to reach some agreement with the Bureau of the Budget.
b. We also discussed the problem of supergrades. I reviewed
the history of this problem and said that I thought it was unfortunate
and unfair that DD/I, DD/P, and DD/S had to absorb the positions
created for John Bross's staff and also for the Scientific Pay Schedule.
Kirk agreed with my position and said that he would also try to fight
this with the Bureau of the Budget. In any case, he said that we should
not process any more supergrade actions until we have reallocated
the positions available to the Agency.
4. I talked with both Alan Warfield and Jim Garrison about the trip which
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been a reed that Jim will not for the
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except to live up to m commitment to a" that he could make one trip to
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Pal so agreed IF t him anan that we will not put him in a duty status but
will cover him with basket orders should any problem arise while he is away.
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5. I talked with John Tietjen again about nd asked him
to explore with s quickly as poss R et e f eas ility of using
Frank on his staff in some capacity for a period of six to twelve months,
during which period we would furnish the slot, salary, etc. (I also briefed
Mr. Kirkpatrick on this problem and alerted him that I might need to come
back to him for some guidance and assistance.)
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6, MIMMI elephoned to inquire for the Director whether there were
any dual compensation problems in General Cabell's accepting a position on
the Board of Directors of Air America, Inc. I explained to Walt that there
were no complications and that, in any case, the Dual Compensation Act
which became effective 1 December 1964 is considerably more liberal than
the old law. At his request I sent him a summary of this Act.
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7. 1 briefed Mr. Kirkpatrick on the case of
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He felt quite strongly that must be removed from his
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present position promptly. He speculate on t e possibility of putting=
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ack in this position, and I said that, if he wanted to do this, we
wou certainly be glad to consider it. (This would also solve a problem
for him provided it is agreeable to Paul.)
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