DIARY NOTES

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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: February 2, 1965
• Content Type: NOTES

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DIARY NOTES
DD/S 2 February 1965
1. At the Executive Committee Meeting this morning General Carter
inquired about the status of our early retirement regulation. Larry Houston
replied that he thought the lawyers would sign off on it any day now. Mr.
Kirkpatrick said that the Director has already given us permission to clear
our regulation with the Bureau of the Budget and our Congressional committees
and asked Larry to see that this is done forthwith. (I alerted Emmett Echols
to this.)
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3. Emmett Echols, and I had a good session
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outplacement. In general, the ideas which the Office of Personnel sent for-
ward in its 11 December 1964 memorandum were endorsed and approved, and
the Office of Personnel was given the green light to do some firm planning
along these lines. Kirk thought that, when these plans are completed, the
program is important enough to launch before an assembly of key supervisors
in the auditorium.
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had no specific problems. I gathered from his conversation that he is still
hostile to Air America, and I hope that he will have a chance to talk with Bob
Bannerman before his departure.
5. Matt Baird telephoned to say that, despite the Office of Training's
advice to the WH Division that either 24-27 April or anytime during the period
1-12 March would be most convenient for to accommodate the 25X1 A
W Conference, the Director a ec ded to hold the Conference
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at in March. Matt pointed out that there will be three courses
in fu session an 135 students in attendance at that time, which is about the
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 the Conference if they must, but he had some concern about not being able
to do justice to either group. I asked him to call and point 25X1A9a
this out to him, and then, if necessary, I will mention it to General Carter
just to make sure that, if this is their final decision, they are making it
with all the facts at hand.
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6. 1 had a very constructive talk with about DD/S&T's
Project Jack assured me that by submitting this project directly
for approva ey had not intended to do anything except obtain approval for
the expenditure of funds in the amount requested-~ (The DD/S&T
has authority to sign off on amounts up to $150, 000.) Jack recognized, how-
ever, that they had, in fact, asked for approval of a larger amount in their
specific recommendations and that this was an error. He also recognized
that, in fairness to the DDCI (or in this case Mr. Kirkpatrick), they should
have obtained the concurrence of either the Office of Logistics or the DD/S
in their specific recommendations. Jack thought that DD/S&T's informal
arrangement with the Office of Logistics on coordination of proposals was
satisfactory to all concerned, and he was surprised that this particular
project had not been informally coordinated. I said that I had been told it
had not been but that I could be in error. (In any case, I see no reason to
make any further issue of this since Jack and I seem to be on the same wave
length and he was perfectly willing to grant that they had made some pro-
cedural errors in this instance.)
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advised me that Bud Wheelon has decided that
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will probably request we next few days, even though we may not
be able to supply a replacement simultaneously.
8. Howard Osborn and I briefed R. Jack Smith on the case. 25X1A9a
Jack was inclined to agree that separation should be the or er o t e day.
However, he requested that we defer a final decision until Ray Cline's re-
turn in about ten days. (I cleared this with Mr. Kirkpatrick but want to
pursue the matter with Ray as soon as he returns.)
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9. Dick Helms called to say that he had received a note from
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regarding some of the cases which we discussed with Mr. Kirkpatrick
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a few days ago and asked me for a brief explanation of this meeting. I gave
him the history, its purpose, etc. He said that
knew about the
case but had never heard of the
case. I told Dick
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that I assumed the chain of command had been briefed appropriately on all
cases of interest to him and regretted if this had not been done. I also said
that we would be happy to brief anyone he chose. He sugges d a w deal
with on all these cases. (Later I talked with and 25X1A9a
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raises the interesting question of how Gerry knew there was a meeting in the
first place. In any case, I asked Howard Osborn to go over the list of cases
we reviewed with Kirk, to ensure that Gerry is briefed on all cases of interest
to DD/P, and to consider him the official DD/P point of contact on all such
cases in the future.)
25X1A9a 10. I lunched with and talked about Matt Baird's retire-
ment, John's future, e IF.
a. John said that he thinks Matt definitely plans to retire in January
1966 but that he really does not want to despite his protestations to the
contrary. Jocko said that he would be happy to serve under Matt until
he completes his full twenty years of service in 1967.
b. On Matt's advice, Jocko has talked with Dick Helms about a pos-
sible overseas assignment. Dick held out some hope for Jocko to go
overseas again but did not wish Matt to postpone his retirement. He
thought that John should take over as Director of Training next January
and serve in that position for two years.
c. I also gathered from this conversation that Matt and Mr. Kirk-
patrick have had some conversations about Matt's future. Therefore,
I told Jocko that I would have a talk with Kirk and would talk with Matt
and him again after I had done so. Jocko emphasized that he was very
flexible and had no objection at all to serving as Matt's deputy for another
two full years.
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Note: Extract of paragraph 6 to D/L on 3 February 1965.
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