DIARY NOTES

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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: May 3, 1965
• Content Type: NOTES

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DIARY NOTES
DD/S 3 May 1965
1. At the Executive Committee Meeting this morning:
a. The Director spent the first fifteen or twenty minutes describ-
ing to us how he expects the Agency to react when we change from a
"strategic" to a "tactical" situation during crises like the current one
in the He anticipated round-the--clock duty offi-
cers in eac . eputy irec orate, etc.
b. I reported that our communications with were
good and that any allegations to the effect that messages transmitted
over our circuits had been delayed up to eight hours were completely
without foundation. (I learned at the meeting and later that our report
on communications with was utterly useless and had been
25X1A9a brought about by snafu between Mr. Kirkpatrick, and =
25X1A9a - the gist of which is as follows: On Friday, 30 April, Walt
expressed some concern to the Director because it had taken the =
25X1 C4a eight hours to send the Agency a copy of a message
which they had received over our circuit from . This
cable was apparently a situation report as of 1105 hours. The Director
asked Mr. Kirkpatrick to look into this, and Kirk turned the job over
25X1A9a to who understood that the cable was a
message No. 1105. Without bothering to look at the message, which
Walt was still holding for him on Monday morning, Dave descended on
the Signal Center as well as the Cable Secretariat and demanded a
rather extensive report on cable transmission times. I discussed this
with both Walt and Dick Helms, who both apologized profusely and said
that the Admiral had neither been concerned about this nor wanted such
25X1A9a a report.)
2. was up to review with me the scores made by applicants
for our Summer Employment Program. All the applicants scored well in
comparison with what we expect of employees who are seeking permanent
employment. However, we will still have to turn down about 300 applicants
because we have no requirements for their services. Without conducting a
complete analysis of whose dependents made the highest scores, I was sat-
isfied that we could not be criticized legitimately for favoring dependents of
senior people. A large number of dependents of senior people failed to score
high enough to make the 310 cutoff, while a number of dependents of lower-
graded employees did make the cutoff. I approved of Bob's suggestion that
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the Office of Personnel should notify the top 310 applicants that they have
been accepted for summer employment. They will notify the next 40 appli-
cants that they are on the waiting list and the remainder of th? that we
will have no job for them this summer. (On Tuesday, 4 May, Emmett
Echols and John Tietjen came to discuss a problem growing out of our Summer
Employment Program. Two applicants who scored high enough to be accepted
for employment clearly would not meet our medical standards, while the
Medical History Statements filled out by two other such applicants indicated
psychiatric problems. These problems might not be serious, but in order
to enter these applicants on duty, the Office of Medical Services would have
to conduct a further examination and assessment. As we discussed the prob-
lem, three alternatives appeared possible: (a) waive the medical standards,
which I felt was completely unacceptable, (b) conduct the necessary medical
examination and arrive at a determination, and (c) disqualify these individuals
based on the Medical History Statement and pass to the next applicants on the
list. I decided on the third alternative. I reasoned that the EOD processing
of the whole Summer Employment Program should be minimal and that we
were not justified in spending a great deal of time and effort to resolve the
qualifications of an employee who would be with us only sixty to ninety days.
I was also influenced by the fact that there are almost 300 well-qualified
applicants for whom we have no jobs. In recognition of the fact that the
parents of those applicants who do not qualify will be unhappy and in all
probability will make a concerted effort to find out where their child ranked
and exactly why he did not make the grade, I issued the following instruc-
tions: If medical, security, or administrative problems would necessitate
our undertaking additional investigations, examinations, etc., to determine
the qualifications of any applicants who would otherwise be offered employ-
ment, we should not qualify them but should accept the next applicant on the
list. Under no circumstances will the Director of Personnel reveal to an
applicant or his parent where he ranked on the list or why he was not quali-
fied.)
3. - was in to discuss the following Items:
a. Jack talked with me about the section of the Procurement Hand-
book on grants, which he felt is a little too restrictive as now drafted.
I asked him to get together with Alan Warfiel,d and see if
they can come to some mutually agreeable sol
b. Jack also advised me that, depending on the outcome of the NRO
struggle, the Office of Special Activities might be reorganized. They
are thinking about removing the security and communications units from
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 OSA and controlling them centrally by DD/S&T. I suggested that, if
this idea had merit, perhaps both these units, which are now controlled
by OSA, should be returned to their parent offices and then have DD/S&T
draw support centrally. He apparently had not thought of this possibility
and agreed that it might have considerable merit.
25X1A9a 7. was in to discuss the following items:
a. While talking with Jack today, it was obvious that he would like
to return to the Support organization in some capacity. I think that he
is a little disenchanted with DD/S&T and feels that his chances for ad-
vancement would be brighter in DD/S. I assured Jack that I was very
much aware of his desires and that I would certainly keep them in mind
although I had nothing to suggest at the moment.
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4. 1 briefed and Paul Borel on Dick Helms' attitude regarding
the use of official cars an asked them to convey this to their bosses in low
key.
5. Admiral Raborn telephoned to say that Mrs. Raborn would arrive in
Washington in about ten days and that he would like us to line up some houses
for her to look at. He was still very interested in the W. C. and A. N.
Miller prospects and also asked us to look at some houses he saw across
Route 123 from the Headquarters building. (I believe that Congressman
L. Mendel Rivers lives in that area.)
6. Dick Helms called to say that several people are concerned about
and asked me to look into the matter, which I did forthwith.
(See my Memorandum for the Record.)
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c. Jack also confided in me that BudWheelon is disenchanted with
in the Office of ELINT and with the Of-
fice of Special Activities and would like to return them to the Sup
Directorate. I told Jack that Jim charted his course with OSA years
ago and that there was no place for him at his present grade in the
Support Directorate. Carl might not be as difficult to handle, but I
believe ould take the same attitude in his case.
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