DDP STAFF MEETING - 12 OCTOBER 1966

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06202A000200020008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 12, 1966
• Content Type: MIN

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25X1A 4. the Acting DD/P1 and the Director briefed the
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Rivers Committee. This went very well. The Committee appears
to want more frequent briefings.
5. briefed Admiral Taylor for Z - l / 2 hours.
The DDP Division and Staff Chiefs are next in line, and Admiral Taylor
will give them a full three days - Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
of the week of 17 October. The Admiral was apparently most interested
in the senior staffs, their roles and conduct of their activities. Tom
stated that the Admiral was most relaxed and informal and he did not
believe that any of the Division Chiefs would have to do a great deal
of preparation for this briefing. This isn't, however, for personnel
and money figures.
6. The Managerial Grid was given a strong plug by - He 25X1A
asked for a show of hands of those who have attended and it appeared
from a casual observation that maybe a bit more than half had not
attended this course.
7. Tom asked all present to read very carefully his memo of how
to prepare papers for the Director. He hoped that they would all
read it with care because he would like to spare them a session with
the Director going over one of their papers.
8. our representative at the Defense Department who handles
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the presentations of 303 Committee papers, has asked that advance
copies of our papers not be made available in the Pentagon because
this interferes with his very fine coordinating efforts with Deputy
Secretary Vance.
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Chiefs of Station, and Tom thinks too perhaps departing COS' s should
see him.
10. Tom had a budget and personnel session with Col. White
which Col. White had before the fact described as an unhappy
session, at which time he would announce manpower distribution.
for additional reporting. Gerry stated
that we would probably base our ceiling figures on the 20 September
25X1A letter from- Gerry said there might be some exceptions to these
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figures so far as the Southeast Asia and China problems are concerned,
and it will be up to the Director to decide what exceptions should be
made. It is possible, according to Gerry, that the Agency may lose as many as
-positions. Gerry went on to talk about contract personnel and the
fact that a committee, which is headed by will be studying
25X1A termination and provisions for retirement. will review all con-
tracts that are three years old and they are considering some retirement
or post-retirement plan which could include (a) a terminal payment,
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(b) a paid-up annuity, (c) or a joint purchase annuity. This is
apparently related to A. and B type contractees.
25X1A 11. - passed out three 15-year awards.
one of the recipients.
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12. There was much discussion of what should be passed to the
Clark Committee and also what should be discussed with the representa-
tive of the BOB, Convisser. It was decided that Convisser would be
briefed in the "tank" and not make a projected trip to TSD.
25X1A 13. During off-duty hour will be the point of
contact for queries by the State Department on our operators abroad
who may have come to the attention of the press or been PNG'd, or
some other type problem. It will be sponsibility to pass
this on to Divisions in order that the appropriate reactions may be made.
This is also a part of a program to keep the Night Duty Officers
properly oriented and also to help them.
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