OFFICIAL DIARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01041A000100020112-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 112
• Publication Date: October 1, 1952
• Content Type: NOTES

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Wednesday, 1 October 1952
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1. Mr. Polyzoides phoned res ecting applicant
for a position with CIA, and later saw who referred 25X1A9a
him to the Personnel Office.
25X1A5a1 2. Brigadier Tiltman phoned and conveyed to me the substance of
a message received from in response to my recent request to
for assistance. I later requests that Tiltman send me, in writing, a
25X1A5a1 atmmary of - message.
3. At the Deputiest meeting, recommended to the Director that he
attempt to persuade Congressman Walters to defer his appearance before the
Un-American Activities Committee. at my suggestion, undertook to 25X1A9a
conduct the necessary investigation of Walters and follow through on this.
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7. Conferred with concerning my revised directive on
the Brownell Committee Report, which he approved in principle.
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8. Also spoke with who will be
coming in to see the DCI and who is a prospective assistant for me.
9. At the Deputies' meeting, informed the DCI that there would be
some delay in the presentation of the summary evaluation paper.
11. Posed to General Cabell the question of a "Commander's Estimate"
for the President and we agreed that the primary deficit at the present time
was an adequate staff required to prepare the necessary basic studies. I
indicated my intention to discuss this at some later date with him.
12. General Cabell raised a question as to the recent procedure
followed by O/NE in circulating the Joint Staff's comments on certain aspects
of NIE-64 to the agencies. He stated that this had been somewhat embarrass-
ing to him, since these expressions of views were those of the individual
planners and had not been coordinated with the various Military agencies.
General Cabell was fully in agreement with the procedure that I had previously
suggested to Sherman Kent, namely, that O/NE adopt these comments as its own
position, if it felt so advised, without attribution to the Joint Staff.
Later confirmed this arrangement with Sherman Kent.
13. Discussed with Mr. Sheldon.the following:
a. Mr. Sheldon indicated that they were unwilling to take
25X1A9a - and I shall have to speak to Mr. Wisner about this.
b. Reviewed briefly current developments respecting the black
book for the President-elect.
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c. Indicated to Mr. Sheldon my disappointment that the recent 0/NE
paper in the Middle East had not been considered jointly at a
Board meeting by 0/NE and 0/CI. Expressed to him may strong desire
that this be done on any similar paper in the future.
d. Suggested that Mr. Sheldon draft a cable of inquiry to Admiral
Overesch as to whether or not the present schedule respecting
25X1A9a Strategic Division was adequate. Sheldon would be willing to
send f 0/CI, if that were desired.
14. Attended special PRO meeting.
15. Arranged to speak with Phil Graham of the Washington Post
on Thursday evening.
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16. Had a general discussion with covering the following:
a. I expressed appreciation for the various reports and papers he
had been sending.
17. Discussed at some length by phone with General Magruder the
question of delegation as it arose on the Brownell directive.
18. Attended the IADs' meeting.
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19. phoned-and stated that he had been instructed by
General Willems to stimulate more adequate economic and political indicators
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for the Watch Committee. I suggested that he talk with Messrs. Sheldon
25X1A9a and Amory and later informed Mr. Sheldon that _ would be in touch with
him on this.
20. General Weckerling phoned, indicating the desirability of a
crash estimate on Iran. I discussed this with Sherman Kent, who felt that
O/NE could add nothing to the conclusion contained in NIE-61t. at this time,
I shall check this conclusion and talk with Weckerling about it.
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