OFFICIAL DIARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01041A000100020113-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 113
• Publication Date: September 30, 1952
• Content Type: NOTES

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Official Diary
Tuesday, 30 September 1952
1. Spoke to Mr. Wisner respecting the paper he had recently given
me on.Sino-Soviet relations, informing him that I had requested comment by.
O/NE. My own opinion was the paper represented a respectable research job,
although it did not, by any means, cover all the factors affecting such
relations. I felt that the source productive of such papers would be helpful.
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2. Informed the DCI of impending visit on Wednesday.
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5. k1so informed the DCI that there would not be an NSC meeting,
nor an IAC meeting, this week.
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7. Mr. Wisner requested my support for the new procedure of
requesting country program approval from the PRC respecting operational
projects, which involved some rational relaxation of the project-by-
project approval procedure. I.assured him that I understood this and would
support this development.
8. Spoke with Dr. Kent and Dr. Hoover respecting some difficulties
they were having in securing net capability evaluations in NIE-64. I
suggested that this effort be relaxed with respect to NIE-64, which could be
confined to capabilities,' since we were planning to organize a net capabili-
ties study as a follow-up to the summary evaluation paper now in process.
If this covered the general scope of NIE-64, it would satisfy O/NE's needs.
I again indicated that the problem of intelligence estimates containing
evaluations of net capabilities and enemy intentions was subsidiary in P7
mind to the broader problem of creating some machinery and procedure for
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Official Diary
30:September'1952
obtaining a "Commander's Estimate" based both on operational data and
intelligence for the President. If this major objective could be obtained,
the latter would follow as a matter of course.
9. Spoke with Mr. Lay by phone respecting the meeting of the NSC
Steering Group planned for later in the day, and subsequently attended this
meeting. The subject discussed was the preparation of a series of studies
for the President-elect.
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11. consulted me concerning certain repercussions noted
in Contact Division on publicity involving the Agency and I authorized him
to distribute the most recent public statement given out by the Agency.
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