UPDATING OF THE INFAMOUS 'RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENTS'--NO ONE IS QUITE CLEAR WHERE WE STAND ON THIS ONE.

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Release Date: January 12, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 27, 1967
• Content Type: LETTER

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27 Sep 67
Subject: Updating of the infamous "Record of Achievements"--
no one is quite clear where we stand on this one.
I've reminded all involved (Bearman, 0 Carver, Allen)
that a second edition is expected by the end of the month (Friday),
and analysts have been told to prepare* new statements and figures.
But we all feel there are some important questions to be decided
before we produce. No higher authority has ever laid
this one on formally or clarified just what is wanted in terms
of coverage, format, detail, graphics, etc. The assumption is
that it will be another version of the same, but should it?
unwilling to produce another one-sided list of
statements. He wants (intends) to prepare both the pros and the
cons and let someone up the line take the rap 10 by selecting
out the good from the bad and putting
out a paper in his own name. Bearman are equally 25X1
reluctant and confused. SAVA is going ahead with charts, which
inevitably will be the same ones being fabricated for the propa-
ganda show.
I took the opportunity of Proctor's report to Smith yesterday
to raise this question before both of them, suggesting that perhaps
the principals had better get together and agree on how to pro-
ceed. I told them Carver was relating this paper to his talks
downtown on information processing (the 4 o'clock meeting), and
was expecting the monthly exercise to be affected by what was
decided at this. session.
No one has carried the matter any further as of noon today.
In passing this morning I mentioned it again to Proctor, and
suggested that in view of the way Carver's operation was developing
perhaps it would be best to let him take responsibility for the
whole project, not merely the graphics. Obviously what the Presi-
denttt is mainly interested in is an updating of the figures on
operations in the South, and this is pretty much SAVA's department.
All the general statements, political and military, have already
been said and shouldn't be repeated.
More important Carver's ambitions to be "the fount of all
information" for IICo. presents us, it seems to me, with
a golden opportunity to dissociate ourselves from the whole sorry
business. I think that the DDI would be doing a very great service
to himself and to his production offices if he managed to
palm this particular project off on .SAVA. If he wants to be
the purveyor of this sort of "informa11 It
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This is not trying to sluff off an mwelcome chore. This is
an attempt to keep DDI production unpolluted. It would not only
help protect our mission and reputation but would go a long way
toward remedying the internal morale problem if we could tell CCI
and (ER analysts that it is M their job to produce intelligence
and SAVA's job to produce anything else.
Now of course the DDI may be more interested in "ball control"
than we are. He after all took this assignment under his wing
in the beginning. Much has happened since then., however, and he
is fully aware of the implications.
Proctor sees some merit in transferring this ticket to SAVA;
his only question.. in the little time we talked this morning, was
whether SAVA could do it. Since the requirement now is mostly for
revised figures and SAVA is alre deeply engaged in statistical
juggling, I see little problem on this score.
He suggested you (and/or we) take this to RJS and present
the problem in these terms as early as possible. If he agrees
he MOM could negotiate 1111111111111M llll~ a new arrangement
with Carver.
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