MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTOR'S CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMIN. BUILDING MONDAY, 17 DECEMBER 1951

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• Publication Date: December 17, 1951
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Minutes of Meeting held in Director's
Conference Room, I,dministration Building
Monday, 17 December 1951, at 1100 hours,
Gcn=. ral Smith Presiding V
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Allen W. Dulles, Deputy Director
Frank G, Wisner, Deputy Director for Plans/'
Wa7 F r,r B..?-Wolf, Deputy Director for Administration.
Colonel Matthew Baird, Diroctor of Training
George G. Carey, Ass}cant Director for 0pcrations6
-I--Chachvo31# _Lsst. Director for Scientific Intelligence
Brig. Gen. Trubee Davison; Director'of Personnel`
Kin man Douglass l,ssistant Director for Currant Intevlligence*,'
,Tames M. zndrows, Asst. Director for Collection and Dissemination
"`Colonel Chester B. Hanson, Assistant to the Director
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W4ZUam L. Langer, ssistant Director ror Nationa.L LstiunaLas I
assistant Director for Communications
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Office of R,-,search and Reports
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16 Problems Incident to Agency Expansion.
Mr. Wolf noted that the rapid expansion of the Agency
in recent months, as to which he gave some figures, raised a number
of problems. He posed the following questions:
a. Are people being subjected to too many moves?
b. Are we creating ?iorale problems by bringing in so many
new people, above and below longer term employees?
c. Is the CIA personnel turnover too large?
d. Generally, is our expansion too rapid?
The Director commented that the answer to the fourth
question posed by b;r. Wolf was, "yes' He stated that it would be
the policy of this Agency to go slow on expansion and to insist on
high quality in personnel. He preferred to have the Agency under-
staffed, rather than to have the wrong kind of people working for it.
This would require very careful selection of person el, with an effort
to secure people prepared to stay for some substantial period of time.
The Director also commented that he was not satisfied
with current forecasts of future expansion. In some cases, these would
have to be reduced as much as one-half to two-thirds.
General Davison commented briefly on the CIk personnel
turnover rate, noting that it was somewhat lower than a number of
other Government agencies and that it had been substantially reduced
in recent months. The Director commented that he would be content to
see a larger turnover rate, if it was the result of a purge of the
unfit. He did not feel that there was any nUcossity for slowing down
the employment of now personnel, so long as standards were raised.
That, in itself, would accomplish the desired result.
Coordination of VIP Briefings.
Colonel Baird requested authority to coordinate the
indoctrination briefings of VIPs. He referred to an instance in which
the time of a number of r;lativjly important people in the Agency had
been taken up with briefing a single individual. The Director stated
that the way to handle such a situation was to take longer in order to
indoctrinate such an individual, so as not to take so many people away
from their jobs.
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3. CIA Representation on Armed Services Personnel Intcrroga-
tion Center, Armed Services Documents Intelligence Center
and Joint Materiel Intelligence Agency.
noted that the foregoing committees had
been created as JCS subcommittees without prior discussion with CIA,
which had an interest in the field of each. It was noted that cnly
one of those organizations was in being, namely K IA.
The Director commented that CIA's real objective was
to got the product of such groups and to insure that they understood
DCI'a requirements. He directed that this matter be referred to
Mr. Reber and that it should be handled, if possible, without CIA
representation. If CIA did send rcprosontatives, we should be c;;rtain
that the men chosen to represent the igoncy were of the type: who
would do so with credit.
4. Coordination of Activities in Berlin.
The Director noted that he had conferred with
General Bolling respecting the coordination of activities in 3,,rlin.
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5. AD/SO.
The Director announced that as of this date
was taking over as Assistant Director for Special Operations
6. CIA Representation on ICIS Subcommittee on Unconventional
Warfare.
Dr. Chadwell raised the question as to whether it was
appropriate for OSI to furnish CIA's ruprusentation on the ICIS
Subcommittee on Unconventional W-arfere. The Director stated that this
matter should be refc.rrc:d to Messrs. Reber and Jackson who would reach
a "yes" or "no" decision, for presentation to the Director for approval.
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7. Utilization of NNIilit::ry Personnel.
General Davison noted that a number of the milit^ry
personnel assigned to the Agency wore complaining that full use was
not being made of their services. The Director statud that each of
the Assistant Directors should review the situation in his own
Office and should insure; that the capabilities of these men were
being fully utilized.
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