SENIOR STAFF MEETING AGENDA DIRECTOR'S CONFERENCE ROOM SECOND FLOOR ADMINISTRATION BUILDING MONDAY, 3 DECEMBER 1956

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R002400010041-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2003
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: December 3, 1956
• Content Type: AG

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SENIOR STAFF MEETING
AGENDA
Director's Conference Room
Second Floor
Administration Building
Monday, 3 December 1956
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1.. How Intelligence Community was operating as a team
and was on top of the Suez situation
Session with Killian Committee
11 Letter from Vienna Station on Hungarian crisis
actions
L2,.Statement re personnel at Budget hearing
Status of Consolidated Charities Drive & PSAS
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Christmas Holidays
Dir.Pers.
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1. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY OPERATIONS REGARDING SUEZ SITUATION
Mr. Dulles opened the meeting by saying that the Intelligence
Community did a good job on the Egyptian situation and that the
President was highly pleased with our performance. He said that we
should not worry about uncomplimentary reports in the press and that
he had met informally with representatives of the press to explain the
situation. He also has made it clear to the House Foreign Affairs
Committee and the Killian Committee exactly what knowledge we had
and the manner in which it was distributed. The Director said that
the committees with which he met exhibited an attitude of cooperation
and understanding.
Mr. Amory stated that it was fortunate for the Agency to have
the calibre of people it does on the President's Consultants Committee
critiquing us. He said that we should not be complacent about our
performance on the Suez crisis - that it was a passable performance,
saved by spot reports, etc.?but that our September estimate was not too
satisfactory in view of developments.
Mr. Dulles then indicated that we had been perhaps too
conservative in our September estimate, but that from an overall
standpoint he felt that we had done a good job. There followed a
further short critique on our performance on the Suez situation,
participated in by Messrs. Wisner, Kent and others.
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2. DDP REPORT OF TRIP
Mr. Wisner gave the highlights of his recent trip to
Europe. Based on "voluntary" statements on the part of Europeans who
are in a position to know, Mr. Wisner stated that their opinion was
that U. S. prestige has never been higher. Those who made such
statements to him also indicated the United States should go ahead
and exercise this prestige in view of the fact that the European
countries will back us now where they would not previously and
perhaps will not again. These opinions were especially prevalent in
where he also found some confusion concerning
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25X1 Communists in Russia brought about by recent world developments are
considerable and some of them are very deep. Some of the problems of
Russia are unsoluble. Whereas the United States and the free world
seems to be pretty much "out of the woods" in our own difficulties,
the,USSR still has its own.
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Gen. Cabell indicated that a monthly letter to the DCI from
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situation that :developed in Hungary. In addition to its own superb
job the station also helped out with the work of the other people Cl
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4. DELINQUENT FIELD CORRESPONDENCE
The Director said that, during his recent trip he had found
that some stations were not receiving replies to correspondence, cables,
etc. requiring action in headquarters, within satisfactory time periods.
He also said that these stations apparently were not reporting this
delinquent correspondence in their monthly letters to the DCI because
of their fear of possible retaliation by desk heads and division chiefs.
Mr. Dulles said that he wanted to be sure that all stations did report
delinquent correspondence and that he felt that they should not fear
action that might be taken by headquarters personnel because of their
doing this.'
5. POLICY REGARDING PERSONNEL CEILING
Gen. Cabell said that questions had arisen in certain quarters
regarding our expectations as to the number of personnel the Agency
anticipated having on its rolls during the forthcoming budget year.
Gen. Cabell said that our policy has been to indicate that we would not
increase the size of our staff and would try to cut down, but that we
would not miss the opportunity to accomplish our mission effectively
even if this necessitated an increase in personnel.
6. INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT TO THE FIELD FROM HEADQUARTERS
Mr. Wisner indicated that a number of stations had expressed
their appreciation to him for the magnificent support they had received
from headquarters in the way of hard intelligence which was used by
them partially in debunking rumors in the field.
7. CONSOLIDATED CHARITIES DRIVE
25X1 I a report of the status of the Consolidated
Charities Drive and the drive for funds for the Public Service Aid
Society, which reflected that we had gone well over the goal that was
established and that we would be able to give each of the participating
charities at least the amount we had given them last year. PSAS netted
25X1 something over $5,000 during the drive. also said that he
was preparing a letter to goto our field stations explaining the
purposes of PSAS and affording field personnel an opportunity to
contribute to it.
8. FORTHCOMING HOLIDAYS
Col. White indicated that December 211 would be a holiday for
the Agency as well as the rest of the Government and that it would be
a "Saturday type" holiday insofar as staffing within the Agency is
concerned. Col. White also indicated that New Years Eve would not be a
holiday but that the various offices should be lenient in authorizing
annual leave where ever possible.
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SENIOR STAFF MEETING
Director's Conference Room
Second :Floor
Administration Building
on Wednesday, 14 November 1956
Report on Trip
Appointment of Mr. Gordon Stewart as
Director of Personnel, 18 January 1957 MR. DULLES
Length of Cables
Responsiveness of Personnel to Recent
Emergencies GEN. CABELL
Civil Defense, Battle Creek GEN. CABELL
Visit to Far East Stations COL. WHITE
Consolidated Charities Drive MR. REYNOLDS
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