MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD PREPARED BY COL E.K. WRIGHT

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 72
• Publication Date: September 19, 1946
• Content Type: MFR

Prepared by Col E. K. Wright, USA
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19 September 1946.
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD:
In compliance with a verbal directive from General Vandenberg, a
meeting was arranged in the Pentagon Building between Mr. Edgar, Chief of
our Coordination and Planning Staff, and General Abe Lincoln, Deputy to
General Norstad of Plans and Operations, War Deprtment. The purpose of
the meeting was to make arrangements for our securing from the Plans and
Operations Office, War Department, such cables, messages and other matter
handled by them which were of intelligence interest. The result of this
meeting which was held on 17 September was a tentative arrpngement to be
discussed at a further meeting in my office on 18 September.
On 18 September a meeting was held in my office with the follow-
ing individuals present:
Col. Bastian; representing General Norsstad,
Mr. Edgar,
myself .
The following agreement was made to the mutual satisfaction of all present:
a. At approximately 093O4each morning, Colonel Bastian would deliver
to us all messages, etc., handled by their office as of that date w'i.ich he
believed to be of intelligence interest.
b. Colonel Bastian would turn over these messages to
Secretary to the Director, who would receipt for them and establish a run-
ning file. I would turn the messages over only to General Van-
denberg or myself.
C, Either General Vandenberg or myself were to determine which of
the messages should be forwarded to our Research and Evaluation Office for
background. In the event the Office of Research and Evaluation desired to
publish any of the messages in the Daily Summary, a clearance would be
received from Colonel Bastian prior to publishing such messages.
Colonel Bastian was unable to make definite arrangements with
regard to the handling of "eyes onlytt messages and agreed to inform me as to
the manner in which General Norstad would agree to the handling of such
messages between Plans and Operations, War Department, and CIG.
On 19 September, Colonel Bastian called me and stated that
General Norstad was not in agreement with any part of the methods which
we had agreed on the previous day. He said that General Nor stad dick not
want Colonel Bastian to deliver the messages to u:s, that we must arrange
for officer courier to read the messages in Colon{l Bastian's office. I
inquired as to the expression "read" as we had hoped that we would have
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the actual messages for study and research. Colonel Bastian stated that
General Norstad insisted that the only thing possible was for our repre-
sentative (courier) to read the messages and make such notes as necessary
for the purpose of informing General Vandenberg as to the contents. Colonel
Bastian further stated that insofar as "eyes only" messages were concerned,
General Norstad had informed him that these messages would only be shown
to General Vandenberg when General Vandenberg is over in the Pentagon or
in the event a message is considered of exception.l importance, they would
request us to send over a courier to pick it up.
Colonel Bastian also stated that they would prefer that an Army
officer be selected to read the messages in his office rather than a
State Department representative of our office.
All of the above places us in-a worse condition than formerly
with regard to the securing of intelligence material handled by the
Plans and Operations Office of the War Department. It gives us no more
freedom than formerly and as a matter of fact, restricts it slightly
inasmuch as Mr. Ruddock of our R & E office (a civilian representative
of State Department) has been acting as a liaison between CIG and Plans
and Operations Office, War Department. In view of the request that our
representative be an Army officer, we would be required to provide an
officer without research and analysis experience to review the messages
in question.
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*Pool
NO.
DATE
CLIISS
IN'.! ERAGENCY OPERATING PROCED- lEES
SUBJECT
l
5/8/50
C
Briefing of Service Attaches by CIA
2
7/7/50
C
Conferences with US Government Officials Returning
3
8/4/50
S
from Abroad
Non-Governmental Visitors Interested in
Intelligence Matters
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