REPORT TO CSHB PERSONNEL:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00764R000300110029-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2001
• Sequence Number: 29
• Content Type: REPORT

Report to CSHB on Personnel:
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our senior and by all odds best editor
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will leave on the expiration of his contract on 30 June
1969. He will be sorely missed as his knowledge,
experience, judgement and enthusiasm for the work will
be hard to duplicate. I am quite discouraged about my
failure to convince the DDP and the Executive Director-
Comptroller of the importance to the Program of retain-
ing the superior performers like E:- 1 To
me it is a simple matter of deciding whether we want a
good program or a mediocre or poor one. If we'want a
good one, the answer is to select and then hold on to
good people. The fact that other criteria seem moxj-
important is discouraging to me.
I have requested C/OPSER and C/CSPS to help me select
suitable staff candidates to replace So far
I have no firm candidate but will continue to work on
this.
? I uis to be made available to the Program
or approximately 11 years beginning 1 July 1969 when
his contract will, I am told, be effective. I have his
consent to write the part of the OPC story from where
left off till the merger of August 1952. I
expect this to take about a year.
4. The AF program has produced very . le besides debrief-
ings since last September.
This has been disappointing as several of us thought
that AF was fortunate to have the services of a Ph.D.
and one quite knowledgeable about Africa. He has a
full-time secretary who is largely occupied with trans-
cribing recorded debriefings.and then typing the edited
version. This activity provides useful source material
for the time when a capable writer can be found.
5. The contract of the has
been extended four months until 30 September 1969. I
am told that he will be replaced who
is known neither to me nor
an is an unknown
quantity.
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This summer a
write some papers on the
]upon his return
6. The FE effort has been greatly strengthened by it's
who now has the assistance of
ears a writer on the FT Sta
o y
o , as a research assistant.
is scheduled
to write the history of when'he returns from
the field this summer. T 01 1,110 ast 2 months the
team has been housed in 206 Magazine where they glory
in 800 sq. ft. of floor space.
Since I llast October, he has
made great strides in producing histories and deserves
a great deal of..credit for his interest in the program
and his hard work.
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7. The NE Pro am has had four people at work for some
time now. who 2?0
wrote some o the story o anti some 10 25X1
.,days ago when he was given an operational assignment, 25X1
a research assistant an
secretary. Production in this division, w i e
still rather meager, has increased in recent months.
8, fited greatly from the facile pen of 25X1
Unfortunately, he is ;retiring in
July 1969. A recent addition is
He is preparing the is ory 25X1
until his scheduled retirement on l.October 1969. He
is well-qu this task as he worked in and - Hied for headed the for several years and has
served in 0 where he worked on Satellite opera-
tions.
So far no replacement has been named for
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9. WH Division has detailed a large number of people to its
Program: Unfortunately, they have usually been assigned
to other duties before they accomplished much, although
several papers have been produced.
under contract to WH since September
1967, has been physically unable to do much himself due
to a series of operations for cataracts and detached 25X1
retina. His contract expires 28 February x.+970.
WH program needs the addition of one or more good wri-
ters for an appreciable period of time.
an it is not expected that they will be
extended. In view of the kind and amount of writing
produced your Executive Secretary is not in. a position
to recommend extensions.
I have discussed this with
C/FI, and he
is exploring the possibilities for staff replacements.
is writing the history of ut
has little time he can devote to the 'ob.
is trying to m to her paper on is still
working oni and comp e ing papers
on Departmental Coordination.
rogram is at a standstill pending finding a
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12. The CCS program, long on dead center has perked
bit with the assignment (part-time) f?(7d
to write the history on non-official cover.
13. DO Division has been with the interested
cooperation of Although he has 25X1
no assigned writers, he seems able to convince certain
DO officers to write up their projects and then he care-
fully edits them.
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writer der contract expiring 30 1969. 25X1
a staff officer, is writing the history of
the Pow program which he has headed up for the past 2
years.
The is quite well alon but there are ll
several papers to b
itte e w 25X1
and Executive Officer, is a writer under a 25X1
contract expiring 30 June an is a 25X1
15. The TSD program sincel replaced 25X1
in January has been largely a period.of reviewing
a which was already written. I hope that production
will pick up.soon.
has produced a very
satisfactory paper on war plans an last
few pages to bring it up to date. is 25X1
working on a paper on the Special Group :ice but we
have not yet seen the first draft.
17. The other components (CI, CA, OPSER, RID) are producing
nothing.
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