STAFF CONFERENCE MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN DIRECTOR'S CONFERENCE ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING MONDAY, 27 OCTOBER 1952, AT 1100 HOURS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R002400010033-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 8, 2003
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: October 27, 1952
• Content Type: MIN

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Minutes of Meeting Held in Director's
Conference Room, Administration Building
Monday, 27 October 1952, at 1100 Hours
Genoral Smith Presiding
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The Director, mentioning that the Agency had recently
experienced some difficulties in various parts of the world, remarked
that these difficulties stemmed, by and large, from the use of improperly
trained or inferior personnel, He stated that until CIA could build a
reserve of well-trained people, it would have to hold its activities to
the limited number of operations that it could do well rather than to
atteopt to cover a broad field with poor performance. He reminded the
meeting that the Agency's primary mission was intelligence and that he
would do nothing that militated against accomplishing this objective.
He also noted that the difficulties resulted in part from poor security
practices, pointing up the need for greater and continuing emphasis on
security,
2. Statements to the Press
The Director, citing the case of a correspondent who had
obtained a story concerning CL`, asked if it were not
possible to keep this story from being published or, if published, to
have it so written that it would show no connection with the, Aypnrv
General Saith remarked that when news correspondents request
information regarding some story that they might have, involving CIA, they
should be told nothing. He added that in rare cases, however., it might
be necessary to go to the top man of a news organization in order to kill
a story.
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Regarding this,, the Director stated that it is sai`e to make remarks
14off the record" only when there is complete censorship, which wo do
not have in this country,
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