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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200690001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 23, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 12, 1960
• Content Type: MEMO

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12 April 1960
MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR
1. This memorandum is for information only.
2. I saw Herbert Feis on Wednesday, 6 April 1960. He had a 4 PM
appointment. He arrived at 4:45 and said he had been with the President
who had kept him for two hours. When he told the President he was due to
see me at 4 PM, the President told him to give me his best personal regards,
and Feis thought that would clear him. I told him it did.
3. Feis was trying to find out what you 86id to the Secretary of
War, Mr. Stimson in Potsdam on or about 20 July 1945 and what Mr. Stimson
said to you in relation to the Japanese peace feelers. He said he had tried
to secure this information from the Joint Chiefs of Staff on several occasions
and every time he has run into a stone wall. He said there is nothing in Mr.
Stimson's diary concerning this meeting. Feis was on duty at the War Depart-
ment at the time and believes that Harvey Bundy and Colonel Kyle were the only
two who accompanied Mr. Stimson. He does not believe Mr. McCloy was with the
Secretary. He said Harvey Bundy is very old now and his memory is not trust-
worthy.
4. I told Feis that this problem had come up previously on several
occasions and that you had made no comments on your talks with the Secretary
and wouldn't, as I understand it, until you find your records.
5. Feis was familiar with Kase's "Dulles' Route" which appears in
his memoirs, Journey To The Missouri. He was not familiar with Chapter 22,
"The Dulles Operation" from a book published in Japanese under foreign
auspices called The History Of The End Of The War. I furnished him with a
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translation in English, a copy of which we had previously given to Chuck
Bailey. He was pleased to receive this additional information which seemed
to quote different reports. He will return to me the thermofax copy I
furnished to him because it is the only file copy I have.
6. I also had Feis talk to our historian, who was
formerly with the National Archives. iWE told him that the OSS records
in the National Archives include the State Department's collection on OSS.
Feis asked if we would try to locate the Stimson-Dulles papers or any refer-
ences to them because he has been unsuccessful. I told him we would make
that effort. 0SS records in CIA custody are being searched by the DDP
archivist, who to date has uncovered nothing on this phase of the Japanese
peace feelers. Search is also being made of the OSS records in the National
Archives custody.
7. It is questionable if we should go to the Secretary of Defense
and ask for a search of the JCS files, the Joint Intelligence Committee files,
Secretary'Stimson's files in the War Department archives, War Department r"OPD"
files, the State War -Navy Coordinating Committee files which James C. Dunn
headed, or whether we should ask the State Department if they would check for
any record of the Dulles-Stimson conversations in Potsdam.
STAI J. CROGA
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Assistant to the D ctor
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