DIARY NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76-00183R000400020046-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: July 9, 1962
• Content Type: NOTES

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DIARY NOTES
DD/S 9 July 1962
1. Jack Earman was in early this morning regarding many things.
a. General Carter and Jack had another long talk about supervisory
responsibility. Jack said that 23 of the'ases have now appealed and in
almost every instance the supervisors have not told these people of their
shortcomings. (I want to give some further thought to this. It might be
desirable to notify, say, the bottom 10 per cent when employees are ranked
competitively each year. Whether or not this is a good idea, some system
needs to be devised to force supervisors to face up to these responsibilities.)
b. Jack also gave me a brief rundown on the committee which has been
set up, composed of Messrs. Kirkpatrick, Bross, Houston, and Earman, to
come up with ideas about what we ought to do to improve our personnel system.
I told Jack that I failed to understand why the Director of Personnel was not
included on this committee. Later Emmett Echols came to see me and was
most upset because he had not been included on the committee, andlwhile he
has been appointed a consultant, the committee has not consulted with him.
I have also talked to General Carter about this matter and with some emphasis
pointed out that I thought it was a great mistake not to have the Director of
Personnel on this committee; in fact, I thought that he should have been the
Chairman and that it was entirely inconsistent on one hand to talk to the
Director of Personnel of strengthening the Office of Personnel and to exclude
him from a committee as important as this on the other. (I believe that
General Carter agreed with me, and I gather that he had been led into this
position without giving too much thought to it.) 25X1A
c. Jack also advised me that General Carter wanted to send "thank you"
letters to allwases unless some information has come to light since they
became-cases which makes this undesirable. (I have passed this along
to Emmett Echols.)
2. Matt Baird came to see me regarding the following:
a. He talked to me about taking nto the Office of Training
25X1A9a and said that, according to Mr. Genera Carter had a personal
interest in this matter. I talked to General Carter about it - he had no
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r n 1 interest and, in fact, was not impressed too favorably with Mr.
ho asked to see him a few days ago. I told Matt that under no
circumstances was the Office of Training to assume responsibility for Mr.
I have no objection.
who plans to marry a Korean national and whose staff employ-
men~Ttherefore be terminated. If the Clandestine Services desires to
employ him in some capacity and to send him to OTR for rotational duty,
b. Matt reported that he talked to about the DD/P
people proposing to transfer JOT'S to the C an estine Services immediately
upon completion of their formal training. Dick Helms has decided that no
further action will be taken on this matter at this time.
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3. Jack Earman was in to pass on to me information gleaned from a con-
versation with General Carter on Saturday, 7 July. The- case was still
flapping around, and General Carter was considerably upset because there had
not been proper co-ordination between the Medical Staff, the Office of Security,
and the Inspector General, which caused a breakdown in communications within
the Agency. He questioned whether we should have told Congressman Flood's
office the full story and was particularly critical of the method in which John
-handled the case. He also was unhappy because the decision was made with-
out conferring with him. I have talked with General Carter about this and believe
that he was satisfied on all except two counts: (a) he still did not think that John
-hould have conveyed the information over the telephone, and (b) he ques-
tioned whether John should have given it to Congressman Flood's secretary. I em-
phasized to him that, while I had left this part of the matter to
judgment, I did make the decision and accepted full responsibility for it. I explained
to him that I had spent some five hours on this case, which had to be acted on
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promptly, and that I did not feel he could spare the necessary time for a complete
briefing. He understood this; it is now "water over the dam". The Congressman's
office 's lyo satisfied. The -case, as well as the ~ase (in which 25X1A9a
he proi"I got away with $18, 000), and some others are causing General Carter
great concern because he feels that he should be able to look to one point in the
Agency and find out everything available about any individual employee or ex-
employee. I have discussed this matter with General Carter and have emphasized
to him my strong belief that it would be grossly in error to put security, medical,
and general personnel information in one place. (However, there is no question
but that our present arrangement can be improved, and I am going to do a study
on this.)
LKW:jas
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