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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76-00183R000500020098-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 98
• Publication Date: May 19, 1964
• Content Type: NOTES

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19 May 1964
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2. Jim Garrison reported on the meetin with General Carter, Bud
Wheelon, and others last night about the ontract. General Carter 25X1 A2d 1
finally decided to go ahead and award the contrac Jim said that 25X1 A5a 1
he was pleased that he and had been at the meeting and felt 25X1 A9a
that they had made a contribution and that the decision had been made in ac-
cordance with their recommendations.
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4. I lunched with the CAT Board.
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5. I briefed about ten people on my observa-
tions during my recent trip.
6. Matt Baird telephoned about his 20 April memorandum in which he
requested two additional grade GS-15 positions to take care of the liaison
officers which he ha been directed ign to the
In the course of the discussion
e sa t t t e grades were more important than the ceiling slots. Tenta-
tively, I said that I saw no reason why we couldn't allocate two additional
GS-15's to the Office of Training and at the same time require him to ab-
sorb them at ceiling.
7. Matt and I also discussed briefly his 18 Ma paper in which he
recommended an immediate halt in the training of
I told him that I wasn't completely aboard on this one and would probably
want to discuss it with Mr. Kirkpatrick and/or General Carter before going
any further. I did discuss it with Mr. Kirkpatrick later in the afternoon.
Kirk seemed pretty relaxed about all this and suggested that Matt talk it
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over with o find out how important the training is, whether
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it is really necessary, what the alternatives are, etc. We could then assess
the risk.
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9. advised me that General Starbird had been over
to see him this morning in an effort to recruit at grade GS- 18 25X1A9a
for his civilian Deputy Director of the Defense Communications Agency.
said that Bill was not interested.
10. Bob Bannerman telephoned to say that in a meeting last evening
Secretary of State Rusk had decided not to make a press release about the
microphone find in Moscow. (The Director and Dick Helms also talked
about this at the Executive Committee Meeting this morning.) There must
have been a sudden change of heart, however, because there was a press
conference with many microphones on exhibit, and I saw a good bit of it
on television last evening.
LKW : jrf
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