DIARY NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76-00183R000500070039-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: June 4, 1965
• Content Type: NOTES

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DIARY NOTES
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1. At the Executive Committee Meeting this morning:
4 June 1965
a. The Director said that he talked about our fifteen-year plan
during his briefing of the House Appropriations Subcommittee this
morning. Chairman Mahon somewhat surprisingly implied that this
sounded like "empire building." The Director admitted that he made
a tactical error in the way he made his presentation. He requested
that the preamble be rewritten to emphasize that the purpose of this
plan is to avoid "empire building;" i.e., plan our intelligence program
to meet the highest priority requirements by elimination of lowest
priority requirements to the extent possible.
b. At the Counterinsurgency Committee meeting yesterday ap-
parently Ambassador Kidder or someone else from the Department of
State made a speech about the failure of agencies to fill their quotas
at the National Interdepartmental Seminar. The Director issued very
firm instructions that CIA would fill its quota in all cases. If we
don't have enough senior people to fill our quota, it will be filled with
junior people. I telephoned Matt Baird and told him that, if the quota
is not yet filled, he should call the other Deputies promptly and ask
them for their nominations since they all heard the Director's ad-
monition.
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3. I read a memorandum which Larry Houston plans to submit to Dick
Helms requesting legislation to permit us to pay consultants more than the
$50 a day which is now authorized and to adopt Department of State legisla-
tion on travel and medical care. I told Larry that this paper looked fine and
that he could tell Dick I concurred in this approach.
4. John Clarke advised me that we would receive a letter about a course
in systems analysis which the Department of Defense is setting up at the
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University of Maryland. He thought that we could and should get an Agency
slot for this course. I agreed.
5. I asked both john Clarke and Mr. Kirkpatrick to expedite their deci-
25X1A6a sions on our paper.
6. I talked with Howard Osborn, and Dick Helms
about Drew Pearson's comments in the Washington Post this morning con-
cerning CIA. Dick requested that we play this in low key and under no cir-
cumstances go outside the Agency to inquire how Pearson got this informa-
tion.
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25X1 A9a 7. I talked with , Dr. Tietjen, and - about 25X1 A9a
25X1A9a problem. I decided to do nothing to change their current
travel plans. I asked Dr. Tietjen to have someone, probably 25X1A9a
get in touch with Earl on Monday, 7 June, to pursue this problem. I told
Pat to get in touch with Dr. Tietjen and be guided by his advice regarding
what action, if any, the Office of Finance should take at this particular
time.
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SUN 4 1965
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
resident Johnson 's .Personal
By . Drew Pearson
War, no matter what the
circumstances, is tragic busi-
ness. However, the war in Viet.
'Nam has also become a lonely
rL
war and tog~+~,~
This Is_ not
;because they'',.
began It..Its'
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began 18 years;
ago under the F
picked up ten
'A""'~
years ago by Pearson
President Eisenhower, and
increased four years ago by
'
President
Kennedy.
It's become "Personal today
because the President feels it
so keenly and directs it so
carefully. Every morning at
3 ? he wakes ' up and calls the
White House Security Room.
Three In the morning Is about
the time the news is in from
Viet-Nam on the casualties and
the hits 'after each bombing
raid.
The President worries 'pver
these, broods over them, wants
to know, no matter what the
hour of the night, just what
has happened.., , . .
: One reason' for ' this Pe
tonal direction is that the
'President Is worried over the
possibility , of enlarging the
war. He knows how easy .it is
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can be to jettison their bombs
on their way home:
On the usual w a'r t I m e
bombing aid, a mission will
fly over 41 target, attempt to
knock it out; but if the clouds
are low or an enemy plane
gives trouble, the bombers
may drop their, pay load in-
discriminately on the way
back, 'regardless of military
targets.
with the conduct of war. But
regardless of the Constitu-
tion, he knows that if there
are failures, or If the war
spreads, he will get the blame.
So he Is taking the reapon.
sibility,
Insoluble Mess
at the
predicament of bath;
Moscow and Washtngl.nn.
They don't want the ?Vietna-}
mese war to end. The longer;
It lasts,, the more the United
States and Russia become ato
swords' points, and the more,,
the smaller, nations of South-
east Asia pull away from the'
United States into the R
d;
e
When the President ' out-I Chinese camp.
lined his Baltimore peace pro- In brief, the military ad-!
wh
o Dvju w nti,
Targets of Concrete, sonal, especially his plan for --
P on the strategy o of bombing'
Not, however, with the war a giant series of dams on the North Viet-Nam failed to l
in Viet-Nam. Mr. Johnson has Mekong River to benefit all understand Oriental politics.!
given strict orders that only the Indochinese countries, In. Though he Inherited the Viet-i
the targets he picks out are ciuding North Viet-Nam. namese problem, they sold':
to be hit-and these are Mr. Johnson had hoped that him on
l
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en
arging it into
a
bridges, ammunition dumps, this, coupled with his offer of mess that could either lead;
railroad centers and military unconditional peace talks, to world, war or Is almost in
Installations. Plus joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. aid, soluble without serious loss'i
"We're knocking out con- might induce the other side to of face. t
Crete, we're not hitting wom? sit down at the conference
en and children," he has fre? table. It didn't, for three rea? Behind the Scenes
quently told his aides. sons:
In addition to his care to The North 'Vietnamese have The Central Intelligence j
avoid civilian casualties he is been winning. Our bombing Agency is using a mysterious!
Concerned over any bombing raids have not stopped the airline that calls itself Air
to
drop weapons and
mission that.might stray over supply of troops and-
li
supp
es supplies s
to
our guerrilla
the line into China, or give from going south or the guer- fighter-held
the Communist Chinese the rilla raids by the Viet Cong. areas s of in Laos Communist
and Viet Nam.
slightest provocation to en- The Russians, who normally The areas trying give the
large the war. ' might have actd as Interme- CIA taste teyiog to give the
taste of their own
This is w`hy the war In .and diaries were Put on the vnnt Reds
ill
h
hi
ave c
ded them that the CIA not only watch-!
directed by
h'man who goes with being too friendly to the
es suspicious mail, but actual
to bed well after midnight, United States In the past, and
ly
b
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h
k
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opens t
u
wa
es up
e letters as part of
automatically at with forsaking their' alleged
its secret intelligence work,;
3: a.m., to check ow. the mill.
former role as the sham pio
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n
tart' targets he. has , 1- However, Senators will pra'
pinpointed.. ;.: personally of small'.notions: 86 its diffi- test the CIA
... r will not reveal,
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