OFFICIAL DIARY (ACTING DD/I)

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01041A000100020040-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: December 12, 1952
• Content Type: NOTES

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Securd1y ln+`ormation
Official Diary
(Acting DD/I)
Friday, 12 December 1952
1. At morning meeting, mentioned the cable indicating Mossadeq was re-
negotiating the 1921 treaty with Russia.
2. DCI brought up the vacuity of 0/SI memorandum on flying saucers and
I explained that AD/SI did not wish to go further until he had checked the
evidence, that he was en route to ATIQ, at Wright Field and therefore recommended
to DCZ that he not brief the President on this subject this morning. He concurred.
3. Conferred with Wisner on the Admiral Espq briefing and gave in to his
wish that operational matters not be discussed in a DD/I room before people without
need-to-know; therefore altered the program slightly so that the DD/I stuff will be
25X1A9a presented at the 0/CI Situation Room and will take Admiral Espey over
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25X1X77. Wisner mentioned something about an exchange with
DCI said for Amory to carry on with it
(Amory never having heard of same before). After the meeting Wisner, and 25X1A9a
Amory conferred and it became very clear that the matter was 99.9% DD/P interest
and so Wisner agreed to relieve Amory.
5. At General Smith's direction, requested the services of the JCS Briefer25X1A9a
on Korea to participate in the Eisenhower briefings. Colonel Lansing called to
say that the JIC "would be delighted" to participate furnishing
until he retires and thereafter he also offered
to ate over the Indochina stuff but Italked on this. Turned the matter over to
Sheldon for further co-ordination. 25X1A9a
6. DCI hastily read the Summary Evaluation paper and said it was O.K. He al-
so agreed to the changes I proposed on the basis of' suggestions. 125X1A9a
25X1A9a then went over to and worked the changes in with him and arranged for re- `"
25X1A9a production. Later in the dayE=called to say that he had made a careful study
of the substantive outline of the Evaluation and found it "excellent" and extended
his congratulations to all concerned.. 25X1A2g
7. Attended Board-IAC Deputy Meeting on lI Much general wind was
expended but when I left Sherman Kent was planning to use the Board's draft and
Air Forde changes as the basis for specific discussion leaving to State the op-
portunity to provide a "supplement" rather than "dissent" in order to present
their somewhat more wide-ranging views involving the friendly situation.
8. Attended 0/RR Consultant Meeting and lunched with same. Topic of dis-
cussion was the Government-wide picture on economic intelligence. r- 1 25X1A9a
carried the ball very well. The general reaction initially of the consultants
was that NSCTD 15 was nowhere near strong enough and Economic Intelligence should
undoubtedly be taken over as a service of common concern to be performed by CIA/RR.
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9. Conferred with on the Guatemalan situation. This is
pretty horrifying from procedural point of view. As I get it, DCI is annoyed
at Assistant Secretary Miller's calling off assistance to a-revolutionary group.
25X1A9a boys thereupon produced intelligence which would support renewing
our assistance. This intelligence was then evaluated by the Inspector General,
who drafted a memorandum for DOI to send to the Under Secretary of State. Only
at this last stage did it occur to DCI and D/DCI that this really raw informa-
tion should be evaluated by the DD/P evaluators and O/CI; so this is laid on
more as a matter of final editing of a finished policy opinion than as part of
the intelligence process. Wisner feels just as grimly about this as I do.
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10. Conferred briefly with who reported some observations from
the consultants at last night's dinner, indicating that some of them thought we
were undertaking too ambitious a program in O/RR.
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11. Conferred withl who are highly exercised be-
25X1A9a cause despite the agreement worked out with in a meeting chaired by
25X1A9a he DD/P people were insisting that all pouched material come over
open and then be edited to see whether it had been properly sanitized from the
point of view of cryptonyms, pseudonyms, etc. This is obviously impossible on
background material so the net result is that a wheelbarrow load of O/SI documents
have been bounced back in their face with the word that they cannot be sent to
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D unless made to conform to DD/P type papers. Called who said he25X1A9a
had no idea this was going on and did not approve of it and would stick by his
,, words to the extent he had action in the matter. He called back to say that this
25X1A9a had come out of the Records Integration Branch and other administrative cells of
the DD/P and that one 0 had the action. I then designatedl -1 aX1A9a
the DD/I representative we had working out with ii and failing this to repoi X1A9a
to me the exact state of the difference so I could pound it out with Frank Wisner
in person. It is utterly foolish as the has cubic yards of unsani-
tized material that has been sent over there during the past two years. 25X1A6a
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12. At request, called Mrs. Dulles at NPA to find out what assist-
ance she wanted from us. She was out and said she would call back but did not.
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13. Dined with but talked mostly
sailing.
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