OFFICIAL DIARY

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 101
• Publication Date: October 15, 1952
• Content Type: NOTES

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Official Diary
Wednesday, 15 October 1952
1. At the Deputies' meeting, briefly reviewed for DCI the various
policy and intelligence developments relating to Iran. I touched upon the
activities of various groups within the oil industry and related Mr. Amoryts
report that certain independents who had been active in the Mexican situation
were anxious to play a part with respect to Iranian oil. I indicated that
Mr. Amory would be glad to elaborate, upon request.
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2. Expressed to my appreciation
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I felt that this was a most important post. -~
3. Spoke to the DCI about having General Shortt leave the IAC so
that we could discuss certain sensitive estimates and he suggested, instead,
that we trim the agenda so as to have General Shortt present throughout the
entire session. I thereafter consulted with Generals Partridge and Ackerman,
and Admiral Stout and Mr. Armstrong, and it was agreed that we would limit
the agenda to the Albanian and South African papers.
,25X1A9a L. Checked with his proposal to advise Admiral Overesch
25X1A6a that the matter of re-location of the was being dealt with
in Washington and felt action should be deferred until Washington negotia-
tions were firmed up. We would inform DCI of our recommendations before
dispatching such a cable.
5. Requested Mr. Wisner to have his representative at the
25X1X7 meeting brief me on the progress of the conference and he
un e? -oo to do so.
6. Cleared with DCI the plan of Mr. Gleason to put the summary
evaluation paper on an early NSC agenda, without special priority treatment.
Mr. Gleason felt it was important that the President be present at the
meeting when this paper was discussed. DCI approved our plan. Later Mr.
Gleason informed me that they had received the ICIS suggestions for amendments
and I arranged with Mr. Hoover to have him review them, clear the amendments
with General Samford and then substitute the same for corresponding portions
of the existing paper. We felt that this would be preferable to having two
separate papers. Mr. Gleason concurred in this view and I informed Mr.
Whearty of the ICIS of our plan and he also approved of it. When the amend-
ments have been cleared by Samford and Hoover, I shall secure DCI Ts approval
of this procedure.
(CONTINUED)
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7. At the Deputies' meeting, DCI instructed Mr. Wisner to request
Admiral Overesch and General Truscott to indicate the names of personnel who
would be released for reassignment if current plans for reduction of force
were to be accomplished. I am requesting - to alert the various 25X1A9a
Intelligence Offices that personnel will become available from overseas on
reassignment and called in order to indicate to him our interest. 25X1A9a
25X1A9a nformed me that the names of surplus personnel will be given to
25X1A9a who in turn will contact other Agency units.
8. At the request of Sherman Kent, discussed SIE-5 with-
of ONE and indicated to him that I was satisfied, in view of the existing
circumstances, not to request any changes in the paper as presently drafted.
An attempt to make changes at this time might reopen on any disputed points.
I made it clear, however, that I did not feel that this paper had finally
solved the problem of how to express our estimates of Soviet scientific
capabilities. I was. particularly dissatisfied by the necessity of having
so many estimates of capability to create a capability, which was a
relatively meaningless term, even expressed in terms of potential, which
was so open-ended as to leave the policy-maker without much guidance.
Nevertheless, I had to recognize the inadequacy of our information. Actually,
some of the Military or OB estimates are a little better than potentiality
estimates, but a distinct effort should be made to apprise consumers of the
distinction between a direct estimate of a capability and an estimate of
potential, which was only indirectly, if at all, a judgment as to a capability.
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9. Phoned - of PY staff and suggested that I would be glad
to talk with him at any time on my suggestion to Frank Wisner that they
develop a glossary of political terms as used by the Soviets. He will call
next week for an appointment.
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10. Phoned and received a report on the
matter. Developments appear to be favorable.
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11. expressed concern that the current slash in
25X1A6a personnel for might be applied to units having a par-
ticular interest for Intelligence Offices without sufficient consideration
being given to the impact upon substantive intelligence interests. I agreed f
with this point of view and suggested that Mr. Reber coordinate the views
of the Intelligence Offices on this point covering particularly O/SI, O/RR,
O/CI and O/CD (microfilm). After we have such a study, I shall take it up
with Mr. Wisner and with the Director.
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(CONTINUED)
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12. INMENEW phoned and stated that PSB was concerned on the
possibility of a ''change of pace on the part of the Soviets" and requested
authority to speak with Dr. Kent and with Mr. Sheldon and some of their
people. I suggested that he talk with AD/NE and AD/CI and obtain their
advice as to the others. Advised both Kent and Sheldon of this.
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to be put on the 0/0 propaganda study. I expressed the view that in putting
out this paper 0/0 was not acting as an office of collection, but was acting
as a research office similar to 0/CI or O/RR. There were only two points
that I felt to be important. First, I concurred in Mr. Reber's view that a
statement to the effect that the paper had been prepared for internal CIA
use only would be recognized as a subterfuge if the paper were to be dis-
tributed outside the Agency. The language proposed by had avoided 25X1A9a
this difficulty. Second, it was important to indicate that this was in the
form of a working paper and did not bear final CIA evaluation. This need
25X1A9a not be done on the cover, but should be indicated before the substance of
the paper. - undertook to work out a form for this.
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1. consulted me as to a proposed deferment of the
NSC Senior Staff meeting on Thursday and I indicated that I would gladly de-
fer to the State and Defense view that the meeting should be postponed because
necessary action had not as yet been accomplished.
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15. Took the occasion to phone and compliment
him upon the much amplified clipping service we had been receiving from
his office. I find it very much minimizes my concern about missing
pertinent press items and requested that he inform me if there were any
proposal to discontinue this service.
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