OFFICIAL DIARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01041A000100020148-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 148
• Publication Date: August 20, 1952
• Content Type: NOTES

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~.. At the Deputies r P~Zee-ting, fir. Wisner suggested that we arrange
^r"A ^ ^_ an? intervievr of the Crotivn Prince of Laos, vrho is novr in Washington. I
6, Attended a briefing on fly.~s~.g ?saucers. I+ollowing this briefing
the Director indicated that this problem should be taken in hand as a problem
of intelligence coordination and requested that a report be made recommending
further action to b e tal~en. He indicated that ?this matter has been under
discussion vrith Secretary Lovett and it tiTas felt that even though there was
only one chance in ten thousand that one of these incidents eras unexplainable
it ~+ras ~rorthvfhile to make every effort to investigate the facts. One serious
question remaining is whether there has been an objective evaluation of facts
or vrhe-ther this evaluation has been done by persons convinced before the
investigation that the instances wore explained by natural causes. Several lines
of investigation were suggested at the OST briefing. recommended Dr,
or er or signature by DCI.
Arrangements with the Crown Prince would be made by Sta~l;e through N~. Wisnerts
office. So informed ~Tr. Wisnerts office.
5. The-DCI requested me to have drafted an order, applicable Agency-
wide re esting all Senior Officials (including such covert employees as
upon returning from a foreign trip to make, forthvrith, an appro-
priate report for DCI, recommending any necessary corrective action and to
fox~vard same immediately to DCI. I requested to draft such an 25X1A9a
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1. Fo1loti~rirzg the Deputies t Meeting, discussed v~rith General Smith
the form and procedures to be followed respecting the briefing for Presidential
candidates. The DCI desires that our current publications be revietived and a
special round-up be made, 'containing those items which have not already
appeared in the nevrspapers.~~ Later laid. on such a publication with PyZr. Sheldon.
25X1A9a Presently under consideration as the basic delivery team are
25X1A9a and These depend upon the dates chosen by the can a~es.
shall attempt to arrange ~~rith P,~r. Wolf for a CIA plane.. O/h'E should also be
alerted that all estimates should be briefed dov+rn for inclusion in this book,
as they come out. Dry runs of this publication will begin at once, to be
ready the same time as the Presidentts books
2. At the Deputiest n~etin.~ ~?r. Dulles repoxTted upon a visit he
had received from the indicating great concern
at the development of e si ua ion in Chile and the possible implications of
an Ibanez election, State I3epartment shares this concern..
3. I3iscussed with the DCI a contemplated trip to Europe at which
time he suggested that it vrould be more useful to him to have me take a run
around the Asiatic The DCI suggested that I take along a represen-
tative of the Cover-% Offices and I later mentioned this to Mr, Wisnern
Alsa informed I::Zr, Amory, indicating that this change in, plans would probably
permit me to go to
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Chadwell to have an appropriate paper-drafted which should include any
possible draft recommendations that could b e conceived. It is questionable
zahether this matter can be dealt lvith by an TAC Directive, since full
investigation will regLlire extensive use of resources under command of the
operational division of Air Forces. The DCT recognized this and indicated
that possible NSC direction vaoulcl be required.
25X1A2g 7~ Discussed ti~rith General McClelland and one of his assistants the
question of T e,-~pla-i ned ?~vhy I tis,~ould be unable to request the
Director to sigxz the letter referring this matter to State. I was convinced
that State, if given the irLitiative, ~rould say no. We agreed that military
8. Had lunch with William Friedr~.n of General Canine r s organization.
In anst~rer to my inquiry for a junior in the OCI Policy and Ziaison Staffx
25X1A9a he suggested who had indicated a desire to join AFSA but ti^rha
is better qualified for -crork in an Intelligence Agency. I indicated the
25X1A9a desirability of this as far as we are concerned and shall ask
explain this situat9.on to Garolyzz.
9. Also discussed with Friedma,.n the "locking; of horns~~ that had
resulted from an atterr~nt to settle the ? Pl exploitation probleiuo I indicated
to him the nature of the s tudies we ?crere engaged in which mi~r t effect a
compromise position.. Friedrrk~rr urged me very strongly to inform AFSA and
the other Intelligence Agencies of the nature of these studies so that they
can be produced jointly and I indicated that I tivoul,d speak ?to Adm, Wenger
and the other Agencies on this point. We agreed that any compromise ti~rould
have to be worked out by a high level group that had sat down an this problem
and that perhaps the best solution yrould be to obtain agreement of such a
high level group on proposals and to refer the implementation to a ~rorking
;roue.
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10, Discussed ~vith0 tivho is leaving for the War Callege~ his
suggest_i ons respecting the tisorlt of Q/NE. The following points were raised=
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felt that the National Estirr~~.-tes Board and the IAC
denote too ranch time 'to the finer points of wording and
too little time to the major points of substance,
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also felt that occasional briefing on current intelli-
gence thinking in Q/A]E and ?/CI ~rould be helpful f or IvZr.
I~ulle s and myself, and this seemed -to accord ti~i.th nay- idea
for an intelligence manual available in the front offices
to be kept up t o d~.te quarterly.
1.]., Attended Q/R.R, F3uelget meeting,
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