OFFICIAL DIARY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01041A000100020150-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 150
• Publication Date: August 18, 1952
• Content Type: NOTES

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Official Diary
Monda4y, 18 August 1952
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1. Spoke to Mr. Wisner and Mr. Wolf ands respecting
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tative plans so that we may submit them for consideration and advice.
2. At the Deputies' meeting, called attention to recent in-
telligence relating to U.S. labor assistance to Tunisian and Moroccan
Nationalists. The Director indicated that he had already requested Mr.
Dulles to speak with him about this.
3. At the Deputies' meeting, announced that we would have a
briefing on flying saucers at 11 A.M. Wednesday in the Director's con ^~",^^
that this briefing would take 20 minutes.
L. Reported to On. Smith concerning my conversation with
Col. Todd, Air Force, respecting the FTC Petroleum Report and the
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5. Spoke with II and Mr. Amory respecting my desire
to have a meeting within the next two weeks with them and - -
in order to see what we should do to improve our intelligence collec-
tion in the fields of finance and insurance.
6. Chatted with I as to the long-range training
needs of the Intelligence Offices. I indicated to= that I did not
favor giving overseas training to new recruits, but felt that this
investment should, as a matter of first priority, go to career employees
who had already demonstrated their ability and the likelihood that they
would remain with the Agency. I also felt that this training' program
should be coordinated with our over-all position on trips abroad, etc.,
and requested to make recommendations on this over-all basis.
Later informed Mr. Reber of this talk and requested that he cooperate
and make available to our studies of trips overseas by the
various Intelligence Officers and also the material relating to the
peripheral reporting program (State). I felt that one factor was
extremely important. The respective ADs should be able to forecast
year-by-year the total number of people that they would be required to
allocate to non-productive training activities, including schools,
sabbatieals,overseas training, etc. etc. If such a forecast were
possible, I would undertake to encourage the tDs to designate superior
individuals of long-range value to the Agency for such programs.
One additional point which I emphasized was that this program should
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not be implemented too fast, that is to say, before Personnel and Training
have a pipeline of replacements actually moving into the Offices. This
should be possible in the near future, since the major growth period has
already ended.
25X1A2g 7. Arranged to talk with Gen. McClelland at noon on Wednesday
respectingi -1 In view of this appointment, returned to 0/CI a
proposed letter by the Director to the USCIB coordinator indicating that
this question would be "referred" to State. I did not feel that this was
sufficiently completed staff work on this subject.
8. Dr. Chadwell filled me in respecting the background of the
relations between Le Baron (AE Advisor to Sec. Def.) and the AEC. He
regarded it as important that the answers to any questions which we gave
to'Le Baron also be given to AEC. I indicated that I thought that we
could arrange this, either through channels or by Mr. Dulles through
Gordon Dean.
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consultants was in in health and it was thought advisable to secure a
substitute, in case of need, and I approved.
10. Also discussed with Dr. Chadwell the implication of the
Ad hoc Committee's S&T Report upon 0/SI.
11. Discussed with Mr. Farley of the NSC Secretariat the
Intelligence Progress Report, which was regarded as satisfactory. Mr.
Farley suggested that the paragraphs relating to espionage and counter-
espionage be deleted from those copies being distributed to non-IAC
agencies and that a statement be inserted that said paragraphs, for
security reasons, were being confined to the IAC agencies. I concurred
in this proposal and thereafter Mr. Reber and I reviewed the report
once again and advised Mr. Farley that no other portions required this
treatment.
12. Mr. Farley suggested that in the near future he would
like to come over and discuss the possibility of making an intelligence/
operational study of certain of the subjects considered in MP-35 and
I agreed.
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by name, had applied for a position and was Presently talking with
George Carey. I undertook to have a chat with on Pu sdAv
14. Again phoned Mr. Harriman on subject of China trade, but
was unable to reach him,
15. Mr. Reber spoke to me regarding the dissemination of NI Es
to Ambassadors and Senior Representatives. He felt that it would be
extremely difficult to interfere with the present arrangements whereby
State sends NIEs for comments to its Ambassadors. I felt that we could
work out some suitable arrangement and that I did not feel it inconsistent
to arrange for a second copy for our Senior Representatives, so long as
it was returned here and a file was not maintained overseas.
16. phoned and requested that we complete our tour
of his shop and I made tentative arrangements for Monday, August 25th, at
2 P.M. I shall raise this at the IADs' meeting*
question and were not prepared to take immediate action, in part on the
theory that the present requirements are being met to the best of their
ability and, in part, on the feeling that a large portion of the area
to be coordinated lay within the control of operational organizations
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recommended that State initiate action to survey an coordinate intel-
ligence support for psychological operations, both overt and covert.
Fisher indicated that they had given serious consideration to this
17. Had an extended talk withi during which I
that, in aM event, Frank Wisner and I would have our needs surveyed
and recommendations made as to how they could be satisfied. This might
result in a substantial increase in Mr. Wisner's organic intelligence
units, which would have to afford the type of detailed support which
psychological oper utre and which State was not presently
set up to afford, recognized a difference between this type
of support and the :Leal warfare research in which State was
engaged in support of the Departments s and the National
Intelligence effort. I indicated to that we would consult
with his office while making this survey and he designAted Phil Trezise
(Deputy to Allen Evans) as his representative on this subject.
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