NOTES FOR DDCI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001300100036-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2006
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: February 26, 1964
• Content Type: NOTES

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26 February 1964
1. Walt Elder advises that DCI wrote a note on top of the
recent Colby memorandum concerning JCS planning toward the
possible implementation of the CIA/DOD command relationship
agreement for Vietnam. The note reads as follows: "I think
we should assume that the JCS/CIA arrangement would be imple-
mented when and only when U. S. forces were actually committed
to war--not before. " This would seem to set the Agency's policy.
Walt has informed Helms and Colby.
2. At your request, Red White's committee, which has
become highly skilled in arranging for emergency evacuations of
Americans from trouble spots, is studying the Vietnam situation.
I have a memorandum which I will be putting in your folder
covering the current situation in terms of weapons available, the
amount of classified material which might have to be destroyed,
types and numbers of personnel, etc. We have a total of 0 CIA
employees in Vietnam. They have = dependents for a grand
total of II All but=re in Saigon.
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3. had a recent chat with Admiral Felt in 1I
Bill and the Admiral are inclined to agree that the time has come
to give consideration to and make policy decisions on the question
of what the I I might do to help out in South Vietnam. Bill
believes th Iwould agree to use Special Forces and he would
obviously be most willing to make a major commitment to opera-
tions inside roper, particularly in
4. John Bross and Co. , report that Secretary Vance is anxious
to press forward on extending the use of the polygraph in DOD. He
is thinking of extending it to everyone in the Pentagon who has a
cryptological clearance. Bross was queried as to whether you and
the DCI had ever been polygraphed. As you know, it has not been
practice to give the poly to any Presidential appointees nor to
Congressmen who have high-level clearances. Bob Bannerman
will straighten this out on the staff level with -DOD.
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6. An NSC Standing Group meeting has been scheduled for
3 March. This is another one on the series on Africa. This one
will be on South Africa. State is to do a paper, and we will be
asked to do an independent CIA assessment.
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