DAILY STAFF MEETING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R002300040069-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 20, 2002
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: March 16, 1951
• Content Type: MIN

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Daily Staff Meeting
Friday, 16 March 1y51
Mr. inquired as to whether the training course in
t~pril would be for personnel other than new employees inasmuch as several
questions had come in from older employees asking to attend the course.
Mr. McConnel said that the course would be open to anyone who could
receive his Assistant Director's p-rmission to attend.
Mr. reported that was being called
before the House ~.merican Affairs Committee to testify onr~is communistic
affiliations and would state that he had become interested in Communism
when he was It was pointed out that ti,is migi~t
have serious repercussions on
Mr.- reported that at Mr.O singe stion
he had. checked to see wnetner Ave rill Harrimann had been consulted on
the psychological warfare paper and had been infozmed by `Tanniwald,
of Harriman's staff, that they nad participated in its draft.
Mr. reported that we had never received an answer
to our request o e ecretary of Defense for wSEG participation on
the Soviet cap abilities for forestalling a U.S. attack. after discussion
it was decided that this matter should not be pressed.
Mr. McConnel reported. that Mrs. N,osenberg had lifted the ceiling;
on militar T ersonnel, and that requests for personnel should be processed
through
1~r. McConnel reported that tre Lvening Star publisr~ed an ~~.rticle
stating that the Defense Department had asked for Prince William Forrest
at our request and that this would mean that a camp for crippled chn~ldr~n
could not be stationed there. after discussion it was decided that GIa
would look elsewnere.
Mr. Jackson said that he would request the JCS paper ly5t'~11
from General Bradley as a test case.
Mr. McConnel stated that there would probably be further efforts
by to get in touch with the Director, and he was afraid
she might resor~ o publicity on the matter.
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