DAILY STAFF MEETING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R002300040077-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 20, 2002
• Sequence Number: 77
• Publication Date: March 12, 1951
• Content Type: MIN

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Daily Staff Meeting
Monday, 12 March 1951
Mr. Reber said he had discussed PM 888 with JIG and that
they were ready to have CIA withdraw from this project,which involves
giving them psychological warfare intelligence support.
The proposal of the"Director of Training to join an inter-
departmental arrangement for government support of the training of
a thousand graduate students as area specialists was discussed. It
was decided that this proporal should be circulated to the Assistant
Directors and discussed at an Assistant Directors meeting. It was
also mentioned that it would be exceedingly dangerous for CIA to
make any commitment not to approach faculty members and that there was
a security aspect in CIA's joining with other departments in a pool
for area specialists.
After discussion it was decided that inasmuch as the Assistant
Directors had submitted no questions for the agenda the Assistant
Directors meeting woulc be cancelled.
Mr. Dulles mentioned that the Bureau of the Budget was drafting
a new paper on psychological warfare and that he believed that the views
of CIA would be adopted in greater part.
Mr. 0 reported that he would have a proposal on the
instruction for covert training ready this morning and that after
clearing it with Mr. Dulles he would meet with the appropriate persons
to discuss a successor for the chief of covert training.
The question of continuing Sunday duty was raised by
Mr. It was pointed out that in addition to the duty
officers in the Director's Office and each of the nine Assistant
Directors offices, there are two regularly established duty
officers in 0/CI and 0 communications with qualified professionals
on duty twenty-four hours a day. It was decided that upon the
Director's return it would be proposed to him that the Sunday duty
officer system be abolished.
Mr. Jackson and Mr. Dulles questioned the advisability of the
guerrilla warfare paper coming up for discussion at such an early date
as-in Thursday's NSC, inasmuch as it had not been worked out in detail
with the appropriate staff departments.
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