INVENTORY OF THE DULLES PAPERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2002
• Sequence Number: 114
• Publication Date: September 22, 1969
• Content Type: MF

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22 September 1969
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Security
SUBJECT : Inventory of the Dulles Papers
1. The Dulles papers now located in Room 4E-53 consist
almost entirely (see below) of official classified U. S. Government
correspondence and memoranda, most of it having originated
within CIA or its predecessor organization. (The Dulles papers
now stored in Room GE-42 consist solely of private correspondence
and memorabilia which can be returned to the estate. It has been
suggested that a final check be made of these papers to make cer-
tain no classified documents are still among them which I may have
overlooked.)
2. The material in Room 4E-53 has been sorted and stored
in various marked receptacles as follows:
I. One green metal four-drawer safe containing records
of 1942-45. Top three drawers contain files
and folders, bottom drawer is empty:
Top Drawer - Anti-Nazi propaganda material pre-
pared by Records of reports
telephoned to Washington by Allen W. Dulles
Reports o
Ito Allen Dulles.
Second Drawer - Files on Italian, French, and
German resistance movements supported by OSS
and on Operation
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II. DCI calendars, office diaries, records of phone con-
versations and appointments for the years 1951-1961.
These are now stored in seven grey flip-top storage
boxes by years and so marked. Diaries for all of
1960 and the first half of 1961 are missing and could
not be found in the safes and boxes originally brought
to Langley from the Dulles residence.
This material is not particularly explicit and is
largely a record of names of persons inside and out-
side the Agency who were seen by the DCI or spoke
to him on the phone and of meetings and conferences
the DCI attended. I isuggested that this
material could be destroyed.
III. The remaining material, originally found scattered
in various safes and boxes taken from the Dulles
residence, has been stored by category in thirteen grey
flip-top boxes, marked as to contents, as follows:
Contains Top Secret verbatim transcript of DCI
and others before Congressional Committees in
May, June 1960; transcript of McCone-Eisenhower
telephone conversation in 1964 re survival of pilot
after ejection; briefings of DCI for appearance
before Senate Committee (Helms, Bis sell); Top
Secret chronological account of handling of U-2
incident.
2. Cuba I - Bay of Pigs
a. DCI's black loose-leaf notebook containing
basic documents on planning of Bay of Pigs
operation, some for briefing of President
Kennedy (Top Secret); post mortem papers
on reassignment of paramilitary responsi-
bilities (Gen. Maxwell Taylor). Attached to
inside top cover of notebook is an unopened
envelope which says on outside: "Secret -
Bissell letter to AWD re Cuban Missile Crisis.
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b. Manila envelope containing papers on IG survey
of Cuban operation and miscellaneous papers
on Cuba and Castro, newspaper publicity, etc.
3. Cuba II - Bay of Pigs
Drafts of Allen W. Dulles' article on Bay of
Pigs for Harper's Magazine (which was never
published).
4. White House
Three folders dated 1955-1957, 1958, Jan. -June
1959, containing correspondence between White
House and DCI (President Eisenhower, General
Goodpaster, Robert Cutler, Sherman Adams,
Dr. Killian, General Persons, etc.) on a variety
of matters large and small. Numerous Top Secret
documents, one to Adams on size of CIA budget
for 1958, on intelligence estimates on USSR
guided missiles, some COMINT material
Other documents of historical interest in these
folders: Executive briefing resident on
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reports on operations
report to the
1958 European trip;
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6. Organization of CIA
Legislation, Dulles correspondence,
and other papers relating to p anning and founding
of CIA.
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7. DCI Trips
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Briefing papers and records of trips on non-CIA
government business in which Allen W. Dulles
was guest or observer:
Eniwetok 1956 - Joint Task Force Seven
Dewline trip - 1959
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8. Attacks on CIA
Various material ranging from the McCarthy-
Bundy affair (1953-56) and the Symington Missile
Gap controversy to the Andrew Tully book and
Drew :Pearson.
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hrono I - Class
ified 1951-1957
10. C
hrono II - Class
ified 1958-1962
These contain copies of correspondence and memos
to and from DCI (intra-Agency and inter-Agency)
stamped as classified and bearing on day-to-day
business of the Agency arranged in chronological
order. Also copies of cables and dispatches.
11. Chrono - Unclassified
This material, taken from the same DCI Chrono
files as the material in No. 9 and No. 10 above,
constituted the disputed Category III in corres-
pondence between Mr. Houston and the executors
of the Dulles estate. Since these papers carry
no mark of classification, it was felt at first that
they could not be properly described as government
property and so could be returned to the estate at
some undetermined later date. On closer examin-
ation, however, all these papers, while generally
not concerned with matters of national importance,
were seen to be letters to or from private persons
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informally cooperating with the government in
intelligence matters or offering their services
or seeking employment or recommending others
for employment by CIA, for which reason they
were not classified. (For complete description
see my memo of 10 September 1969 to the Deputy
Director of Security.) It was felt that the release
of these papers which could subject them to some
form of public scrutiny might embarrass the
writers or recipients of them or their heirs. It
is clear that the persons who maintained corres-
pondence of this sort with the DCI assumed that
extreme care would be exercised in regard to
their contact with CIA.
13. Miscellaneous
a. Memoranda of conversations with Mikoyan
at State Department, at which Allen W.
Dulles was present - 1959.
b. Memoranda of conversations with Prime
Minister MacMillan in 1959 at Camp David,
at which Allen W. Dulles was present.
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c. File on thel (which could be 25X1A9A
returned to WH who prepared most of the
material).
d. Two files on John McCone from the time of
his take-over in 1962.
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e. AWD - Personnel actions, payroll,
promotions, etc.
f. CIA Briefings and Reports relating to
Vice President Nixon's trip to South
America in 1958.
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Letters to and from chiefs of foreign
intelligence organizations, mostly con-
gratulatory to DCI on his appointment and
on his retirement, many of them personally
signed and of historical interest:
IV. Three corrugated paper boxes with studies and reports
that originated with SB. (These have already been
retrieved by SB. )
V. Wooden Box of file cards:
Names, addresses, and phone numbers of contacts
and correspondents of DDCI in 1951.
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]Material:
a close personal friend of Allen W.
Dulles' from 1942 until his death, requested that her letters
be returned to her. The greater part of her voluminous
correspondence dates from 1942-46 when she was on the
Most
of this material, which has very little to do with intelligence
matters, has been placed with the papers being returned to
the estate who can therefore deal with I uin future.
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Dulles in the period 1954-58. Also some odd pieces relating
to her status with OSS, and to a project for making television
films about CIA. These are to be found in Box No. 5, DCI
Special Contacts.
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