OFFICIAL DIARY ACTING DD/I

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01041A000100020064-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: November 22, 1952
• Content Type: NOTES

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official Diary
Acting DD/I
Saturday, 22 November.1952
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1. Conferred with - on the survey on Africa. Generally agreed that
this should be accomplished in the first instance by 0/CI which has two recently
acquired experts in this area. It should include country-by-country coverage in
short form and be pointed to items of interest to the P & P people. Among the
products should be a comprehensive picture and an illustrated map showing, if
nothing more, the relative state of our ignorance on this part of the world. 0/NE
should be brought in at the end for value judgments on estimative features but the
center of gravity of the effort should be 0/CI.
25X1X7 2. called for a cordial chat and announced that he would be
pretty well tied up on his military problems through the first part of next week,
25X1X7 and would then go to - and would return approximately 2 December and remain
in Washington through 9 December with adequate time on hand for 25X1X7
problems. I signed him up for a party on December 5th.
3. Sought out and obtained a conference with General Smith to discuss follow-
ing matters:
(a) Problems we were having with OIR and effect of this upon the
General's planned decision to assist the R section in obtain-
ing more bodies.
(b) The 0/ problem in general and the impact upon it of the re-
cently announced ceilings.
He bought my point of view rapidly on Item (a) and agreed to go slow and to back me
in discussing as Chairman EIC his co-ordinating responsibility and enforcing reason-
able allocations of responsibility to avoid duplication.
As to Item (b), he was in a hurry to get away and so I telescoped my pre-
sentation but managed to get most of my major points in covering re-organization of
0/(R, analysis of its overall responsibility, fundamental research, and the long-
range programming of that into 1954. He looked at the various graphs and table I
had and asked pertinent and incisive questions. Generally speaking, he did not re-
cede a whit from his determination to prevent the agency's growing above its present
strength for so long as he. remains D/CI, but in the end, pointed out that I wasn't
hurt yet and not to hesitate to come back to him when the actual program ran up
against a ceiling limitation. I made particular point of the lack of balance that
a sudden freeze " as of now would have on the organization with particular emphasis
on other less critical areas where the staffing is almost complete.
As to new projects and responsibilities, he indicated that any requiring
more personnel would have to be at the expense of some existing function. I some-
what hesitantly ventured the possibility that training might well be substantially
curtailed at least in so far as it served the DD/I side. He neither bought nor re-
jected out of hand this possibility.
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Saturday, 22 November 1952
3. (contd.)
One point he made was that the Agency couldn't afford to grow any bigger
without losing its secrecy, to which I ventured to reply that it would probably
be desirable if parts of the DD/I complex surfaced.
We closed on a somewhat more encouraging note that I should always come
back and fight for my fair share of the pie and that it was proper to look at the
problem, not only from the point of view of the taxpayer generally, and that such
flesh as I can cut off from the other IAC and other agencies engaged in this field
would be credited when I asked for a little more flesh on my own bones. He gave
me carte blanche to work on this at the working Iwels of the Bureau of the Budget;
25X1A9ain fact, he seemed somewhat precipitious in wanting some general figures. I shall
give an indication of what I have in mind and I have reason to believe it
will be eye-opening.
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