APPOINTMENTS AND/OR MEETINGS FOR 22 SEPTEMBER 1954

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2000
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: September 22, 1954
• Content Type: AG

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DIARY NOTES
DD /A 22 September 1954
25X1 A9a 1. Messrs. were in my office to hear the expand-
ed explanation of me financial statement on Project PBSUCCESS. They were not
satisfied with the detail which J. C. King and Howard Preston were able to supply
and requested a complete, detailed breakdown and analysis of expenditures. I ar-
ranged to give Howard Preston assistance from the Logistics Office and the Office
of the Comptroller and asked the Chiefs of these Offices to have their staffs
work overtime in order to expedite the preparation of this statement.
25X1 A9a 2. I reminded that he owed us some comments on our "agent cash-
ier" and "bonding" arrangements for Finance Officers. He assured me that he
would take care of this before he left.
25X1A6d 3. Ed Saunders telephoned to say that he had understood that the -
was submitting a request to the effect that some of its cars be
25X1A6d replaced and wanted to tell me that there was nothing in the budget to take care
of it.
1. Reminded Jim Garrison that he owed me a memorandum concerning our bal-
loon stockpile and another concerning requests from the military for hardware
peculiar to CIA.
5. I told Jim that I would take personal interest in getting the Transpor-
tation Regulations published in order that we might get tables of vehicular al-
lowances established without further delay.
25X1A 6. I asked Jim to give me a list of those Regulations which he considered
important to get published but which were being held up one place or another.
7. At the Deputies' Meeting I obtained the Director's a roval to spend
25X1A6a whatever was necessary for tempora emergency facilities an as a result
of damage done there by However, at this Meeting the whole ques-
25X1 A6a tion was raised as to whe er or no we should retain -permanently and
whether or not it was worth $3,000,OO0 per year. This resulted in the Director
designating Mr. Kirkpatrick to collaborate with the Deputy Director (Plans) and
25X1 A9a the Deputy Director (Administration) and submit a study on this subject. I have
designated to represent the Logistics Office and me on this mat-
ter,
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8. I have reviewed with Shef wards,
necessity for f the Logistics Office
and Jim Garrison the
phased out of CIA. With my
e? "Pe
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? Mr. will be used on a contract basis with our proprietary company
or approximately one year.
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I talked with Jim Garrison about the request to purchase
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car in
request
and told him to play this perfectly straight and not approve
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ess the car was fully justified. (I did not tell Jim......and to the
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best of my knowledge he does not know ...... why was returned to the States.)
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10. Jim advised me that he was going to find it extremely difficult to find
positions in his Office for certain people for instance) who
were in logistics type positions overseas and would shortly return to Headquar-
ters. He said that many of them simply were not qualified for positions on his
staff in their present grades. I told him that I had no objection to his fight-
ing a legtimate case but that he should make sure that he had a very strong case
in each instance.
11. Jim requested that I take no actiogard to the possibility of
becoming associated with Project until he returned from Eur-?5X1 A2c
ope* asked him to advise Joe of this request which he said he had alread' done.
Pete also wanted to know what his personal status was and whether he had
any re-employment rights in CIA, etc. He said that while he was not ready to re-
turn to the Agency he was interested in this aspect from a military viewpoint and
after a few more months probably would want to return if he had any rights here.
I reviewed my understanding of this case, which is a matter of record in a sepa-
rate memorandum, and told him that-while I was not in the Personnel business any-
more and could give hits no official answer it was my understanding that his re-.
employment rights in CIA were at the GS-16 and not the GS-17 level which he now
held.
25X1A9a 13. was by to advise me that the Operations Coordinating
Board had approved of a $2,000,OOO withdrawal from the Contingency Reserve to
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25X1 A6a supp al operations in This does not include programs for
25X1 A6a and which are to follow. have placed action responsibility with
Sava rs.
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14. telephoned to say that he had learned through the Department
of State represen ve on his post that Acting Under Secretary Carpenter, Scott
McLeod, and Senator Bridges were going to visit the Center on the morning of 27
September. I advised Kirk of this, who advised the Directors and through addi-
tional checking with Shef have ascertained that the group now plans to be at the
Center at about 8:00 a.m. on Mon . Will arrange to have Senator Bridges brief-
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15. Kirk telephoned to inquire as to why as given such short
notice that he must resign. I told him that Mp aced no deadline on this ac-
tion but had definitely indicated that as head of the career service to which
-belonged, and being responsible for the overall security of the Agency,
he must resign.
16. telephoned to say that the Mark Clark Task Force was
setting up offices in t e General accounting Office Building and that a Colonel
Lane had contacted him asking for recommendations as to retired service officers
who could serve with the Task Force. I passed this on to Kirk.
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