Organization of U.S. Intelligence
241. Letter From Director of Central Intelligence Dulles to the Secretary of State’s Special Assistant for Intelligence and Research (Armstrong)
Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Files 1955–60, 711.5200/11–2555. Top Secret. The letter is attached to a November 29 memorandum from Armstrong indicating that Dulles’ letter was being forwarded to Hoover, Murphy, and MacArthur.
242. Memorandum From Secretary of State Dulles to President Eisenhower
Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Files 1955–60, 711.5261/12–1555. Top Secret.
243. Memorandum From Director of Central Intelligence Dulles to the Secretary of State’s Special Assistant for Intelligence and Research (Armstrong)
[Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Files 1955–60, 101.21/12–355. Top Secret. 5 pages not declassified.]
244. Memorandum From Director of Central Intelligence Dulles to Secretary of Defense Wilson
Source: Central Intelligence Agency, Executive Registry, Job 80–B01731R, Box 15. Secret.
245. Minutes of a Meeting of the Intelligence Advisory Committee
Source: Central Intelligence Agency, Executive Registry, Job 85–500362R, Box 2, Folder 6. Secret. The meeting was held in the IAC Conference Room, Administration Building, Central Intelligence Agency.
246. Memorandum From the Chairman of the Planning Coordinating Group (Rockefeller) to the Chairman of the Operations Coordinating Board (Hoover)
Source: National Archives, RG 59, S/S–NSC Files: Lot 66 D 148, PCG, Part 2. Top Secret. Attached to Rockefeller’s memorandum was a December 14 letter from the Director of the Bureau of the Budget expressing concurrence in the abolition of the Planning Coordination Group. When Hoover sent Rockefeller’s memorandum to President Eisenhower under cover of a December 16 memorandum, he recommended that the proposal to abolish the PCG be approved. (Ibid.)
247. Memorandum From the Secretary of State’s Special Assistant for Intelligence and Research (Armstrong) to Secretary of State Dulles
Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Files 1955–60, 101.21/12–2255. Official Use Only. Copies were sent to Murphy, Henderson, MacArthur, and Bowie. A handwritten notation on the memorandum by Dulles’ secretary Phyllis D. Bernau reads, “Sec. saw.”
249. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower
Source: Eisenhower Library, Records of White House Staff Secretary, Intelligence Matters. Top Secret. Drafted by Goodpaster on December 28.
250. National Security Council Directive
Source: Eisenhower Library, Special Assistant to President for National Security Affairs Records, President’s Papers. Top Secret. This directive was transmitted to the NSC under cover of a December 28 note from NSC Executive Secretary Lay. Lay stated that the President had approved the directive on the same date.
251. Paper Prepared by J. Patrick Coyne of the National Security Council Staff
Source: Eisenhower Library, Records of White House Staff Secretary, Subject Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 13, Hoover Commission Report on Intelligence Activities, May 1955–October 1956. Top Secret. President Eisenhower had referred the classified Clark Task Force Report (Document 221), along with departmental and agency comments on applicable sections of it, to Dillon Anderson, the President’s Special Assistant, on December 15 for further action and recommendations as appropriate. This report is Coyne’s compilation of the departmental and agency responses, including his added “Additional Action Required” and “Observations,” which he completed in early 1956. (Memorandum from Anderson to Goodpaster, February 14, 1956; Eisenhower Library, Hoover Commission Report on Intelligence Activities, May 1955–October 1956, and memorandum from Coyne to NSC Executive Secretary Lay, January 20, 1956; ibid.) Some documentation on departmental and agency responses to the Clark Task Force Report are ibid. and in the National Archives, RG 59, Central Files 1955–60, 711.52 and 711.5200. All ellipses in the original.