Secretary’s Daily Meetings, lot 58D609
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Chief of the Policy Reports Staff Executive Secretariat (Barnes)
Subject: Summary of Meeting With the Secretary1
Participants:
| Mr. Acheson | Mr. Cabot |
| Mr. Webb | Mr. Humelsine |
| Mr. Matthews | Mr. Armstrong |
| Mr. Nitze | Mr. Reinhardt |
| Mr. Harriman | Mr. Battle |
Mr. Barnes
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Item 3. Eastern European Missions
The Secretary indicated his concern over the position of our Eastern European Missions in the light of reports such as the recent one from Ambassador Briggs that local employees might be subject to arrest or intimidation.2 He wanted to be sure that we were keeping our missions at the lowest possible personnel level to minimize this risk.
Mr. Reinhardt indicated that this was largely true in Czechoslovakia and Rumania, where the governments have forced us to reduce our missions, but was not true in Hungary and Poland.
It was agreed that EE would continue to study this problem on an urgent basis.
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