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departed from national Airport by caaaercial planehours Friday evening,ugust, jft arriTed at laOuardlaYork,5 where wobythe
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the Contact Officed Street. On arrlTal there, wematerial in the CIA mult.called
| elao the Contact Office, and arraageoTorhia tojihj the following morning. Wo also arrangedar to meet us at the Contact Office0 the next morning to transport as totornlnjside Drive, Generalesidence. The car waa arranged forIA contractocal transportation firm *ichadillac with chauffeur. On our way from the contact talked to tha airlines ticket officed Street and arranged for return reservationa tho following day. (It ia wall to keep in sand that thoro la more than one airfield In Raw Tork. We requested reservationslight leaving LaGuardia and, unfortunately on arrival there the following noon, learned that the reservations had been madelight departing from Idlewild.)
He nex^an^otho University Club, arriving. and Uvwks toarrangaaonts, we got comfortable accomodations, as leit tho Clob the next Morning0 by taxi to return to the Contact Office,en-minute trip. On arrival there, we stopped at an Automat directly across the streetuick breakfast After eating we metat tha Contact Office and picked up the classifiedvJovuult. Tho car was waiting dcwnetBirs and we left fororningeide Drive.
Probably because of the Labor Day weekend, traffic naa light, ana it took only aboutinutes to drive that distance. After an unhurried trip through Central Park, we arrived at General Elsenhower's residence0 and were admitted by one of his Mr. Bd Green on General Eisenhower'st us and informed us that the General ma not yet available bat he hopedt us on the appointment calendar Wo tfoited in the library at tho General'a residenceoiatlyhe General arrived and we were introduced to him
centlemen from CIA." General Eisenhower thandjoining room to look at the material. .
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km pened the material In tho General's presence, calledto the situation asp end asked hin if he were interestedthe military disposition of the Soviet and Satelliteas portrayed on the nop. Hie one question was, "lias thereolf^ilficant change In the past couple of montha?" Sincehat disposed of the needap and probablyneceasity forimilar sap to any future briefing. then eat down and carefully read the briefing Bataxial. out specifically the review of the Iranian situation whichprepared subsequent to the initial compilation of the He completed reading the briefing In aboutdmiteatime he made two comments, tbe first being on the tradeJapan and China. Hie comment was, 'Since trade le one ofpowerful weapons, it seems to me that we aboeld employ It to There are the Japanese going to get theirIfgat them from China?" The other situation whieh arousedthe French difficulties in North Africa. His oocaaant on this"If the French don't do aoawrthlng fairly Boon, they willIndochina on their hands.11 ilia general remarks at thethe briefing were,does not materially change theI already had on aost of these sitaised thethe General about his desire for futurebriefings. Hathat he wanted future briefings but not neceeaarlly on anuggestedrrange with sr. Green.for the time andfor future briefings to which the General Thehis appreciation for the briefing aad then withdrew to .
In the subsequent discussions with sr. Oreen, he pointed out that the General's schedule would take him eat of lew York untilh of September and that possibly the following weekend would be an appropriate time for another briefing. The specific arrangementsthe next briefing will therefore have to be arranged by telephone with Ur. Green subsequent to the General'a return to lew Tork oneptember. Because of General Eisenhower's full schedule, Mr. Green sussestedrieflng atwo-week interval weald be tbe scat satisfactory, with the except ion that if Ola dieaed any development of sufficient significance to be called to Generalttention, arTengemonts could then be made for an interim briefing, /
hen returned^othetoctact Office and again secured the classified materialB- :pf- the Contact Offica and Attended to personal affaffs^rtfewaitlng for plane departure time, and returned0 at which time we again picked up the briefing material and sere taken to LaGuardia Field by the same chauffeur OX had taken us to the General's residence. Upon checking our reserrr.tions at the airlines desk, we discovered that our flight was erroneously scheduled out of Idlewildf LaGuardia, Fortunately, ttore were
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inutes before scheduled departure tine end it iu possible to change our reservations for another flight leaving at0 froa LaGuardU Field.
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missionbeen completed.
8. The mission froa start to finish was as smoothly coordinated as any withave ever been associated. The representatives atontact Office In Hew York met u* upon arrival, arranged for transportation at the exact time when needed and there was nodelay or unnecessary waiting daring tbo entire trip. This to me was very unexpected and unusual considering that all the details hod been arranged with only about three to four hours edvanca notice.
o left Ilex York at LH5 end arrived at Nationalalled the CIA Match Officer and requestedto %ueu Building wherearrived atmaterial and reported ths details of my trip to later
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Acting Chief Soviet Strategy Staff
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