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DIRECTOR'S LOG
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)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT. ACTION
Mr. Gordon Gray has forwarded a copy of his memorandum to
Mr. Webb, which enclosed a copy of a memorandum from Mr. - DPFoster recommending that the following procedural-
modifications be made in Plan TAKEOFF::
a. The Department of State be aequested to assume
primary responsibility for obtaining approval
as to the political feasibility and acceptability.
of the leaflet drop operation.
b. The preparation of the substantive themes'in the
leaflets to be dropped be assigned to the-Department
- of State.
These recommendations have the concurrence of the Secretary
of Defense.
Mr. Gordon Gray has forwarded for consideration at the
next Board Meeting "Suggested Fiscal Year 1953 Budget DD/A
Estimate as Compared to 1952 Estimate for Psychological,
Strategy Board".
* DD /P
Gen. Cutler and members of his staff were briefed on
18 Oct by Hunt and Hulick on the implications of NSC
86/1 as it relates to the handling and resettlement of
low-level Soviet and satellite defectors.> The:program
of the intelligence agencies vis-a-vis high-level defectors
was reviewed and the difference in definition between
"defectors" as set forth in NSCID 13 and NSC,86/l was
emphasized. It was suggested that the Keisten amendment
to the Mutual Security Act, which penits up to a hundred
million dollars to be used for escapees from the Iron Curtain
countries if the President determines that this expenditure
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