[PAGE 1]
1. Between 3:00 and 4:30 PM, Wednesday, 1 July 195h, and the writer discussed immediaté problems in connection with the situation i The primary discussion was concerned with t he immediate necessity of obtaining a Headquarters House for After considerable discussion, the basic essentials as set forth by and agrced to tentatively. by the writer were as follows:

a) The house should be located between 1 tothe and it should be somewhere between if possible. 1

b) The house itself should be of the brownstone ro?-house é type haying a-basic area of no less thanthrce floors: or possibly four. The house should have two entrances, preferably onę fore and aft. The house itself must not have janitor service, no doorman and no secretarif service. It should be of sufficiently stfong construction to accomodate at least two or three "of the-standard drawer-type safes together in any one given area.

C) The house should be large enough to have internal area for the following rooms:

1. Director and Assistant Director.

2. Hadministrative).

Ofice MenOrandHI  UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

ŞUBJECT:

[PAGE 2]
3.

L. A secretary and receiptionist office.(situated at the entrance to building)

. 5. Conference room

6. A special purpose operatiops, room. 7

d). In addition, the house should he living facilities, : possibly at least one bedroom, living room, toilet and kitchen on top floor.

e) House must have at least three toilets and refrigerating facilities other than mentioned immediately above or area suitable for this type of purpose.

f) Telephone service for the house is not to ron directly through the out is to be private lines. 1 1

g). The location of the house must be as-fax removed as pos-. sible from and preferably be abutted on each side by private dwellings. In this connection and nsisted that froní a security point of view the area be cleared by Security before any; occupancy b by the project both requested Security to check out the house completely and make : recomuendations for any and all. nercssäry safety precautions. This to include a device for burning and destroying classified papers and material.

[PAGE 3]
individual' room basis, particularly the conference room and important rooms with wire screening or whatever necessary protective devices are on the windows.,

2. The matter of 2h-hour protection was discussed and it was agreed that this woyld be important. In this connection, it was felt that if it could be arranged properly, woûld reside A in the house in the apartment on the top flor. All present agreed that girls living in the house would not be a good idea and a suitable watchman who resided in was.not sound. t

3. In connection with the above, was to go to this date (15 July 1954) and make the initial payment to
start the project and explore the real estate' situation through the hif this was notusccessful, A
asked if Security would offer support along these lines in an effort
'to find a proper location for these headquarters. The writer informed Chat this could be arranged through our B/3
and in addition are'our ce would,assist in all ways
possible including physical security measures. L. A conference was'scheduled for 10:00 AM, Friday, 16 July

A 1954 and at this conference hill report on the B/3 situation and surther steps will be agreed upon..