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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE

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September 18, 1964

MEMORANDIR4 FOR RECORD

Tuesday, September 15th

At a meeting in Mr. Vance's office with Mr. Vance and

Dr. Fubini present, Mr. MCCone read to me from a telegram

which he identified as a telegram from General Greer to me.

The telegram concerned security procedures to be followed

in connection with the Systems Integration Contract being

negotiated with Lockheed by General Greer. There was an

implication from the telegram, which was discussed, that

procedures being proposed by General Greer were at variance.

with those practiced in the Lockheed Advanced Projects

facility. Mr. Vance asked that the matter, f the variance

in procedures be clarified.

Later in the day,. I instituted a search for the telegram

in question.

Wednesday, September 16th

A telegram s brought to my attention

whose firstpar d exactly to my memory of what

Mr. McCone read at the meeting of the 15

is clearly identified in its hea

of General Greer's office for Mr

CIA.

Also, as of 16 September, telegram dated

15 September, was received. I called G111111 11111 to

determine the status of his negotiations on the Lockheed

Systems Integration Contract referenced in that message.

General Greer stated that negotiations were complete to the

point of a handshake, that the contract was in the hands of

Lockheed for signature. I instructed him to call me as soon

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as it had been returned to him signed, and not to sign it

until he had called me. I informed Dr. Fubini of these

actions and asked for an appointment with Mr. Vance.

Thursday, September 17th

After ion wit • lft. Vance, I dispatched a

telegram this discussion Mr. Vance reiterated

the ins me 15th to settle the

L security matter raised by nd to do sovithin 48 hours.

1 In the morning in a ation with General Greer,

I discussed the content o larified my understanding of the meaning of ragraph. The sense of

this first paragraph is that General Greer proposes to use

i. security procedures in connection with the Systems Integration

Contract which are identical to those approved by the CIA for

his use within his own offices and facilities. These procedures

are similar to those practiced at the Lockheed Advanced Projects

Facility except in requiring more stringent document control

than that used at • G- • • epare a

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gabs, - ri ca eral Greer

an tha •id not make entirely clear whose

M procedures were be • in the provisions of the contract

with Lockheed. I also asked General Greer to send me a

detailed discussion of the variations in procedure between those

approved procedures used by him and those in practice at the

Advanced Projects Facility.

Later in the day, I called Colonel Ledford and requested

him to dispatch one of his security people to the A/P to meet with

representatives of General Greer and of f in an attemp'

to settle the security matters raised b I called

General Greer and instructed him . to se to meet

ford's representative at acted

to send Colonel Buzard to act as my representative

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Early in the afternoon I, in a telephone call from

General Greer, learned that Agency contracting officers bad

ma instructed Lockheed not to sign the contract with General Greer

for systems integration work. Security problems were cited

without specifics. Also, the question whether the A/P facility,

under CIA jurisdiction, could be used by contractors to Agencies

1.1.: other than CIA was also raised. I asked General Greer for the

Memorandum of Record he bad which described the situation. This

ecord was received later in the day in message

At the end o formed Secretary Vance of the

facts contained i at his instruction called

Lockheed, Jim P1 ighest executive I could reach,

and I asked him if Lockheed would send me a written confirmation

of the fact that the Agency Contracting Officer had instructed

them not to sign the Systems Integr t with General Greer.

Mt. Plummer said that he would hav that on

18 September. Mt. PluMmer reported contracting

people had given Lockheed permission to inform General Greer

that it was byction that Lockheed was not signing

the contract. scribes several contacts between

Lockheed and s offices in which this information

is provided.

At about 1900 hours d Colonel Bu

reported to me that Colon ting me, and

representing Colonel Ledford would take a plane

from Washington on the 18th of September to meet

at the A/P on the afternoon of the

Director

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