Se ee ae cae edna aeTN ne Teed to hoe cee denene nemaee CUMIN ee oe 274 DASA 2019-2 does it do you a great deal of good to have a fine man in the field that's respected if you give him no authority to do anything? And I rather sensed this. Now, I could be wrong. The thing that set me off on this was when Miss Root remarked about it, and this was really just what was bothering me when I was there. It seemed that there was a rather cumbersome chain of commandinsofar as the American Embassy was concerned in a decision-making way and I rather ga~ thered, Merril, that you had said about the same thing. EISENBUD: Yea. It was ridiculous. For example, if I wanted to sena a cable to John Bugher just telling him that [ was going to re- main ahother week, this was a communication from the Ambassador to Secretary Dulles. WOLFE: You don't just send one with a carbon copy? EISENBUD: No. TAYLOR: Isn't it true that every communication today from the State Department to an cverseas post is from the Secretary of State, signed "Rusk''? EISENBUD: It was when I was there. TAYLOR: Every communication, even transfer of a clerk from one office to another. SPEAR: You can always look down at the lower left and find out who it really came from, but it's signed 'Rusk,"' TAYLOR: Why go through this charade, or whatever it was? LANGHAM: I never sent a message, All of my messages were sent by Mr. Duke. Evidently that's his job. WARREN: I can see a certain reason for this administratively. The Ambassador is playing the hand of the President, really, in his international relationships, So there should be appropriats consultation, But something should be allowed to the ..mbassador for the use of his judgment in the situations, The trouble is that the minute it’s a nuclear power, a sort of paralysis goes over everybody and particularly those who are not scientists and are politicians or people in the administrative hierarchy who are unfamiliar with the situation;