At 1545 today, Colone1 Park came to see me. He laid on my desk, a memorandum containing his evaluation of OSS activities. He suggested I should read the first two pages which I did. The paper recommended a rather thorough OSS housecleaning was desirable. When I had finished reading the paper, I told Colonel Park that in my opinion it would be entirely inappropriate for me to make any remark whatever pertaining to the paper and therefore I had nothing to say.

​From the day of President Kennedy's assassination on there has been speculation about the responsibility 'for his murder. Although this was stemmed for a time by the Warren Commission report (which appeared at the end of September 1964), various writers have now had time to scan the Commission's published report and documents for new pretexts for questioning, and there has been a new wave of books and articles criticizing the Commission's findings.

​During the last ten years, diplomatic historians have attached growing significance to intelligence, and the related subject of covert operations, as increasingly important to an understanding of the early Cold War.