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..:rOP SECft r!T figure out, because nobody ever made it clear, where the hell the project stood vis-a-vis WH .•. J. C. King never was told, I think for understandable reasons, to what extent he was in it, and to what extent he was not in it. 119/ As with other of the principals who were involved in the WH/4 effort, Drain was extremely complimentary of the Support element assigned to WH/4, stating as follows: This is a little ironic, because with Bissell as the DDP, you would have thought that if the directed assignment thing worked anywhere, it should have worked within the OOP. It worked less well there than it did within the DDS. Red White, soldierly like he was, took absolutely sincerely, what the Director said, when he said "I want the very best people assigned to "this." So we got Mike King to run the finance, not some stumblebum with garters on his sleeve ... the best finance officer they had. Our logistics support and Bill Eisemann, they were really hand picked by Red White ••• The DDS or tne DDA, whatever they called it then, deserved very high marks f~r being uniquely the people" to put their back into it. The 001 really wasn't askedi and that was too bad, because we could have used, , it seems tome, some input from the 001. Our own intelligence repo~t structure was not bad. The Chief, FI was a nice old guy,~ ji. ji and we had some reports officers who were quite competent in the DDP sensei but the thing was so compart- mented from the 001, in any event, that the idea of drawing down on DOl talent· to get in on this, was not well received. I had suggested it because I had been - 130 -