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2/th Carbon Orig I stearbore to me toppic G-B Personal and Confidentiel 2nd carbon Fransfurte 3rd carbon -synopsisfile May 11, 1953. 4 th carbon file copy Dear Mac: Thank you very much for your letter of May 5 regarding Oppiel: suggestion for getting me to work as painlessly as possible. I have thought about it a great deal sinee he spoke with me and have had some S. discussion regarding it. Hovever, the matter contin- the ues to be too nebulous in my mind to get any real D.S. conclusions -- even tentative ones -- and perhaps this letter, of which I an sending a copy to Oppie, will help me to clarify my problems and elicit some help from you two. In your note you reasure me that in selecting those who might work with me I could count on any not selected understanding and not feeling hurt. You also state your preference for a written record, which would be mine. These two points, which some might think were details which could be worked out as we went along, seem to me important because they point up the central problem of what I vould be trying to do. Perhaps in thinking about them in that connection ve might find the way to answer both these questions and the larger problem. Because, clearly, the question who should be selected cannot be sensibly answered until we know for what purpose the selection is being made; and also the matter of whether there should be a writ- ten record, in turn, depends upon the further question of what the record is to be about. It seems to me that there are two main approaches which might be taken; although in practice the actual course might be any one of a number of variations or combinations of either or both. Mr. McGeorge Bundy, Department of Government, Littauer Center M-22, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts.