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DRAFTING THE PLAN 21
proved to be a handy point of contact with the British and a fairly
good communications intersection point, it did have certain disadvantages.
It was remote from the headquarters of either agency, and,
even worse, the SIS station files were extremely inadequate so that
any information on personalities, especially members of the Iranian
armed forces, had to be obtained by querying the Tehran Station and
Headquarters.
Once the draft plan had been cabled, it was agreed with SIS that
their copy would be hand-carried to London where the viewpoint of
the SIS headquarters would be incorporated prior to 15 June. In the
meantime, as had been agreed with Headquarters, the Agency would
conduct a searching scrutiny of the plan at Beirut, and then bring
these results to London for amalgamation with the draft as reworked
by SIS at London. Carroll remained a few days after the completion
of the draft to begin work on the military aspect of the plan. He also
returned to Nicosia for a few additional days after the close of the
Beirut meetings for this purpose. It must be noted that Miss Helen E.
Morgan, CIA representative at Nicosia, gave strong support to the
CIA personnel who worked at Nicosia.