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reason, Tracy had great faith in him. 86/* The same source, when asked if he had seen a memorandum from Barnes on the subject of his meeting with Adlai Stevenson, responded as follows: No, no, but I remember hearing at a ... staff meeting at this time .•• hear- ing from Jake, as he ticked off the events of the previous 24 hours, that Tracy Barnes had been up in New York and had briefed Stevenson. So Tracy undoubtedly came back and told Bissell, and Bissell told Ester- line, or Esterline was there when Tracy was debriefing himself to Bissell, but I * Jake Esterline, Chief, WH/4 had an almost identical reaction to Barnes's briefing of Stevenson. Jake said: Well, I think when you talk to Dick Drain, you will find out between his records and mine that we were very un- happy when Dick [Bissell] sent Tracy up to brief ••• We understood the Ivy League ties involved in this thing, or what not, but we didn't really feel that Tracy understood it well enough himself to brief anybody. I guess it was Hawkins and Dick [Drain] and I who were quite disturbed about this because it was so important at that time -- that this guy knew exactly what the hell we were talking about. We just didn't think that Tracy really understood it that well, or if Tracy did, he couldn't articulate ... he wouldn't articulate it that well. Tracy was one of the sweetest guys that ever lived, but he couldn't ever draw a straight line between two points, and with a brief- ing of that sort ... 87/