Note for Mr. Thayer, May 27, 1948 - page 1

27 May 1948 f?ota for Mr. Thayar I protest moat vehemently against the brand of •leadership* which la presently running the Economic Winiatrlea Division. 7 have told you before that the so-called Subject Briefs • people are working or the» since you took over - are a complete loss of ties, totally unusable, and keep scarce manpower fro» the tasks to which they should be epplied. Typical of these unusable Subject Briefs ere the three versions written on the D*7T. This morning I received e five-page long memorandum written by Mr. Adams, dated 24 May 1948, and bearing the footnote that it was sent to me "at yonr sug estion.* It seems to have slipped your memory that I have been working for about three week» on a brief against Sappier, that X have pointed out to you the weakness in the evidence, particularly the failings of my predecessors to do any appreciable amount of work at all cm Eeppler. I alao pointed out that, In my opinion, the ease es It stands now has a good chance of being von with respect te the aggression in Austria and with respect to the S membership of Keppler. With regard to Austria, only if the Court finds that this aggression was criminal under haw 10# The $ «rmbership count is very strong because the knowledge of leppler of concentration eamp conditions, of the use of concentration esmp labor, and of the eaEtbrmlnatlcn of yews seems to be clearly proven. I also pointed out to you that all what two of my predecessors did was to prepare biographical sketches of Keppler which hsd one thing in common, that they ere wrong. Mr. Ceaaen,