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Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
1 June 2005
Mr. Timothy Snyder
History, Yale University
Box 208324
New Haven, CT 06520-8324
Reference: F-2005-01185
Dear Mr. Snyder:
The office of the Information and Privacy Coordinator has received your
18 April 2005 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records on Jozef
Swiatlo, who was one of the most important functionaries of the Polish
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Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
JUL 1 7 2007
Ms. Catherine Nielsen
The National Security Archive
The George Washington University
Gelman Library, Suite 701
2130 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037
Reference: F-2007-01663/Archive #20071328CIA168
Dear Ms. Nielsen:
This is a final response to your 12 July 2007 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
request, received 12 July 2007, for copies of "[a]ll documents created between 1953 and
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Some lessons from case
histories of misfudgment
in the NIEs.
HOW THREE ESTIMATES WENT WRONG
Willard C. Matthias
The procedure by which National Intelligence Estimates are pre-
pared is designed to ensure that those responsible for policy decisions
receive an agreed intelligence judgment ( or a carefully delineated dis-
agreement) based upon the best information and most thorough re-
view possible. But the procedures only provide the framework within
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C-O-N-F- -T-I-A-L
CENTRAL INTELLIGENC.E AGENCY
20 March 1963
MEMORANDUM FOR: Z. Allan Evans, State (11R)
Colonel K. T. Gould, USA (DLA)
Colonel Paul E. Pigue, USA (ACSI)
Captain G. K. Nicodemus, USN (ONI)
Colonel A. E. Stoll, USAF (ARUM)
Colonel G. R. Ronka, USAF, Chef
Chief, Policy Staff, NSA
SMECT:
(b)(3)
Messrs.
Briefing on South Vietnam
and
(b)(3)
will brief on
South Vietnam on Thursday, 21 March 1963, at 1000 in -at
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OGE FORM 202, PART 1
NOTIFICATION OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST REFERRAL
PART 1: INITIAL NOTIFICATION
(to be filed by the refining office)
File Part 1 of this form with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) upon any referral made to the
U.S. Department of Justice (DOM pursuant to 28 U.S.C. � 535, involving:
(1) A possible violation under section 203, 205, 207, 208, and/or 209 of title 18, United States Code;
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGERCY
11+ February
MEXORANLUM FOR: Mr. ALlan Evans, state (31111)
,Colonel K. T. Gould, USA (DIA).
�Colonel Paul E. Pigue, USA (ACS?)
-Captain G. iicodenrus USN (ONI).
'colonel A. E. Stoll, USAF (MOW 2B2),
Colonel G. R. Ronka,
Polity Staff1 NSA-
SUBIEOT: NIE 1.;HE pROSPEOTG;IN :SE1fitiltiztNAM
The attached conclusions and poet,:nortem.,-for. ai4ijeot:
estimate are forwarded for review These items viii bel
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D.1.4-At1a ONLY
Conversation with Willard Matthias
by Dr. Harold P. Ford
12 February 1990
NO TAPES
OFFIC i E ONLY
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OFFICI ONLY
12 February 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Conversation with Willard Matthias on Vietnam
Issues, 12 February 1990
1. At my initiative, Ken and I lunched with Willard Matthias today,
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BEST COPY
AVAILABLE
PUNITIVE ACTION TAKEN BY THE KADAR GOVERNMENT FROM
1956 TO AUGUST 1957 AGAINST HUNGARIAN CITIZENS FOR
ANTI REGIME ACTIVITIES DURING AND AFTER THE OCTOBER
Auguat 1957
OH
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Inte.
bed Itet oftunarta
the radar government
ntet newspaper and
inor technical errors
names,- etd. Posey have
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8 MAY 1963
MEM *mum fr 14.mm of Central listaWoo=
Deputy Director (Plans)
.Secretary of Volume and-maceoa Vietaanti
itiftelatal 4Wgy 1963
tAIMMAIIX
The conference reviewed the �Curtest situationI Vietnam end projected
Likely Intern developments. It was noted that moo of the build-up of
American essinbmce had been completed and that a number of budgeters
point toward a turning of the thin against the VietiCeng. 'General Harkins
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19 September 1963
The Honorable Henry Cabot Lodge
The Ambassador of the United States
Saigon, South Viet Nam
Dear Cabot:
I am taking this means of communicating with you in the
interests of privacy knowing that the use of the CIA channel,
restrictive as it is, would mean that a few people on both ends would
have access to my message to you.
I was told by Dean Rusk that you had proposed that General
FOIA
