PRESS CONTACTS ON ABM-RELATED MATTERS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05011004
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2022
• Case Number: F-2022-01326
• Publication Date: June 18, 1969

Approved for Release: 2022/10/17 C05011004
18 June 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR
SUBJECT: Press Contacts on ABM-Related Matters
1. Per your instructions, I talk fairly frequently on Vietnamese
matters with a reasonably broad spectrum of reporters, columnists
and other members of the press. These conversations are all handled
through and/or arranged by Mr. Goodwin's office. Again on your
instructions, I maintain a continuing social relationship with Mr. Joseph
Alsop with whom I talk about matters related to Vietnam.
2. My contacts with the press deal solely with background data,
interpretations of Vietnamese Communist thinking, and other non-
classified and non-sensitive aspects of the Vietnam problem. I have no
professional responsibilities for any matters in any way related to the
ABM issue and as a matter of deliberate personal policy keep myself in
a state of ignorance on the technical details involved in the current ABM
debate. I have not read or seen or discussed any of the national estimates
or other recent intelligence papers dealing with this problem. At no
time and in no way have I ever talked about ABM-related matters to any
member of the press or any other unauthorized person or, for that matter,
to any person at all outside the Agency.
George A. Carver, Jr.
Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs
Approved for Release: 2022/10/17 C05011004