MEMORANDUM FOR: DDCI FROM BC EVANS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06702743
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: December 12, 2018
• Case Number: F-2014-00929
• Publication Date: January 5, 1977

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First, I believe it is essential that the American people
� give this Agency its full and unqualified support. The world -
we live in demands-no less. The support for the Agency was -
shaken during the .height of the public hearings in 1975. �It
was shaken, not only because of a handful of abuses that did take
place and which indeed had been remedied before the hearings took -
� place; but it was shaken more by the endless stream of allegation
which were untrue but which were given great attention.
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- - This is changing now, and it is changing for the better. lite
are still slugged at times with unfair criticism, but the sensa- ,-
tionalism is giving way now to legitimate inquiry; the adversary ,
relationship with Congress has given way to thorough and -
constructive oversight; the frantic search for reorganization . -
and dismantlement .has given way to a legitimate search for ways to improve things. . - - ,
' It is essential that CIA continue to work with the Congresi� -
with the rest of the Executive Branch, and to some degree with - -
the public, to demonstrate that CIA the Reality is very different
� than CIA the Myth. We are cooperating fully with all concerned;
and this is bound to result in the Truth. We honor the Truth;
we dc not fear it.
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