STAFF STUDY ON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06362A000100220002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 22, 1971
• Content Type: MF

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1WWRPND 3 FOR: Deputy Director for Support
SUBJECT : Staff Study on Presidential Library Program
Attached is a study on the Presidential Library Program.
The study concludes with certain suggestions and recd ended action
which I feel should be brought to the attention of the Executive
Director and possibly the Director. At this point the study is
primarily intended to bring you up to date on this program and to
seek your guidance on where we should go from here.
2. The focus of the study is on what if anything should be
done now to prepare for the Agency's contribution to the Nixon
Library. In answering this question the study reviews the Agency's
efforts and contributions to the Kennedy and. Johnson Libraries. A
careful review of the Director's remarks on the Johnson Library
suggests that he was sincerely interested in having the Agency make
a meaningful contribution. therefore assume that the Director
will expect a similar and perhaps more comprehensive contribution
to the Sixon Library.
As far as we can determine, neither the Direct
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his Deputies ever reviewed the final product Nabs S and 3.1) for
the Johnson Library, hence we are in no position to judge whether
or not the Director was satisfied with the Agency's efforts on this
program, The major gaps in the Johnson Library collection as it
now stands area (1) there is very little from the Office of the
Director, and no records of correspondence, special reports, meetings,
etc. between the Director and the President and (2) there Is nothing
on OXCART even though this was specifically mentioned by the DCI as
a subject he wanted included in the collection. In regards to the
OXCART material, we understand that a major history of the program
has now been completed and we may wish to ask the DDSIT to earmark
a copy of this history and supporting reference material to be act
aside for eventual inclusion in the Johnson Library.
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4. In assembling information for the study we worked very
closely with Hugh Cunningham and he has concurred in our paper.
Hugh indicated that the final product for the Johnson Library repre-
sents a significant contribution, However, Hugh in quick to point
out that the program may have succeeded in spite of itself, as it
was a haphazard and unsystematic affair and he endorses our recommen--
datious that we should start doing something now to ease the burden
of responding to a call for the Nixon Library when it comes.
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DDS/SSS/HEP:rf (22 April 1971)
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ho as you know was President Johnson's private retary, and stm confirmed
1. 1 belieme Hal has unwittingly overstated the deet iene lee of the
CIA. contribution to the Johnson Library In paragraph three of his covering
niemrandum. I have checked theft points with Mrs. Marie Fehmer Chtarodo,
pression that the two subjects mentioned are not lacking from the
be preserved for the President's flies as a matter of course. Any special
reports or other documents known to have been fen the President were
also preserved as a matter of course. Meetings which the Director attended
2. All correspondence between the Director and the Pr
e also attended by a note taker who wrote them up for
Since I had been assured of these points early in the co it
n they explain why I did not myself devote special
e eentlon to this phase of the subject.
. Chiarodo believes that there Is a good deal of information on
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OXCART In the Presidential files for the reasons cited above. It was In
the expectation that the history of OXCART then in progress could be
made avails to the CIA. collection for the Johnwn Library
that I myself did not try to bring about any other collection Opp ROM
on OXCART for theLibrary. I therefore would like to reinforce Ha 's
su"estiou that the DD/S&T earmark a copy of this history for inclusion
in the Johnson collection
HUGH T. CUNNINGI
Director of Training
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