MEMO FOR SPECIAL COUNSEL TO THE DIRECTOR FROM JOHN F. BLAKE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00498A000600040008-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 14, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 4, 1976
• Content Type: MF

DD/A 76-0519
4 February 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Special Counsel to the Director
Mitch.
1. We spoke on 2 February 1976 concerning public
opinion polls and I mentioned to you there was past
activity in that direction.
2. Attached is a compendium of papers, commencing
with my memorandum of 16 September 1975 to the Inspector
General surfacing what had been discovered. Other back-
up papers follow it. Also attached are the polls of
1964 and 1966. When the attachments have served your
purpose, please return them to me.
John F. Blake
Deputy Director
for
Administration
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DD/A 75-4371
16 September 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: Inspector General
1. I believe the following should be called to your
attention for what further study or action seems appropriate.
2. On 11 August 1975, Mr. Ben Evans advised Mr. Al
Rodriguez that, in the process of cleaning out some papers in.
an old EXDIR collection, he had come across a."Gallup Poll".
He told Rod he wasn't aware of any particular sensitivity, but
would forward it over to Rod for possible use in the Center for
the Study of Intelligence.
3. Rod reported this matter to me on 4 September 1975,
and I told him to get it to me immediately. I have been doing
some quiet research on the matter in order to get a better
understanding as to what we really have, and I furnish you the
following inform would Ann- It appear that both in 1964 and
lQ66 the Agency- I
zation to run a survey concerning "The Public's Knowledge of
the Central Intelligence Agency".
4. I have attached fo your rev nw an Office of Secu-
rity write-up on what we know and also a copy 25X11
of the 1964 and 1966 report o the Gallup organization.
5. I still have traces out as to how the survey of 1964
was paid for. I have ascertained, however, the procedure used
to pay for the 1966 survey, information-attached, and also
attached is correspondence between Colonel. L. K.. White and the
Also attached is some other information w
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appears to particularly pertain to the 1964 transaction.
'John Blake
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.Deputy Director
for
Administration
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27 October 1964
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Kirkpatrick
Interesting why not figure out
what we should do to make all people who
know about CIA think it is doing a fine
job?
John A. McC one f
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Attachment: "The Public's Knowledge of the
Central Intelligence Agency"
dated September 1964
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