ATTACHED MEMORANDUM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B00972A000100530027-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 1997
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: September 29, 1969
• Content Type: MF

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29 September 1969
1. This memorandum commenting on various
passages in the President's news conference of
18 April 1969 was prepared at Ed Proctor's request.
It received no dissemination from us other than
to the O/DDI. I'm not sure whether the DDI passed
it on, orally or in writing, to the Director.
2. After trying to figure out the basis for
the figures in the President's "60 percent higher"
quote, I called Larry Lynn to find. out who had
given this information. It turned out that he had.
The methodology he used is given in the attachment
to the memorandum.
3. In talking to Lynn, I remonstrated with
him about this manner of using the NIPP and suggested
that, if he read the estimate, he would be more
cautious about giving the President figures based
on a system as still unproved as the SS-Z-3. Lynn's
reply was to the effect that he hadn't read the
estimate but there was certainly nothing in the
NIPP write-up to suggest that the SS-Z-3 was other
than a virtual certainty. And on re-reading para--
graph 14 on page 1-5 of. NIPP-69, I had to agree with
him. (In all fairness, I'm not sure that he would
have been greatly deterred by reading paragraph 22
of NIE 11-8-68. But there is, I believe, a difference
of tone as well as detail in the way the NIE paragraph
is rendered in the NIPP.)
Bruce Clarke, j
Attachment: -
131ind memo dated
21 April 1969
Distribution:
Orig. &.l -- Addressee 1
1 -- Dr. Proctor--1_}
1 -- OD/OSR
D/OSR:BCClarke:1m
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