MEMORANDUM TO MORNING MEETING PARTICIPANTS FROM ANGUS MACLEAN THUERMER

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• Publication Date: April 5, 1976
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5 April 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Morning Meeting Participants
FROM Angus MacLean Thuermer
Assistant to the Director
Eaemdve Regisby
73_ i
Mr. Bush requests that we provide some samples for
his use in speeches of intelligence successes, courage
STATINTL and ingenuity, damages and historical use of intelligence.
Would you please review the attached for security
considerations and forward any suggestions for change to
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by noon on 7 April.
We would appreciate your keeping your eyes open for
additional examples that we can add to this list for Mr..
Bush's use in the future.
Please note: Section 1 was largely contributed by
the DDI, Section 2 by DDO, Section 3 by DDO and the IC Staff,
and Section 4 by the DDI.
Angus MacLean Thuermer
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Intelligence successes in a basement office a thousand
miles from the scene of action permitted the U.S. Navy to
score its dramatic defeat of the Japanese fleet at the Battle
of Midway in WWII. Through intelligence the Americans knew
they could disregard `a Japanese feint at the Aleutians and station
our fleet near Midway. Admiral Nimitz noted that "Midway was
essentially a victory of intelligence," and General Marshall
said that as a result of intelligence "we were able to concentrate
our limited forces.. .when otherwise we almost certainly would
have been some 3,000 miles out of place."
During WWII, Eric Ericson, a Swedish businessman and secret
Allied agent, secured a guided tour of Nazi oil facilities and
gained the intelligence that resulted in a significant change in
Allied bombing targeting to oil facilities. This caused dramatic
German fuel shortages during the Battle of the Bulge.
Just as George Washington's year-long intelligence deception
operation led the British to believe the Americans would attack
New York rather, than Yorktown, the creation of Patton's mythical
First U.S. Army Group, with its equally mythical tens of thousands
of troops, aided in deceiving the Germans on the site of the D-Day
landings.
When the German corps were surrounded during latter part of
the Battle of the Bulge, they relied for much of their tactical
intelligence on a dissident Rhineland radio station that had
provided valid tactical information in the past. The Germans met
with failures because the dissident radio station was really
Operation Annie, a deception operation mounted by the OSS and the
12th Army Group.
The U.S. intelligence team, ALSOS, during WVIVII recovered
German uranium stockpiles, enabling the U.S. to manufacture the
atomic bombs that hastened the end of the war and saved tens of
thousands of lives. At the end of the war, Operation Paperclip
helped the Allies to locate and recover German scientists who
later played an important part in U.S. missile and space programs.
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In a little known intelligence success, Moses Yale Beach,
publisher of the New York Sun and one of the founders of the
New York Associated Press, travelled to Mexico, using a British
passport, as a special agent of President Polk. There he
gathered intelligence important to the American position in the
Mexican War. He also influenced General Almonte and other
leading men of Mexico to be favorable to the Americans. His
instructions from President Polk included the injunction, "never
to give the slightest intimation, directly or indirectly, that
you are an agent of this government."
For three years beginning in 1823, George Bethune English,
a secret agent of the United States, served in Turkey, collecting
information on the Ottoman attitude toward American commercial
activities in the Black Sea. English successfully obtained a
copy of the Turkish treaty with France, "quietly and without
observation."
The basis for the American move for the prompt annexation
of Texas is said to stem from the reports of Duff Green, an
American businessman sent on a secret mission to England on
behalf of President Tyler. In a statement to the Congress on
June 17, 1844, the President acknowledged that Duff Green had
been "employed by the Executive to collect such information, from
private or other sources, as was deemed important to assist the
Executive...". He confirmed that Green had been compensated from
the Contingent Fund for Foreign Intercourse, the so-called Secret
Service Fund.
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Mrs. Grace Falvey
Office Manager
Hoosier State Press Assn., Inc.
1542 Consolidated Bldg.
115 North Penna. St.
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204
Dear Mrs. Falvey:
Thank you so much for your kind invitation to speak
to the Hoosier State Press Association at your state
convention. It was very good,bf Mr. Bucknam to suggest
that I speak to the group, and I hope you will thank him
for me.
Unfortunately, my schedule for May 14 and 15 simply
will not permit me to join you. I am indeed sorry not to
have the opportunity to,'meet with you and the Indiana
newspaper publishers.
Thank you again for your imitation, and may I wish
you all a most successful meeting.
Sincerely,
STATINTL
STAT
George Bush
Director
1-DCI
1-A/DC
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mj (3/30/76)
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THE SEAL OF NEWSPAPER LITY
OEM STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Richard W. Cardwell
General Counsel
Grace A. Falvey
Office Manager
Lisa L. Phillips
Offi.cle Secretary
1542 CONSOLIDATED BUILDING
115 NORTH PENNSYLVANIA STREET
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 46204
TELEPHONE: [phone]
I X. George Bush
Di rr-c tor.
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C.
Don Bucknam, President
Angola
John Mitchell, Vice-President
Frankfort
Greg Temple, Secretary
Nashville
Gene Pulliam, Treasurer
Indianapolis
Jim Bannon, Greentown
Bi!I Brooks, Vincennes
Dick Harney, Rockville
Gene McCann, Lawrenceburg
Jim McNeile, Elkhart
John Neal, Noblesville
Frank Schurz, Jr., South Bend
Dick Slater, Westville
Don Bucknam, president of our Association, tells us that he was
very impressed with the talk you gave at the National Newsparer
Association Government Affairs Conference last week.
We are in the process of planning our state convention, and I?11r.
Bucknam has suggested that Indiana newspaper publisher's might be
interested in hearing what you have to say about the "messace"
o the CIA.." So we are herewith inviting you to speak at one of
the luncheon meet i nus of our convention.
Our meeting will be May 14+L15,.4 There will be a luncheon each
of those days, and I can arrance to have you appear at either
one, whichever is more convenient for you.
The convention will be attended by more than 200 people,_,,.-.
publisher. s and other senior executives of the " arrest nec?rspap ers
in the state of Indiana. (Our member papers represent 95% of
the newspaper circulation in the state.) I shall enclose a
booklet describing our organization, along with a program from
last year's convention.
I do hope that you kill he able to include this appearance in
your schedule. Thank you for your consideration.
Cordially,
Grace Falvey
Of =ice Manager_
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1 APR 1976
Mr. Arthur H. Motley
Parade Publications, Inc.
733 Third Avenue
New York, New York 10017
Dear Mr. Motley:
It was thoughtful of you to send me the
clipping.from the March 21st issue of Parade.
Lloyd Shearer certainly focused on one of the
serious problems confronting our intelligence
service: revelation of names. Parade does a
public service by circulating this information
to 19,000,000 Americans.
Sincerely,
George Bush
Director
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 incerelys
Mr. Arthur H. Motley
Parade Publications, Inc.
it Avenue
k 10017
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New York, New Yor
Dear Mr. Motleys ti.
thoughtful of you to send me a tear sheet
It was tlioug d Shearertert,y ainvy, _.N
locuse r o m Parade of March 2se L1oy roblems ; " t h a t - 6 w . on one of the eriorevelati.o~'of names.-
our intelligence service:
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os.: tear sub
c service by cir-
Parade does a P l?~
1 k his ormation to i9?000,000 Americans
~n
cul.ating this
George Bush
Director
AMThuermer:kss (3/3//76)
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PARADE'S SPECIAL
by LLOYD SHEARER
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George Bush9
[gf new director
n
..of the Central Itelli
gence Agency,- is problem
'=_.Iaden. Oae of his majdr
problems concerns the ex-
posure -of -CIA agents --
throughout:the world.
In the past few months
lists of _alleged CIA
one numbers,. and. cover,
-titles, have been pub-_
Norway and Finland.
?-.weekly newspaper, "Infor-
mation Service," published
''Ahe names of 15 persona, it
Athens, Jt *was the publics,
-
chief at the American Fm-
senseless assassination.
In Italy, "Expresso," the.
newsmagazine, listed 28- -
-names, including nine --
women. In'The Hague, the
weekly " Vri j Nederland" -
printed seven names, ins
eluding one woman. In
--Prance, "Liberation," the-
:'.left-wing daily founded by
? Jean-Paul Sartre, blew the
cover of-the CIA station
'~chief and others. In Lou
don, CIA-personnel at the
-U.S. Embassy have been
widely publicized for some
time.
Why are so many people
in so many countries
against.the CIA?
Largely because for
years the CIA has inter
fered in their govern-
ments. Take Italy. Since
1948 the CIA-has paid ap-
proximately $74 million tc'
-Italian politicians, most
of it to Premier Aldo
Moro's Christian Demo-
crats. All.Italian pre-
-miers have-been Christian
BECAUSE OF VOLUME OF MAIL RECEIVED. PARADE REGRETS IT CANNOT AMSWER
Democrats since 1945. In
the 1972 general election,
the CIA paid out $9-
..mil-lion to various Italian..
center-left parties on the
:insistence of Graham Mar-
tin, U.S. Ambassador to
Rome, although the then CIA
station chief in Rome
strongly objected." ? -
In short,one job of the
CIA has been to support
governments the U.S. liked
and help destroy govern
ments the U.S. did not.
What right has the CIA
got to do this? How would
we like it if the Shah of''
Iran contributed millions
-of dollars to elect Ron-
ald Reagan President of
the U.S. and additional'
millions to defeat Gerald.
Ford or vice versa?
The CIA !is absolutely
necessary to collect in--
.telligence, but bribing
politicians.in a foreign
country in order to negate
-the will of the voters: --.
that may very well be '?
classified'as dirty pool.,
a-game prompting anger,-
revenge and exposure by ..?
the victims.
George Bush is-going,to.,-.
find it tough to restruc
ture the' cover apparatus..'.-,
of ,his CIA agents.- How:-7',"
many will have 'to be.
transferred, 'how many- will- .,'
have to be'given new iden-
tities, how many will have
to be "buried" in corpora-.
his problems..-
Most of all, how is he
going to prevent terror-
ists, patriots, Social--
ists, Communists, -'
nationalists, friends as
well. as enemies from pub-
lishing future lists of
CIA agents abroad?
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