OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB AND MISSING JOURNALISTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
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• Publication Date: April 30, 1976
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM Angus MacLean Thuermer
Assistant to the Director
SUBJECT Overseas Press Club and Missing Journalists
Jack Raymond, who will be the Master of Ceremonies at
the Overseas Press Club banquet, was good enough to call today
to tip you off to the following:
In his remarks he will call attention to the fact
that there are 21 journalists still missing in Indochina. A
committee chaired by Walter Cronkite continues its efforts to
try to find out what has happened to them. The Overseas Press
Club is not ending its efforts in this field and is pressing
authorities in Vietnam and elsewhere to see what can be done.
This may give you an opportunity to make some statement
STATINTL on the matter, Mr. Raymond said.
n very well say
that you are glad that this has come
ad is because the Agency has once
again gone through a search of such evidences available in one
particular case and, of course, stands ready at any time to
help the journalists' committee in any way it can.
I think this pushes it back to the committee to make a
STATINTL formal request, at which time we can do the appropriate thing.
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29 April 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
.FROM Angus MacLean Thuermer
Assistant to the Director
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Mr. Beck of the club reconfirmed today that there would
be no Q&A at your talk. He will make sure members understand
this.
ATINTL He knows that is coming. A special room is being
set aside at the i more so she can change. He knows that
- will be substituting for me in giving you a hand.
If the Security people want to check out the area, they
should direct themselves to the Biltmore banquet manager, Mr.
Balzano.
Concerning your talk: if you don't want to speak on the
Church report, I think you can very well stand on the position
you took with the newsmen outside the hearing room the other
day. The Church report is a massive document: in any event,
and not yet been released in its entirety. My inclination is not
to spend much time on it. Your comments will just focus the
ne:~-s spotlight on this report again. The interest in the thing
may very well have peaked by Monday.
I come down pretty heavily on the side of taking this occasion
to give a "progress report" mentioning the appointment of your
two new deputies.
You can very well play on the fact that you have as your
strong right arm with the intelligence community a man who not
only knows his way around the Pentagon and the intelligence
community but is an ocean-going sea-dog who commanded one of our
great battle units, the Sixth Fleet. This shows you have no Pentagon
warrior but a real-life fighting man who has used intelligence
on your team.
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In the matter of Hank, you might want to stress that he
has come up through the analytical side.. But I think you
should couple it with the admonition that you are not meaning
to signal that intelligence collecting is going to be ignored
just because your deputy has come up from the end-product
.side. The production of intelligence is of the essence but you
don't want anyone to get the idea that secret collection is
going to wither away. We've got to have it.
Angus Mac can huermer
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28 April 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM Angus MacLean Thuermer
Assistant to the Director
SUBJECT Overseas Press Club Speech
It's a bit difficult to get the Overseas Press Club
people to give us much help on a subject for your speech.
My old buddy, Stan Swinton, has told the OPC that
you are exceptionally interesting in off-the-record chats
about China. He has suggested that -- contrary to what -
everyone might expect at the Overseas Press Club banquet -
you might want to talk about China.
OPC that.you
Other officers of the ~PCor simply therepeat
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wish to talk about the Agency
making some statement.
There are a few things to keep in mind:
Your off-the-record background chats on China are one
thing but a full-blown banquet address on China s quiteext
another. If you want to talk on China, you may
with some degree of coordination all around the ball park.
If you wish to say anything about the Senate Select
Committee report, here is a chance to make some brief comments.
On the other hand, you may want to make a report on
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carrying out the Executive e Order.
first one you make before
selected your two new deputies.
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the clubs.- annual, dinner next for his coverage . of the Zeb- Halstead of Time magazine for,
Monday.- . ?.... - - anese civil: war and Paul` Vogle his pictures ofVietna-mese flee-
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