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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000200150032-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 2002
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: January 24, 1964
• Content Type: MF

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24 January 1964
STATIN
Marshall S. Carter
Lieutenant General, USA
Acting Director
MEMORANDUM FOR: L ecutive Director
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General Counsel
Inspector General
I am planning to schedule a meeting with the President some-
time on Monday or Tuesday, 27 or 28 January,to discuss a number
of subjects including the attached memorandum for the President
prepared by the DCI before his departure for Europe. Will you
please personally review this memorandum and let me have your
comments sometime Monday before I meet with the President.
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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON 25, D.C.
STAT
is s an scholars, data,
analyses and reports on the economies of the Communist countries.
~A representative list of such publications and reports is attached for
your information, )
17 January 1964
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
For years CIA has made available to responsible authorities
dutside the Government, including journal' t d
My predecessor, Mr. Allen Dulles,. his Deputy, General
over, it is also
possible to argue that the Department of State with its primary responsi-
bility for the conduct of foreign policy would be liable to the charge of
e
Quiet economy in the
United States Government, Journalists and scholars are aware of'this.,
Therefore, release by the Department of State of any other department
or agency would not have the desired impact More
CIA possesses the best expertise on th
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anonymity" but not a departure from Agency policy over the last 10 'years,
Therefore, the recent release with authorized attribution repre
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y e or, other officials in CIA.
Since I became .DCI, no speeches or attributable, briefings have
been made b m
if
Background briefings on this subject have been given by CIA
officials prior to October 1961 to journalists either individually or in
groups. (A representative list of such briefings is attached for your
.information. )
of the Joint Economic Committee, ie at an open nearing
(For your information a resume of
that testimony is attached )
On November 13, 1959, the then DCI testif' d
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of Communist economies in briefingsy and have made at
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speecesetween 1954 and-October, 1961.
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trying to influence policy by the release of factual data. CIA, which
has, no "policy ax" to grind, could release such data as a matter of
factual information.
I recommend that consideration be given to making future
.releases.on the subject of the Communist economies. through CIA with
attribution to that Agency. Such releases would be made when the
security interests of the United States dictate that such a release would
be helpful, but a release would be made only after coordination on
substance, timing and tactics with the White House, the Department of
State and certain Chairmen of Congressional committees.
JOHN A. Mc CONE
Director
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