LETTER TO HONORABLE WALT W. ROSTOW FROM LYMAN B. KIRKPATRICK

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• Publication Date: March 24, 1964
• Content Type: LETTER

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any thanks for your letter of 19 March to Mr. 1^.1cGone with
your "amiable bee" on identifying the passages in Khrushchev's
speeches which he originated. In the Director's absence I am send-
ing this down to Kay Cline to gent his Kremlinologists 'buzzing.
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L?f course, you do realize that inevitably the first effort of our
Kremlinologists or Sovietologists is to try and analyze the authorshi
and. I harken back to the exchange of messages during the Cuban crtsi ,
including one or two which seemed to be almost exclusively Khrusll`
chev.
While I am not sure that we have enough basic data to prog rr
this effort on machines--nor the programmers or machines
available--we will certainly explore the issue and be in touch.
-Sincerely yours,
Hon. Walt W. Rostow)
Counselor and Chairman
Policy Planning Council
Department of State
W 'ashington, D. C.
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. ,yman B. Kirkpatrick
Acting Director
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Counselor and Chairman
Policy Planning Council
Washington
March 19, 1964
Dear John:
Sir Harold Caccia has an amiable bee in his bonnet.
It stems from the fact that analysts of language have
been able, by statistical means, firmly to distinguish
the authors of various books in the Bible. (Americans
have done the same in establishing the authorship of
the various Federalist papers.)
Sir Harold's notion is that the application of
these methods would permit us firmly to identify pass-
ages in Khrushchev's speeches which were of his drafting,
as opposed to bureaucratic drafting. British intelli-
gence lacks the men and machines to conduct this kind
of experiment. He urged me to lay the proposition
before the American intelligence community.
This I hereby do.
I would only add this: it is quite possible that
first rate Kremlinologists could do this without machines;
but those good enough haven't the time. I conclude,
therefore, that if it doesn't take excessive resources,
Harold's notion may be worth an experimental run.
Yours,
The Honorable
John A. McCone
Director, Central Intelligence
Agency .
'Washington, D. C.`