LETTER TO THE HONORABLE THOMAS L. HUGHES FROM RICHARD HELMS

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• Publication Date: August 21, 1965
• Content Type: LETTER

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21 August 1965
Dear Tom.
We have considered the proposal in your
letter`-Zf _17 August 1965. Because the function
you propose for the ad hoe committee appears to be
a duplication of what would normally be the continu-
ing role of the SIOIi Committees I discussed the
matter with Admiral Raborn who prefers to continue
handling SIGINT matters within the established U3IB
forum.
1 have provided the Chairman of the SI??
Committee with a copy of your proposal and the
Director has instructed him to convene the Committee
to consider the matters described under I A. and B.,
11 A. and III A. and B. ?- most of which appear to
be matters normally dealt with in this Committee and
some of which are currently under active considera-
tion.
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to provide more realistic terms of reference for fur-
ther actions by the 3IOIWf Committee. The Director
has, in fact, conveyed this view to secretary Rusk in
a letter dated 21 August 1965 responding to cocretary
Rusk's letter of 12 August 1965.
We are prepared to give further consideration
to Agency participation in an ad hoc group to deal with
those elements of this problem which do not fall within
the competence of US.IB. Indeed, I have long felt that
the particular significance of a number of countries of
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the Near East and South Asia as SIOINT "real estate"
warrants a more formal recognition of the preservation
of these facilities as, in itself, an important foreign
policy objective of the United States in this area. At
times there have existed ad hoc arrangements in which
the Assistant Secretary for this area, a senior officer
from ISA/befense and the CIA representative responsible
for our Hear East and South Asia operating division
have closely coordinated their respective roles and
interests. There have been times when this coordina-
tion proved highly effective; on other occasions a
closer coordination of State, Defense and Agency roles
would probably have proved beneficial. It would be my
proposal that we not attempt to establish any ad hoc
mechanism which duplicates or more seriously overlaps
with the work of existing mechanisms of USIB. Rather,
It is on the problem of more closely relating the in-
terest and activities of the Intelligence Community
with the broader relations -- including foreign aid --
where there is a more urgent need for either a perma-
nent or an ad hoc arrangement. It goes without saying
that the Department of State should take the lead in
this matter.
incerely,
The Honorable
Thomas L. Hughes
The Director of Intelligence and Research
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