LETTER TO HONORABLE CLARK M. CLIFFORD FROM W. F. RABORN

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 73
• Publication Date: March 1, 1966
• Content Type: LETTER

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Honorable Clark M. Clifford
Chairman
President's Foreign :Entelligence
Advisory Board
Executive Office Building
Washington, D. C.
Dear Clark:
During the Iamt few months I have been impressed as
well as somewhat surprised by the fact that even many of the
better informed people in Washington are ignorant of the super-
vision of the Central Intelligence Agency which is exercised by
the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board as well as
by our four congressional subcommittees. This ignorance is
one of the factors leading to much of the misinformation about
and criticism directed at the Agency. You are aware, I am
sure, of newspaper stories, comments by columnists. and
congressiosal statements that the Agency is not supervised
and acts independently of or counter to U. S. Government policy.
I believe no one knows better than you that this is not the case.
Our congressional committees are considering taking
some action to remedy this, if only to note for the record the
number of times the Agency appears before them. It appears
to me that some report by the President's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board along the same lines would have a most salu-
tary effect. Executive Order 10938, which established the Board,
provides that it shall report on its confirming review and assess-
latent of the Agency and the other intelligence components to the
President each six months or more frequently as deemed
appropriate. I realize that the substance of such reports would
normally be highly classified, but there have been numerous
occasions in the past in our Government where such classified
reports have been forwarded by means of an unclassified letter
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whichstate. the nature of the Board's action and gives some
specifics on the manner in which it carries out its function.
If you agre. that such an unclassified report of the Board's
activities would have merit. I would be glad to discuss it with
you in further detail.
Sincerely,
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W. F. Raborn
Director
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MEMORANDUM FOR: THE benafflNE, DIRECTOR
You will recall that McGeorge Bundy had
some doubts as to the propriety of the President's
Board making a public report. I believe such a
report would not only be consistent with but is
called for in the Executive Order, and I have
written the attached letter from the Director to
Mr. Clifford suggesting a public report forwarding
the classified detailed report eTery si months.
LAWRENCE R. HOUSTON
General Counsel
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FORM NO.
101 REPLACES FORM 10-101
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