MEMORANDUM FOR: DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS FROM L. K. WHITE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000500150005-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 9, 1964
• Content Type: MF

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9 APR 1964
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Communications
I am sure that has reported to you on the
flap which occurred over the weekend of 3-5 April. This first came to my
attention at the Executive Committee Meeting when lack Smith read from
the 6 April Central Intelligence Bulletin as follows: "Consultation with in-
telligence representatives of the Department of State was not undertaken
for this issue of the Central Intelligence Bulletin owing to temporary com-
munications difficulties beyond the control of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Director later asked me to provide him with an
explanation of what happened. I was disappointed, as I am sure Jack told
you, that the attached memorandum dealt only with the delivery of the CIB
information to the Department of State on Sunday, 5 April 1964, and made
no explanation as to the real reason for the trouble. I perhaps was not
explicit enough in my request to Jack as to just what I wanted.
Suffice it to say that at the Executive Committee
Meeting on Tuesday, 7 April. I reported to the Director substantially as
follows: A program to convert to equipment both here and at the
Department of State had been in the making for some time and a target date
of i April was agreed upon for the changeover. We failed to make a last
minute check with the Department to ensure that they were ready for the
conversion and permitted the telephone company to proceed with the neces-
sary change In circuits. (I regard this, as does the Director, as a serious
error on the part of the Office of Communications.) Having made the er-
ror, however, the Office of Communications apparently took prompt action
to use an alternate circuit in order to ensure that the material was
delivered. There was, however, about a three-hour delay on Friday, 3
April, and the material did not arrive at the Department until about 1600
hours. There was also a one-hour-and- seventeen-minute delay on Sunday,
when it arrived at the Department at 1432 hours. It seemed to me that
notwithstanding our mistake the material arrived at the Department in
plenty of time to consider it and coordinate it with OCI had the Department
been very much interested in doing so. Furthermore, I thought that the
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ucy was seriously at fault because both OCI and the Office of Communi-
cations anew of these delays and neither took any action to deliver the
material by courier, which would certainly have ensured a much earlier
;:rival than the electrical t:r:a_nsr?.issicn.
The Director was quite disappointed in our perform-
ace in this instance and asked Mr. Kirkpatrick to look into It and take the
necessary action. I have heard nothing further from Kirk. However, I have
not received any satisfactory explanation for this premature changeover and
for our failure to check with the Department of State prior to the changeover.
I assume that there really isn't any satisfactory explanation. I also assume
that you will conduct whatever further investigation you think necessary to
fix the responsibility for this error and to take such other disciplinary action
as you deem appropriate.
cc., Executive Director -Comptroller
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6APR19EA
M M0RA1(D(JM F'OR: Deputy Director for Support
SUBJECT : Delivery of CIA Bulletin Information to the Department
of State on 5 April 1954
1. This is for your information concerning the delivery of the
5 April CIB ;mterial sent to the Department of State .
2. T CIB information was tranasittsd to the Department of State
in five seat ons . It was received at the following local times Sunday
afternoon: 12162, 1253, 1412, 1430 and 1432. Since the material was
routed via another relay center, and in order to insure that it had
arrived at State in time for a scheduled 3:15 panel meeting, the CIA
Signal Center called State an? sonfirmed that it was there and that
the last itiri had arrived at 14,32. Therefore, we do not feel that the
non-co-ordination of the material is the result of the faulty electrical
cosmimicationa .
3. We have instructed the telephone coapany to re-establish the
direct half duplex circuit between CIA and State (RCI). Its installation
operation for several weeks. Li this instcaee our proceeding with the
planned change in circuitry without malting a final check with the Depart-
ment of.State was in error.
4. Please note that the defy times that resulted from the additional
relay as shown on the attached sheet were not excessive after the first
message was passed.
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