MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD FROM MARSHALL S. CARTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001400040022-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: July 6, 1964
• Content Type: MFR

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6 July 1964
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
1. On 22 June I journeyed to St. Louis, Missouri, and
spent an hour and a half with Jenkin Lloyd Jones, a close
personal friend and editor and publisher of the Tulsa Tribune.
After the usual amenities, since I had not seen him for about
six months, and checking on each other's families, I discussed
in depth the new book, "The Invisible Government, "along the
lines of all of our previous memoranda prepared by Sherm
Kent, Chretien, and others. I told him in detail of the conver-
sations that Mr. McCone and I have had with the publishers and
the authors from August 1963 to date. I told hirn the numbers
of inaccuracies and security concerns that we had. I then gave
him a detailed explanation of all of the checks and balances
under which the Central Intelligence Agency operates, to include
our in-house procedures for clearance of covert actions by me
and the Director, actions of the Special Group (5412), the Bureau
of the Budget, our Congressional subcommittees, the President's
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and, finally, the President
himself. At his request I subsequently furnished him the make-up
of our Congressional subcommittees. I then told him of the
activities of the Soviet Disinformation Bureau and explained in
detail how neatly a book of this type assisted that Bureau.
2. Mr. Jones was intensely interested in the whole matter
and asked a number of highly intelligent questions. He of course
made no commitments as to what line of action he might pursue
but I am inclined to think, from our conversation, that he will
write several articles, at least one of which will deal with Dick 25X1
Helms' testimony on Soviet forgeries (I left the Hearing paper
25X1 with him as well as with the Soviet Disinformation Bureau
and I t in
he will probably do another piece on the whole fallacy of any such
thing as an "Invisible Government, " combined with comments on
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the need for veracity, total objectivity, and protection of the
national interest by reputable publishers and news media.
3. I think the meeting was well worthwhile and want Mr.
Chretien to watch closely for any outputs by Jones which would
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original - DDCI
1 - EA/DCI
1 -Executive Director
Marshall S. Carter
Lieutenant General, USA
Deputy Director
1 -Assistant to the Director for Public Affairs
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