LETTER TO MR. CARL. T. CHASE, DIRECTOR FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2002
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: July 7, 1960
• Content Type: LETTER

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1. I can't see how the DCI could discuss "tools" that are used
as scientific aids in intelligence norAhow scientific and engineering
talents can provide intelligence with new tools and new methods. In
view of this and also in consonance with the report of the Committee
on Government Operations, which states:
"If public statements have to be made at all, they must
be made only in response to overriding national interest and
on the responsibility and under the control from the outset of
one high authority.
"The golden word of intelligence is silence. More can
be lost by saying too much, too soon, than by saying too little,
too slowly."
2. I, therefore, recommend that the DCI decline.
--stanley J. Grogan
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THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE
OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
PHILADELPHIA 3 , PENNSYLVANIA
FOUNDED FEBRUARY 5, 1824
Mr? Allen W. Dulles, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
2430 "E" Street, Northwest
Washington, D.C.
June 28, 1960
Since its founding in 1824, the members of
The Franklin Institute have always been keenly interested,
and have often taken parts in the scientific and technologi-
cal developments in our country. Even further, many of the
members of The Franklin Institute have been world acclaimed
by their outstanding application of scientific principles
to technological progress. Such applications must be numerous
in the operation of the Central Intelligence Agency.
This is our invitation, which I sincerely hope
you can accept, to address our members at the Annual Meeting
of The Franklin Institute on January 18th, 1961. While it
might not be appropriate to say much about how the Agency
operates, I believe that a discussion of Scientific Aids in
Intelligence Work, with mention of what "tools" are used,
and how scientific and engineering talents can provide new
tools and methods, would be enthusiastically received.
Our audience would number about four hundred
men and women. The lecture at eight-fifteen would be pre-
ceded by an informal reception at six-thirty and dinner at
seven. I enclose booklets descriptive of our activities.
I hope and trust that our members may have the
opportunity of meeting you on the occasion of our Annual
Meeting.
Enclosures
CTC:ccg
Yours very sincerely,
Carl T. Chase, Director
Meetings and Publications
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