MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R004300060025-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: January 1, 1953
• Content Type: MF

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In response to you:r4equest of December 31st,
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t this Agency hasssistsel the orderly transition ~-~
to the incoming Administration: $
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By your direction I kept each of the ma;;off
Presidential candidates informed on internatios.l
developments, along the general lines of the/briefings
I regularly prepare for you. During the rrampairi General
Eisenhower and Governor Stevenson were each briefed four
c?_nes at their convenience by an Agency representative.
b. By your direction this A:geihcy prepared a
comprehensive National Intelligence digest designed to
give in sum ary form the most Miiportant national intelli-
geace on a world wide basis. This was keyed to the NSC
policy compilation prepared by the NSC Staff and was given
~y you to General 3isenhower immediately following the
election.
c. Since the election I have personally briefed
General Eisenhowe:''four times, and Mr. Joseph Dodge, the
of the Budget, once.
d. To esure the strict security precautions
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necessary fir handlin ; highly classified information,
I have esj4ablished a secure office for an Agency representa?-
-rive in the Camnodore Hotel. This Agency representative is
eo ntinuously available to the President-elect and to the
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Secretary of State designate to
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brief them and to provide the k regularly prepared
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by the Central Intelligence Agency.
General Eiserli6e conn@ction with
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a committee which General Eisenhower proposes to establish
for the purpose of reviewing the US effort in the field of
"clold war" activities. These conversations have assisted
in the organization of siiak Oj cbn ittee and in dzt-ermi-nArr -
t.- -per i of n=a t, ,; (3' material w4A6 - _ n ttee
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f. Various special briefings have been prepared in
order that I may provide on request additional-4vs
for the principal cabinet and sub-cabinet officers.
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Mt,4ORANDUM FOR: ST
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Mr. Ih,?lles asked th::it the attached proposed
reply to the President I -v memorandum (Tab A) be
given to you in draft _form. since there is some
question as to whether paragraph e should be
included. The pencilled changes are his.
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3 January 1953
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FfRM NO. 10,101 JAN 11152 4 ,17~
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