LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT FROM W. E. COLBY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01009A003100020049-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2006
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: August 9, 1974
• Content Type: LETTER

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The President
The White House
Washington, D. C.
Please let me extend my best wishes and assurances of
the support of the Intelligence Community and of the Central
Intelligence Agency on your assumption of the great responsi-
bilities of your office. I am delighted that we have had the
opportunity to brief you and to serve you as Vice President.
May I reiterate my earlier comments that the President is
our first and principal customer and that we will arrange to
serve you in the field of foreign intelligence in any way you
'tuink most convenient.
As is customary on such occasions, Mr. President, I
hereby offer my resignation to you, to be accepted at any
time at your pleasure. Although he is out of the country on a
mission, I have Lieutenant General Vernon Walters' permis-
sion to make the same offer on his behalf from the post of
'deputy Director of Central Intelligence. Knowing the demands
on your time, both of us will continue to serve unless we hear
to the contrary.
Respectfully,
WEC:blp
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