MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD FROM L. K. WHITE

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• Publication Date: December 15, 1969
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15 December 1969
Morning Meeting of 15 December 1969
The Director welcomed the DD/S&T's returni and
the latter briefly spoke of his conversations withi
DD/I briefed on
differences in their respective approaches to SALT.
DD/I reported that the NSC will meet on 17 December and con-
cern itself with U. S. policy toward southern Africa. He noted thata
briefing paper for the Director will be completed today or tomorrow.
Godfrey called attention to the coup in Panama,
Godfrey noted that a Memorandum on this matter is being prepared
for distribution.
The Soviets and the Fedayeen, " is good treatment of the topic, an
The Director advised Godfrey that
D/ONE reported that ONE has completed and distributed a
Memorandum on the Persian Gulf.
D/ONE called attention to the death of Dr. Max F. Millikan,
Director of the Center for International Studies at M. I. T.
Carver briefed on COSVN Resolution No. 9
Carver briefly noted Ambassador Bunker's position with respect
to the CIB item on the possibilities of a coup.
Soviet/U. S.
I Ireported that he was in touch with Senator Ribicoff on 12
Dece and went on to note the Senator's wish to visit us here at
some time in the future.
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~eported that he and the DD/S&T worked some over the
weekend in order to provide Senator Stennis with a paper on Soviet
SS-9's. also noted that in response to Senator Jackson's request
they also briefed Dorothy Fosdick in preparation for Defense budget
hearings today.
Houston called attention to the item in today's New York Times,
"Itkin's Story: A Contradictory Web. "
DDCI called attention to the item by Tad Szulc in the 14 December
New York Times, "Overseas Cuts Spare Intelligence Men, " (attached).
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Overseas Cuts Spare Intelligence Men
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Temps sonnel and the elimination of 1 there were "intelligence activi-
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S M the New York
WAASHHINGTOONN, Dec. 13- 5,100 overseas civilian jobs ties which can probably stand
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United Stairs intelligence' held by Americans, 10 per furealrther detriment reductions without a
Services-notably the Defense c,Pnt of whom are Foreign .Vie report . discussed the
i Department's agencies-have' Service officers. feasibility of alternative sys-
wen exemptions for thou-! This is to be effective on tcni of collecting intelligence
June 30, 1970 with a savings following the closure or con-
, sands of their personnel ? Kolidation of some activities,
of $50-million a year.
f
rom an order by President+
including the establishement of
,
Nixon to reduce by 10 per The White House said that. mobilo operations in the United,
cent the number of American; the order excluded troops in States and "closely allied coun-.i
officials serving abroad. Southeast Asia, South Korea tries."
xem and Berlin and those in Eu-: A joint C.I.A.-State Depart-
these exemptions'
Most-of ptions rope under the North Atlan- went subcommittee was'
cover the Pentagon's intelli-, charged with the "reconsiders-,
.gence and psychological-war-' tic Treaty Organization. lion of the role of intelligence
fare operations in East Asia, Subject to the cut in the collection organizations over-
in which a total of 28,000; military field, therefore, were seas" operating under Wash:
Americans are engaged. the 144,889 Defense Depart-; ington's direct guidance or un~
ment personnel, of whom 39,- der foreign control points.
The military intelligence It was in this context that
exemptions, along with small-1 281 were civilians. Mr. Richardson proposed the
er ones for other Government, The total military strength; independent study of intelli-
agencies represented over- of the United States abroad,, gence operations under "the
-is about 1.7 million. I aegis of the national policy
seas, were granted by the in addition, the Defense De- ~ ,level"-meaning the National
White House despite State partment employs 324,682 Security Council.
Department recommendations foreign citizens abroad. The'. U. S. A. Is Involved
that a study further cuts.; Richardson group is to make 1.. The Richardson report fur-i
in intelligence ce operations
thee found fault with the
recommendations by Dec. 31.
abroad be undertaken by ! __ :.. _ i _ .._, .. ; Pentagon's insistence on main-
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telligence community under ! . chological warfare operations training and "liaison" with
.the aegis of the national pol- ! eigners abroad by all the 'in Asla. These are coordinated Latin America.
nal
elcy level." Government agencies - is .351; with the C.I.A. and receive, in addition to Panama Ca
694 "general policy guidance" from'. defenses, the command is m
Among the major agencies, Strictly speaking, the Defense. the United States Information ! sponsible~ for planning and con-
only the State Department Agency. The information agen-jItrolling military contingency
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cy's legal mandate,! inciden-
,has fully accepted Its share
of the cuts-517 of 5,166 po- cent cut in both its military tally, does not provide for
t'sitions abroad. and civilian personnel abroad, involvement in psychological
Under Secretary of State But the distribution of the cuts, warfare in war theaters.
Deft to the department's discre- These operations are chiefly
Elliot I. Richardson-acting as tion maintained abroad intelli- aimed at Communist China,
l ' North Vietnam and North
chairman of the National Se- d h
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a War-
'the Voice of the United Na=.
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Lions Command, radio station
in South Korea run by the
United States military.
Its liquidation has been rec=
ommentled by the American,
Mr. Richardson noted that'
1,950 American employes. main-
ly military, operate a highly'
secret Intelligence operation in
Ethiopia and that the Pentagon
has exempted the entire staff,
although "it is in our interest
to reduce our profile as much
as we can."
He said that there had been
only 4 per cent reduction in
two military intelli ence sta-'
tions in Morocco, were 1,700
Americans, chiefly military, are
employed.
The Richardson committee
also asked the Defense Depart-
ment to re-examine the need
for a separate unified command
in the Panama Canal Zone,
which has 12,000 Americans.
The report remarked that in
1967, the Panamanian Govern-
ment . only "with the greatest
rph"rtAnce" Agreed to let the
United States continue using)
in Central Ame
operations
and South America.
.The special' report due on
Dec. 31 is to suggest alterna- .
Lives, such as moving' the'.
command too the conunenug
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curity Council's permanent fare personnel in numbers that Korea and include radio broad-unatc
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with carrying out the Presi- . On the other hand, the Cen- phlets Richardson treport sae."
dent's "Operation Reduction" tral Intelligence Agency .was ,In Southeast Asia and Korea,
-noted in a re port to Mr?reported to have reduced its civilian agencies are reducing
Po American personnel abroad by the level of operations, but the
:'Nixon that under the Defense between 10 and 12 per cent. It the level of Defense does
Department exemptions "the is believed that the agency em- Department level es.
I military psychological .war. ploys 30,000 foreigners abroad, not plan nt psychological reduce warf the are l l opera-
fare units" would assume "a? directly or indirectly. lions
The Richardson report said "Snce the olic trend is in
disproportionate role In com-;that 20,000 Americans, mainly the idirectionpof reducing' the
parison to civilians."
Defense Department personnel, level of psychological warfare
The Richardson - report, are engaged in intelligence ac- operations in the area, it does
which has not been made tivities in East Asia. not appear fully consistent with
public, _ was obtained from'. Under its interpretation of a that trend for the Department.
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- of Defense to exclude its units
-high Administration quarters.'July21 direct
President Nixon ordered, son from Henry A. Kissinger, from any reduction on the tech-,
tho President's Special Assist- nicality of the White House
"Operation Reduction," known ant for National Security, the directive."
in Federal jargon as OPRED, Pentagon was able to exempt, "As a consequence of ex-
i on July 9. 12,000 of the 28,000 intelli emotions. tiie military. psycho,
Mr. Richardson's report gence personnel in East Asia; .logical y~ there units will AS,
from the cuts. This meant that! i
disproportionate rule in
was sent to the White House, only 1,600 instead of 2,800 sume a
,on Oct. 3. I were sent home. Statistically,'':compariscn, to civilians," it
On Nov. 26, the ' White, the reduction in the intelli-:!said.
,House announced that the, genco staffs in East Asia were', Mr. Richardson then cited a
r:ldetn had ordered horns. only 6.4 per cent instead of 10 :number of examples of military,
I.and
per cent
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Of Center
At MIS'; 56
BOSTON, Dec. 14 (AP)-;
Max F ' Millikan, director of!
the Massachusetts Institute ofi
Technology's Center for Inter-
national Studies since 'its
founding in 1952, died today at
,Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
He was 56.
An authority on the eco-
nomic development of under-
developed countries, Dr..Milli-'
,'kan had been president of the '
.World Peace Foundation since
1956.
He was the son of the late
Robert Millikan, a Nobel Prize{
winner in physics.
Dr. Millikan joined the MIT
faculty 20 years ago.
During World War II, he
served in the Office of Price
Administration and the War
Shipping Administration. In
1946, he was named chief of
the economic intelligence'
branch of the division of re-.,
fsearch of the State Depart:
ment. The following year, Millikan'
was appointed assistant execu
tive secretary to the. Press.'
'dent's Committee of Foreignv.
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Contra' actor Ifeb
? By MARTIN ARNOLD interviews here and in Wash- and squandered ran into hun and reticent. Emanuel recob
f ington, Europe and the Carib- !dreds of thousands of dollars. yationaz7t waunderstood the mots-
Herbert Itkin, Government
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Informer, so far has brought bean, with Mr. Itkin, his Mr. Itkin s operations also
friends, enemies, relatives, caused a serious rupture in the holaofe t he on but , ,authoreit a of their]
down two very big men, relationship between the offices Y
;James L. Marcus,, former city;, business associates and Fed- 'of United States Attorney Mor- country that Bret revered.
commissioner and one-time eras and local officials, genthau and Manhattan Dis- ,'When a man is a true
e
In addition to his informs- trier Attorney Frank S. Hogan. Patriot, when he has made the
confidant of Mayor Lindsay
,'i tion on Marcus and De Sapio, "They [Mr. Hogan's office] decision to offer his life for his
Viand Carmine G. De Sapio, , testimony supplied by Mr. would love to get me on a country, he then only has those
ponce one of the most power conviction to destroy; in authority to relate to as his
ful political leaders in the:, Itkin has led to the arrest perjury, basis of honor and integrity.
nation. and conviction of Antonio in me an and all my interview. He work," has he four said To Bret, then, David Emanuel
So when he thinks back (Tony Ducks) Corailo, a other cases pending against him represented the symbol of the
r Mafia chief; Henry. Fried,. a . by the Manhattan District At absolute National Authority."
rover the bizarre and some. millionaire contractor, and torney. How did Herbert Itkin miss
,;times fancy-woven fabric If
a
staff asked: the ~rFt agent of his d
b kery union president. "How could
4action of
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? Daniel J. Motto, a' Queens' A member of Mr. ? Hogan's~ becoming Bret, the professional
his life
it i
reams? Or
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The answer entirely?
at' t." ' ' He has been the principal former to f s take 'that allow ki-an nd inof I - did
begins i above all as "a patriot." in the
Slight, hollow-eyed and witness in a pension fund money, which was admittedlyt Borough Park section?of Brook=
;sallow, living in fear of his, kickback case involving the made. from. criminal deals, ands lyn, where he and a sister spent
life in protective custody at International Brotherhood of keep it? What do they think their childhood and early adult
Teamsters, in which two'men informers are? Some sort of Years in a, neat, two-family
ran undisclosed military in- were sentenced to prison and bounty hunters?" house at 1748 48th Street. In
kin has "stallation base here, Mr. It- a third given a suspended sen-i Mr. Hogan's office believes! those days the area was middle-
e emerged from the ranee that that. the Federal prosecutors class, although the Itkins were
double-dealing world of the . ,informer not. Mr. Itkin's father, Arthur,
Information could produce an went to court with Mr. Itkin?s
insisting that he p testimony before they had. their made a modest living from
worked for the Central In- additional .30 cases involving cases really proved. various shopkeeping ventures.
telligence Agency. This is ?labor racketeering, gambling, Mr. Morgenthau's office, on Arthur It! tr. "seemed rather
true. He has sworn that he bribery, income tax evasion the other hand, says that the .weak, a boyhood friend of,
was an informer for the Fed- and a wide range of other' District Attorney did not move Herbert's remembered, but his
eras Bureau of I for the Fen,felonies, authorities say. ;.fast enough, and that is why mother, Edith, was the opposite.
' gerating and bragging has em- Mr. Hogan's office is trying to She was overreaching by living
'a_nd this, too, is true. barrassed the iscredit Mr. Itkin. Moreover, in the neighborhood, but (like
In ~tbe shadows and thick- C.I.A. ? ..Federal attorneys add, Mr. Ho-
ets in which the government His theatrical attempts to gan routinely grants immunity the mother of James Marcus,
0 r,.police and intelligence agen- 'force the agency to help- to his own informers. the man her.son was to befriend
cies work, Herbert Itkin, the straighten out his domestic' Federal athorities, perhaps and betray) she was strong-
. problems almost blew the cover because Mr. Itkin is their man, willed, talkative, inventive and
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If ear-old lawyer, Qf one of the C.hA:'s most im- paint a heroic picture. They ambitious.
j;?, Y was known., praise him for his "guts," for "The Itkins were Jewish like
by the C.I.A. code name, portent operatives in New "risking his neck almost every
t.. "Portio" and by the ' F.B.I. York City, the lawyer who was day" and. for his' "reckless most of the other people
s Mr: Itkin's C.I.A. "control." atriotism," which, th e " Insist, around ' them," the boyhood '
yy;;a Jerry." p yy
For the C.I.A. he was a ; He also had a tendency to has earned Mr. Itkin the right friend said. "But they weren't
voluntar supplier of embark on wild and illegal to across-the-board immunity. religious. At Christmastime the
Y plait;- ; In Mr. Ho 's office, he is e
cat information, particularly schemes that were beyond referred to asan"the germ." bhad a lock.'te, the only one on the
about Haiti, the Dominican: his activities as an informer..
Republic and Indonesia: Evidence of such activity in "q have lived years of deceit Herbert is remembered as a
and lies and danger for my reasonably good student at
His value to the F.B.I.'was which Mr. Itkin kept for him- country," said Mr. Itkin in the New Utretch High School,
summed up. by an agent who self large sums of money from interview. Striving in his sin- where he was on the swimming
said: "He is probably the bribes, kickbacks and swindles, gmar way for status, he bragged team.
during p of his undercover work despite
most important informer ever came
the De Sa io trial, the obvious risks. Enlisted in Army
" to come to the surface. He which ended on Saturday when "Herbie .
+f i told just about every-. In 1944, he' enlisted enlisted In a
knew the younger up-and-''De Saplo was found guilty of body about the C.I.A. and F.B.I.ispecial United States Army
!'coming characters in the: 'conspiracy 'to' bribe Marcus He told some fellows he com-;training program for high
~.' Cosa Nostra." and extort contracts from muted on, the train with," his school students and after V-J
A member on the staff of Consolidated Edison, first wife said. "day was sent to northern Japan
United States AttOrneY Rob.' William 'A. Vericker, an And when he ran out of peo_ with a field hospital unit. Later,
e gent who worked with pie to brag to, when his life as he said that he, was a
Para- M. the prosecution who Mr. Itkin, I..a an informer did not conform to trooper attached to Army In.
helped in the prosecution of ' Mr. policy was asked i bureau ?was his fantasy, Marcus case said that'perftpeeople such altkinto Ing fiction. Some turned
stories were; Returning home in 1946,
"Itkin is the most valuable f retain the proceeds of crime." pornographic and others were young Itkin invested his Army
informer the F.B.I. has ever Mr. Vericker answered: "No, spy tales in which Herbert savings --- about $2,000 -- in al
Itkin was;the hero. small luncheonette In Brook-'
had outside the espton . office. In Itkthe in's case he of our I
often, . A ,Spy Thriller ! lyn's. Bush Terminal. Herbertfield.H never lied to us- , and his parents planned to
His information was always -"most of the time-told mar In One such story, written in work together and make a sue-
r' accurate."' ;about these deals after they July 1968 -and entitled "The Isle-icess of the place.
had been completed and he gals: (Missile Espionage-Ma-` One Saturday evening, Mr
Behind his role as a Wit- ;said he disbursed the pro-' fie)," Bret is the hero who, Mr.
ness in court is a labyrinthine ' ceeds." i Itkin said, is himself. The Itkin recalls, his father did not
and sometimes farcical story . Federal officials, , while do- character, David Emanuel, a come home from the late shift
at the luncheonette, He has told
orno Bret's
r ae s: C.I.A. chief.lat least two versions to friends
It has been pieced together them Tied elaborat ;non ho It One
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ng the last year from kin's spending habits. can- "[Bret] was such an eager; and associates of what hag-;
court record
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s . an scores. of ceded
that ... e. sums ~ paned next
? ? he: kept lute ling young man, yet be.., According to one account he,
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