SECURITY ADVICE TO GENERAL STEWART

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01580R002004190019-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2013
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: February 18, 1965
• Content Type: MEMO

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ebr ry 1965
- MEItilORANDU OR: Acting Itractor of CentralIntelligence
SUBS CT:
curtty Advice GeneraL Stewart
? 1. Thie MemOrarldb,M contains a recommendation subm tact
for. DCI approval. Such recommendation is contained in paragraph 6.
2. As you recall, General Stewart, Director of the NRO
Staff, wrote to the Director of Security, CIA, on 30 December 1964,
asking advice in connection with proposed briefings of certain
Congressmen on aspects of the NRP. Some of the language of
General Stewart's letter suggested basic questions as to possibly
varying views on the respective responsibilities and authoritieia
of the Director of NRO and of the DCI. This was the situation that
led to the dispatch of the Da's letter to Mr. Vance of 5 February
1965. This letter was intended to provide some leverage in forcing
a discussion of the substantive issues involved in the NRC) budget
and to obtain DOD agreement to * joint Congressional presentation.
3. General Stewart now feels that his most urgent need is
for an up-to-date list of Congressmen who have been briefed by
CIA on various aspects of the
a
reseed for this through
his Security Staff (specifically
a CIA employee on
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detail to the NR0).
4. As you IttlOw, we have reason to believe that Stewart's
motivation in originally dispatching his letter of the 30th of December
was really fairly straightforward. Although McMillan or others 50X1
may want to parlay this into positions on the more basic substantive
issues that the 5 February letter dealt with, Stewart's interest
appears to be much more restricted and there seeing to be no
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reason why we Should not comply with his current request for
a list. From Ms point of view, CIA is derelict in not having as
yet responded to his requests.
5. In view of the fact that Vence has told you of the heat
that the 5 February letter generated in some parte of the Pentagon,
and since we have not yet received Vsnce's promised response to
that letter, it would probably complicate things further if we engaged
in additional formal correspondence on this general subject at this
point. It would seem better to handle Stewart's outstanding request
Orally, by discussing with him the attached list of Congressmen
who have received information relating to these special categories
of intelligence. In this way he could be made fully aware of the
varying degrees of exposure which each has had.
6. It is recommended that representatives of Security and
the Legislative Counsel confer informally with General Stewart
along the lines discussed in paragraph 5. These representatives
would make it clear that giving Stewart this information in no way
modifies the thoughts expressed by Mr. McCone in the 5 February
letter.
Attachment
cc: ExecDir-Corapt (w/o aft)
GenCounsel
DDS&T (w/o att)
Dir. Security
The recommendation in
paragraph 61. approved.
LiSicned), Earc1.2.11 S. Carter.
Acting DCI
.19 rut., f96.
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(Sigr4d) nonas A. Parrott
Thomas A. Parrott
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NIPE/ TAParrott:tnrn/18 Feb 65
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5: Dir. Security
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