LETTER TO ADMIRAL BYRD FROM ALLEN DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R000400300008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 17, 1954
• Content Type: LETTER

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RICHARD EVELYN BYRD
July 1, 1954.
Mr. Allen W. Dulles,
Central Intelligence Agency,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Dulles: -
Your representative called on me in connection
with the question you wanted him to ask me; and
I was very happy to do all within my power to help
him with facts, opinions, etc .
I want you to know that I always stand ready to give
you as much time as you need in connection with
any matter with which I can be of service to you in
your infinitely important task.
I can particularly be of some help with Congress
when some of our misguided politicians start talking
about investigating your organization, which is above
investigation.
Don't take your most valuable time to answer this
letter. Besides, I will be in Washington soon.
With warm personal regards, and good luck with
your great task,
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MEM0RANDU14 FOR: Executive Assistant to the Director
SUBJECT: Admiral Byrd's Opinion on Possibility
of Soviet Nuclear Explosion in Arctic
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1. By a routing slip dated 15 June 1954, you trans-
mitted a letter from the with the request that it
be delivered to Rear Admiral Richard E.
Byrd, USN (Rez). At a same t e you asked us to obtain
Admiral Byrd's opinion as to whether it might be possible
for the Soviets to explode a nuclear bomb in the Arctic
region without detection.
We are attaching a memorandum
describing delivery of the letter and giving Admiral
s opinion on polar regions as possible sites for Soviet
nuclear explosions.
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Enclosure: Iemorandum
dated 25 June 54
re Case 16080, 00/C
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