LETTER TO FLEET ADMIRAL WILLIAM D. LEAHY FROM CLARK M. CLIFFORD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R000900070046-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: July 18, 1946
• Content Type: LETTER

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THE W H I T E H O U S E
duly 18, 19t#6
My dear AdYn3ral Leahy:
The President has directed me to assemble for him certain facts
and information regarding the Soviet Union. He has directed me to
obtain from: the Central Intelligence Group estimates of the present
and future foreign and military policies of the Soviet Union. I am
therefore writing to request that the National Intelligence Authority
instruct the Director of Central Intelligence to prepare such estimates
for submission to the President at the earliest practicable date.
It is also desired that the Central Intelligence Group prepare
a statement of conclusions drawn from the monitoring of Soviet broad-
casts, with special attention devoted to the descriptions of Soviet
and American foreign policies.
Inasmuch as the President hopes that this information will be
in his hands before the convening of the Peace Conference in Paris
on 29 July 19.6, it is desired that the reports I have requested be
delivered to me prior to that date,
Very truly yours,
/s/ Clark ~I, Clif i ord
CLAt?i; I~~~. CI~~P4RD
Special Counsel t o the President
Fleet Admiral Gilliam D. Leahy, USN
The National Intelligence Authority
'I~ashington, D.C.
19 Ju7~ 1946
Ta; Director of Central Intelligence
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