LETTER TO THE HONORABLE ROBERT CUTLER FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R000900100008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 11, 1953
• Content Type: LETTER

Approved For Release 2007/07/13: CIA-RDP80RO1731 R000900100008-8
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The Honorable Robert Cutler/
Special Assistant to th s s Ldeat
The White House
Washington, D. C.
APP 11 1955
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reference ie ?fie to jour if)4airy of 2i ~ arch 1) , the
attached copy of the reprint an ".0ro je3ot :irrus. Cam". his en inter-
ested in weather f1Ldificatton developponts since August. 1 5J, and it
is agreed that artificial rain-taking might well has re Etrat gie uses.
At the present take the oiu.lk of the c erx - nt-sponec - -i r nee cha
is aord.tored by the Depart aerit of Defense w?r the idasiee of
Admiral Calvin i. bolster, Chief of the uffi.ee of ia=' l e ar -~,
Department of the lavy. Since ~,d-iral. Bolster- sls : a of the
CIk Research Boards he is ?, -;ell acquainted with o )r t i :-.r ants, a.1 the
program as developed by his co:;t;ittee ixcl.es projects repo wive to
our needs.
Although it is true that rata-ii:aicir on a. large scale is now an
a e fished fact, many as7ects of the knowlec ~ e of v*xe cause and effect
involved and the ability to make ?iuanti.tati.vt h.?eca-3L of the results
of such operations have ,-4-t reached a point vY::s.ere th-e-je operations
could be undertaken on a strategic scale. .}n the of er ha d, I an
informed that the present research progra a is x sceed -Ag si isi