LETTER TO JOSEPH M. MCCARTHY FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00269R000100130020-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: July 7, 1954
• Content Type: LETTER

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ER 5-7583
7 July 1954
The Honorable Joseph R. McCarthy
Chariman, Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigations
Senate Committee on Government Operations
Washington 25, D. C.
Dear Senator McCarthy:
During the closing days of the recently concluded hearings
before the Permanent Subcommittee you made several references
to alleged Communist infiltration of the Central Intelligence Agency.
In reply to a similar charge made earlier in the Committee hear-
ings I denied such infiltration.
In the event that you should have any evidence in support of
these allegations, it would be of the utmost importance that I
should have an immediate opportunity to investigate them. Accord-
ingly I would appreciate it if you would let me have at the earliest
possible moment any unfavorable information you may have bearing
upon the loyalty or integrity of any employee of this Agency. Any
such information will be immediately investigated and appropriate
x td on taken.
T harm noted that you have indicated that you are making avail-
able to General Clark your material on this subject. Consequently
I am sending him a copy of this letter and asking that he kindly
advise me if the information which he may receive from you is of
a nature to require any investigation on my part.
I feel that any unfavorable information regarding any CIA
employee would require immediate action and should not neces-
sarily await the report of the Task Force.
AND : meo
Distribution:
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Faithfully yours,
(Signed)
Allen W. Dulles
Director
Handcarried '7/8 by
Mr. Houston
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GEN MARK CLARK
CARE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WE THE DELEGATES OF THE 21ST DEPARTMENT CONVENTION OF
THE MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART ASSEMBLED IN LOS
ANGEESCALIFORNIA THIS 15TH DAY OF AUG 1954 DO SUPPORT
AND COMMEND YOUR EFFORTS IN OUTLAWING THE COMMUNIST PARTY
AND URGE YOU TO EXPRESS THIS ACTION TO THE PRESIDENT OF
THE U S
C R THEYSON CALIFORNIA DEPT COMMANDER MILITARY.
ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART
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COMMISSION ON ORGANIZATION
OF THE
EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT
GENERAL ACCOUNTING
OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
August 13, 1954
arable Allen W. Dulles
Director, Central Intelligence Agent'
Washington 25, D. C.
The Commission on Organisation of the t ecutive Hr
the Government recently established a new Task Forea on emnw
management in the executive Department. This task force
study and advise the Cormission on the records creation
problem, taking up again where the Records Management Task Force
of the first Hoover C*mr:ission of 1917-49 left off, the tremendous
problem of how to reduce the estimated 9',8OO,ooo,ooo pieces of
paper created annually by the Federal Government.
The Commission is attempting to obtain, whenever possible,
the services of highly-qualified experts in the records creation
field to assist the task force its studies of problem areas.
with the Department of the Air Farce, and who in generally recog-
nised throughout Government as an outstanding forms management
authority, could be of invaluable assistance to the Commiesion
In the task force's study of forms management In the gxecutive
Department. This study, which should be ecmpleted no later than
January 1, 1955, would probably not require more than eight hours
per week of time, except possibly during development
of the fin report. Dieseussion of the programs or affairs of
your agency, whether cla9sesified or unclassified,, would not be
required.
therefor?# be deeply appreciated if
,
be made available to the Cammisaion on a consultant basis
he duration of the study.
Sincerely yours.,
W. Hallam Tuck
Deputy Sxe ti-ye Director
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ER 5-7965
July 13, 1951,.
T1EMORANDUM FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR/INTELLIGENCE
SUBJECT: Clark Investigation
1. Some planks for the DDI platform re the Clark investigation:
ONE would be well pleased if General Clark were to find:
a. That National Intelligence estimates were too seldom
c. That the "R" Area of the Department of State - especially
the Office of Intelligence itesearch - is of vital im-
portance in the national intelligence community and should
be strengthened.
d.. That economy measures taken with respect to the overseas
missions of the Department of State had resulted in a
serious loss of quantity and quality of overt reporting
on political, social, and economic matters.
e. That the NSC mechanism should throw fewer crash jobs at
the intelligence community.
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f. That IAC agencies should be more willing to take clear
cut dissents on disputed points in any given NIE, and
should spend less effort designing formulations of phoney
agreement which are, in reality, disguised dissents.
g. That IAC agencies undertake to publish presentations of
the methods they use to arrive at certain fact estimates
(e.g., Soviet a/c production) and the probable margins of
error inherent in such methods and the primary materials
used in them.
(signed)
Handwritten;
These are my own. Sorry not to have got the benefit of the
thoughts of my colleagues. They were asked orally to contribute
& probably forgot.
4TH a,
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