MEMORANDUM FOR: MR. JAMES C. HAGERTY FROM A.W.D.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00269R000300010029-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: October 15, 1954
• Content Type: MF

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!OI ANDUM FOR: Mr. James C. Hagerty
secretary to the President (Press)
ehe White House
Attached is the proposed release I spoke
to you about. Naturally I have not cleared it with
the President. However, I am trying to get in
touch with General Doolittle and as soon as I speak
to him I will call you.
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USAF (stet.)
Lieutenant General James Doolittle;/&s; head of a
small study group, was asked by the President to look at
certain phases of the work of the Central Intelligence Agency
and he has now completed this study. The President feels
that such periodic reviews are conducive to good government
and serve to give him an independent appraisal of the sensitive
aspects of the Agency. The Doolittle study does not duplicate
work of the task force of the Hoover Coanmission
ch is particularly studying the
overall organizational problems of the U. S. intelligence
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Lieutenant General James DoolittleN as head of a
small study group, was asked by the President to look at
certain phases of the work of the Central Intelligence Agency
and he has now completed this study. The President feels
that such periodic reviews are conducive to good government
and serve to give him an independent appraisal of the sensitive
aspects of the Agency. The Doolittle study does not duplicate
the work of the task force of the Hoover Commission under
General Mark W. Clark which is particularly studying the
overall organizational problems of the U. S. intelligence
services.
15 October 1954
STAT
Approved by the President 16 October 1954
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