LETTER TO MR. MATHIAS F. CORREA FROM ROBERT BLUM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00269R000500050050-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: April 12, 1948
• Content Type: LETTER

SECRET
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OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
vkwol WASHINGTON
12 April 1948
Mr. Mathias F. Correa
Cahill, Gordon, Zachary
and Reindel
63 all Street
New York, New York
In the enclosed, memorandum I have set forth some of my
views on the present position of the survey with recommendations
for our working program. For the reasons given in my memorandum,
I believe it is -important to consider some of the problems I
have raised and establish a fairly clear, yet flexible, program.
Allen and Bill are coming down at the end of the week and I hope
you will have a chance to go over this paper before then and
possibly discuss it with them.
When do you expect to be here again? There has been eem &%.C
interesting development since your last visit. A large meeting
was held on April 2, 1948, at which reipresentatives from CIA,
AEC and the Military Liaison Committee were present. At that
meeting the present position of atomic energy intelligence was
reviewed and it was agreed that there should be appointed to the
Nuclear Energy Group a scientist acceptable to AEC who would have
full access to all raw reports and whose judgment would be accepted
by AEC* 25X1
an who as een spo en o very
highly by severer scien is s. his certainly looks like a step
in the right direction. I do not have the details of the dis-
cussion which led to this decision, but only the above report
which was given to me by Hillenkoetter. I will try to get a copy
of the minutes of the meeting.
I have arranged to see Dr. Henderson, Army, and Dr. Brewer,
Navy, about this subject and will tell you about my conversations
with them when you are next in aashington.
Sincerely yours,
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