LETTER TO JOHN MCMAHON FROM DANIEL J. MURPHY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 24, 2008
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: January 30, 1984
• Content Type: LETTER

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January 30, 1984
The Honorable John McMahon
Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
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As you may be aware, we have been interested for some time in
securing a professional intelligence officer from the intelligence
Community to be detailed to our NNBIS Coordinating Staff here in the
Vice President's office. We are particularly interested in finding
someone with a broad background in the various intelligence collection
disciplines, some familiarity with the nature of international narcotics
trafficking, sufficient seniority and stature to command weight in
inter-agency councils, and an innovative problem solving approach to
the work at hand. After much thought, I am convinced that our needs
would best be met by the assignment of someone from the Central
Intelligence Agency for this purpose. His role in our NNBIS Coordinating
Staff would be to pursue specific intelligence-related questions and
issues that come to our attention from the NNBIS Regional Centers, to
effect liaison and coordination between the national Intelligence
Community and the law enforcement intelligence elements on narcotics
questions, and to advise me about problem areas that we are encountering
with narcotics intelligence and devise solutions for them.
We have been discussing the possibility of such an assignment
with your National Intelligence Officer for Narcotics, David Gries,
for some time. We also recently had a representative of your General
Counsel office, visit our staff in the hope that
direct observation would assuage any doubts that the NNBIS Coordinating
Staff's role is quite remote from operational law enforcement. Since
we feel that better intelligence carries the single greatest pay-off
in improving our narcotics interdiction efforts, we are eager to have
a staff member detailed here to devote full time to this important
area. I hope that you will be able to give this request prompt considera-
tion so that we may be able to have a qualified member of the Intelligence
Community on duty here in the coming weeks.
Daniel J. Murphy
Admiral, USN (Ret.)
Chief of Staff
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