LETTER TO MR. ROBERT L. BOROSAGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000200010038-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: August 15, 1974
• Content Type: LETTER

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i4r. Robert L. Borosage
1930 Bi ltmore Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. BoTosage.
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Thank you for your invitation to appear at your
conference on the Central Intelligence Agency and Covert
Actions. As you no doubt are aware from the press, we in
CIA have attempted to be responsive to Congressional and
public interest in our activities to the extent this is
possible while fulfilling my statutory responsibilities to
protect intelligence sources and methods. In this we are
seeking to conform with our open Constitutional society
and at the same time carry out the intelligence functions
essential to protect it.
Thus I have accepted invitations to speak before a
variety of groups seriously interested in understanding CIA
and its functioning. In principle, therefore, I would accept
your invitation and welcome the opportunity to present my
views on this subject. As you note in your letter, however,
I' am somewhat impressed with the fact that "most" of the
papers and subjects on your program are indeed critical of
the Agency and its activities. I am. surprised that there
is no apparent attempt to examine the need for the contribution
that objective and independent intelligence can make to policy--
making. I also note that there is no discussion of the
potential difficulties posed to our country and our open
society by the closed societies with whom we share this world
and whose intentions and capabilities vis-a-vis the United
States can best be negotiated about or. countered if they are
known to our national leadership. I think, for example, of
the contribution intelligence has made to, peace in a variety
of situations, from the Cuban missile crisis to the SALT
agreements, matters in which I would think your Fund would
be interested and would applaud.
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