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26 June 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR:
Chairman, Pine its Commission
Jim:
I won't be here Tuesday for the Museum meeting, but
attached is a memo I propose you send to Bill Colby. I've
sent drafts of it tol Both concurred, subj
already made.
As a cover for the attached memoranda I suggest, in
addition, an informal note to Colby from you, saying something
like the following:
Dear Bill:
We had hoped to be able to come up with a specific
suggestion of someone who should head up the museum/
historical new ration effort which is discussed in
the aG ached somewhat more formal paper. The best
suggestion we've come up with for an historical
material czar is Hugh Cunningham, who seems to be
exactly the kind of senior officer who :.Mould pro-
vide the personal reassurance this program will
need that carefully guarded devices(particularly
those of the DDS&T and the DDP) won't rashly be
de-classified just so they can.be exhibited. Jack
talked to Hugh in these terms, and learned
wtac ough Hugh would be interested he'll be
retiring soon and he's already overly involved in
other possible assignments dealing with history,
archives, and the larger issues of declassification.
I note a kinship between these topics, which in
turn interrelate to the problem at hand, the problem
of conserving important historical material and
declassifying and exhibiting it when these latter
actions are appropriate. I therefore hope that this
informal suggestion that Hugh be worked into the
historical material program as the man in charge can
be accommodated into any plans that are being made
for him.
STATI NTL
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If you generally agree with the approach we
have taken in the attached paper we will be glad to
make further recommendations about personnel, if
you want, although I feel that at this point recom-
mendations from the deputy directors, for which the
paper provides, would be more appropriate.
We are proceeding with the Cuban missile crisis exhibit,
timed for the 10th anniversary of the crisis, but will turn
it over to an historical material commission of one is formed.
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