MEMO FOR DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE FROM JOHN S. WARNER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00610R000200080024-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 2006
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: April 25, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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OGC 63-1190
25 April 1963
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
1. 1 understand you would lute nay views on tiro points raised
in John Bross' memorandum to you of 24 April 1963.
2. On the first point of what will be the membership of our
Subcommittee. I have checked almost weedy and checked again today
and there is still no word as to whether anyone will be added to fill
Mr. ' Taber's vacancy, or whether the Chairman will be changed.
3. In view of the position of Stature which Mir. Cannon occupies
and his relationship with the Agency over the years which he regards as
intimate and which he has jealously guarded, I believe there would be
serious disadvantages if the DC1 were not to appear before him and the
Subcommittee in connection with our budget presentation. Without
recounting. the entire history of Cam-ion's relationship to the Agency,
it is sufficient to say that he has always been most helpful and sympathetic
with our special problems and alone of all members of Congress took the
.floor after the U-2 incident of I May 1960 defending the U-2 project and
pointing out that his Committee had appropriated the money and, therefore,
the entire Congress shared responsibility for the program.
4. Compromise possibly could be coax idered ouclh as having the
Director appear and open the presentation or the Director could call on
Mr. Cannon personally prior to the presentation and raise the question
of the DC! not being involved in the budget presentation..
5. Mr. Cannon has been heard to say in effect "if an agency
head is not sufficiently interested in his appropriation to appear
personally to defend it, maybe he does not need an appropriation."
Having regard for the above factors, I believe it would be a serious
mistake for the Agency to respond to Mr. Cannon' a request for a
budget presentation without the DCI personally involved uzleso
adequate preparatory steps were taken in advance.
cc: Ex Dir JOHN S. W 'ARNER
Comptroller Legislative Counsel
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