INTRO REMARKS TO SPERLING GROUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000300090024-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: March 9, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

_. Approved 'FQr ReJe.ase.2007/03/01 _. CIA-RDP9
If1TR0 R~~'~'~RKS 70 SPERLING GR
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I am pleased to be here.
DCI this afternoon;
se~~~~'al publicity. --i~,~ach-but not ~l i o f the intelligence
business must be conducted in secret. Yet I hold a fundamental
belief tt:at all of us. in public service have an obligation to
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be as open with the media as possible., 7h~-i-s--~~ obTigatio~ts ~'~'
to the people of the US, t~,d.u~e bite better infor~red They are
h?e~ ~~
the stronger our country will be~~ A t?~ell inforr~ed American
public is the best insurance I know against excessive s;?ring.
of t;u; pot i cy oendul u~.ti of Government.
A nusr~ber of you here are old friends from my days
..tom-G--.
as a mi T i tary educator from 1972-1974. It s,~as a t~, Nava l l~;ar
College that I ~i~iitiated the tilitary t~4dia Symposium because
of my conviction that.miTitary men had this obligation to the
riedia. Those conferences, or you night even say debates, were
educational. xorrre as well in understanding tEte irpvrtance of a
friendly, constructive but adversary relationship betvreen public
DCI not in ~ut~-ii-at-i-ons business
servants and media representatives.
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. .even before my being sworn-in