LETTER TO(Sanitized) FROM MARSHALL S. CARTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000300130026-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2003
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: May 9, 1964
• Content Type: LETTER

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9 May 1464
Thanks for your letter of 5 May. I am sorry that they are
retiring you physically but I dare may that thirty years from now
you will figure they probably have done the right thing! I
I would be very happy to receive a copy of the brochure
you are preparing on yourself and will certainly have our senior
officers look It over. I do not, however, want to give you any
idea at this stage of the game that we would have anything in
which you might be Interested. In the first place, all personnel
acquisitions have been frozen because of the Administration's
economy measures but the most lortant factor is that we are
taking in personnel laterally and at senior grades only. and I
repeat only, when they are a rare breed of cat who have qualifica-
tions that we cannot acquire from our own resources and which it
would be inexpedient to train from in-pease assets. We are eon-
centrating almost entirely an continuing to build up the career
services in our venous activities and this means bringing in
young college graduates at the lower grades and putting them
through out own two or three-year training course and probation-
ary period prior to accepting them in the career service. This is
the only way I know of to =aintain the present staters of profession-
aiism, enthusiasm, and dedication that the Agency is noted for.
I know you will understand this but I did not want to be writing you
under any illusions. There are, however, occasions in which we
have been fortunate to utilise the services of retired officers on a
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contract basis for par l1*r saw` These are normally tem-
porary but interesting. I W*NIA certainly like to have your
brochure screened to > sad also. You may rest easy in this
regard ..? it dead not in olve Dr ug any cuss, planting
any microphones, or running around bare naked like vats Hart.
Preot joins me in warm regards to Nan and you, and pleats
let me hear from y at your convenience.
Faithfully ours.
/s/(91
Marshall a. Car$.r
Lieutenant General. USA
MSC:blp
Distribution:
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1 - Director of Personnel w/cy basic
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