LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT FROM W. F. RABORN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000400150011-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2002
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: July 19, 1965
• Content Type: LETTER

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The White House
Washington.. D. C.
r, President:
19 July 1965
Your recent selection of
this Agency to serve on
great honor to this Agency and to me personally.
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Since as*uming my present position, I have been greatly
impressed by the dedication and competence of personnel in the
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Intelligence profession -- and the selection of I ty fI'1ies STAI
in one respect the request for services and personnel which have been
levied on this Agency. I remain mindful of your instruction to me to
i no stone unturned in building the finest intelligence service in the
Id? Let me assure you that my every action 'vill be directed toward
that goal..
To maintain the quality of our personnel, we have long had
an tauaginative recruiting program designed to bring into the Agency
the highest qualified and best motivated young men and women from our
best colleges and universities and other sources.
To improve the knowledge available to this Agency, we have
had continuing associations throughout the industrial and academic
communities, and we have recently decided to expand this kind of con-
tact. In this connection, we have recently approached the President of
the National Research Council and the President of the National Academy
of Sciences to enlist their cooperation in an exchange of information
which should enable us to meet better the unexpected challenges in the
present day world.
in response to your expressed desires, I have undertaken to
associate myself closely with Mr. Clark Clifford and the members of
your ?ore gn intelligence Advisory Board, From my point of view, this
has so far been a thoroughly helpful relationship. I find their guidance
and counsel of great benefit.
FRS LS --`T
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Vale,
Perhaps our most important project designed to improve
p United States foreign intelligence effort is a planning exercise which
seeks to define intelligence requirements ten years from now -- and to
make recommendations for the capabilities which we will need to meet
their objectives. As Director of Central Intelligence, I shall invite the
cipation of all elements of the United States intelligence community
by pin-pointing geographical areas and by refining the first five years
ltd annual plans and programs. We believe that we can thereby
e ipb sise the higher priority objectives and at the same time focus
those lower priority programs which can then be phased out.
We are building on a solid base. If we are not the best intelli-
gicee service in the world, certainly our standing is very high. It takes
so thing on the order of 15 years to build up a professional intelligence
service, and I am pleased to report that the heads of some 50 of the
Agency's major components have accrued 18 or more years of intelligence
expertence. Moreover, their academic credentials are impressive. For
example, 80% of these component heads have at least one advanced degree;
about 1j3 have two or more degrees; and 10% hold doctorates.
should be glad to send you information or talk to you in more
fessional competence in this Agency ?- including the
can operate in some 122 foreign languages and dialects. But
believe it more important at the moment that you have my assurance
that we are not resting on our laurels and intend to recruit the best people
and exploit the best sources of knowledge in the world today.
Respectfully.
W. F. Reborn
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Revised & retyped by: O/DCI/WElder:MMW
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