LETTER TO MR. JOHN A. MCCONE FROM CLARK M. CLIFFORD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000400160022-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2003
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: July 17, 1964
• Content Type: LETTER

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Executive Registx~j
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PRESIDENT'S FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY ROART)
~~aly 17, 1954
Dear John:
I appreciate very much receiving your letters of
June 15 and July 9, 1964 concerning the Board's requests
for your submission of annual reports on the coordination
of the U. S. foreign intell.igf?nce effort, and on the
intelligence activities and covert operations of the
Central Intelligence Agency, It is particularly gratifying
to have your judgment that the information sought by the
Board in these reports will prove helpful to the President
and to the Board.
Your letters touched on some questions pertaining to
the annual reporting procedure which I am happy t;n clarify
r.
You also suggest that your annual report concerning
coordination of the U. S. foreign intelligence effort be
submitted on December 15 instead of October 1 for the reason
indicated, and the Board of course desires to adjust to your
needs as to the timing of your report. I wish to point out,
however, that the annual reporting procedure does not
contemplate, as suggeste,l in your Jul,,- 9 letter, the
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intervening step of your equating the State-Defense-CI'~
reports. Further, the Information specified by the Board
for inclusion in the annual reports was not intended is a
n11 atitute for survellis conducted by the Director ! Central
111tellicrence for purhenec, of lends r cr)ord .nat ic?~ and
uidance to the over-all i'orelrn it te1li_aence 'f.>t;.
T e outline and scope of the annual renor`c> renvested
by the Board aro-2 designed primarily to elicit, directly from
officiai._y and agencies concerned, the kind of information
required by the Board to carry out its assigned 2esronsibil.ity
for making L.dependerit assessments and recorunencaticns to the
President concerning the objectives and conductk; of S.
foreign intelligence and related activities. c,periertce has
demonstrated the advisability of utilizing the annual reports
as direct channels of information to the Board from the
responsible agencies, In order that the Board may be in a
position to arrive at objective appraisals of subject matters
reviewed on behalf of the President.
Ar,cordingly, if you find it possible to forward your
annual report on coordination of the intelligence effort
on October 1_. this will provide the Board a useful opportunity
to review it in conjunction with the rennorts submitted by
State, Defense and CIA at that time.
The Board appreciates the high degree of sensitivity
attaching to the several reports which will be forthcoming
from you and from the Secretaries of State and Defense.
In keeping with the President's Executive Order these
reports, like all other classified data received by the Board,
will be afforded requisite security protection. The annual
reports will not be circulated outside the Board,
I am available at any time, as is htr. Coyne, to discuss
these reporting matters or any other intelligence-related
subjects concerning which we may be ielpful to you.
Sincerely yours,
Clark 14
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Mr. John A. McCone
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D. C.
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