DEAR BILL:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP71T00730R000300040039-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: October 21, 1960
• Content Type: LETTER

State Dept. declassification & release instructions on file
October 21, 19&
Mr. William N. Morell, Jr.
Director, Research and Reports
Central Intelligence Agency
You are quite right in having thought that some of the projects
which you mentioned as being afoot in ORR in your October 20
statement are of interest to the Department. If I may, I would
like to assign a somewhat higher priority to some of them than
to others. There are three general areas of FE Bureau activity
where your research findings could be of great relevance and
value. Specifically, these are Indonesia, Southeast Asia
regional cooperation, and the current interplay of politics and
economics in Mainland China.
I a_:a delighted that we will soon see a study of Indonesia's
economic prospects and another one on Indonesia's transportation
problems. As you know, we are midstream in a complex and
critical multilateral negotiation of Indonesia's debt/economic
stabilization problems. Both the IMF and the IBRD have been
enlisted to help Western creditor countries. There is a real
possibility that the USSR will soon be involved. An authoritative
current reading of Indonesia's performance and potentiality in the
economic field could help United States negotiators in pressing
the Government of Indonesia, international agencies we are work-
ing with, and other creditor countries, for clarification of the
economic realities upon which any kind of a good debt settlement
must, of course, be based. We have a Delegation going to Parts
on the third of November and another one some time during
December. I hope that you can get into bur hands all of your
projects on Indonesia as soon as possible and supplement them as
you see fit during the coming weeks.
Eugene Black is leading a small delegation through the
Far East on October 26; he and the President understand his
ion to be confined at this stage to listening to Asians talk
CF