TALK GIVEN TO GAITHERSBURG ROTARY CLUB ON 14 FEBRUARY 1967

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100240007-4
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 15, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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15 February 1967
SUBJECT Talk Given to Gaithersburg Rotary Club
on 14 February 1967
1. On 14 February, in response to your telephoned request and the
subsequent receipt from you of Roy W. Kenned?y's 9 December 1966
I spoke at a meeting of the Gaithersburg Rotary Club held at the
Washingtonian Motel. Attached is a copy of the outline of the talk.
Basically, the talk was the same one I gave on 5 October 1966 to
a Naval Reserve Unit in the Pentagon, an outline of which is in. your
files. In the Gaithersburg talk, however, I eliminated all mention of
the Agency's covert action responsibilities.
letter addressed to the Agency, Attentio
25X1A9a
2. The questions asked after the 20-minute prepared talk presented
no serious problems. They were either of the type that I could answer
without treading on sensitive areas (e. g, are CIA and DIA competing
for dominance in the intelligence business?) or of the type that permitted
me to plead sheer ignorance anal then. justify the ignorance {e. g. how
many people work for CIA and how much money does it spend? ).
3. The feed-back from the group -- all business and professional
men -- after the meeting broke up may be of interest to ?you. Several
men said that the talk had corrected a number of misconceptions they
had had about the Agency (largely related to free-wheeling in spending
money anal to unilateral, irresponsible action in. foreign polic?y). Several
said that the Agency could do a lot to win the taxpayers' confidence by
giving more such talks to more groups of business and professional men.
One gentleman commented in a similar vein., adding that he was glad that
we didn't give them the kind of "snow-job" treatment that they got from
the FBI and the Air Force -- a comment on which, needless to say, I
made no cornmen.t. 25X1A9a
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