DEAR COLONEL BAIRD:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03527A000300040056-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: December 24, 1958
• Content Type: LETTER

ADDRESS OFFICIAL COMMUNICATI Wved For Release 2003/04/22 : CIA-RDP78-03527A000300040056-8
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
24 December 1958
Dear Colonel Bairds
The members of the current Mid-Career Course on Foreign
Affairs have been outspokenly appreciative of the briefings
which you offered them last week an the objectives and
techniques of the Central Intelligence Agency. I should like
to express hearty thanks on behalf of the class members and of
the Foreign Service Institute.
As usual is deserving of our warmest
cotmendaticn for his arrangement of the program.
Sincerely yours,
Director
Foreign Serv3b e Institute
25X1A
Colonel Matthew Baird,
Director of Training,
Central Intelligence Agency,
Washington 25, D.C.
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