MEMO TO TOM CORMACK FROM (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP01-00569R000100090039-1
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• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: August 17, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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17 August 1984
Tom Cormack
Executive Secretary
History Staff Bi-Weekly
Ken accounted for most of our outside activity in this period. He
received from IPD an FOIA request from Prof. Thomas Patterson of the
University of Connecticut for Jack Pfeiffer's Bay of Pigs history; he plans
to deny the request on the grounds that it is an unfinished draft. In
response to a telephone request from Ted Gittinger, oral historian at the
LBJ Library, for DO help in arranging interviews with retired Agency
officers who served in Southeast Asia in the 1960s, Ken checked with DO/IMS
and then told Gittinger that, while prospects for help are slim, DO will
consider his request if he sends Ken a specific proposal. Ken referred to
DO/IMS a request from the Army's Center of Military History for information
on a 1945 OSS mission in Austria. The CMH request originated with a
telegram from the US Defense Attache in Vienna. Ken has been in touch with
the DO/RMO about the request from Edward Boughton (Secretary of the Veterans
of OSS) to use OSS films in a movie he is making for the Donovan Memorial
Foundation. Having found no way to by-pass the FOIA queue, DO has agreed to
review all the OSS film later this month in the hope that it can be
declassified and transferred to the National Archives with the rest of the
OSS records.
Since the visit of and two other ORD officers, Ken has
received a copy of their August 1984 letter to the DCI proposing a small
unit to analyse Agency experience. This,rather than any revival of the 1980
ORD proposal for a National Intelligence University, seems to explain their
interest in the History Staff.
Ken enlisted Don's help in responding to a call from OP,
for uncompartmented information about DDS&T/OTS contributions to the US
space program for a videotape OP is making for new employees. Don checked
the OTS histories, with negative results but made some other suggestions
and put in touch with of OTS who had prepared a
slide-tape tor hat office.
Diane has finished most of the work on her project of entering the
History Staff's holdings into the Agency's computerized records
system. She is waiting for a promise memo downgrading a group of TS
documents and for the assignment of one job number before finally closing
out that massive undertaking.
Diane has also taken two additional tests as part of OTE's
control-testing of its revised Russian-language exams.
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Ken and have interviewed three candidates for our staff
historian position; two are Agency employees and one was from outside. Two
more interviews are scheduled for Tuesday -- one with an employee and one
with an academic. The other Agency applicant appears to lack the minimum
credentials.
Bob returns from his week of leave on Monday. Ken will be back from his
two days of leave on Tuesday.
History to
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