LETTER TO GORDON GRAY FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 18, 2005
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: September 12, 1957
• Content Type: LETTER

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Executive Registry
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT DD/S
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OFFICE OF DEFENSE MOBILIZATION
Rec'd 1000
Washington 25, D.C,
AUG 2U 1957
Honorable Allen W. Dulles
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington 25, D. C.
Dear Mr. Dulles:
Thank you for your letter dated July 31, 1957 relative to
testing the vulnerability of U. S. communications overseas in the
next Operation Alert Exercise. While there has been extensive
planning in this area and plans are in existence which are designed
to supply the needs of defense agencies in an emergency, to my
knowledge, no testing of these plans has been done.
You will recall that in previous Operations Alert we have
had no participation in foreign areas and the Exercises were confined
to activities within our own shores. It is not clear to me from
your letter whether the testing you suggest will embrace communication
terminals in foreign areas as well as those in our own country. If
both would be involved I believe that this matter should receive
attention when the scope of our next Operation Alert is under con-
sideration.
In any event, I agree that it will be aesirabl.e to test
our ability to maintain overseas communication in the event of an
attack and I am interested in learning how you propose to make the
tests in CIA.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) GORDON GRAY
Gordon Gray
Director
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Mr. Dulles:
You wish to speak with
about this. (Meeting - 2.:30 - 2 October)
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CRET
MEMORANDUM FOR: THE DIRECTOR
You will recall that you sent recently a
a letter to Gordon Gray Dir
t
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, or of Office of
Defense Mobilization, concerning the last Operatio
Alert exercise- with ..,
rt
on Tne
security of overseas conanunications. You indicate
in the letter that
You intended to test CIA's
communications at the next Alert exercise.
Mr. Gray acknowledged your letter on 20 Augus
and raised the questio
n as to whether or not the
Hale testing proposed would embrace communication termi?
in forei
n a
g
reas as well as those in our
country. He indicated further that if both would
be involved he thought the matter should receive
attention when the scope of the next Operation
Alert is under consideration.
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FORM 101 WHICH MAY FORM 10.101
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