HELMS DCI STUDY DRAFTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86M00886R002100140010-6
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 22, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 5, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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5 January 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: J. Kenneth McDonald
Chief, History Staff
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Helms DCI Study Drafts
I read through this and found it useful and interesting.
Some segments impressed me as not being as thorough as the
Bedell Smith, Dulles and McCone histories. You might think
about having someone else who was deeply involved during the
Helms period read. it and see whether there might be more to say.
Also, I would think that the Bross and the Smith pieces were
quite thorough and reflected intimate involvement in the
decision-making during that period. It seemed to me that the
Smith material focussed most heavily on two or three intelligence
judgments and there may have been others of significance during
that period, i.e. Soviet missile defense, attitude toward SALT,
and others that done't come to my mind now.
William J. Casey
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
THROUGH: Executive Secretary
FROM: J. Kenneth McDonald
Chief, History Staff
SUBJECT: Transmittal of Helms DCI Study Drafts
1. I shall attach the following draft chapters and sections from our
study in progress of Richard Helms's tenure as Director of Central
Intelligence:
Richard Helms and Intelligence Production (102 pp)
by R. Jack Smith
Richard Helms and Chile (31 pp)
by
Richard Helms, Vietnam and Clandestine Operations (53 pp)
by R. Jack Smith
Richard Helms and the Intelligence Community, 1966-71 (83 pp)
by John A. Bross
Notes on Richard Helms's Dismissal (20 pp)
by John A. Bross
2. I should emphasize that these are working drafts, which will be
revised and edited before the whole study is completed and presented for
review. Since these drafts are not in final form, I would be grateful if
you would return them to us. Mr. Helms has read them, and we would be glad
to have your comments as well.
J. Kenneth McDonald
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THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
by John A. Bross
WORKING PAPER
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5 January 198M
MEMORANDUM FOR: J. Kenneth McDonald
Chief, History Staff-
FROM:
Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Helms DCI Study Drafts
1. read through this and Mound i f. usei'ul and into est-ing,..
Sbnie segments impressed iiie as not being as thorough as the
Bedell Smith, Dulles and McCone histories. You might think
about having someone else who was deeply involved during the
Helms period read it and see whether there might be more to say.
Also, I would think that the Bross and the Smith pieces were
quite thorough and reflected intimate involvement in the
decision-making during that period. It seemed to me that the.
Smith material focussed most heavily on two or three intelligence
judgments and there may have been others of significance during
that period, i.e. Soviet missile defense, attitude toward SALT,
and others that done't come to my mind now.
.William J. Casey
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