LETTER TO COLONEL F. P. JONES FROM VERNON A. WALTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R002400240003-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 3, 1975
• Content Type: LETTER

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Executive Regtetry
75--618/
3 September 1975
Colonel F. P. Jones, USA (Ret.)
Director, National Security and Foreign Affairs
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
200 Maryland Avenue, N. E.
Washington, D. C. 20002
Many thanks for your letter and for the tape. I am
enclosing a typed transcript and feel no need to edit it.
I am most grateful for the VFW's hospitality and help.
Please convey my warmest thanks to Commander-in-Chief
Walker and past Commander-in-Chief Stang. It was a real
honor to talk to those American Veterans who still cherish,
as I said, the values that have made us great and free.
All of us were grateful for the VFW's generous
expression of support to the fine men and women who work
in American intelligence.
With every good wish,
Faithfully,
Vernon A. Walters
Lieutenant General, USA
Deputy Director
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September 2,. 1975
Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters
Deputy Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
Exe-utive Registry
75- 6/8
You, sir, were superb and on behalf of my new boss, "Pete"
Walker, and my outgoing boss, John Stang, thank you very
much, indeed, for your forthright and helpful words.
Enclosed herewith is our tape of your comments. Would you
please: (a) edit as you desire; (b) have typed; and (c)
send me a clear copy.
I will then give your remarks wide distribution on the Hill,
and among patriotic and service organizations.
On a related matter, General Tidwell will meet with my group
on 27 September. Dave Phillips will be in Chicago at a
Council on Foreign Relations maneuver and suggested Tidwell
hold forth in his stead.
Again, General, thanks to you from all, of us. A good, strong
resolution was passed by acclamation right after'your remarks
(see enclosed).
Best wishes,
F. P. Jones; 140l., USA 'TRet.), Director
National Security and Foreign Affairs
FPJ/mmt
Enclosures
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WHEREAS, an America, not protected by confident, vigilan,
professional internal, and external intelligence services, would be
the blind victim of future events and forces both at home and
abroad; and
WH`.EREA>, disgruntled former employees of both, the CIA and the FBI
have, for whatever reasons, received inordinate attention from the
adversary, cynical media, such media attention providing the necessary
basis for on-going Congressional, probes of the CIA and the FBI; and
WHEREAS, confidentiality and mutual trust among intelligence agents
and sources i the basis for successful intelligence operations; and
WHEREAS, the foolish, undiscriminating insistence upon "the people's
right to know" (except, of course, the right to know press sources)
have `blown the cover' of scores of CIA and FBI agents causing in-
calcuable loss of morale among CIA and FBI personnel both at hoiate
and abroad; and
iMEREAS, SOViet KGB agents and resources have been po.u; ':mod into
countries abroad -- notably Portugal -- unhampered by any consideration
except the achievement of Soviet objectives; and
WHHEREAS, a crippled and ineffective CIA wottld leave our beloved
country no response to events abroad between the extremes of an
ineffectual, diplomatic note and military intervention; and
WHEREAS, a troubled and ineffective F13I would erxpose our country
totally to Soviet espionage, international terrorism, and soaring
crime; now, therefore
BE IT REESOLVED, by the 76th National Convention of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States, that:
(a) the competing Congressional. "circuses" investigating the CIA
cease their media-conscious operations forthwith; and
(b) the budgets of both the CIA and FBI not be made public knowledge;
and
(c) both, these professional intelligence services be fully supported
by the Administration and the Congress with any malfactors in
either agency receiving such punishment as the law provides; and
(d) the Commander-in-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign wars of the
United States publicly and forcefully support the CIA and the FBI,
and communicate such support clearly to the President and the 94th
Congress
 FROM:
G. Roberts
#8491
NH CA 91608
TO: Lt. Gen. Vernon Walters - O i~ree
The Central Intelligence Agency
Washington D.C. 20505
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