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THE
CORNERSTONE
CEREMONY
November 3; 1959
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Seated on Platform
(Left to Right)
Front Row:
Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert D. Murphy (Behind the President)
General C. P. Cabell (Behind the President)
Mr. Allen W. Dulles
Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy
Mr. Franklin Floete. General Services Administrator
Representative Joel T. Broyhill
Mrs. William J. Donovan
Colonel L. K. White
Reverend Frederick Brown Harris
Mr. Frederick R. King, Associate Architect
Admiral Sidney W. Souers, former Director of the
Central Intelligence Group
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America's fundamental aspiration is the preservation of peace. To
this end we seek to develop policies and arrangements to make the peace
both permanent and just. This can be done only on the basis of required
information.
In war nothing is more important to a commander than the facts
concerning the strength, dispositions and intention of his opponent, and
the proper interpretation of those facts. In peacetime the necessary
facts are of a different nature. They deal with conditions, resources,
requirements and attitudes prevailing in the world. They are essential
to the development of policy to further our long term national security
and best interests. To provide information of this kind is the task of
the organization of which you are a part.
No task could be more important.
Upon the quality of your work depends in large measure the success
of our effort to further the nation's position in the international scene.
By its very nature the work of this agency demands of its members
the highest order of dedication, ability, trustworthiness and selfless-
ness-to say nothing of the finest type of courage, whenever needed.
Success cannot be advertised: failure cannot be explained. In the work
of Intelligence, heroes are undecorated and unsung, often even among
their own fraternity. Their inspiration is rooted in patriotism-their
reward can be little except the conviction that they are performing a
unique and indispensable service for their country, and the knowledge
that America needs and appreciates their efforts. I assure you this is
indeed true.
The reputation of your organization for quality and excellence, under
the leadership of your Director, Mr. Allen Dulles, is a proud one.
Because I deeply believe these things, I deem it a great privilege to
participate in this ceremony of cornerstone laying for the national head-
quarters of the Central Intelligence Agency. On this spot will rise a
beautiful and useful structure. May it long endure, to serve the cause
of peace.
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THE DIRECTOR'S REMARKS
The laying of this cornerstone marks an important stage in the growth
of the Central Intelligence Agency. We will soon have a home of our
own, in these inspiring surroundings high above the Potomac.
The Agency was established 12 years ago by the same Act of Congress
which created the National Security Council and the Department of
Defense. Thus the Central Intelligence Agency was recognized as one
of the important elements in our national security structure.
World War II and its aftermath and the international communist
threat had already brought home to us that our vital interests were at
stake in places as distant as Korea, and Laos, in Africa and the Islands
of the Pacific, as well as in this Hemisphere and in Europe.
Since then, our country's ever expanding responsibilities have in-
creased the need for better information from the four corners of the
earth and for sound analysis of that information.
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The law creating the Agency was voted by a Congress in which there
was a Republican majority. It was sponsored and signed by a Demo-
cratic President. For the past crucial years it has had the unfailing
support of a Republican President and a Democratic Congress.
Facts have no politics.
Our charter, in the carefully drafted provisions of the National Secu-
rity Act, has undergone no change. It provides that, under the direc-
tion of the President and of the National Security Council, the Agency
shall correlate and evaluate intelligence relating to the national security,
and perform such additional services of common concern in this field as
the National Security Council may direct.
Wisely this legislation provides that we should have no domestic
internal security functions. Yet the scope of the jurisdiction granted
is ample. Our work is broad and comprehensive enough to enlist the
interest and to inspire the devotion of those who choose, and are chosen,
to enter upon it.
Laws can create agencies of government; they cannot make them
function. Only the high purpose and dedication of all serving them
can weld them into effective instruments for our national security.
In this work of intelligence we must not forget that human beings are
largely the creatures of their beliefs. As individuals we tend instinc-
tively, and sometimes wistfully, to become attached to causes, to theories,
to solutions.
If they be sound and enduring, based on the deep moral strivings of
man and the highest conception of our national interests, let us cling to
them. But in the field of our relations with our fellowmen abroad, let
us assure ourselves, through accurate intelligence, that our attachments
to policies are soundly based.
It is the particular duty of this Agency to help perform this function
in a world where change is the rule rather than the exception. This
task must be carried out fearlessly, without warping to meet our prej-
udices or our predilections or even the tenets of existing policy.
As we build a new edifice in which to house, to concentrate and coord-
inate our work, we must rededicate ourselves to this high purpose.
The guiding motto to be inscribed on the face of this building will be
the words taken from the Gospel according to St. John: "Ye shall know
the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
The President of the United States has graciously consented to lay
the cornerstone.
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THE REV. DR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS
Chaplain of the United States Senate
0, Thou God and Father of mankind,
Who putteth down the mighty from their seats and exalteth the humble and
the meek. Thou hast made us heirs of all the ages. As in this high hour we come
with our fallible hands to lay the cornerstone of the noble structure which is
here to rise as a witness to Thy truth which makes men free, we lift our hearts
in gratitude for the greatness of our heritage bequeathed to us over the struggling
ages by those who, amid ignorance and barbarism and man's inhumanity to man,
struck light from the flint of their own courage. Thou hast made us heirs of
those who pushed forward, turning harshness into mercy, callousness into sym-
pathy, enmity into understanding, and who through the practice of their concern
for others melted away hatred.
As we lay this stone conscious that others have put the torch of freedom and
of human dignity in our hands, we pray for a new resolve now that the precious
gains of Christian civilization are threatened by sinister forces without pity or
conscience, that we may guard it and nourish it and increase it, that we of the
present may be worthy of the past and that the future may look to us with
gratitude.
rn spite of our own shortcomings which we confess with contrition, In this
hour of global crisis Thou hast summoned us as trustees of Thy truth to defend
our birthright and to help create institutions essential to human progress.
In this dear land of our love and prayer may we close our national ranks in
a new unity, as principalities of darkness seek to destroy the precious things we
hold nearest our hearts and to enslave all mankind with fetters of the body and
mind which degrade the individual.
In this titanic struggle of the ages may this building whose cornerstone we
now lay with a prayer to the God Who hath made and preserved us a nation, be
a cathedral of truth, an arsenal of freedom, an armory for battalions marshaled
against deceit and falsehood, a fortress of patience and persistence where a
patriotism pure and undefiled, as harmless as a dove but as wise as a serpent,
shall help make our republic sufficient for the tasks before her set.
Amen.
And now Thou Lord and Master of all good workmen,
Whate'er our name or sign.
On this stone now laid with prayer
Let our faith rise strong and fair.
Ever Lord Thy name be known
Where we lay this cornerstone.
Send us forth as ambassadors of that peace which comes of purity and of
strength to simple justice due - for so runs our loyal dream of our America. God
of our fathers make it true.
Unto God's gracious mercy and protection we commit you. May the Lord lift
'ip to the light of His countenance upon you and give you peace. May He instruct
you with the word of His truth and enrich you with the glory of His love as to-
gether we go forth in His name.
To be true to all truth the world denies,
Not tongue-tied by its gilded lies,
Not always right in all men's eyes,
But faithful to the light within.
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The audience, seated in what will be the main entrance hall of the new building.
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The President starts to lay the Cornerstone.
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The Cornerstone is lowered into place.
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Washington Post and Times Herald
November 4, 1959
Ike Lays Cornerstone
For New CIA Building
President Eisenhower yes-
terday laid the cornerstone of
an 8-story building for the
Central Intelligence Agency
on the Virginia bank of the
Potomac near Langley. He ex-
tolled those who gather infor-
mation for the Agency.
"No task could be more im-
portant" he told Director
Allen Dulles and others of
the CIA.
The Central Intelligence
Agency, the need for which
was made apparent by World
War II and the threat of in-
ternational communism after-
ward, was sponsored 12 years
ago by President Harry S.
Truman and established by
the Republican-controlled 80th
Congress.
Its offices and employes
have been scattered in various
buildings here, some of them
"tempos" that will come down
when the new $46 million
structure at Langley is com-
pleted in 1961.
Flies to Gettysburg
President Eisenhower, on
his way from the White House
to Langley, stopped off to snip
a red, white and blue ribbon
and open a new stretch of the
George Washington Memorial
CIA Building.
After the cornerstone-laying
ceremony, he boarded a
Marine Corps helicopter and
flew to Gettysburg, Pa., to cast
his vote in a state election.
CIA Director Dulles, in a
speech that followed that of
the President, said that those
who gather intelligence for
this country have to beware
that prejudices or predilec-
tions do not slant their re-
ports.
He said the motto on the
face of the new building would
be a passage from St. John:
"Ye shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you
free."
The CIA Building, which is
being constructed on a Gov-
ernment-owned tract of 140
acres, will have central air-
conditioning, s e 1 f-operated
automatic elevators ahd a cafe-
teria and smaller dining room
to seat 1400 at one time. There
will be parking space for 3000
cars.
Architects for the building
are Harrison & Abramovitz.
with Frederic R. King as asso-
ciate architect. The building
is being erected by Charles H.
Tompkins Co. and J. A. Jones
Co. The Public Buildings
Service of the General Serv-
ices Administration is con-
tract agent for the building
and is supervising the work.
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New York Times
November 4, 1959
PRESIDENT HAILS
C. I. A. OPERATIVES
Calls Them `Unsung Heroes'
in Dedicating New 'Cloak
and Dagger' Building
The President was introduced
by Allen W. Dulles, C. I. A. di-
rector, to an audience made up
largely of Government officials
and members of the diplomatic
corps.
Mr. Dulles recalled that World
War II had brought home to the
United states its. vital interests
in such distant places as Korea,
Laos and Africa.
He sought to make two main
points-that "facts have no
politics" and that the C. I. A.
was not involved in policy-
mak-ing.
By FELIX BELAIR Jr.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 -
President Eisenhower laid the
cornerstone of the new Central
intelligence Agency building to-
day, dedicating it to the "un-
decorated and unsung heroes"
of the intelligence forces at
home and abroad.
His participation in the cere-
monies at near-by Langley, Va.,
brought out of official hiding
an important Federal agency,
whose expenditures are not sub-
ject to Congressional review
and whose employes have been
forbidden to say where they
work.
The official program, how-
ever, included everything but a
road map to the $46,000,000
building, situated on a bluff ten
miles west of Washington on
the south side of the Potomac
River.
In the agency's headquarters
in downtown Washington,
meanwhile, operations continued
in the cloak-and-dagger tradi-
Lion. The switchboard was still
answering calls by repeating
the telephone number rather
than identifying the agency by
name. The same technique was
used when an official was re-
quested by name.
Driving to the dedication site,
the President stopped to cut a
ribbon opening a section of the
George Washington Memorial
Parkway. It was built at a cost
of $9,400,000 to provide quick
access to the new building from
Washington.
In his brief, prepared remarks
the President said that only on
the basis of comprehensive and
appropriate information could
the country develop policies to
make peace permanent and just.
Road signs marked the dis-
tance and way to the new build-
ing. However, neither Virginia
State Troopers on the scene nor
District of Columbia motorcycle
policemen could say for certain
whether the markers would be
there tomorrow.
As a box was about to be
sealed in the cornerstone, the
President asked Mr. Dulles, in
an aside, what was in it.
Mr. Dulles replied, "It's a
secret," although the contents
had been listed in the official
program.
New York Herald Tribune
November 4, 1959
Eisenhower
Lauds C. I. A.
Peace Role
Helps Lay Stone For
Huge New Building
By James E. Warner
WASH NOV. -
Intellicence, vital in war time,
is equally important during
peace to serve not only the se-
curity of the nation but the
cause of world peace, President
Eisenhower declared today.
He spoke at cornerstone-lay-
ing ceremonies for the giant
new Central Intelligence
Agency building at Langley,
Va., a dozen miles outside of
the capital. Mr. Eisenhower
said:
"By its very nature the work
of this agency demands of its
members the highest order of
dedication, ability, trustworthi-
ness and selflessness-to say
nothing of the finest type of
courage whenever needed.
After this ceremmony, the
President, who had otored to
the C. I. A. building site, stop-
ping briefly en route to cut a
ribbon opening a new link In
the George Washington Me-
morial Highway along the Po-
tomac River, then boarded a
helicopter, flew to Gettysburg,
Pa., to vote at his legal resi-
dence, and was back in the
White House by early after-
noon, landing on the south lawn
of the mansion's grounds.
Dulles Speaks
Allen W. Dulles, C. I. A. direc-
tor, whose work in heading the
super - secret world - covering
agency was praised by Mr.
Eisenhower, remarked in a brief
speech "facts have no politics,"
recalling that the twelve-year-
old agency had been sponsored
by a Democratic President, ap-
proved by a Republican Con-
gress and during the "Past cru-
cial years it has had the unfail-
ing support of a Republican
President and a Democratic
Congress ""
tion of the
Mr. Dulles, a brother o the
ate Secretary of State John
Oster Dulles, called on Defense
Secretary Neil H. McElroy and
Under-Secretary of State Rob-
rt Murphy to assist the Presi-
ent and himself in wielding
rowels on the cornerstone
.ortar. With the President, he
had them lay their hands on
the white marble cornerstone
as it was slowly lowered ,into
place.
Contents of Box
"No it's a secret." he 'okin 1
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contents of the cornerstone box.
Actually, its contents are not a
secret. They Include a 1944
memorandum from the late
Gen. William J. Donovan, head
of the World War II Office of
Strategic Services, whose widow
was present, to President Roose-
velt urging establishment of a
permanent centralized intelli-
gence service, related docu-
ments, a recording of today's
ceremonies, and microfilm
copies of daily and weekly
newspapers of this date.
Top officials of the govern-
ment, with their wives, attended
the ceremony in bright, chilly
sunshine. The invocation and
benediction were pronounced
by Rev. Frederick Brown Harris.
chaplain of the Senate, and the
U. S. Air Force band provided
music, including honors to the
President and the national
anthem.
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The extension of the George Washington Memorial Parkway along the Virginia
side of the Potomac from Spout Run (Lorcom Lane) to the building site, a
distance of approximately five miles, has been completed and was officially
opened by the President on his way to the Cornerstone Ceremony. Above is a
view of the Parkway between the site and the interchange with Route 123.
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Cornerstone Laying
of the
Central Intelligence Agency
Building
by the
President of the United States
November 3, 1959
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DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
President of the United States
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ALLEN W. DULLES
Director, Central Lntelligenre
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CHARLES P. CABELL
Deputy Director, Central Intelligence
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Program
THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE BAND
Col. George S. Howard, Conductor
Arrival of the President of the United States
Invocation
REV. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS
Chaplain of the U.S. Senate
Remarks
Laying of the Cornerstone
Benediction
National Anthem
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
REV. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS
THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE BAND
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The Building
The new eight-story building of the Central Intelligence Agency is being
constructed on a Government-owned tract of about 140 acres on the south
hank of the Potomac River not far from Langley, Virginia. The site is readily
accessible to Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Maryland. Access to the
grounds is from Virginia State Route 123 and the George Washington Me-
morial Parkway, which runs along the Virginia side of the Potomac. The
Parkway will later be extended to connect with the proposed Cabin John
Bridge on the Washington Circumferential Highway.
The building is being constructed approximately in the center of the site
and faces generally east. The building is simple and functional in the con-
temporary style, consisting of an irregularly shaped base surmounted by five
interconnected towers. When completed it will provide approximately one
million square feet of usable space. The building is being constructed of
reinforced concrete, and the predominantly white facade will be highlighted by
special treatment of the second and seventh floors. These floors will be set
back, and their exterior walls will consist of continuous glass windows.
Central air-conditioning and sixteen high-speed and self-operated automatic
elevators are to be provided for the comfort and convenience of employees of
the Agency. Since almost one-half of the space in the building is provided
by the ground and first floors, an escalator serving those floors is being installed
to facilitate the morning and evening rush. Rooms will be lighted by fluo-
rescent fixtures and will have acoustical ceilings and steel movable partitions.
The building will contain a modern automatic pneumatic tube system and
tray conveyor system.
The cafeteria will consist of a large main room and a smaller dining room
and will seat about 1,400 persons at one time. Snack bars will be located
throughout the building.
The auditorium will be a free-standing, dome-shaped structure connected to
the main building by an underground passage. It will seat 500 persons and
contain a small stage with a disappearing curved screen for film projection.
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Ample parking space will be available for 3,000 cars, and convenient
access to all facilities on the site will be provided by more than two miles of
roadways. Very little of the building will be visible from the public highways.
Architects for the building are Harrison & Abramovitz with Frederic R. King,
Associate Architect. The building is being erected by Charles H. Tompkins
Company and J. A. Jones Construction Company, Joint Venturers. The
Public Buildings Service of the General Services Administration is the contract
agent for the building and is supervising the work.
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The Cornerstone Box
In preparing for this Ceremony, a careful selection of documents and other
materials for sealing within the Cornerstone of the new Central Intelligence
Agency Building has been made. At some future date, when opened, the box
will provide items of historic interest concerning the Central Intelligence
Agency, and appropriate items in connection with today's Ceremony at which
the President of the United States honors us by laying the Cornerstone.
Contents of the Cornerstone box include:
1. Memorandum for President Franklin D. Roosevelt from Major General
William J. Donovan, Director of the Office of Strategic Services, dated 1,13
November 1944, regarding the establishment of a permanent centralized
intelligence service and Memorandum from President Roosevelt to Gen-
eral Donovan, dated 5 April 1944, directing that General Donovan
discuss his plan with the appropriate officials of the Government.
2. President Harry S. Truman's Executive Letter of 22 January 1946, estab-
lishing the National Intelligence Authority and the Central Intelligence
Group.
3.' Statement of General (then Lieutenant General) Hoyr S. Vandenberg,
Director of Central Intelligence, before the Senate Committee on Armed
Services, on 29 April 1947, ;n support of the sections of the proposed
National Security Act of 1947 to establish the Central Intelligence
Agency.
4-. A Text and Explanation of Statutes and Executive Orders relating spe-
cifically to the Central Intelligence Agency, including Enabling and
Appropriations Acts for the construction of the new CIA Building.
5. Reproduction of the CIA seal and its official description.
6. "William J. Donovan and the National Security." A speech by Allen W.
Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence, to the Erie County Bar Associa-
tion, Buffalo, New York, 4 May 1959.
7. An aerial photograph of the area of the CIA Building site.
8. Drawings of the CIA Building as it will appear when completed.
9. The Program, a recording, and photographs of the Cornerstone Ceremony.
10. Microfilm copies of daily and weekly newspapers of 3 November 1959.
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