TELEGRAM TO MRS. JAMES ANGLETON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00709R000400070238-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 238
• Publication Date: July 8, 1949
• Content Type: MF

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8 July 1-47
WitORttTh! "C)TI ixc1irivr OFFICER, OSO
nubjectt Telegram to t4:e. :amps Angleton
I. min Is In answer to your memercndum of 7 July
the ?bove sublottts ';(3 rind that we are unable to
aorco fully with your arguments for charging thin expense
to 1s loverrKzent. Particularly, In paragraph 3, you
argue tt it wail necessary for us to serve as "cutout"
from time to time. ict maintain that where lif4 merely act
as Intermediary for personal =awes, whether for security
reasons Gr otherwise, tie expenses should be borne b7 the
Individua concurnedo
Le In t,l'=s abaenee or obvious subterfuze or mieuso
t,,fs office will never question an sdministrat.t1ve ruling
on security aspects or operations. Consequently, we accept
your statement that the subject telegram was net part of
correspondence between the porsons involved, but was
separste onerational =essase, intermediate to their morrow'
pondence, whict, was requirsd in order to have Mrs* Angleton
cease her efforts to get In touch with her huabends On this
ground, and this ;round only, there is no legal objection
to transferring this eharce for payment b7 unvouohered runda,
As noted above, this in no way sets a precedent for passing
ur peraunal mousawes.
3. We vish to point out that an Ltos or thli sort-
tends to oast doubt on the administration or our unvouchered
:fluade. The messalTe was, on its face, purely personal, and
even on tne grounds f:Iven in paragraph 2 above, vie consider
it a bu:oar line cant. If a message is truly operational,
we belluvo it can 'noi-Taally be :pihraeed aa su040.11 which case
It can 1,65 ?aid from vouchered funds when, as here, the
mesaage itself did not contain classified information.
LREseral
liOnT1167r
General Counsel
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