LETTER TO THE HONORABLE, ALLEN DULLES, FROM ROGER HILSMAN

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: April 7, 1961
• Content Type: LETTER

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
THE DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH
WASHINGTON
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Dear Allen:
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Our Department, through the US Disarmament Administration, has recently
asked the Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA) to undertake a study of the impact on
our national security of various arms control measures, proposals for disarmament,
or actions to reduce the possibility or limit the dangers of war. An important element
in the Administration's reassessment of US disarmament and arms control policy, the
study will attempt to:
a. define the conditions and circumstances of a stable military environment
compatible with the achievement of US foreign policy objectives;
b. identify and examine the factors that control these conditions and
circumstances; and
c. with particular reference to arms control measures, explore how such an
environment might be created and preserved.
To facilitate and speed this study, the Department would like to be able to make
several relevant NIEs available to IDA. It is a question not of sending the papers
themselves to IDA quarters, but of a release which would, in accordance with
USIB-D-39.5/2 of 10 November 1959, enable us to permit specially cleared IDA
researchers to read the estimates in the Department. The NIEs desired are:
NLE 11-4-60
NIE 13-2-60
NIE 11-5-60
NIE 100-4-60
NIE 11-8-60
NIE 4-2-61
NIE 13-60
Would it be convenient for you to bring our request before the Intelligence
Board when we next meet on April 11 ? The contract with IDA calls for a final
report on June 30 and, if the Intelligence Board approves, I should like to make the
estimates available as soon as possible.
STATE review(s) completed.
Sincerely,
Roger lsman
The Honorable,
Allen Dulles,
Chairman, United States Intelligence Board,
Central Intelligence Agency.
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