GENERAL COMMENTS ON DRAFT SPEECH - - SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE

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• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2005
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: May 22, 1969
• Content Type: MF

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22 May 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT General Comments on Draft Speech--
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
1. This speech is a frontal attack against the
Department of Defense's expressed intelligence justi-
fications for the Safeguard program. As such, it
seems designed and constructed sharply to cut ground
out from beneath the Administration'.s position on
Safeguard, and to cause those Senators who have not
yet made up their minds to doubt the Administration's.
..credibility.
2. The "authoritative" source of the rebuttal
intelligence used in the speech transparently is CIA,
although the United States Intelligence Board is the
only intelligence entity named in the speech.
3. The writer or writers show skill and care
in choosing which of the Defense Department's intelli-
gence points to refute. The attack hits hard and
accurately at most of Defense's principal "threat"
arguments in their most vulnerable quoted expressions.
5. Whoever the writer, he had access to and used--
verbatim in many instances--the answers provided to
the Gore subcommittee's questions. He probably also
had access to the transcript of the Director's 23 April
appearance before that group. The answers to the Gore
subcommittee's questions were stamped TOP SECRET-
BRUCE C. CLARKE, Jr.
Director
Strategic Research
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