VANISHED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72-00310R000200270007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 5, 1970
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: The Director
1. The film script of the movie VANISHED has the
DCI as the villain of the piece. He is described by President
Roudebush as follows: "Don't let that surface charm fool you.
He's a man eating shark. Of course he's our man-eating shark
and thoroughly dedicated to his job. "
2. The theme of the movie is a threat of nuclear war
with Red China. The first episode concerning the DCI is a charge
by an AEC official that CIA is subverting young scientists in AEC
by paying them a bonus through a dummy foundation. Arthur
Ingram, the DCI, admits this to the President, who orders him
to knock it off. The purpose of the bonus is not very clear,
although Ingram indicates it has something to do with penetrating
the Red Chinese scientific community. He agrees to terminate
the bonus, however.
3. The President's good friend and confidant, Arnold
Greer, disappears under mysterious circumstances. Investiga-
tion is assigned to the FBI. Their traces indicate Greer may have
been a homosexual and may have defected to Russia or Red China.
Ingram suggests that CIA go all out, but the President directs
him specifically to stay clear of the Greer situation. Unknown
to the President, Ingram continues the investigation. He gratu-
itously insults the Director of the FBI over the matter. He then
approaches Senator Gannon, who is the Chairman of the CIA
Senate Subcommittee and is also the chief supporter of President
Roudebush's opponent in the approaching Presidential election,
and tells the Senator his suspicions about Greer. The Senator
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then publicly states these suspicions, thereby endangering Presi-
dent Roudebush's chances in the election. There are also leaks
from the Presidential quarters which are traced to the roommate
of the secretary to the Presidential press secretary, the room-
mate being an employee of CIA.
4. As things get worse for President Roudebush because
he will not speak out on the Greer case, Senator Gannon suggests
to Ingram that he resign because Roudebush is endangering the
national security. Of course, Gannon promises that he will be
reappointed when Roudebush's opponent wins the election.
5. The head of NSA withholds important information
from Ingram because he suspects something is going on. At the,
critical political moment, Ingram resigns even though the President
tells him that Greer has been operating with his consent and knowl-
edge from the outset. He tells Ingram that he would have told him
earlier except he had learned that for two years Ingram had been
monitoring his offices via the roommate. Thereupon it turns out ,
that President Roudebush had sent Greer on a private mission to
meet with Russian, Chinese, and other nuclear scientists and
high officials to cope with the Red Chinese nuclear threat, and
an agreement for world peace had been worked out, thereby,
of course, making Roudebush the great hero just before the
election and Ingram the goat.
LAWRENCE R. HOUSTON
General Counsel
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