LETTER TO GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER FROM WALTER B. SMITH

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02110484
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2019
• Case Number: F-2015-02240
• Publication Date: August 18, 1952

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Dear General Eisenhower:
In accordance with the ?resident's instructions
you with information on the world situation similar
receives each Friday morninv, T suggest that the sub
briefings in condensed form be bound in a folder, to
short summaries of current intelligence estimates,
each week or ten days by an officer of this Agency.
should not exceed fifteen minutes.
� After you have read and any questions which oc
answered, the officer can return the folder to me,
are of a classified nature which must by law remain
officer who is properly cleared for security. While
so cleared, you should not be burdened with the rasp
documents of this nature.
If the above is satinfactory, will you be po
of your personal arpistants make up a tentative ache
places of delivery that will. be comedent to you?
Faithful
/s/ Walte
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Post Office Box 985
Denver, Colorado
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WAS
December 3 1952
TO The Secretary of State
The Secretary of the Treasury
The Secretary of Defense
The Attorney General
The Postmaster General
The Secretary of the Interior
The Secretary of Agriculture
The Secretary of Commerce
The Secretary of Labor
/Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission
I Director of Central intelligence
Chairman, Civil Service Commission
Director, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Se ice
Administrator, Federal Security Agency
Administrator, General Services Administration
Adndnistrator� Housing and Home Finance Agency
Director, Mutual Security Agency
Administrator, Reconstruction Finance Corporati n
Administrator, Small Defense Plants Administrat on
Director, Bureau of the Budget
Director of Defense Mobilization
Administrator, Economic Stabilization Agency
Executive Secretary, National Security Council
Chairman, National Security Resources Board
As you know, I have been trying to facilitate an
orderly transition to the incoming Administration, and to that end I have
asked that everyone in the Executive branch be helpful in every way possible
to General Eisenhower's representatives.
I would appreciate it if you could let me have not
later than January 19;1aramrirel-Tepia�ifiii respearrin-araS
IriBiRa*gnrilas saWrt-in your department or agency, covering such
matters as materials you have prepared to aid the new administration; re-
quests for assistance you have received from General Eisenhower's repre-
sentatives; and conferences and other consultations held to smooth the
transition.
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