LETTER (SANITIZED) FROM J. KENNETH MCDONALD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP01-00569R000100100011-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 26, 1984
• Content Type: LETTER

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Executive Secretary
History Staff Bi-weekly
1. Having received nearly 100 applications for our Staff Historian
job, we are now selecting our short list, so that we can arrange
interviews for them and inform those not selected.
2. Ken met with and others from OIS to begin
organizing the historical documents review program to which Mr. Casey
committed the Agency by his October 1983 exchange of letters with Senator
Durenberger. The CIA Information Act requires the DCI to report to
Congress on this program (and its possible expansion) by 1 June 1985. In
managing this program jointly with OIS, the History Staff will serve as
liaison with the historical profession, and advise Agency components on
which of their records are of historical interest.
3. Don sent the DDCI, for his comments, the chapter from his
monograph concerning the overhead program with which Mr. McMahon had been
4. Since last May Ken has been after IMS/DO to review CIA's
holdings of OSS films to try to find footage of General Donovan for use
in a film that Mr. Edward Boughton, Secretary of the Veterans of
Strategic Services, is making for Donovan Memorial Foundation. In the
end, they turned up only several more copies of a film that Boughton had
already been given access to last May.
5. Diane finished processing and sent to the State Department's
History Office the last of a large batch of CIA-originated documents
State's researchers had selected at the Kennedy Library. Of the 660
documents sent us, State eliminated 224 by re-screening the documents
here after we received them. The components denied 247 documents, so
that 189 were released (mostly at their existing classification) for
State to consult in preparing the Vietnam War volumes of the Foreign
Relations of the United States series.
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6. Bob continues work on his Israeli chapter in the Helms study.
He has interviewed now detailed to DIA, and arranged for
an interview in November wit now retired. R. Jack Smith
commented very favorably on Bob's draft CI chapter in the Helms study,
and offered several useful suggestions.
8. Roberta has taken leave from 25 October to Tuesday 30 October.
/s/ J. Kenneth McDonald
J. Kenneth McDonald
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