FOLLOW-UP ACTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP05T00644R000601640018-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 2009
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: March 22, 1977
• Content Type: MEMO

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22 March 1977 -
MEMORANDUM FOR:
SUBJECT Follow-up Action
REFERENCE : Mr. Evans' memorandum dated IS March 1977
Paragraph.6
I called Hal Saunders to clarify the matter which the
Secretary had raised with the DCI. I told Hal in particular
that I had no record whatever of the State Department ever
raising this issue before in this form. We discussed ways
of effectively protecting each of us from being vulnerable
to this kind of journalistic probing, and, I think, agreed
that prior coordination was impracticable and, certainly from
the point of view of the Agency., unnecessary. Hal told me
that a new position, parallel in essence to that of a
public affairs adviser in the geographic bureaus, has been
established in his office; Paul Hilburn currently holds this
function, and I think that contact with him will effectively
complement the coordination we already have with State
Department spokesman and others.
No further action necessary at this point.
Andrew T. Falkiewicz
Assistant to the Director
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