DEAR PROFESSOR CHEATHAM:

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• Publication Date: October 27, 1958
• Content Type: LETTER

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role of the Security Office is one of the main keys to the problem -
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of the Department of Justice and is not
accord with some of our thoughts on the subject.
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seeking ways it- can Improve in this
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SPECIAL COMMIT`i*e~ ON THE FEDERAL LOYALTY-PURITY PROGRAM
OF
THE ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
42 WEST 44TH STREET ? NEW YORK 36,N.Y.
DUDLEY B. BONSAL, Chairman
63 WALL STREET, NEW YORK 5, N. Y.
RICHARD BENTLEY, CHICAGO
FREDERICK M. BRADLEY, WASHINGTON, D. C.
HENRY J. FRIENDLY, NEW YORK
HAROLD M. KENNEDY, NEW YORK
MONTE M. LEMANN, NEW ORLEANS
JOHN O'MELVENY, LOS ANGELES
GEORGE ROBERTS, NEW YORK
WHITNEY NORTH SEYMOUR, NEW YORK
Lawrence R. Houston, Esq.
General Counsel
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington 25, D. C.
ELLIOTT E. CHEATHAM, Director
JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Associate Director
JOHN R. MILLER, Consultant
October 26, 1955
Today I read with deep interest and benefit the
papers you so thoughtfully gave me last evening. They
are most helpful in giving not only an understanding of
your own program but of problems basic to the whole of
the loyalty-security system. The proposed regulation is
an unusually interesting effort to maintain the needed
secrecy and at the same time to give the employee all
practicable information. The discussion last night and
your comments have confirmed my belief that the particular
riethod of selecting hearing board members under Executive
Order 10450 is unfortunate. It does not secure members
who are independent and who will not be fearful of the
practical consequences on them and their positions. No?
does it provide any useful kind of expertness, since the
members are not experienced in handling such cases nor
are they conversant with the problems of the particular
agency involved.
The comments on the defects in the espionage
laws dealt with a matter which we have not so far consi-
dered. Perhaps our Committee'will be led at least to
point out the relation of criminal sanctions and the
practicability of their uses, with the personnel security
programs.
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Your Notes for Discussion gave me a good idea
of the matters you would have discussed with the Committee
if time had permitted. They make me regret all the more
that you felt you could not deal with them last night.
I shall hope to discuss some of them with you later.
Is the Regulation No. on Personnel one
which we may refer to? Or is e kept in confidence?
With appreciation of your aid and kindness,
Sincerely yours,
t. : ' t e. -,+x .
Elliott E. Cheatham
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SPECIAL COMMITIwP, ON THE FEDERAL LOYALTY- S URITY PROGRAM
OF
THE ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
42 WEST 44TH STREET ? NEW YORK 36,N.Y.
DUDLEY B. BONSAL, Chairman
63 WALL STREET, NEW YORK 5, N. Y.
RICHARD BENTLEY, CHICAGO
FREDERICK M. BRADLEY, WASHINGTON, D. C.
HENRY J. FRIENDLY, NEW YORK
-/HAROLD M. KENNEDY, NEW YORK
, MONTE M. LEMANN, NEW ORLEANS
, JOHN O'MELVENY, LOS ANGELES
JJ/GEORGE ROBERTS, NEW YORK
/WHITNEY NORTH SEYMOUR, NEW YORK
The Honorable Allen W. Dulles
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington 25, D. C.
F ELLIOTT E. CHEATHAM, Director
JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Associate Director
JOHN It. MILLER, Consultant
October 18, 1955
We are looking forward with great pleasure to
meeting with you and Mr. Houston at six o'clock on the
evening of Tuesday, October 25th. We will meet in the
Century Club, 7 West 43rd Street, instead of the House
of the Association of the Bar.
In your agency security is so important that
we shall be especially desirous of having your views and
comments on the security system.
Do you wish us to make a hotel reservation for
you? If so, we will make it at the Waldorf. In that way
the bill will be sent to us and you will be spared the
trouble of including that item in the expense account
you send us.
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Dudley B.' Bonsai
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SPECIAL COMMITIw ON THE FEDERAL LOYALTY- ww URITY PRO RAM
OF
THE ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
42 WEST 44TH STREET ? NEW YORK 36,N.Y.
DUDLEY B. BONSAL, Chairman
63 WALL STREET, NEW YORK g, N.Y.
RICHARD BENTLEY, CHICAGO
FREDERICK M. BRADLEY, WASHINGTON, D. C.
HENRY J. FRIENDLY, NEW YORK
HAROLD M. KENNEDY, NEW YORK
MONTE M. LEMANN, NEW ORLEANS
JOHN O'MELVENY, LOS ANGELES
GEORGE ROBERTS, NEW YORK
WHITNEY NORTH SEYMOUR, NEW YORK
ELLIOTT B. CHEATHAM, Director
JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Associate.Director
JOHN R. MILLER, Consultant
October 18, 1955
Lawrence R. Houston, Esq.
General Counsel
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington 25, D. C.
Dear Mr. Houston:
We are looking forward with great pleasure to
meeting with you and Mr. Dulles at six o'clock on the
evening of Tuesday, October 25th. We will meet in the
Century Club, 7 West L.3rd Street, instead of the House
of the Association of the Bar.
I remember with special pleasure the most help-
ful information you gave to Professor Cheatham and me
at lunch during the summer. I am desirous that all the
members of our Committee shall have the benefit of your
comments and views on security, in the light of the most
sensitive character of the work of your agency.
Do you wish us to make a hotel reservation for
you? If so, we will make it at the Waldorf. In that way
the bill will be sent to us and you will be spared the
trouble of including that item in the expense account
you send us. A
Sin rely ur
UIA -
Dudley B. Bonsal
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THE ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR
OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
42 WEST 44TH STREET
NEW YORK 36, N.Y.
Room 611
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Lawrence R.'Houston, Esq.
General Counsel
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington 25, D. C.
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SPECIAL COMMIT'1' ON THE FEDERAL LOYALTY-+C.URITY PROGRAM
OF
THE ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
4 2 WEST 44TH STREET ? NEW YORK 3 6, N. Y.
DUDLEY B. BONSAL, Chairman
63 WALL STREET, NEW YORK 5, N.Y.
RICHARD BENTLEY, CHICAGO
FREDERICK M. BRADLEY, WASHINGTON, D. C.
HENRY J. FRIENDLY, NEW YORK
HAROLD M. KENNEDY, NEW YORK
MONTE M. LEMANN, NEW ORLEANS
JOHN O'MELVENY, LOS ANGELES
GEORGE ROBERTS, NEW YORK
WHITNEY NORTH SEYMOUR, NEW YORK
ELLIOTT E. CHEATHAM, Director
JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Associate Director
JOHN R. MILLER, Consultant
September 21, 1955
Hon. Allen W. Dulles
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington 25, D. C.
Dear Mr, Dulles:
It was nice to talk with you briefly
on the telephone in London, and I hope the boat
trip turned out as well as you expected it would.
Upon your return, you will doubtless
have received my letter inviting you to join with
our Committee on the evening of October 25th. I
do hope this will be agreeable to you, and look
forward very much to seeing you at that time.
With kind regards.
Sin'erely
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THE ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR
OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
42 WEST 44TH STREET
NEWYORK 36,N.Y.
Room 611
Hon. Allen F. Dulles
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington 2S, D. C.
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