LETTER OF RECOGNITION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000200090113-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 113
• Publication Date: January 6, 1958
• Content Type: MF

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6 January 1958
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, HTAUTOMAT
SUBJECT Letter of Recognition
1. For the last two years, ever since its establishment.
HTAUTOMAT has operated under extraordinary circumstances. One
of these circumstances is the fact that two units from different offices,
namely, one from ORR and one from OCR, have been thrown together
in activities requiring close cooperation continuously while still reporting
through separate administrative channels.
Despite this possible handicap, the ,problems of conducting
an expanding activity in new quarters quite remote from the headquarters,
the heavy demands of overtime, and the constant pressure to meet dead-
lines, HTAUTOMAT has indeed exceeded in its performance our
reasonable expectations. The aggressive, imaginative, and persistent
way in which you and the members of your staff have carried out their
responsibilities have made it possible to maintain a rate of exploitation
in keeping. with the collection of raw materials resulting in significant
increment to our intelligence appreciation of vital foreign areas. The
extension of the use of your facility to other agencies and in particular
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the military Services; and the prompt service you have provided them
has been an exemplary performance contributing greatly to our inter-
agency relations.
3. I fully realise that 'k an operation as complex and detailed
as that of ITAUTOMAT requires if it is to be successful the utmost in
teamwork. It is obvious that this teamwork has been outstanding.
4. We look forward to the continuation of the great things
that have been accomplished in HTAUTOMAT.
ALLEN W. DULLES
Director
O-RMB
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