LETTER TO HONORABLE FRANCIS E. WALTER FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 23, 2004
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: September 12, 1960
• Content Type: LETTER

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epterssber 12,
able Francis E.
use of Representatives
ington 25, D. C.
I have given a great deal of thought to your letter of
rnher 1960.
purpose of my telephone call to you on 2 September,
was to thank you for inserting in the Congressional Record the full
text of my address before the Veterans of Foreign Wars at Detro
August 1960.
Another purpose was to call attention to an AP report of a
tatement which you niade to the press on 1 September, and which
was widely circulated throughout the country, that "The FBI gave
the CIA certain information which certainly should have deterred
the hiring of at least one of those two men, " referring to the two
NSA defectors. The P added "He declined to amplify."
I feel sure that this statement was made on the basis of a
misunderstanding since it has no basis in fact. No such infer
was given to the CIA by the FBI, or by anyone else, and there was no
ular reason why it should have been so given since the question
the screening of these two men for employment by NS was no
matter over which the CIA had jurisdiction or responsibility.
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Subsequently on September 7, L960, the Depa
Justice gave out the following statement:
t Reports that the F' 131 had furnished unfavorable
Lion to the Department of Defense of i iitcbell
and Martin prior to its employment of them are erro-
ae-ona. The pro-ernployme-at investigation of these man
conducted by the i epartment of Defense and not by
the federal Bureau of Investigation. In response to ti
I inquiry made by the Department of Defense in the
course of its investigation, the FBI reported that it had no
information in its files concerning these men."
phone call to you, I also expressed regret that your
staternenat was tied in closely to another statement attributed to you
by the Associated Press that The CIA will be the first tar
inquiry.
y hope that you will find occasion to correct the record
as regards the prior furnishing of information to this Agency about the
AA defectors.
I ;should welcome an opportunity to discuss with you certain
other comments in your letter, rather than attempt to deal with them
by correspondence. You and I have had many good talks together, and
since we have both spent many years of our lives in trying to expose and
defeat the subversive communist menace, it is unfortunate there should
be the misunderstanding which your letter indicates.
There is one further point, however, that I would wish to
This relates to the statement in your letter regarding CIA "reluctance
to convey to the Congress any information regarding its personnel, as
well as its activities in the field of national security. . .
!'he Congress itself has sat up, in the 53*nate and the House,
subcommittees of the appropriations Committees and of the
Services Cori mittees, for CU. matters. 'We have appeared many times
before these committees and certain other committees to which we have
responsibilities, such as the joint 'tomic Zz;nergy Committee. In 1954
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such appearances and so far In 1960 16 appearances.
have uniformly responded to requests from these committees,
and several tines I have taken the initiative in asking the eo. mitt
to hear me. I do not recall a single instance during appear
these committees when we have failed to answer fully and frankly the,
questions with respect to CIA, activities. I feel sure that if YOu would
inquire of Representative Cannon or Representative Ilda.y, the re-
spective chairmen of the two subcommittees I have mentioned, they
would bear out what I have said.
Certainly I agree with you that there can he no monopoly what-
soever in the mobilisation and deployment of the resources of the
country in meeting the Communist menace. In my speech at !Jetroi
which I gather you viewed favorably, I tried to emphasize this view
nd the need for a far broader understanding by the country of
the grave issues which face us.
ully yours
.ilea W. Dulles
Director
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TRANSMITTAL SLIP
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REMARKS:
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FORM RFEB 55 M NO 241 REPLACES FORM 36-8
WHICH MAY BE USED.
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