LETTER TO RICHARD M. BISSELL, JR. FROM (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68R00530A000200020004-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 23, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 20, 1965
• Content Type: LETTER

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENC
WASHINGTON 25, D.C.
20 September 1965
Richard M. Bissell, Jr.
United Aircraft Corporation
400 Main Street
East Hartford, Connecticut
Dear Mr. Bissell t
This is to confirm our telephone conversation of
17 September 1965.
The purpose of the dinner meetings is primarily
to broaden the backgrounds of our senior employees and
"young turks" in DD/S&T. As you can appreciate, many
of these individuals have entered the Agency rather
recently and have relatively little perspective on In-
telligence, although they are qualified in science and
technology. Your involvement in the development and
exploitation of the first major technological collection
system places you in a unique position to describe the
difficulties and pitfalls in such a program.
The first meeting is planned for 6 p.m. on 12 October
unless you wish to change it to 11 October. There will
be a short cocktail period followed by dinner. You may
wish to speak for thirty to sixty minutes which would
permit additional time for discussion and a question
period. There will be thirty individuals attending the
meeting. The meeting will be informal and off the record.
We are very pleased that you have consented to kick
off this program for us. Please let me know if there is
anything we can do to assist you in making arrangements
or providing transportation.
Sincerely,
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25 August 1965
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Science and Technology
SUBJECT
Monthly Dinner Meetings, /S&T
1. To follow up on our earlier meeting, I propose that
the dinner meetings be held monthly from September through
June with no more than thirty individuals attending. The
attendees should include a few senior VV/S&T officials as well
as new and younger employees. Plans have been made to take
care of the administrative details in ORD. I prefer to in-
ject more informality and thoughtful exchange into the meet-
ings by shortening the cocktail hour, doing away with specific
seating arrangements, and circulating a short resume of the
speaker's background and interests prior to the meetings.
2. The speakers will generally fall into three categories:
a. Scientists and engineers who have had intimate
exposure to intelligence. Suggested speakers are Dr.
Land, Dr. Tordella, Dr. Killian, Dr. Weisner, Dr. Suits,
Dr. Kistiakowaki, Dr. Hornig, Dr. Seitz, Dr. Baker, Dr.
Purcell, Dr. Tuckey, Dr. Doty, and Dr. Garvin.
b. Past and present key intelligence figures to in-
clude Mr. Kent, General Carter, Mr. Dulles, Mr. Helms,
General Carroll, Mr. Fitzgerald. Mr. Biaaell,
c. Non-scientists who have been or should be asso-
ciated with the development of intelligence. These in-
clude Mr. Bundy, Mr. Webb, Mr. Welsh (National Space
Council), senators and representatives who are respon-
sible for appropriations, and stimulating individuals
such as Senators Jackson, McCarthy, and Rep. Holifield.
3. I have attached lists of the current members of the
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, President's
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25X1
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SUBJEC #* Monthly Dinner Meetings/DD/S&T
Scientific Advisory Comittee, and individuals on the Appro-
priations Committee knowledgeable of Agency activities for
your review. I have not attempted to delete names for po-
litical or other reasons but would like an indication from
you of those individuals you feel are most appropriate. I
will be glad to contact the speakers by telephone and letter
on your behalf if you so desire; however, it may be more
politic for the initial invitation to come from you or in
some cases the Director. In these instances I will do the
follow up. I will be happy to discuss this with you at your
convenience.
Deputy Director
of
Research and Development
Attachments
A. PFIAB and PSAC Membership Listings
H. U.S. Congressmen Knowledgeable of
Agency Activities and Responsible
for Appropriations
Distribution:
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1 -
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LS/ORD/DD/S&T
(25 August 1965)
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Clark C ifford, Chairman
William 0. Baker
Gordon Gray
Williams. Langer
Edwin B.. Land
Robert M by
Frank Pace
J. Patrick Coyne, Executive Secretary
Harvey Brooks
Melvin Calvin
Richard L. Garin
Paul Doty
old P. Barre
George $ietiakovskt
Cohn MacLeod
William McElroy
Wolfgang .Panof sky
John R. Pierce
Emanuel Piore
Frank Press
Edward M. Purcell
Frederick Seitz
John W. Tukey
Jerald Zacharias
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