DEAR ADMIRAL RABORN:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP69B00596R000100140007-4
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• Document Page Count: 21
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 28, 1965
• Content Type: LETTER

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Dear Admiral Raborn:
THE VICE PRESIDENT
WAS H I N GTO N
October 28, 1965
I want to extend to you my personal thanks and appreciation
for the efforts made by your organization to keep me informed of
significant international developments while I was on an extended
trip throughout the United States during October 1965.
Each day couriers arrived from your organization in many
cities in the United States at times and places previously agreed
upon. These arrangements were executed in every case in a most
efficient manner. I was pleased that they did not cause any undue
comment in the press or among local officials.
Although I cannot verify the details I have been informed
that this is the first time in history an intelligence community
made this effort.
I was pleased that we were not only in touch by courier
transmission but also that our radio communications seemed to
work when called upon. No doubt in the future we can improve,
but I am particularly pleased with the progress we have made to
date, and I would appreciate it very much if you would commend
all hands.
*ARMY, NAVY, STATE REVIEWS COMPLETED*
Best wishes.
*NO NSC EQUITIES* Sincerely,
bert H. Humphrey
Admiral William F. Raborn
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Langley, Virginia
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Dear Admiral Raborn:
THE VICE. PRESIDENT
WASH I NGTON
January 3, 1965
As one of my first acts unon my return to
Washington I want to
commend you and your associates upon the professional
manner in which you kept me informed
The flexibility, speed, resourcefulness and
dedication displayed by CIA men and women were in
the best traditions of American patr:iotic service.
Best wishes.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Admiral William F. Raborn, USN (Ret.)
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Langley, Virginia
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Excerpt from Remarks by Secretary of State Dean Rusk on 1 December 1965
at the White House Conference on International Cooperation
"Question: Mr. Secretary, the question that I have before me is really
not a question, but it's a statement, it's a message for you from someone
here --
"Secretary Rusk: Please --
"Question: I think it really reflects the mood in which this conference is
greeting you. Because he says, Mr. Secretary, whatever the question,
whatever the answer, you have our deepest sympathy and our cooperation.
And then a question, in this country, the people are expected to participate
in the dialogue with Government, in the determination of policy. But what
can be done when the CIA seems to be making policy, completely removed
from the public and even from government control?
"Secretary Rusk: Well in the first place the CIA does not make policy, and
is not engaged in activities unknown to the policy offices of the government.
There is at the present time, in certain other countries, an organized
effort, through forgeries, through lies, to implicate us in situations in
which we're not at all implicated. Now this is a difficult problem, but I
would emphasize to you that CIA is not engaged in activities not known to
the senior policy officers of the government. But you should also bear in
mind, that beneath the level of public discussion, there is a tough struggle
going on in the back alleys all over the world. It's a tough one, it's
unpleasant, and no one likes it, but that is not a field which can be left
entirely to the other side. And so once in a while some disagreeable things
happen, and I can tell you that there is a good deal of gallantry and a high
degree of competence in those who have to help us deal with that part of
the struggle for freedom, as in other parts of the struggle for freedom."
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 30, 1965
PERSONAL
Dear Admiral:
This is both an official and a personal letter.
I thank you for your September 28 report on the economy
measures taken at the Agency. Your report on the medical
tests will, I know, greatly interest and greatly please the President.
Additionally, since I am leaving the White House on Friday,
I want to express to you my appreciation for your friendship and
helpfulness -- and, also, to express my admiration for the
service you are giving the country again in this new and responsible
position. It is reassuring and inspiring to know someone like
yourself. If ever I can be helpful to you, please don't hesitate
to call.
Horace Busby
Special Assistant to the President
Honorable W. F. Ra,born
Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Washington 25, D. C.
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To: Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Subj: Intelligence support during the Dominican Republic Contingency
Operation (U)
I. Now that we have reduced our military forces in the Dominican
Republic to those which will. remain a? part of the Liter-American
Peace Por.ce, it seems an appropriate time to comment on the
intelligence support provided to this command by the Central Intelligence
Agency.
2. Throughout our operations in the Dominican Republic, and most
especially during the critical periods involved, the support of your
organization to this command has been outstanding in every respect..
\the timeliness
with which these reports were made available to CINCLANT, CJTF 122,
and USCOMDOMREP was most commendable.
3. Would you express to those concerned my appreciation and
admiration for a professional job thoroughly well done.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHMOTON
December 23, 1965
Dear Red:
The real strength of America is in the men
who serve her. After a lifetime of success-
ful service you deserved your respite from
duties. But when your President said that
you were needed once more, you never hesi-
tated. Once more, you are the commander
of an important national enterprise, and the
people of our land are the beneficiaries of
your sacrifice.
At Christmas, the johnson family simply
wanted you to know of their gratitude for a
Raborn tradition of service. May God bless
you always.
Vice Admiral William F. Raborn USN (Ret)
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington D. Co
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Intelligence Agency (CIA). It tions. .. "Our 'president took practical- i
is the perennial whipping boy What we ought not forget is ly everything he wrote out of ?.! ,..-
- 7, of columnists and congress- that in many critical situa- American books and other. ? '
.'' men and of just about every " tions these last few years, the ? ? publications."
'r foreign dictator seeking to United States has been able to', At a dinner in Lusaka, tbal .
if. divert attention from his own make the correct decision to ? vice president of Zambia 4 1,
crookedness or ineptitude. ' , ? guarantee our security be. - began conversation by asking IF,
F., As one who knows a bit cause CIA had secured infor- ?? . me to give 'him an appraisal .,'
about CIA (which most of its motion that our enemies. of "The Invisible Govern- ), .
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; critics decidedly do not), I get thought we could not possibly ' ment," a book by two of my .:1 ?
a little sick of seeing it bad- possess. The Cuban ' missiles ., , journalistic colleagues about 4
gored and abused by just crisis is an example. ? ?so-called CIA cloak-and- ?i ?
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about everybody capable of
Having said all this, I must , dagger operations abroad. 'l
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' scratching out a sentence or . concede . that CIA is at a I ducked the question by'.? ? ? critical point in its history.. commenting: "I only wish
, calling a press conference.,,? -. -
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