CONVERSATION WITH SENATOR SYMINGTON RE RADIOS AND DDCI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000400130010-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 7, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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OLC 72-0289
7 March 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Conversation with Senator Symington re Radios
and DDCI
1. Today the Director told me of a phone conversation he had this
morning with Senator Symington, who called to say he thought Senator
Fulbright and the Committee were being treated unfairly on the question
of the Radios. He asked the Director whether the Agency had any connec-
tion with the Radios. The Director explained that the "umbilical cord"
had been completely severed, and that we had had no Agency people in the
Radios for several years. He expressed the personal view that it would
be a pity to give up the Radios without getting something in return.
Symington said he thought we ought to turn them over to the Europeans or
let "IT &T run them. It
2. The Director volunteered the remark that he was quite satisfied
with the appointment of the new DDCI. He said he had had several talks
with General Walters and was quite relieved to find that he was not a "stiff
neck" military type but someone who was well qualified and had "been
around" quite a bit.
!JOHN M. MAURY
' - __/I,egislative Counsel
Distribution:
Original - Sen. Symington
CRC, 10/22/2003
L O&M DDCI
Radios
C' M ..I/C
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