DEAR DICK:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100490006-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 13, 1967
• Content Type: LETTER

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ELLIS 0. BRIGGS
THREE PLEASANT STREET
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
July 13, 1967
The Honorable Richard Hel #ls
The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D. C.
Dear Dick:
To complete the incident referred to in
my note of June 12 and your acknowledgment of
June ls, here is my "Letter to the Editor" from
the July issue of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.
Don't bother to acknow e? g,e.
Thank you for the luncheon suggestion.
Should I be in Washington one of these days, I
will give you a ring.
Sincerely yours,
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CPYRGHT
Drew Pearson, as reported in the 1921
class notes in the May ALUMNI MAGAZINE,
have no basis in fact.
At the six Embassies where I served in
the years following the establishment of the
Central Intelligence Agency my CIA col-
leagues were sophisticated, knowledgeable,
and cooperative. They contributed substan-
tially to the success of my missions -
retired Career Ambassador, objects to says
that while he was U. S. Ambassador to
Hanover, N. 11.
vicee:n ne never xnew wnat central Intel-
ligence was doing and that the CIA men
had more to spend than the American Em-
bassy."
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