TELEPHONE CONVERSATION WITH MR. DONALD F. SIMPSON CONCERNING THE TRANSFER OF HEW RESPONSIBILITIES FOR SECTIONS OF THE NIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01153A000100080020-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: June 3, 1966
• Content Type: MFR

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3 June 1966
SUBJECT: Telephone Conversation with Mr. Donald F. Simpson
Concerning the Transfer of HEW Responsibilities
for Sections of the NIS
*HHS/HEW Declassification & Release Instructions on File*
1. In a telephone conversation with Mr. Donald F. Simpson,
Assistant Secretary for Administration, HEW, on 2 June 1966, he
reported that Mr. Ralph Roberts, State's Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Budget, had called and said that the Department of State would
not accept the transfer of the HEW NIS staff. Mr. Roberts told
Mr. Simpson that the matter had been taken up by Mr. Crockett with
Tom Hughes and Under Secretary of State George Ball, and that the
response had been an unequivocal NO, State will not assume respon-
sibility.
2. Mr. Simpson said that he was now forced to draft a letter
for the signature of Secretary Gardner, HEW, to the Director, CIA,
saying that -- upon the completion of this current fiscal year
agreement -- HEW would not continue the work for the NIS and would
insist that all arrangements with CIA be terminated. He indicated,
however, that there would be a 90-day grace period beyond 1 July to
allow for security, personnel processing, and arrangements of space
and other administrative matters. He felt that this was an adequate
period of time to allow the Agency to make other arrangements and
had been advised by the administrative people in the Department of
25X1A State to this effect. Mr. Simpson will read the draft letter over
the phone to me on Monday, 6 June. He indicated that he saw no other
alternative and was forced to take this action.
3.
He reiterated that any association of HEW with intelligence is
unacceptable.
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