ANNOUNCEMENT OF APPOINTMENT TO KEY POSITION OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR

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AfINI STRATIVE - INTERNAL USSNLY
(This Notice Is Not To Be Filed In Agency
Manuals. Please Destroy After Reading.)
ANNOUNCEMENT OF APPOINTMENT TO KEY POSITION
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Effective 16 June 1976, Andrew T. Falkiewicz is appointed
Assistant to the Director, vice Angus M. Thuermer, reassigned.
Lleu-rge
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Director
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Andrew:
I have looked this over and am in total agreement.
Some of it you and I have discussed.
Let's chat sometime about Hank's role as
Deputy. He is a cih to work with.
Some of your work will be with him; a lot'
more will be with me. He and I keep. each other
closely informed.
This memo is not intended to be all inclusive -
obviously.
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15 June 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant to the Director
FROM: E. H. Knoche
SUBJECT: The Nature of the Assignment
Andrew:
1. The basic challenge of your assignment as Assistant to the
Director is to help us relate better to forces and institutions external
to us in CIA. We need the widest and deepest public understanding of
the intelligence profession and its importance, and we will look to you
to. help us find the appropriate themes and the audiences in reaching
this objective. As for audiences, we want to be as even-handed as
possible, making sure that we attempt to gain understanding, if not
approval, from a cross-section of American society.
2. Obviously, we do not want to impart valid secrets, particularly
those that relate to intelligence sources and methods. Equally obviously,
we have no rightful role to play in asserting or debating issues of A
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can foreign policy. We do, however, have a proper role to play in finding
ways to make more available certain of our intelligence findings which do
not impart sources and methods or touch directly on foreign policy.
3. We have recently revised our procedures governing the con-
sideration and approval or disapproval of proposed unclassified articles
in open journals authored by CIA personnel. We have established a Pub-
lications Review Board which will be chaired by you, with representation
from various parts of the Agency. We expect the board to function
imaginatively and intelligently with a due regard for security, for the
timing of publication, for the potential controversy it might set off, for
assurances that American foreign policy is not involved, and for an assur-
ance that the publication vehicle is an appropriate one for the purpose.
The procedures and c are well spelled out in Headquarters Notice
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4. You will want to stay abreast of current studies within the
Agency and within the IC Staff dealing with the whole question of secrecy
and cornpartme.ntation. In finding ways to be more forthcoming with the
intelligence product, we hope to become more systematic in our own
publication of unclassified articles bearing on matters of interest to
American universities and libraries. I have in mind reports on such
topics as climatology, the general nature of international terrorism,
and the general pattern of the international narcotics trade. We will
look to you to help us reach judgments on how to become more systematic
in our publication of such articles and on the propriety of doing so.
5. It has been Agency policy not to have Headquarters contact with
representatives of foreign media.
6. In short, we are asking you to concentrate on ways:to build
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external understanding of what we are about. In carrying out this task,
you should participate in and be aware of all phases of our external work
including our relations with Congress (a responsibility. of the Office of the
Legislative Counsel) with other parts of the Executive Department, ' with
the media, and with other American organizations, public and private.
7. You will have full support in the decisions you make as to the
organization of your staff in meeting this important charge.
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PA 14 30 June 1976
A cold trail
One hundred eleven years after the event,
Americans still doubt that they have all the
facts about the. assassination of President Lin-
coln. When the tricentennial rolls around, new
generations probably will be wondering how
much truth they have about the assassination-of
President Kennedy, which by then will be 113
years old.
Assassinations provide an endless fascination
for theory builders. There always wil be people
who like to keep the pot boiling and can con-
struct elaborate conspiracies from the flimsiest
evidence.
. That isn't to say there aren't some unanswer-
ed questions about the Kennedy assassination.
But clearing them up does not seem worth
spending tens or hundreds of thousands of dol-
lars and tying up a lot of officials and aides who
might more profitably spend their time on ur-
gent matters.
When a push developed in several quarters
months ago to reopen the Kennedy assassination
investigation, the big question raised was
whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Now
the emphasis has shifted from trying to prove
that other assassins were present to the issue of
whether the assassination was planned by Fidel
Castro.
The Cuban theory has gained impetus from
Senate investigations disclosing that the Central
Intelligence Agency had plotted to have Castro
killed. If the CIA under President Kennedy was
conspiring against the life of Castro, the theory
goes, isn't it logical to assume that Castro might
retaliate?
There's nothing wrong with the logic. The
problem is proving it.
The fact that a couple of Cubans boarded
Cuban airliners in Mexico shortly after the
Kennedy assassination is hardly proof that Cas-
tro engineered the assassination. Nor is there
proof in the speculation that a Cuban official
chosen by the CIA to kill Castro may have been
a double agent who informed Castro of the CIA
plot
There was sufficient basis for the Senate Se-
lect Committee on Intelligence Activities to.]!
criticize the CIA for not fully informing the War-
ren Commission of everything it knew about the
movements of Cubans and about its own plots f
against Castro. Criticism of FBI bungling on
some aspects of the assassination investigations
also was justified. .
But even the Senate committee concluded that
it "has not uncovered any evidence. sufficient to
justify a conclusion that there was a conspiracy
to assassinate President Kennedy."
Last.week Sen. Richard Schweiker, one of the
more ardent of the conspiracy. theorists, ac-
cused the CIA and- FBI- of a -"coverup" on the
assassination, and during a television appear-
ance Sunday he included the White House in the,"
coverup charge. Unless Mr. Schweiker knows
more than he has disclosed, his charges come
pretty close to irresponsibility.
Senator Schweiker is insisting on hot pursuit
of leads by the permanent Senate intelligencej;
oversight committee that was created recently. }
But the chairman of the oversight committee,!
Sen. Daniel Inouye, is reported cool to giving
further investigation of the assassination high
priority, which seems to us a sensible attitude.
Barring a confession by Castro that he was
behind the Kennedy assassination, it seems un-
likely that the Cuban conspiracy theory can be
proved beyond doubt. The trail is cold and many
people involved in the original investigation are
dead, including the heads of the CIA and the
FBI.
And what if further investigation should indi-
cate a closer tie between Castro and the assassi-
nation? Are we going to send the Marines into
Cuba to haul Castro to account? Not bloody like- ;
ly.
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THE WASHINGTON STAR (GR. :?I LITNE)
30 June 11076
Garry Walls
Liberating. FBI agents
T';e Nuremburg principle
h3::,en challenged in its
international application.
Some say international law
is not recognized by alit na-
tions; imposed on the con-
quered, it .amounts to
promulgating and enforcing
the law simultaneously.
Nonetheless, we as a nation
did establish the Nurem-
burg principle, and we have
tried on occasion to abide
by it, even when the crimi-
nal was an American sol-
dier (e.g. Lt. Calley).
But even if there are
some arguments against the
principle in international
affairs, we cannot logically
assert it in a questionable
area a; d deny it where no
such doubts apply.
In domestic affairs, when
we are dealing with fellow
citizens under a single legal
systein, there can be no de-
fense for breaking a law on
the grounds that "I was just
obeying orders." The judge
very eloquently knocked
down that defense in the
.'plumbers" trial. .
Many well-documented
crimes against"American
citizens have been commit-
ted by active agents of the
CIA and the FBI. Yet no
single perpetrator of those
rnaitiple crimes has been
convicted. In the few cases
where indictments were
brought, the agencies suc-
ceeded in quashing them.
But now we hear that the
Justice Department is
investigating the network of
FBI agents who committed
illegal searches and sei-
zures in the campaign
against the Socialist Work-
ers party.
To some Americans, the
idea of holding a "G-man"
to account for undermining
the Constitution is unthink-
able. These people have
been treated as above the
law. But such an attitude
not only did long-term dam-
age to our society; it re-
duced FBI agents to the
pawns of an autocratic
director.
We citizens could never
question an agent, because
an agent could never ques-
tion J. Edgar Hoover's
orders. The agents were
systematically , humiliated,
regimented, and forced to
do dirty work. As Dos-
toievsky described the proc-
ess in The Possessed, noth-
ing strengthened the
conspiracy like the implica-
tion of all its members in
interrelated crimes. Then
no one can "squeal" be-
cause all are vulnerable.
That wa the power the FBI
had over its own.
It is time - long past
time -to break that power.
There is no question, now,
that FBI agents broke the
law. So: how do we prove
that the FBI is not organ-
izationally committed to
law-breaking except by
prosecution of actual law-
breakers?
The effect will be liberate
future agents, no matter
how much presently impli-
cated asents`protest the un-
fairness of punishing them.
After all, they were just fol-
lowing orders, Iike Eich-
mann?
The Justice Department
is itself on trial in this mat,.
ter. Will the government
establish and practice that
its o.vn agencies are not
above the. laws they are
sworn to execute? After all,
if John Mitchell, a former
head of the Justice Depart-
ment, can stand trial, then
why flora hired burglar for
the FBI?
As I say, one result of this
will be the liberation. of fu.
ture government employes
from the presumption that
any criminal demand can f
be made upon them. A use-
ful service in this area is
being prepared by the Pro-
ject on 'Official Illegalities,
under the direction of Ralph
Stavins. The Project is doing legal research for a
mailing to all employes of
national security agencies.
This mailing will remind
American citizens of their
right-to resist official de-i
mands that they break thel
law, and it will outline
prodedures for legal protest
and self-protection.
No American citizen:
should be exposed. ever`
again, to.the brow-beating
tactics of a master criminal
like J. Edgar Hoover, or
plead such intimidation in
crimes committed against
his fellow citizens. We did
not listen to this excuse
when it was voiced by a`
Goering. We certainly
should not admit the same
plea into our domestic
courts.
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EDITOR & PUBLISHER
26 June 1976
Salant of CBS
joins National
News Council
By Jane Levere
The National News Council. media
watchdog, organization. expanded its
membership by electing Richard S. Sal-
ant. presi:?ent of CBS News. at its meet-
ing in New N'o,k last week.
Salant's clk_ctiun followed it recom-
mendation made in February by an inde-
pendent evaluation committee suggest-
ing that the INNC' expand its membership
from 15 to 13. 'the committee also rec-
ommended then that the council elect
"active employees of national media"
who would abstain from voting in cases
involving their own organizations.
In other action at the meeting, the
council found four complaint, lodged
against newspapers unwarranted.
The first . omplaint, filed against the
Chicago I rihrnre and WGN-tv. Chicago.
charged the two media with attempting
to "black-out" it televised address by
Republican Presidential candidate
Ronald Raglan by not giving it any ad-
Vance notice and by only mentioning it
on the television page.
The council ruled that since Reagan's
speech was it paid announcement.
neither the ?I.iibune nor the television
station had any obligation to publicize
the tv speech.
The second complaint. lodged against
the Ne?w }'rick Times, was an objection to
the policy of selling space for
public e.-u.: advertising on its op-ed
page.
The council here concluded that it
newspaper has a right to decide where to
place such ads in its columns.
The third complaint, filed on behalf of
the National Co:tncii of Irish Americans.
also concerned the Times. These charges
were dismisr;~.,l.
The council alsodismissed a complaint
filed by Dr. Stephen Barrett, chairman of
the Lehigh (t'a.) Committee Against
Health huucl. Inc.. against James J. Kit-
patrick of the Washington Star Syndi-
cate. Barrett complained that Kilpatrick
had referred to Laetrile. an alleged
cancer cure. as a harmless nutrient in
one of his columns.
The council ruled that Kilpatrick. as
an editorial columnist. was clearly free to
imply that Laetrile was harmless because
he was expressing his personal opinion
of it co ntroversial-public issue. - ---` -
Finally. the council announced that
two of its members. William A. Rusher
and R. Pete r Straus. and associate direc-
tor Ned Schnurinan. would meet with
CIA director George Bush's top assis-
tants June 17 to discuss the agency's
position on the employment of Jour-
nalists by the intelligence community.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
OFFICE OF TI c DIRECTOR
lExecutive Registry
Is it possible -to get some new
examples of "accomolishm "
Here is an old ent1peech.
Recently I have used the same
examples. I think we need as
dramatic a list as possible of
the positive things we accomplish.
lease try to get a good new one
for me for future speeches.
No rush.
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 WASHINGTON-''Coverup '' is a familiar term in this
investigation-ridden town. Now we have a Senate panel charging
that the CIA and the FBI covered up important information on the
assassination of President Kennedy, and there is the inference
that Robert F. Kennedy wanted it that way.
But before eyes pop open with amazement, please
realize that if this intriguing question is to be further pursued,
there must be more investigatory work. What needs to be known is
why the Warren Commission, which laboriously investigated the--
assassination, was not informed of a possible Cuban involvement
and of various CIA schemes aimed at Cuba and Fidel Castro.
The Senate intelligence committee, which is now out of
business, issued its final report this past week and declared
there were enough loose ends in the assassination that a further
investigation by a new committee headed by Sen. Daniel Inouye
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THE NICK THIMMESCH COLUMN
RELEASE DATE: Tuesday, June 29, 1976
WAS THERE A KENNEDY ADMINISTRATION COVERUP
OF THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION?
by Nick Thimmesch
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Page Two...NICK THIMMESCH ... June 29 ... Inouye
(D-Hawaii) was in order.
The record shows that the CIA not only plotted against
Cuba but against Castro's life as well. The record also shows
that a CIA official invoked Robert F. Kennedy's name when he met
with a secret Cuban agent identified as interested in doing an
"inside job'' on Castro, i.e., killing him.
So some here believe that Robert F. Kennedy, even
though deep in grief, was still very worried that Castro might
have killed his brother, in retaliation for plots by the Kennedy
Administration against him. People who think this way point to
a memo by Nicholas Katzenbach, then deputy attorney general, sent
to the White House on Nov. 26, 1963, four days after the
assassination, which read, in part:
''The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the
assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at
large; and that the evidence was such that he would have been
convicted at trial.''
Katzenbach declared that speculation about Oswald's
motives had to be stopped, and with it thoughts of a Communist
conspiracy or right-wing conspiracy to blame it on the
Communists.
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Page Three...NICK THIMMESCH ... June 29 ... Communists.
There is other evidence that, concurrently, the CIA
was also trying to stop the talk about conspiracies. And it is
interesting that when Richard Helms, then a key CIA official,
testified before the Warren Commission, he did not describe the
plots against Castro. Asked years later why he didn't, Helms
smiled and said, ''Nobody asked me.''
Sen. Richard S. Schweiker (R-Pa.) is the committee
member pushing the hardest for further probing of the Cuban
and Castro angles in the Kennedy assassination.
''Whenever a story like this goes public," he says,
'' a great deal of new information comes forth, much of it not
relevant, but some of it useful. I think we should go back to
Helms and Katzenbach and ask them whether there was an effort
by the CIA and the FBI to suppress any information on a Cuban
involvement, even retaliation. I am certain that Robert Kennedy
was in grief at that time, but it is also possible that he was
aware of the Katzenbach memo. ''
Katzenbach disagrees. He told me, ''I was running
the department because Bobby Kennedy was devastated and remained
home all the time. He had nothing to do with the memo, and it.
(Sentence continues)
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Page Four...NICK THIMMESCH ... June 29 . and it
had no relationship with the CIA or J. Edgar Hoover.
''I wrote the memo to-persuade President Johnson to
establish a commission of distinction to investigate the
assassination. It turned out to be the Warren Commission, and
Bobby Kennedy had nothing to do with that either.'' (The
Warren Commission was appointed Nov. 29.)
Robert F. Kennedy did go into a depression after his
brother's death. It took a trip to the Far East in January,
1964, and months of healing, before his interest in public life
revived. Still, he could have had a hand in trying to prevent
public outrage against Cuba by shutting off speculation about
Castro being responsible for the President's death.
No question there was a vendetta between the Kennedy
brothers and Castro. Only four days before he was
assassinated, John F. Kennedy told a Miami audience that the
Castro government was ''a small band of conspirators'' who
amounted to a ''barrier'' which, ''once removed," would allow
the United States to support a democratic regime in Cuba.
Whether Robert F. Kennedy did want the Castro angle.
kept out of investigations; whether the CIA and the FBI
(Sentence continues)
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Page Five...NICK THIMMESCH ... June 29 ... the FBI
consciously blocked information from the Warren Commission; and
whether the U.S. Senate should pursue these questions--well, it's
not easy to decide, is it?
(c) 1976, Los Angeles Times
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WASHINGTON. D. C. 20505
June 29, 1976
MSC Political Forum
Texas A&M University
Box 5718
College Station, Texas 77844
Thank you very much for your good letter of
June 17th.
I appreciate the invitation to speak once again
at Texas A&M. I still have fond memories of my
appearance on the Political Forum Committee's first
program and deeply regret that this year I am going
to have to say no. My schedule for the fall and
winter months is already so complicated that I have
to cut down on all speaking engagements.
Again, thanks so much for the invitation. I wish
I were in a position to say yes.
Since rely,
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