CONVERSATION WITH SPURGEON KEENEY RE NIE 11-8-64

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00967A000900030012-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 8, 2005
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: September 29, 1964
• Content Type: MFR

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29 September 1964
SUBJECT: Conversation with Spurgeon Keeney
re NIE 11-8-64
Around 4:15 returned Spurgeon Keeney`s telephone
call of a few minutes earlier. He spoke as follows:
A. Has carefully read the draft 11-8-6i. Has
found nothing therein which in his mind could be classed
as alarming and unforeseen new Soviet departures. The
implication came through clearly that previous intelligence
findings and speculations had already estimated tentatively
most of the new things upon which this paper comes down
on with greater firmness. He indicated that he would so
inform McGeorge and recommend that the paper be repro-
duced and distributed according to the pattern of last
year. I very specifically noted the formula for the
distribution of the All Source version, to wit: "Up to
100 copies outside the Agency." Yes, he said, this is
what he meant, but apply the principle of economy. He
made no specific comment with respect to a follow-on
Top Secret version. (It should be noted that my memo of
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Saturday to McGeorge had no dope on the distribution
of 11-8-63. This omission was corrected in my
follow-up memo to Mac which went out this noon.) I
told Keeney of today's follow-up and if he wishes to
inform himself about last year's distribution of the
TS version the means will be at hand.
B. As to the pace of printing, he used the word
"normal" as in the sentence, "Go ahead and print and
distribute it at the normal speed." This obviously
precludes any crash procedures and conveyed to me the
impression that getting the paper out in the normal
week or 10 days was about right.
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