MEETING WITH MR. WILLIAM T. KNOX, CHAIRMAN, GUIDANCE AND EVALUATION PANEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00967A001000020032-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2005
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: April 4, 1966
• Content Type: MFR

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4 April 19"
SUBJI T 3 eti g with Mr. wtUiae T. Knox, Chairs
Guidance and Evaluation
I. Mr. Parrott and I leached on 31 March with Mr. W ii
T. 'Knox, Chairman of the Guidance a: Evaluation Panel.
jointly by the resident's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board and the rosident's Advisor on ctence
Teeci logy. All members of the Panel are highly qualified and
have made a uniformly good impression on components of the
Agency with which he has come In contact.
. Mr. l ox's concern goes well beyond the technical
equipment and computers and extends
and interrelationships.. He
appears to be grappling with the ever.-all probe; of how the
cor silty functions and whet can be dog to improve the flow of
I er tion to those charged with estimMU4 and reporting
responsibilities. For sxs ple, be manifested a groat deal of
Interest In the, problem of adequate i or ational support to the
White lase and indicated that this would probably feature in
his finding* and recommendations.
3. expects to issue a number of reports as Individual
awe, lee complete their work. Without co=mitting himself.
he implied very stroftly that he would submit his reports and
recommendations for review at some appropriate level in the
community before submitting them to the PFIAS and/or L r. Horuig.
Berl to meet In approximately a nmMth and review progress.
4. In the meantime. he has sent me an outline of proposed
bpanel study efforts, a copy of which is attached. This suggests
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a -very broad approach on the part
include examination in depth of
of the community. He expects to ex x in
a. The proces
b.
channels.
As an examples of a., he proposes
rr ation used
as e as pie of b. be proposes to traca
information from typical reconnaissance or
co Vonents
categories
where this infar ~:ntion goes and who uses
eryboa briefe
important that we should co*imne to keep
a close touch with their a activities and deliberations.
JOHN A. O$S
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