LETTER TO RICHARD D. MARRIOTT FROM (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00765A000100010001-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2009
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 31, 1952
• Content Type: LETTER

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Mr. Richard I. Marriott
head, BBC Monitoring Service
Cavershaat Park
Reading, Herks., cngland
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Your letter of 12 Lece*nber 1952 was most welcome and appreciated
in spite of t:aia unseemly delay in replying to it. The past few weeks
have been more than fillea with the innumerable details of winding up
business for the year.
I am glad that you enjoyed your visit and hope that you will decide
favorably, 17om our standpoint, with regard to the possibility you
mentioned to me at the airport just Prior to your departure. already
you hf:re a good number of friends in Washington who look forward to
your return.
The results of your meetin.- on gednesday, 10 December 1952, should,
I think, be most gratifyinr to both of us. I see it as a clear indica-
tion that the work we are presently doing,, is valuable and well received
by the offices that we serve. 0 has returned and is working on
his report at this time. Although I may be optiaistie, I hope to
have name word for you during my visit in the spring on the probable
course of developments resulting from his trip.
All here join me in wishinp you and your staff a happy and
prosperous New Year.
AMd/pgc
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I have put off writing to you for a day or two in the hope that
I should have some satisfactory news to give you about the question of
possible economies in the monitoring of friendly European countries and of
the Stockholm project for Baltic coverage. This I can now do asJ,meeting
was held on Wednesday.
But first of all, let me thank you for all your kindness to me
and all the trouble you took to make my short visit both enjoyable and
profitable. I think the conclusions we reached, if not of earth-shaking
importance, were useful and sensible, and we can look forward to another
year of cooperation as good as we have had in the past. The solid
foundations upon which we work were built before my time by you and
others and I can claim no credit for than, but I like to think that they
have been a little cemented by my visit. Certainly for me it is a great
help to have met personally the people who have only been names to me
up to now, and I only wish it were possible for us to meet more often.
At the meeting on Wednesday the reductions in coverage which
might have affected you were decisively rejected and I rather hope that
we have now heard the last of that matter. The Stockholm project for
Baltic coverage was approved. That does not mean, as you will realise,
that there are not still a good many hurdles to be got over before the
scheme gets finally under way. However, it does mean that things are
moving in the right direction, and there is no need for C.I.A. at this
stage to make the kind of representations that were envisaged at our meeting
with Mr. Carey.
My trip back was not as easy as I had hoped because England was
covered in one of the densest fogs for several years. However, we got
down all right and I reached here safely after a cross country journey
several hours late.
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We now greatly look forward to seeing you here in the
spring, by which time the fog will probably have blown away.