LETTER TO THE HONORABLE FREDERICK B. DENT FROM EDWARD W. PROCTOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 20, 1973
• Content Type: LETTER

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, I.C. 20505
20 February 1973
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The Honorable Frederick B..Dent
The Secretary of Commerce
Washington, D. C. 20230
Dear Mr. Secretary:
At our meeting earlier this month we discussed the
various kinds of information and analyses about foreign economic
developments that this Agency could provide the Department of
Commerce. One of these was background data on officials of
foreign countries. When I pointed out the importance of keeping
this kind of data up to date by getting feedback from US officials
who had dealt with them, you offered to arrange for some of the
people at Commerce to provide supplementary information on
those Soviet and Polish officials whom they met.
has sent me the list of such Soviet and Polish
officials, and we have assembled a collection of current
biographies on them. It seems to me that the best way to
accomplish this task is to have a single point of contact in your
Department, like Mr. Steven Lazarus, arrange to have these
biographies reviewed and updated. If you agree, please have
Mr. Lazarus contact Mr. Harry Eisenbeiss of my staff who is
prepared to deliver the biographies to Mr. Lazarus and to assist
him in this task. Mr. Eisenbeiss can be reached on Interagency
Dial System number
I also plan to arrange personal interviews with Secretary
Lynn and Mr. Peterson to obtain their views on the top personalities
with whom they met in the USSR and Poland.
I wish to thank you for your understanding and the cooperation
I am sure we will get in this mutually beneficial endeavor.
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{ dward W. Proctor
Deputy Director for Intelligence
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