NOTE TO ADMIRAL TURNER FROM DORIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R003300140023-0
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 2010
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: January 1, 2000
• Content Type: NOTES

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Admiral Turner:
Executive Assistant
Military Assistant
Executive Secretary
I checked to see what happened on this. In a nutshell, your
draft letter to Sen. Beilmon--which you sent to OER for comment--
arrived at OER/PSAC behind reply to your memo of 28 April.
He never saw it and therefore o owe instructions from someone in
NFAC who had written on our buck slip: "D/OER--for final response."
I showed your draft to today; he thought it fine;
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