(Sanitized)NFAC COOPERATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R003300250028-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: June 1, 1979
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Rele sse 2005/01/13 : CIA-RDP80BO1554RO03300250028-3
1 June 1979
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Operations
FROM:
Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: ONFAC Cooperation
1. I wonder if you should try to make arrangements with NFAC on
prior distribution of unclassified publications to =offices. It STAT
occurs to me that if ourlffices could provide these unclassified
releases to the major companies with whom they maintain contact, it
would help that relationship considerably. It is particularly
embarrassing, I suggest, if the companies read in the newspaper that
we have released something and call 0 and are unable even to get any STAT
information about it. It would seem to me that NFAC could give you
these in time to get them intolands at least for distribution STAT
simultaneously with public release.
2. Beyond this, I am curious as to what measures you take to
insure a dialogue between Il officers and NFAC analysts. It
seems to me that the case o' i cars could do their job a lot better if
they had some opportunity to be in contact with analysts from time to
time in the areas in which they are providing information. I recognize
there must be some channel for the analyst to tell the officer what STAT
he wants, but how good is the feedback either on the qua i y of the
77
STANSFIELD TURNER
cc: DDNF-A
STAT
Approved For Release 2005/01/13 : CIA-RDP80BO1554R003300250028-3