LETTER TO THE HONORABLE J. EDGAR HOOVER FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001000010027-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: March 19, 1957
• Content Type: LETTER

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19 March 1957
The Honorable J. Edgar Hoover,,
Director, k
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. Hoover:
I have deferred replying to your letter of February 1, 1957,
in the above case until I had an opportunity to make a personal
review of the record. Meanwhile, I understand that our liaison
officers have been proceeding to clear up certain of the points
raised in your letter.
On the basis of my examination of the record, I do not believe
that there are grounds for suggesting that
withhold from the Bureau information on the
various points cited in your memorandum of January 29, 1957. As
was well known to the Bureau, a cleared contact of
the Agency and quite naturally entered into a secrecy agreement with
the Agency with respect to his work for us. It is quite possible that
on the basis of this secrecy agreement alone, felt
that he could not talk about matters specifically covered his work
for us. When we entered into our initial relations we
had no indication of any Bureau interest in him-
I suggest that in cases of this kind where the same person has
domestic interest to you and foreign intelligence interest to us, step:
be taken through lisison to provide the closest possible coordination
of our mutual efforts in our respective fields. I can assure you that
I will cooperate to his end. A full report has
gone forward to the Bureau via liaison.
I feel that it is also important that in such special cases there
should be close coordination with respect to passing information to
third parties. The sensitive information furnished to this Agency by
in the initiation of highly delicate oper-
ations in the ovie non. For security reasons only a few persons
in the Department of State were cognizant of the operation~When the
Bureau disseminated the result of the FBI interview with to the
State Department, the details of this sensitive operation became
accessible to persons not previously knowledgeable of the case, I
suggest that where situations develop in which the Bureau and this
Agency have problems of this nature, it would be to our mutual advantage
to reach agreement oh procedure before notifying a third agency.
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In general, I feel that the effective liaison which has been
established between the Bureau and this Agency over the past few
years has gone far to producing extremely effective cooperation and
coordination. V here technical problems of the nature raised in your
letter arise, I believe we can generally solve them through this liaison,
leaving to us to deal with those mtters where agreement can not be
reached by our liaison officers. I am confident that such cases will
be rare.
Faithfully yours,
Allen W. Dulljs
Director
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