LETTER TO MR. WILLIAM J. DONOVAN FROM WALTER B. SMITH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R002500060007-4
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 8, 2002
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 8, 1951
• Content Type: LETTER

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ER 1-3964
7 Dacenber 1950
Major General Williams J. Donovan
Two VjalI Street
New York 5, New York
Dear General:
Your file containing correspondence with
General Smith is returned herewith. Many thanks
for all you are doing to help us, and be sure to
let re know when you are in W=ashington. I enjoyed
and derived great benefits from our talks on the
plane and in New York, and we are going ahead in
the development of a xuuaber of the ideas which you
e greased to me.
'W"ith best personal regards,
Sincerely,,
disp via ER sealed via Registered Mail
Return Receipt requested
WILLIAM It. JACKSON
Deputy Director of
Central Intelligence
Orig-add
2-signer
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3ONOV 1948
General Willi,.m J. Donovan
Donovan, Leisure, newton, Lumbard & Irvine
2 'rill Street
New York 5, New York
Dear Gen=rral Donovan:
We are most anxious to close the work on the OSS War Be:ort.
I understand that you would like to look over the prepared report'
again before forwarding your completed comments. Ac:cordingly, the
reports are forwarded herewith for your further study.
I re,-line that a further study of the re;.:orts is an impo-
sition on your time but would greatly appreciate your full comments
at the earliest 1-racticable date.
With best personal regsrds,
Sincerely,
R. :. HILLENKOEWER
Rear Admiral, USN
Director of Central Intelligence
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From: THE EVENING SU14
Baltimore, Md.
22 May 1948
CIVILIAN FAVORED FOR CIA POST
The head of Central Intelligence Authority, in the opinion of
William J. Donovan, wartime major general and director of the Office
of Strategic Services, should be a civilian.
He intends no reflection on the record of Admiral Roscoe H.
Hillenkoetter, present head of CIA, which co-ordinates this country's
intelligence program, General Donovan was careful to say. No mili-
tary mind, however, can adequately gauge the breadth of subversive
aims currently pursued by Soviet Russian civilian agen#,es through-
out the democratic world, he said.
General Donovan was here last night to help organize a Baltimore
chapter of Veterans of Strategic Services, of which he is permanent
honorary national president. Some 45 former members of OSS meeting
in the Association of Commerce Building, heard him speak.
"POSITIVE ACTION" NEEDED
Furthermore, General Donovan declared, many military leaders
with whom he has talked also favor civilian control for CIA.
He said that V.S.S. had no intention whatever of rivaling CIA,
but rather of ultimately strengthening it. At this very moment, how-
ever, he said there was need of "more positive action" on the part of
CIA in some fields, particularly, concerning the European Recovery
Program.
General Donovan cited the work of a native Baltimorean, and war-
time OSS official, David K. E. Bruce, as head of E.R.P. for France,
and warned of open declarations by NKVD, the Ccminform and other
Casnnunist agencies of their intent to defeat the work of E.R.P. by
any means available.
"CUT ITS OVN THROAT"
"OSS out its own throat", General Donovan said, referring to its
dissolution in September, 1945, as "perhaps the first time in this
country's history when a Government agency voluntarily liquidated
itself."
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