LETTER TO [HONORABLE JOHN A. MCCONE] FROM BOB

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R003000020004-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 2, 1963
• Content Type: LETTER

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With reference to your letter of 28 May 1963, I am pleased to c
learn that the United States Intelligence Board (USIB) is directing
its concern toward improving the collection capabilities of the
intelligence community vis-a-vis Africa. The significance of this
area's relationship to the security of the United States is becoming
more apparent with the emergence of each new nation. I certainly
agree that now is the time to enhance our intelligence collection
capabilities and to assure that the growing requirements for national
intelligence will be satisfied.
I subscribe to the USIB recommendations set forth in your letter
on the basis that I view them to be both sound and timely. In this
connection;
1.~"The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has already made
overtures to the Department of State with a view toward the establish-
ment of resident Service Attaches in the several US Embassies and
Missions now accredited to these new nations. To this end, on
28 December 1962 the Department of Defense (DOD) attache augmentation
plan for Africa was submitted to the Department of State. It called
for establishing new attache or liaison offices in Guinea, Mali,
Senegal, Malagasy, Sierra Leone, Angola, Mozambique, Rhodesia/
Nyasaland, Kenya, and Tanganyika, and for augmentation to established
offices in Nigeria, Ghana and Tunisia. Additionally, non-resident
accreditation of attaches was requested for Mauritania, Togo, Liberia,
Dahomey, Malagasy, Ghana, Guinea and the Somali Republic.
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You ma.y be assured of my support for these and other objective
of USIB as they relate to the coordination so vital to an integrated
Sincerely,
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