LETTER TO THE HONORABLE GORDON GRAY FROM JOHN A. MCCONE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R003500090013-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2002
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: October 30, 1961
• Content Type: LETTER

ER 61-8586/a
tabor 1961
The Bearable Gordon Gray
Dear Gordon:
Thank you for your letter of October 19th
regarding DCI briefings at National Security
Council meeting..
I called you on the telepbaaf and was
sorry to learn that you'd been under the weather.
I wanted to play golf with you.
I am off on a two-creek trip. I will call
you upon my return to discuss the matters you
discussed in your letter.
Best persona'
/S/ John
(signed by TML)
John A. McCoae
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October 19, 1961
Honorable John A. Mc Cone,
I have your letter of October 16th.
One thought has occurred to me that you may wish to
keep in mind as you prepare to take over your new
responsibilities. This has to do with the DCI briefings at
National Security Council meetings. It is my own view,
not necessarily shared by everybody else, that this briefing
was a useful thing, not only for the President but for his
principal advisors. One of the good features was that they all
heard it at the same time.
I have some reason to believe that these briefings have
been discontinued in the new Administration. As a member
of the President's Board, I am hoping to get to him my view
that the briefings should be reinstituted when you assume your
responsibilities. You may, or may not, agree, but I felt that
I wanted to make the point with you.
Also, I would like to discuss with you certain plans to
establish a special new office in government in which you will
have considerable interest. All I would ask would be an
opportunity to make some points with respect to it before you
have made up your own mind.
Sincerely,
Gordon Gray
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