LETTER TO MR. ALEXANDER F. JONES FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

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• Publication Date: July 21, 1961
• Content Type: LETTER

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Va.. Alexander F.
--executive Mitor
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Dear Mr.
0/DCl/SJGrogan:c1b(1e July 61)
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JUL 1961
1 hope your trout fishing in rrtheru tiebec was more euccesseel
than my bass rthing off Stony Island. Hever, / did have some
stiecece, I was glad to be in the North Country for a few days.
Your thteist in CIA, particularly to help put it in Itseper
perspectiveindeed apprecieted. There ave, however, lImLtati.ons
by statute, as 11 as valuable cooperation with foreign intel1tence
units that 1iIt our cooperation in eueh an endeavor. For example, ie
cannot by law give the size- of our oneanieation. We cannot by lav give
past triumphs and endeavors becaune we eeuId reveal intelligence sources
and entelligence methods. Silence is neceeeary if we are to be effective.
T am enclosing a pamphlet initially tgrAled in 192 and revised lest month
which may prove of interest to you.
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I would be delighted to discuss this whole matter with you sometime
1 . li when you are in Waehingtett but 1 wouldn't vent yuu to make a cpeeeal trip
) .veete" for that purpose. Since 1 have been with CIA 1 save one public interview,
ia copy of which Is also enclosed.
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4:- 'et) ' I recall our meeting at the cocktai toa-Park Rotel
i4j.....' prior to the dinner which honored the ten workers,
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one of -whom was Lyman B. Kirkpatrick, Ineeec the CIA. He
vas born in Rchecter and is a brother of Relen1. a well known/
newspaper writer. I sriased your talk because I had to attend another
function that evening.
You wnre most kind to tell me of the sendoff my brother, John Foster
Dulles, gave you on your around the-world trep in 1955. I gm alveY0 happy
to hear or these snail personal touches that add to one's oen fond memories.
Your varteme services on the I.Jactingten Post are well known to me and
you have not been forgotten in the Nation's Capital.
Sincerely
Ail W.
Director
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SYRACUSE I NEW YORK
Mr. Allen W. Dulles
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington 25, D. C.
Dear Mr. Dulles:
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July 10, 1961
Thank you for your valued note of July 1. While
you were at Henderson Harbor I was in northern Quebec
probing the trout situation.
I often go to Henderson Harbor for a bass expedi-
tion. Frank Ash of the Sealright Company has invited me to
Stony Island for the tag end of this month.
I wonder if you have ever seen the little booklet
Mr. Ash had prepared containing the five sketches Robert
Lansing wrote about bass fishing off Stony Island. It is
enough to make any bass fisherman drool.
The main purpose of this note, however, is to sug-
gest something that has been in my mind for a long time.
As you may know, I was managing editor of The
Washington Post for 15 years and had an opportunity to watch
our efforts through some troublesome times.
The real effort to coordinate our intelligence
has come under your direction since I have been here in
Syracuse.
The American public knows little of that effort and
I would consider the time well spent in seeing to it that
C.I.A. is put in its proper perspective.
I am well aware of the need for secrecy in C.I.A.
operations.
I would not suggest for a moment that I be handed
any confidential matters for my purpose is not sensational
revelation.
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'Mr. Allen W. Dulles - 2 - 7/10/61
I simply feel the American public is entitled to
know what I am sure the Kremlin knows; i.e., that the U. S.
is no longer a sitting duck from an intelligence standpoint.
What could be more important from the standpoint
of public morale than assurance this nation is no longer an
aggregation of strong backs and weak minds?
I would like enough information about the size of
the organization, the diversity of its program, and some of
its past triumphs and endeavors for a series of newspaper
articles.
There would have to be enough inside information
to convince any reader I knew what I was talking about.
Our organization -- the Newhouse Group -- is the
third largest in the country and is comprised of 14 newspapers,
five television and radio stations, and seven magazines in
the U. S., Great Britain and France. All of the material I
obtained would be used in one way or another in spreading the
idea that this country is adequately armed, intelligence-wise.
I hope this idea finds favor with you.
I sincerely feel the public is entitled to know
some of the specifics of its intelligence operation so that
when someone suggests blandly it be abolished there can be an
appropriate rebuttal.
I will gladly come to Washington if you desire to
discuss the idea personally.
The last time I saw you, Mr. Dulles, was at a cock-
tail party at the Shearton-Park preceding the annual dinner
of the Civil Service League last year at which 10 outstanding
federal workers are honored. You came to greet a colleague who
was one of thosehonored -- a gentleman in a wheel chair. I
was the speaker that night.
In 1955 John Foster Dulles gave me a great sendoff
on a trip around the world and opened every door that could
be opened in 15 countries. I will never forget it.
Cordially,
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Alexander F. Jone
Executive Editor
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