CBS REPORTS REQUEST

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 24, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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24 May 1977
1E1 aO1ANDUI FOR : Director of Central Intelligence
FROM:
Herbert E. Hetu
Assistant to the Director
(Public Affairs)
SUBJECT: CBS Reports Request
1. CBS Reports is producing a two hour special program
on the historyerican policy toward Cuba. It will delve
into U.S. relations with Cuba from before the gay of Pigs and
will deal heavily.with CIA involvement in the Day of Pigs.
The narrator/correspondent for the program is 3i11 Moyers.
2. CBS Reports has submitted three questions which they
want answered by the DCI on film.. They propose to use the same
crew that is now in the building shooting 63 Minutes--however,
there is absolutely no connection between the two shows.
3. Attached are the three questions with the facts and
proposed answers.
Herbert E. Hetu
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES
THEODORE F. KOOP, Chairman
ARTHUR W. ARUNDEL
PRESIDENT. WAVA NEWS RADIO. WASHINGTON
ROBERT E. L. BAKER
MANAGING EDITOR. FREDERICKSBURG (VA.)
FREE LANCE-STAR
DAVID BRINKLEY
CORRESPONDENT, NBC NEWS
D. TENNANT BRYAN
PUBLISHER, RICHMOND NEWSPAPERS
ANN W. COMPTON
WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONI)ENT, ABC NEWS
RICHARD DUDMAN
CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT.
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
ARTHUR S. FLEMMING
COMMISSIONER, ADMINISTRATION ON AGING
THOMAS J. FRAWLEY
VICE PRESIDENT,
COY BROADCASTING
KEITH FULLER
PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER,
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CLARENCE H. HUNTER
STAFF ASSISTAN f. Pt. ILIC RELATIONS.
WASHINGTON OFFICE. GENERAL MOIT)RS
AUSTIN H. KIPLINGER
PRESIDENT, KIPLINGER WASHINGTON EDITORS
DANIEL W. KOPS
PRESIDENT, KOPS-MONAHAN
COMMUNICATIONS
STUART H. LOORY
MANAGING EDITOR, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
NEWBOLD NOYES
RETIRED EDITOR, WASHINGTON STAR
JOHN B. OAKES
SENIOR EDI OR. NEW YORK TIMES
E. BARRETT HOGAN &^HARI'SOR
PARTNER, N,
WASHINGTON LAW FIRM
JOHN C. QUINN
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT. N WS AND
INFORMATION. GANNETT COMPANY
CAROLYN S. RAEKE
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT.
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
WALTER RIDDER
PRESIDENT. NORTHWEST PUBLICATIONS
CARL T. ROWAN
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST
AND TV COMMENTATOR
RICHARD M, SCHMIDT JR,
PARTNER. COHN &.MXR KS,
WASHINGTON LAW FIRM
SOL TAISHOFF
CHAIRMAN, BROADCASTING PUBLICATIONS
ROBERT M. WHITE II
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
.MEXICO (.MO )LEDGER
ARNOLD B. BARACH, Secretary
EXECUTIVE EDITOR. CHANGING TIMES
SAMUEL C. REDMAN, JR., Treasurer
VICE PRESIDENT. RIGGS NATIONAL BANK
W. M. KIPLINGER, First Chairman
(1891-1967)
The Washington Journalism Center
2401 VIRGINIA AVENUE, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20037/Phone: [phone]
May 23, 1977
Admiral Stansfield Turner
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
Dear Admiral Turner:
Thanks again for taking the time to speak at our Con-
ference. We heard a lot of good comments about your talk from
the participating journalists. All in all, they telt that they got
a good rundown on current foreign policy and defense issues.
Sincerely,
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The Director of Central Intelligence
so oY 1977
Dear Mr. Buxton,
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Your editorial of April 24, "CIA Report a Cooked-Up Job,"
which referred to our recent report on the "International Energy
Situation," has just come to my attention. I take considerable
issue with your allegation that there was a "fraudulent air" about
the analysis we presented to the President.
CIA has been involved in analyzing the strategic aspects of
the world energy situation as part of its intelligence mission
since its establishment some 30 years ago. Originally the con-
centration was on Communist nations, but as the world energy
shortage and higher prices developed in the 1970's our analytical
work in this area was extended to cover other parts of the world.
CIA's role in analyzing world energy trends is well known by
U.S. industry, the trade press and international agencies
concerned with this subject. Indeed, every other week the CIA
issues a widely distributed, unclassified statistical survey,
"International Oil Developments," through the Document Expediting
Project of the Library of Congress.
The particular study to which you have referred was started
over a year ago. The President did not know of it until a few
days before he mentioned it at his press conference. That's why
I take exception to your remark that "the CIA's warning of future
oil shortages was a cooked-up job, even though its general thrust
was correct."
I also cannot agree with your allegation that CIA "managed to
inject" a "pessimistic tone" to its report for the dramatic purpose
of a "sales pitch." Our analysts jealously protect their objectivity,
and neither I nor they would manipulate a report to support a
government policy. To do so would make a travesty of our entire
analytical process, which is designed to provide the President and
the policymakers of our government with objective and accurate
analyses and estimates.
As for Mr. Carter's mentioning the report and its subsequent
declassification and release, I believe the intelligence community
should make more information available to the public on an unclassified
basis. The public deserves to benefit from our work to the extent
possible within the bounds of necessary secrecy.
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The public should have as much objective information as
possible on issues such as the energy situation, and we will
continue to declassify such reports on a variety of subjects
whenever possible. Turn~~
.I s/ Stansfield
STANSFIELD TURNER
STAT
Mr. Charles R. Buxton
Editor, The Denver Post
650 15th Street
Denver, Colo. 80201
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