MEMORANDUM TO: THE SECRETARY OF STATE FROM [JOHN KENNEDY]

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01048A001500100012-4
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 28, 1963
• Content Type: MF

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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EXECUTIVE MEMORANDUM
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (PLANS)
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (INTELLIGENCE)
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (RESEARCH)
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (SUPPORT)
COMPTROLLER
INSPECTOR GENERAL
GENERAL COUNSEL
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
FOR NATIONAL ESTIMATES
This memorandum contains information for the addressees. Ad-
dressees may give this memorandum additional circulation within
their components as required. All copies should be destroyed not
filed, upon completion of circulation. A master file will be kept in
the Executive Director's Office and will be available upon request.
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February 27, 1963
TO: The Secretary of State
The Secretary -c, Defense
The Secretary of the Treasury
The Administrator, Agency for International
Development
L- 1hie Director of Central Intelligence
1. The deficit =r. our balance of payments and the
problems associated witht continue to be major problems
which influence national security policy along a broad front.
The prospects that they will cease to do so in the immediate
future are not bright. I t Binh we must, therefore, make sure
that financial clef_ ents in our relations with other countries
are given a proper ?r,eight in any transactions we have with
them. Conversely, we :rust be sure that any financial trans-
actions and arrangements we make with other countries tie
in with our broader forei,7n policy needs.
2. 14hereore :equest that the Secretary of State, in
exercising his cuordinat:._, responsibilities for all our dealings
with other countries, give ecial attention to c:il poirt. He
should see that the S~ r l ry of the TreasL ry is informed in a
timely- way of sitnlftcant forthcoming negotia;.io ns Or renegoti-
ations on any topic involving those ioreign countries with Which
our financial relations are particularly important, I request
the Secretary of D i as , t l Adniinistratur o-; _-%.11D and, in
those cases in which _ e :s concerned, the Director of Central
IT.:elligence, to renew t:te arrangements for keeping the Secre-
tary of State imorm ci on :nose negotiations on w:,icn L:iey have
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t1.e prtmarv action r,. Dp?.~_.sioli.ity so that tie can perform this
.ask elf ectively. Tiii Secretary of the Treasury, in turn, will
provide the Secr..:ary btate, and others concerned, his
estimate of our interests and financial possibilities
in any such aegotiations,
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3. >s_ ch sane way, I request the Secretary of the
Treasury to the Secretary} of State and, where appropriates
the Secretary of Defense and the Director of _IID in advance of
any financial ne ?~tlatEons il.volvi2 other countries which might
have an impact on our general relations with them.
4. 1 direct particular attention at this time to any
negotiations 1I?v0 vln the following countries because of the
importance of ;.heir gold and dollar holdings or of their com-
mercial transactions with us: Austria, Canada, France,
Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the United
Kingdom.
Copy to Burea'. of ?.e Budget
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