NOTICE TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY FROM C.P. CABELL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R001300010059-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2006
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: April 23, 1953
• Content Type: STATEMENT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
OFFICE OF DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
23 April 1953
TO THE ME14BERS OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY:
At this time of my entry on duty with the Central Intelligence
Agency, I'd like to get across this message to my future associates
in the Agency.
Since my intended appointment was announced, I have had a rare
opportunity to visit a great many of the offices in the Washington
Headquarters and some of the field offices. It has been a most
instructive, pleasant and satisfying experience.
In the first place, I have run across many old associates in
the Intelligence business, including some that I did not know were
in the Agency. The cordiality with which I have been received, not
only by these old friends, but by the hundreds of others whom I
have met for the first time, has been one of the most satisfying
experiences of my career - and I am grateful to all of you.
Secondly, what I have seen and heard leaves me with a profound
sense of confidence that the Intelligence affairs of the Nation are
in worthy hands. The individual and organized competence which I
have so far encountered, has left me with one of the most favorable
impressions I have ever received in Government. It is most unfortu-
nate that large numbers of Government officials, and the general
public as well, could not be given this same opportunity for survey
before forming their own impressions of this vital link in their
security. You and Is as professional Intelligence personnel, rea-
lize, however, that such is not possible, but that rather we must
keep the inner workings and personnel identities of this complex
machine well hidden if it is to do its job.
I am proud and happy to become, with Mr. Dulles and all of
you, a member of the team which keeps this machine running.
, ~2, / , I& , 6', P, ,
C. P. CABELL
Lieutenant General, USAF
Deputy Director
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