LETTER TO COLONEL BARNEY OLDFIELD FROM LIEUTENANT GENERAL VERNON WALTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R001900060048-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2006
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: August 27, 1975
• Content Type: LETTER

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Colonel Barney Oldfield, USAF (Ret)
Corporate Director
Special Missions and Projects
360 North Crescent Drive
Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210
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Col. Barney Oldfield, USAF(Ret)
Corporate Director, Special Missions and Projects
August 21, 1975
Dear Vernon:
It was great to see you here on the tube and
then so generously treated and quoted in the Los Angeles
TIMES, as I had about given up on the chances that anyone
would grant there was another side to the intelligence
picture, and creditable and worthy distinction due those
engaged in its collection and interpretation.
In the Pentagon I used to grumble a lot about
the stands of both the Army and the Air Force which were
enunciated by various of the chiefs to the effect that
they could never 'view as constructive' any story which
had to do with intelligence as a profession. One of them
told me that he felt it would always just have to live
with whatever was thrown at it, and he said it was prob-
ably because Joshua's use of agents before Jericho found
them taking up with Rahab, the harlot, as a cover a seamy
association the craft had never been able to shake!
But Rahab's acolyte or not, I thought you
said what you did with conviction and well, and I thank
you for the forcefulness and forthrightness of it. The
account said a couple of radio reporters had been baiting
you in a press conference adjunct to your remarks, and I
would assume you were lethal in delivering one of your
conversational karate chops. Good for you!
Strange, but the day you did your thing, I had
just finished and mai3Dd a piece called SHAPE: A SENTIMENT
AND A STRUCTURE to the Holland magazine, NATO's 15 NATIONS,
which will run on SHAPE's 25th birthday next 0001 2 April.
In its recount, I was surprised at what busy and mobile cats
we were in that time period. ,/
Best regards,
tJ
Lieutenant General Vernon Walters, USA
Deputy Director,
Central Intelligence Agency,
McLean, Virginia
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