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CIA-RDP80R01731R002400090050-6
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RIPPUB
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S
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2
Document Creation Date:
December 14, 2016
Document Release Date:
August 19, 2003
Sequence Number:
50
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Publication Date:
May 18, 1974
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REFSt A.
B,
25X1VISIT
*The decision on whether or not to reschedule
the Monday meeting is left to General 'Walters
THERE IS OF COURSE SOME POSSIBILITY THAT GENERAL WALTERS'
MIGHT COME TO THE ATTENTION OF THE PRESS OR
25X1SOME EELS IT
UNLIKELY THAT VISIT WOULD COME TO PUBLIC ATTENTION; COS WOULD NOT
25X1 GO QUITE THAT'FAR. NEITHER IS TOO CONCERNED IF
OTHER OFFICERS LEARN ABOUT THE VISIT AS LONG AS IT NOT TOO SECRETIVE.
THERE IS, IN SUM, SOME POSSIBLITY OF GENERAL WALTERS' VISIT BECOMING
KNOWN, AND
THEY HAVE TO,
WANT TO BE IN BEST POSITION TO EXPLAIN IT IF
25X1 2. COS HAS A SUGGESTION.
HAS ACCEPTED THE
25X1 IDEA OF A LATER VISIT, HAS ALREADY BEEN ASSURED HIGH-LEVEL
INTEREST THROUGH THESE EXCHANGES. STATION DOES NOT BE IEVE
BELIEVE THE RUMORS OF
WHICH PERHAPS REMOVES SOME OF THE URGENCY.
25X6 SECRET
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TO HANDLE THE VISIT AT A MORE ACCEPTABLE LEVEL OF
REPRODUCTION BY OTHEM T W
ISSUING OFFICE IS PFOHISMi
IF IT WERE POSSIBLE TO RESCHEDULE THE VISIT FOR HE END OF GENERAL
WALTERS' TRIP TO F---1OR EVEN LATER, THINGS WOULD HAVE QUIETED
LDl\
DOWN MORE AT THEI IAND THERE WOULD BE EVEN LESS LIKELIHOOD
OF THE PRESS KNOWING, OR, ALTERNATIVELY, WE WOULD HAVE MORE TIME
TO ATTEMPT ESTABLISH OUR NEW LIAISON LINKS AND TJ PERSUADE THE
25X1
DISCRETION.
25X1 3. FYI: THE
FOR 20 MAY. E2 IMPDET.
S E C R E T
STILL HAS HIS APPOINTMENT WITH
ILLEGIB
S E C R E T
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