LETTER TO MR. HOWARD V. FISHER FROM(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R003000260080-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 11, 2003
• Sequence Number: 80
• Publication Date: October 10, 1952
• Content Type: LETTER

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10 October 1952
$oeard V. Fier
In acknowledgment of your letter of September 3(1-,z'.,,
general Smith has asked me to note for you that your on
in an employee of an agency not related to this ore but
once which cores under the jurisdiction of the Secret y of
Defense. I see that you have sent him- a copy of your
letter to Ceneral Smith a ! I feel sure that you will _hear
directly from the Department of Defense with respect to the
status of your sor.
Sincerely yotrz,
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September 30, 1952
General Walter Bedell Smith
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C.
Sir:
This morning's newspapers quote you as sayin,,
that you believe Communists have infiltrated every security
agency of the Government and that you are doing a verythiini.
possible to detect them. It may be helpful to you to learr.
of a specific instance where an intelligent non-communist
employee of the Armed Forces Security Agency is no longer
wanted.
Secretary of Defense Lovett, made the Commencemerr
Address at Amherst College last June. He urged each member,
of the graduating class to adopt government service as a
career. My Son, Howard M. Fisher was Marshal of that class
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was one of a number who secured government jobs. He
resides at 3502 South Wakefield Street
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Telephone - Temple 8081, and is employed by the Armed 1oraa:;
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ecur
y Agency and has bdi
een unergong training for about
16 weeks. I understand that an examination was given- a
group of applicants and that he was the top man of the gro.iu.
Regardless of the obvious need for this kind of
and the time and money spent for training
he is to be
,
inducted into the Armed Forces on October 15 and his nctic
of induction therefore will be mailed before the end of th? r
week. Howard's immediate superiors in the Agency are fully
cognizant of the facts and no action has been taken aliegeddiy
because of the existence of certain rules and regulati tns.
From the foregoing facts, it is clear that Htwart'
is capable of doing the work and it must therefore follow
that if he is not now wanted it must be for some other real,{gyn.
The pertinent rules and regulations may supply an excus fc:*
lack of action but give no inkling as to the real reason
therefore. This is especially so, since the said :rules ant
regulations are made by the government and for its bene:'it
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General Walter Bedell Smith - Page 2 - September 30, 19%2
and could therefore be easily amended or rescinded, if in
the best interests of the war effort.
Howard applied for and excepted the job in good
faith, on the recommendation of Secretary Lovett. 1 fuel
that I am entitled to know why he is no longer wanted.
Respectfully,
OVVARD V. FI SF. ER
Copy to: Mr. Robert A. Lovett
Secretary of Defense
Washington, D. C.
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