LETTER TO D/OTR FROM ANDREW T. FALKIEWICZ, A/DCI

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
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• Publication Date: December 6, 1976
• Content Type: LETTER

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DIRECTOR OF CENVMW-, INTELLIGENCE
D/OTR,
Thanks for your comment of 26 Nov.
STATINTL and report on the Counterspy
article. We fully agree that comment by
Counterspy should not deter us in
scheduling Don for talks to such
audiences.
We would also appreciate Don's
extending his trips occasionally to
handle other speaking engagements
that we normally are not able to
handle. For example, we currently
have two requests from the San
Francisco area.
of my office should be the point
of contact on this.
Thanks for keeping us informed.
Andrew T. Falkiewicz
A/DCI
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2 2 OCT 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR:
Deputy Director for Operations Group
FROM John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT Your Talk Before the University of Texas
Graduate Students
Returned herewith is your Memorandum for the Record
on your talk to the graduate students at the University of
Texas. I thought you would be interested in the Director's
comment on the buckslip. This was, indeed, a most worth-
while visit.
Attachment
/ John F. Blake
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21 October 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Operations Training
FROM John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
1. I have read your memorandum on your recent
visit to the University of Texas at Austin. I was
sufficiently impressed by its objectivity to forward it
to both Messrs. Bush and Knoche.
2. I am now in receipt of memorandum STATINTL
of 12 October to the Chief, Recruitment Division. It is
a first-class tribute that extends to you and, STATINTL
knowing Bill to be the man of integrity that he is, you
have to fully deserve his commendatory words. We
congratulate and thank you.
(5/,; 6
John F. Blake
P.S.
Keep it up, Don, and maybe somehow we will
figure out a way to work you into our
permanent fabric.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Recruitment Division
SUBJECT Addresses by
of Texas at Austin
at The University
This memorandum is written to advise you of the absolutely STATINTL
superb addresses presented by at The University of
Texas at Austin on 6 October. I am positive that the Agency made
a net gain in these addresses, and I would encourage you to suggest
to other Recruiters that be invited into their areas for STATINTL
similar presentations.
The first presentation made was to the Policy Process STATINTL
Review class conducted by Dagmar Hamilton, one of the Professors in
the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin.
The audience in this instance was approximately fifty in number and
represented not only the students in the class but several Professors
and students from the Law School. - did a magnificent job of STATINTL
presenting CIA in its role of impinging on the development of U. S.
foreign policy. I find it difficult to recall ever having heard an
Agency speaker make such a brilliant and sweeping analysis of CIA activity
STATINTL in this field. - was very frank and forthright in discussing
Agency efforts as it attempts to present meaningful opinions to the
STATINTL policy maker. I am sure several people came to this presentation pre-
pared to be hostile to but his honesty and sophistication in
the presentation almost completely disarmed what hostility existed.
STATINTL There were a few questions with barbs, but handled them without
incident.
A second presentation was made to a group of students and faculty
drawn from the Area Study programs at The University of Texas (Middle East,
STATINTL Asian and Latin American programs). Some twenty-five in number attended
this second session and, again, presented a penetrating analysis
of CIA global activities over the last several years. There were a number
of excellent questions concerning CIA activity in these several areas of
STATINTL the world, and - handled these questions very meaningfully -
drawing from his intimate knowledge of Agency affairs.
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At the evening reception which I sponsored I received any number
of compliments concerning this effort of CIA making itself known in a
more meaningful fashion to the American public. Based on my own obser-
vations and the comments I have received from students and faculty of
The University of Texas, I am certain the Agency has a great deal to gain
by similar presentations. It is my intention to invite back STATINTL
for other audiences, and I would suggest that other Recruiters would
benefit from similar experiences.
I invite you to share this information with senior officials in
the Office of Personnel and elsewhere.
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Deputy Director for Operations Training
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SUBJECT: Talk Before Graduate Students at the University
of Texas
1. On 6 October I traveled to Austin to address
two groups of graduate students at the University of
Texas. This visit had been arranged through the good
the Southwestern regional
recruiter, who felt that a presentation on the Agency
today might be helpful to him in gaining access to a
wider range of potential candidates for Agency employment.
2. arrangements were flawless. I
arrived in Austin about 1300 and by 1330 was addressing
a group of about 50 graduate students and faculty. The
framework was the Policy Process Course taught by Dr. Dagmar
S. Hamilton at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. The course
itself has about 15 students. Others present were law
students and other interested faculty. (Also present was
a reporter from the Texas University daily paper. I spoke
with him before my talk and told him that I would designate
any comments which should be off the record. Due to the
reporter's presence, I was less specific in naming people
and places than I would have been.)
3. The subject of my talk was "Foreign Policy
Formulation--The Intelligence Input." The seminar
lasted for two hours and was interspersed with questions.
I sought to trace the development of the Agency since its
creation in 1947 and outlined ways in which it contributes
to foreign policy. This was similar to the talk which I
gave at Williams College last May.
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SUBJECT: Talk Before Graduate Students at the University
of Texas
4. About a dozen students participated actively in
questioning me during my talk. Their attitudes ranged
from skepticism to hostility, but all questions were put
to me in a courteous tone. In no case did a question
reflect an unquestioningly supportive attitude toward
the Agency. Quite predictably, the questions centered
on covert action, assassination, and the supposed tendency
of the Agency to act on its own volition. My responses
were listened to quite respectfully, and following the
talk, my most active interrogator came up and thanked me
for my "candor and rational viewpoint." My feeling was
that many of those who asked no questions were more
favorably inclined toward the Agency. I noted several
students approach to ask for his calling card.
The student newspaper reporter asked no questions, and
assured me that he would respect our ground rules. _ STATINTL
hearing this, said he expected a noncontroversial
and abbreviated report of my talk to appear in the student
paper.
5. Dr. Sydney Weintraub, the Dean Rusk Professor at
the LBJ School, also attended the talk and introduced me
to the students. He has served as both a Deputy Adminis-
trator for AID and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.
Weintraub spoke in generally favorable terms of the
Agency's development, and cited a notable improvement in
its analytical product, particularly in the last five or
six years. Following the talk, Dr. Hamilton told me that
my remarks had been fully pertinent to the structure of her
course, and that the talk had been "worth two or three weeks
of normal class study."
6. We then shifted to the Texas University Center
for Asian Studies where I addressed a mixed group of
about 20 faculty and graduate students. Dr. F. Tomasson
Jannuzi, the Asian Center Director, introduced me to the
group. The discussion there, which lasted about 90 minutes,
focused more on regional problems, particularly those of
Latin America and South and Southeast Asia. Again, the
questioning from both students and faculty was searching,
and I was impressed by the detailed knowledge which
individual students possessed about recent developments
in Korea, Japan, Chile, and India. At the end of
this talk, I was thanked warmly by Dr. Jannuzi and
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of Texas
several students came up to say that their impression of
the Agency had been changed by what they heard me say.
This basically benevolent reaction carried over to a
small cocktail party at the Faculty Club. I asked
several faculty members and students whether they felt
that this sort of appearance was worth doing. The answer
was very positive in terms of what they had learned about
the function of today's CIA. Two or three of the more
sensitive observers said that they had wondered whether
the Agency had been trying to "propagandize" them, but
that the pertinence of my talk to the structure of
Dr. Hamilton's course had strongly mitigated this feeling.
7. was pleased with the day's activities
saying that he had achieved better access to both the
LBJ School and the Area Studies Department than he had
had before. He agreed that appearances of this sort
should be "apropos of something," such as Dr. Hamilton's
course.
8. I was highly impressed with the quality of both
STATINTL faculty and students, and was struck b the fact that at
the University of Texas, which rates as the
outstanding academic institution in his area, the Agency
is regarded with skepticism and some hostility by a
significant number of students and faculty. I felt,
however, that all minds were open and that a presentation
of this sort was useful in partially countering some
misconceptions which had existed before.
STATINTL 9. has promised to send feedback and
faculty reaction to the Director of Personnel, and
once his report has come in, we will be in a better
position to judge whether future gambits of this sort
are worth undertaking. I thoroughly enjoyed the day
STATINTL and feel that represents the Agency extremely
well. In the evening he arranged for me to interview a
truly outstanding CT candidate. This interview alone
would have made the trip worthwhile.
cc: DTR
DDO
D /Pers
A/DCI
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