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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00022R000200030047-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 47
• Content Type: NOTES

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Bob--- (THIS IS STRICTLY INTER NOS BY THE WAY) HRP
This presents me with a considerable problem. In the first place, obviously
can't say what the SS would or would not think about it. ]eC 'All, I know is
that yawl told me he and Ray or somebody looked at some draft or other of
this thing---or maybe it was 50-50 T don't Roiw ---which they thought looked
all right. As f.-.r as I am concerned, however, on the one reading I've done,
I don,,t feel at all sure the SS would be completely happy about this as is.
If I'm right about it, I think it's unfortunate that we didn't somehow
get in on this thing before you had this meeting. you told-me a while ago that
this job, for some reason or other, had to be published before Tuesday. I
don't happen to know the reason for this unseemly haste, but`I suppose it's
an entirely fraudulent one the way it usually is. Anyway, suppose I took the
horn by the bulls right now and said I represented the staff qnd would under
no circumstances allow this thing as is to be published. Leaving everything else
aside---and that would be a hell of a lot to lea e aside too-the result Worild
be, to say the least, to embarrass CIA to a rather marvellous degree. Again
leaving a good deal aside, poor old CIA zx could easily be left in exactly
the position we have made so much fuss over about theso other people---the business
of welching a dissent after agreement at a meeting where representatives actually
had no power to speak.
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f course, I do.nSt know what has gone on at your meeting, and possibly
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this t mos al.. may objections have been met. bo frankly, I don't know what
iii 'th hell to do. If I were to join the meeting now and attempt to get my
points across, I'd only co fuse the issue. I'd also not be sure I was doing
what the SS wanted w ich wouldn't help any. Furthermore, this is a thing that
ought to be studied a bit, and I haven't had the time really, to get a decent
impr ssion of the study.
00 all I can suggest is that you take a look at my marginal jottings---
some of which you will note are mere editorial flim flams of no consequence
that the old pedant can't resist and see if you can bring any you think im-
portant before this august body, possibly -vetting some of them taken care of.
In general, it seems to me that the paper tends to be weakto offer arguments
in both sides, leaving the reader to make up his mind. we say that they can
do it but we don't think they will, but we don8t---at least to me---lake it at
all clear why we think they won't. It sounds *s if we had sort of a hunch
that they won't. The references to "international com muriism11 are awfully vague,
and 1 don't think..the.assumptions about Joviet influence can yet be supported.
I'd be tempted to go as far as to say that for those who have to worry day by
day about a CC invasion of FI(:, tis would be so inconclusive as to increase
their worries no ends they still wouldn't k ow, and their tempbrs---if they were
mine--would be aggravated.
If you can think of any way to let the SS still get a crack at this, I
think it vn uld be a good thing. If you can't, you'd better get the best job
,ou can and put it out. G
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