INTERVIEW WITH U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300270012-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: April 21, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central g
Inte li ce
FROM : Herbert E. Hetu
Assistant to the Director (Public Affairs)
SUBJECT : Interview with U.S. News & World Report
1. Background: You are scheduled to meet with a group
of writers in the offices of U.S. News & World Report at
4 PM, Friday, April 22nd at U.S. News & World Report offices,
2300 N Street, N.W. Now scheduled to be present are:
Marvin L. Stone, Editor
Lester Tanzer, Managing Editor
Joseph Fromm, Deputy Editor ,~
Barr Reeder- --Ass4s.tant Managing fdi-ar or David
Barnett, Associate Editor
Robert (Pepper) Martin, Directing Editor, International
Staff
LeRoy J. Hansen, Deputy Directing Editor
Gerson Yalowitz, Editor, Worldgram
2. Groundrules: The format is a round table question
and answer session. It is informal and conversational. The
session is taped and will appear in the magazine in a Question
and Answer transcript form. They do, however, submit the
transcript to us for security and to correct any glaring errors
but not to completely rewrite. Attached is the last such
interview conducted with DCI Colby in December of 1974. The
panel acts, in Joe Fromm's words as "surrogates for their
readers."
Executive Fiegietxy
3. Questions they will ask: This will be a wide ranging
interview with some seemingly simple questions to establish a
base for the readers - others will be quite specific. Here are
several questions discussed in conversations with Joe Fromm which
he assures me they will ask:
a. How did you find CIA when you took over, i.e., what was
the state of the Agency, morale of the people, etc.?
b. What about charges that you took the CIA job as a
stepping stone to some high military post such as CNO or CJCS?
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c. Why then did you remain in uniform rather than
retiring?
d. Can you describe your two jobs for us (DCI/DCIA).
To which do you devote more time?
e. Do you think the two jobs should be separated?
f. There are reports you have surrounded yourself with
Navy personnel - insulated yourself is this an accurate
description?
g. Can you give us a broad brush overview of the world
situation today (like you gave Hottelet from CBS) - from what
direction/country/area Is the greatest threat to the U.S.?
What is a realistic assessment of today's problems?
h. Africa seems to be a particularly troublesome area,
do you look for more and bigger problems in that area?
i. General Keegan's views of the Soviet Union seem to
be quite extreme. Can you put the current Soviet threat in a
realistic context?
j. What about Soviet Civil Defense - are they really
building shelters on a crash basis throughout the country or
is this overstated?
k. The CIA got quite a bit of publicity recently in
connection with your world energy assessment. I think it
surprised a lot of people to find the CIA preparing a world
energy outlook. Is this a regular kind of thing the CIA
does?
4. Subjects/themes we wish to emphasize in answering
questions:
- Position or actions to stem unauthorized flow of
classified information
- Oversight procedures
- Harmful results of printing leaked stories
- Protecting sources and methods, i.e., why we
simply can't answer some questions.
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5. As in congressional testimony, we can provide exact
date - figures - illustrations when we review the interview.
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Herbert E. Hetu
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