EXCERPTS FROM REMARKS BY GEORGE BUSH, DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE, AT HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB INTERNATIONAL DINNER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300100010-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 12, 1976
• Content Type: LIST

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Excerpts from Remarks by George Bush, Director of Central
Intelligence, at Harvard Business School Club International
Dinner, April 12, 1976.
The CIA's reservoir of dedicated people is a unique
asset of the United States Government."
"The pendulum of public opinion appears to be swinging
back toward the center. There is a fundamental recognition
that the United States must have an intelligence capability
second to none."
"A very important part of CIA's job is assessing and
understanding the perception of our country abroad."
"America is a principled and committed nation. People
must come to believe that again."
"The Agency must cooperate with Congress, and Congress
has to recognize that it must be able to protect the Agency's
intelligence secrets."
"The recent Presidential Executive Order represents
the first real mandate to the Director of Central In-
telligence since 1947."
"We must change our ways of dealing with the public.
We must be more open in helping people understand what the
CIA does."
"We must take steps to reduce overclassification and
move toward declassification. Sources and methods must be
protected. Trivia must not."
"You cannot conduct an intelligence agency out in
the open. There must be some secrecy."
"We at the CIA are trying to conduct foreign in-
telligence, not to weaken our country, but to strengthen
it. It's those who would disclose the names of our agents
abroad; it's those who believe they can recklessly reveal
classified documents; it's those who would dismantle the
CIA, that in reality are damaging our country."
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