LETTER TO LESLIE C. DIRKS FROM BARRY GOLDWATER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B00170R000200230048-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 28, 2008
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: September 24, 1981
• Content Type: LETTER

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29 September, 1981
Mr. Clarence L. Johnson, Senior Advisor
Lockheed Corporation
P.O.Box 551
Burbank, California 91520
Dear Kelly:
First of all, let me say what a pleasure it was to see
you again and to get a chance to meet Nancy. I think your
speech-. went over quite well, especially given the fact that
you could not depart from the text which had been approved.
My recollections of past occasions when you spoke before
other audiences (like suppliers' meetings) were that you much
prefer to extemporize! The windy lectures on organization and
test equipment'could have been left out as far as I was con-
cerned. Incidentally, there have been no questions raised
about what you said, from any quarter, official or otherwise.
Your discussion with Senator Goldwater about
Twelve Questions had a fairly immediate payoff. Instead of
calling Les, Barry wrote him a letter the same day you saw
him. Given our wonderful inter-office mail, the letter just
arrived in Langley this morning. I had prepared Les for a
possible phone call when I saw him yesterday morning, but the.
letter was a surprise. The gist of what he said was that after
his discussion with you relative to the questions, he felt that
what we should do was to tell "that the questions he
asked are classified and some of them will remain classified
for many, many years." He then added that he felt "we are not
in a position to go any further with the whole subject."
As I now understand it, things are in a,holding pattern for
what I had been asked to do, at least until Les has a chance
to discuss Barry's letter with Inman to see what the latter
thinks comes next.
I personally think that it might be well for me to con-
tinue my informal evaluation of what might or might not be
declassified or acknowledged, since apparently no one has ever
addressed this subject before. At least a departure point would
be in the record if somehow, at a later time, it was decided
that limited disclosure might be helpful.. But since I "ain't
the regular crew. chief" I shall have to await the pleasure of
others. Meanwhile, USAF's informal position is that they would
object to any disclosures "about the innards" of the Deuce.
That is a pro-motherhood and apple pie stand, of course, and
one that may need better definition. After all, for instance,
what is to protect-about the Collins 618-T SSB or the Baird
sextant? Meanwhile, I shall be discussing the rough draft you
sent me with the General Counsel to see what implications lie
in the Federal Privacy Act of 1974 about releasing names of
key people who are still living. I will try to keep you in the
the best-
loop on this. For the moment then, all
Sincerely
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