DEAR SENATOR BYRD:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00682R000300180009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 1, 1948
• Content Type: LETTER

1 March 1918
PERSONAL ANDCONFIDENTIAL
The Honorable Harry F. Byrd
Chairman, Joint Committee on Reduction of
Non-Essentiaal Federal Expenditures
United States Senate
Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator Byrd:
In accordance with our verbal agreement on 16 Feb-
ruary 1914.8, I am enclosing the vouchered strength
figures of the Central Intelligence Agency for your
personal information only.
I wish to again indicate that we agreed, for reasons
of national security, that these figures should not be
published or made public in any manner.
Thank you for your courtesy in this matter.
Sincerely,
R. H. HILLENKOETTER
Rear Admiral, USN
Director of Central Intelligence
25X1A
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