RELATIONS WITH NEWS MEDIA AND THE CIA "IMAGE"

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B05708A000200150011-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2014
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: January 21, 1964
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
21 January 1964
Intelligence Assistant Directors
Chief, Research Staff
Chief, Collection Guidance Staff
Chief, Administrative ?Staff
-Director, National Photographic
Interpretation Center
SUBJECT : Relations with News Media and the
CIA "Image"
1_ Attached is a -copy of a memorandum from the
Director on "Agency Relations With News Media." I believe
you will want to brief your. ..senior people on its contents,
2, To help this office prepare a response, I need
your views on the -implications of deliberate publicity,
together with your recommendations for action. Among the
ideas you might consider is permitting DDI _ofticers-,who
publish scholarlybooks, Participate in various nongovern-
mental meetings and conferences, andso forth, to be
- identified with CIA,
3, Your comments should be in this office by the
close of business Friday, 24 January.
Attachment
R. J. SMITH
Acting Deputy Director (Intelligence)
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dre.ssees may give this memorandum additional circulation within
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sviEMORANDUM. FOR: E?xecutive-Cornruittee
...aaTECT
1. Policy guidance 'concerning the handling of relations with.
news mddia. will be issued from ti-ie to time by the Director or
Deputy Director, and under no circumstances is to be changed or ' 7:
modified except by the Director or Deputy Director in written forrn,''
or orally and confirmed by impleMenting memorandum.
2. News media contact for background briefings are to be on:
a non-atzrthu-able basis and are to involve areas of discussion
appi?oved by the Director o-f? the Deputy Director after cOordination.
bylhim with the White House, 'Department of State, and the Depart://:'
rtient of. Dctfense, as appropriate...Stich briefings Must'always'be
conducted on an individual and never on a collective basis and with
customary care to avoid disclosures with respect to intelligence?
information, estimates or administration policy resulting therefrom?,
Brietings involving attributioti should be a.veided at all times except'tin;L:,
der the specific authepty oi the Director or Deputy Director, such
authority to be granted after receipt of policy guidance froth the Whit'a':
House.
3. As a general rule, in the absence of specific instruction,s.:
and coordination in accordance with paragraph 2 preceding', CIA-
shall make no releases on any of its estimates, analyses, or repot
whether classified or not.. It is considered Preferable that such: ,
releases be made, if at all, by departments or 4encies
CIA. ,
4. The substance of personal contacts with individuals of the
press, either socially or otherwise, will be recorded in a memo-
randum for the record as is the Agency's present practice, and
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copy forwarded to Mr. Chretien for his information.
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. 5.: it. continues to be. my,"desire to' create an 5mage"'of CIA...'
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which identifies the Agency, with its statutory responsibility for....-
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assembling, annlyzb:g, .and-evaluating all intelligence of national .
t. significance-and reporting the 'aubstance'of.this intelligence to . .'
, policy makers. . This image..ean be 'conveyed bYbmphasizing the......
gency cs_ statutory role, as contrasted to its operational activities,.:?
.in private discussions ? with our, counterparts in Government, with
members of Congress and in occasional meetings with influential::: '
members of the preys or general public.. It is not desirable in;.,.:
discussions or this character to refer to operational achievements.,
or substantive production or .to make any statements bearing or.:
. susceptible to attribution.
6. As recent publicity involving the Agency has probably haci, -
a varying impact upon different componentS, Deptity Directors are,
requested to submit to the DDCI statements which assess the: ,..:
implications of this publicity for their particular areas with recom7:
rnendations as to what action they consider appropriate to accomplish.
the purpose outlined in paragraph 5., :
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