MEETING WITH KENT CRANE OF THE MURPHY COMMISSION STAFF

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2002
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: March 5, 1975
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
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SUBJECT: Meeting with Kent Crane of the Murphy Commission Staff
on this subject, he had not received them as of 4 March. Therefore, I
reviewed with him I previous conversations with Fisher Howe
regarding an opportunity to have a formal review of the final draft report
and our general concerns about the inadequacy of the report as now written.
2. This brought forth a rather violent outburst against Howe,
including the fact that a promise to review the report could not be trusted,
that Howe is anti-intelligence community, and that Howe prefers to dis-
regard DoD intelligence as not being germane to foreign policy development
and support. Thus, our general comment that many parts of-the report
seemed unrelated to foreign policy support caused Crane to observe that
this "plays right into Fisher Howe's hand". As to our comment about
alternatives not being considered or discussed, Crane said this was deliberate
to preclude the Commission supporting a wrong alternative. He said the
Commission is not interested in putting out a strong intelligence report,
but his (Crane's) interest is to assure that what is issued is factually cor-
rect and not destructive. He alluded to the determination of Senator Mansfield
to have an open intelligence budget, and to the risk that a weak report will
lead "the Aspins, Harringtons, et al-, " to probe more deeply into the intel-
ligence community and tactical intelligence in order to verify the expenditure
1. On 4 March I met with Kent Crane to discuss factual and
interpretation errors in the draft Murphy Commission reports on intel-
ligence. Although had forwarded to Crane written comments
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3. Crane sees four primary thrusts for the intelligence report,
and his avowed efforts are to keep it on this track supported as well as
possible. The "thrusts" are:
'a. Greater responsibility for and greater interest
in intelligence by senior policymakers.
b. Greater authority for the DCI in community
matters.
c. Greater centralization of intelligence activities
in the DoD.
d. Greater oversight of the intelligence community.
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4. Having established these points, Crane then proceeded to go
through the comments paper. We briefly discussed Service Cryptologic
Agency relationships with NSA and the service-peculiar functions for
which they are responsible. This conversation generally followed the
lines of my earlier talk withi Errors in the NRO relationship
were noted. We discussed the large manpower figures associated with
Service intelligence, and I told him that I had been unable to verify them.
I asked him for the source of the figures, and he said they were from
Marchetti's book. I said that was an unreliable source. We started
discussing "tactical" or military force support intelligence, organic
units, SIGINT direct support, NSA direct service, etc. , when he admitted
that he would have to come back later for a longer discussion.
5. He left to carry out the balance of his arranged schedule, and
he will be back later this week or next.
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