Attached 29 May Balmer drafts on the NIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05597A000300060070-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 1998
• Sequence Number: 70
• Publication Date: June 6, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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SUBJECT: Attached 29 M- drafts on the NIS
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These - drafts are largely benign and no bar to aintaining
course and speed but there are s couple :,f changes ?- particularly with
respect to NIS Committee chairmanship - needing to bit of lade before this
goes to USIB.
I don't $eee much point In the attached G e but there is a>
airsctiota And Man &
paper attached, by paragraphs
I doubt that the MI wants his responsibility described to this
depth and probably would prefer a first sentence ending with
a period after `... coordination of the NIS Pro, ram,
s subordination of Me WIS e
2. c It It doubtful' if l Wants to get iot* the bUsiness of
establishing priorities in detail, and In any event this
would be somewhat academic Inasmuch as pre cer
caapaabilitiea. sn uarlty w stied with by the MS C:+anraaaltteee.
geed to he a enaajor'fictot.` Systeestiade acc letated NIS
production to a prsaeiieal approach.
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of VS!B to car" tat but .. .
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Aside from. perhaps`trraplyieas that the - have found
More wed for,drastte cta a than they e?t4.ntly h$VV found,
the su2,geatioo of a "fun Via" Cbaaira aaa-a for 'M t IOa*2 years,
cold scarcely fail to p y the Chairman lasss from OBI and
e'edsting rn and 'MI com> aand ehsaaela. The Is no require-
snout for a Chairman more "full tirr-s- than the present one;
Reber perhaps is the only other s uc h under USIB. and in
entirely different contest. OSI (and therefore 1)1)!) is so
intimately and dominantly related to the Committee work
and conduct of the Program that clearly the Chairmanship
should stay as it is.
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