Follow-up on Discussion on 20 July

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CREST [1]

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General CIA Records [2]

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CIA-RDP84B00506R000100080012-4

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December 12, 2016

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September 25, 2001

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July 27, 1973

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Approved For Rase 2001/12/04: CIA-RDP84B Nn! IONALL v-.~UR1 1 i~ ++v',i i'wCfL .'? WASHINGTON, D.C. 20-506 124 , __._. _# .r111y 27, 1 9 73 MEMORANDUNI FOR WILLIAM COLBY A. W. .1%(_ .RSHALL SUBJECT; Follow-up on Discussion of 20 July I want to comment further on two matters covered briefly during our meeting of 20 July. The first of these is your determination to produce rr e ful..and significant products for the top level decisionmaker s " As you said, this means getting at what the Soviets think the bureau- cratic politics of major issues and providing richer and more interesting explanations of the things that we see them doing. Proctor's proposed Political Research Office is an appropriate part of a program to provide higher quality products. So is the new analysis R&D. effort that Carl Duckett has started. However, I believe any effort to produce the desired products must be planned as a coordinated set of programs carried out MMiii .s..R Ws +F4M[aena~."?++y~rN1:TymtaM}wNYw wpm*r.sww.WF-.'+;