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This is a letter from Philip G. Strong to Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner, president of Associated Universities, Inc., dated May 8, 1953 and released by the Central Intelligence Agency. Strong acknowledges Berkner's letter of 21 April and its enclosures about Dr. Davidson. He notes that similar letters from Davidson and Major Kehoe were referred to the Air Force. He also states that a claim by Ruppelt, quoted by Davidson, about "orders" to the Panel is completely without foundation.
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Dear Lloyd: Your letter of 21 April with the enclosures dealing with Dr. Davidson were waiting for me on my return from a month's trip abroad. Shortly before my departure, similar letters had come to us from Dr. Davidson and also from Major Kehoe. This correspondence was referred to the Air Force for appropriate action and, since receipt of your letter, I have been in touch with the officers concerned to find out what the present status is and what guidance I might give you in the matter. Unfortunately, I will not be able to get together with them until sometime next week, so this is in the nature only of an interim acknowledgement. I will write you again when I know more about the present status of the matter. One point I might make of which you are of course well aware is that the statement made by Huppelt quoted by Davidson concerning "orders" to the Panel is completely without foundation. Best regards. Dr. Lloyd V. Berimer President Associated Universities, Inc. 10 Columbus Circle New York 19, New York
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.