Information Review & Release (Irr) News for 19-23 January 2004 Executive Summary

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character of the Chinese Commimist movement in the early days of its development. We would have known that the
Chinese Communist was no different, essentially, than his counterpart in the satellite countries of eastern Europe and
that, therefore, the choice in China was not between a Nationalist Government and something better, but between a
Nationalist Government and something far, far worse. This, therefore is your job, to gather and analyze in [an] ,
impartial manner all the facts and to make the findings available to those who have to make policy....I recognize that
this is a tough job. I know some of your assignments will be dangerous and, simultaneously, interesting. I realize
also, that many of you have already served well in difficult undertakings. In an organization of this type, which must
be a kind of silent shock absorber, I can imagine there are times when your tasks seem boring and maybe completely
meaningless, because you can't see the big picture. Hence, you are tempted to ask yourselves such questions as ‘Why
do we get this‘? Why do we have to spend precious time in tasks such as these?‘ I admonish you to have confidence
in those who direct your activities, and without allowing your efforts to be neutralized, that you do the job assigned
to you, because, I say this advisedly, there is no job in our present govemment which, I think, is more important than
the task you ladies and gentlemen will be doing in the years ahead."
0 At the time he was invited by CIA Director Allen Dulles to address the Agency Orientation Course in I 953,
Mr. Nixon was Vice President under President Eisenhower and generally considered a ”hardliner” against the
communists. At the time of Mr. Pforzheimer’s 1968 memo, Mr. Nixon had just been elected President and,
apparently, the Agency was trying to get a handle on the views of their new boss.
(U//A'I'B'6) Enduring UFO Bargain
(U//A-I'b‘O) Readers probably are aware that infonnation on UFOs is one of this Agency's most popular areas of
requester interest today. But they might not know that UFO infomtation has been a perennial favorite going back a
long way. In the context of responding to a UFO information request, the Journal of the Office of Legislative
Counsel (1 November 1978) indicates that, even then, there was such recurrent interest...that there is a package of
material relating to the subject of UFOs that we regularly send out to requesters (at a cost of $1 1.80 for copying
charges)." A bargain, undoubtedly! A similar package is available
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