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104-10105-10126 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (06/03/1976)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch72037 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10105-10126  [2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992







                                                 3 June 1976



        MEMORANDUM  FOR:  Chief, External Activities Branch
                          Office of Security

        FROM              John H. Stein
                          Deputy Chief, Soviet/East European Division.

        SUBJECT        :  Manuscript by David Phillips.


             1.  At  the risk of. tilting continually at windmills, it
        is the undersigned's  view, and that of innumerable colleagues,
        that Mr. Phillips'  book should not be published.  In the first
        instance,  those portions we have read are superficial and give
        the reader the  impression that the profession which Mr. Phillips
        practiced so well  is one of derring-do, frivolity and foolishness.
        More seriously,  the entire book is based on knowledge acquired
        by Mr. Phillips during  his career in the Agency.  Whether a
        given sentence  is in the public domain or not, Mr. Phillips
        should not put his  stamp of authenticity on that sentence.
        If publish Mr. Phillips must,  and if the Agency cannot legally
        stop him, then so be  it.  Hopefully, while there is still time,
        someone will push for  appropriate legislation to stop this
        foolishness.

             2.  While it is perhaps  fruitless, we have attempted to
        identify some of the more damaging  items in the text as
        drafted.  These are cited below:

                 a.  Page 15:  Discussion  of back channel communi-
             cations used to circumvent  the Secretary of State seems
             to be ill-advised and not designed  to enhance Agency
             relations with State.

                 b.  Page 23:  There begins here  a discussion of the
             use of women by the DDO.  While  I understand
             Mr. Phillips' desire to indicate that  the DDO does in
             fact hire women and minorities, this section  causes
             some anguish.  At the present time, certainly  in the
             Near East, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union,  the


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