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OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

MEMORANDUM

April 9, 1969

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He has noted it to you, asking "should

he or would you notify Mr. Coyne." He

also asks if Dr. McLucas should act on the

material in the packet.

I have prepared, for your signature,

a response to Mr. Coyne advising him of

the change in command and indicating that

you would continue to serve as liaison in

particular reference to the request of the

last paragraph of his letter.

_itre'-are recommending no action on the

material in the packet -- since it is intended

as information and guidance. It does confirm

the new membership (which we have already

adjusted on our charts) and it does, for the

first time, give us an indication of the

Board's charge (albeit in the most general

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Dear 144hr—etryne:

This is in response to your memorandum of April 2, 1969

concerning U.S. Foreign Intelligence Activities.

As you know, the new Under Secretary of the Air Force --

Dr. John L. McLucas -- was designated the Director, National

Reconnaissance Office (DNRO) on March 17, 1969 and has

assumed those responsibilities previously carried by Dr.

Alexander FL Flax.

The NRO Staff will continue to be the supporting staff for

Dr. McLucas. I will continue to serve as liaison between your

office and the XRO.

I am looking forward to a continuing close working relationship with your office.

Sincerel

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Director

Mr. Patrick J. Coyne

The President's Foreign Intelligence

Advisory Board

Washington, D. C.

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PRESIDENT'S FOREIGN INTMLIGENCE ADVISORY BOARD

April 2, 1969

mEmoRANDIE Fort Assistant Seeretary of the Air Force

(Research and Deyelopment)

Department of the Air Force

SUBJECT: United States Foreign Intelligence Activities

For the information and guidance of your Agency there

4 are enclosed copies of the following unclassified documents

relating to the subject.

Executive Order 11460 which was approved by the

President on March 20, 1969, and which defines in general

language the mission and functions of the President's

Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.

A release issued by the Mite House Press Secretary

on March 20, 1969, concerning reconstitution of the Board

by the President and listing the personnel currently associated with the Board.

An excerpt from the statement of the. President on the

anti-ballistic missile problem wherein the President assigns

an added responsibility to the Board to make an annual independent assessment of the strategic nuclear threat.

A memorandum from the President to the Secretary of

State et al dated March 24, 1969, requesting that the Departments and Agencies concerned furnish complete information and

full cooperation to the Board.

I would appreciate your naming a representative of your

staff to act as liaison between our offices and, as in the past,

I shall be in touch with you personally from time to time on

matters of interest to the President's Board.

55E:41

. Patrick Coyn

Executive Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

March 24, 1969

' MEMORANDUM FOR:

THE SECRETARY OF STATE

THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE .

THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT'S FOREIGN .

INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY BOARD

SUBJECT: UNITED STATES FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

ACTIVITIES.

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My issuance on March 20, 1969, of Executive Order*NUmber 11460

establishing the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory

Board, is in keeping with this Administration's objective of

strengthening wherever possible the collection, evaluation

and timely dissemination of reliable foreign inte lligence by

the military and civilian agencies of Government. The Board

'. is charged with the responsibility of being able to assure me

at all times of the .quality, responsiveness and reliability of

the intelligence provided to policy making personnel.

4 I shall look to the Director of Central Intelligence to continu

to provide coordination and guidance to the total foreign

intelligence activities of the United States with the view

to assuring a comprehensive and integrated effort on the part

orthe United States Governmentagencies.

As provided in the Executive Order, it shall be the responsibil

of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board to review and

-keep me advised concerning all significant aspects of foreign

intelligence and related activities in which the Central

Intelligence Agency and other elements of the intelligence

community are engaged. Because of the importance of the

strategic nuclear threat, I have also assigned to the Board a
EXCERPT FROM PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT OF MARCH 14 ON THE ANTIBALLISTIC MISSILE PROBLEM

"In making this decision, I have been mindful of

my pledge to make every effort to move from an

era of confrontation to an era of negotiation. The

program I am recommending is based on a careful

assessment of the developing Soviet and Chinese

threats. I have directed the President's Foreign

Intelligence Advisory Board -- a non-partisan group

of distinguished private citizens -- to make a yearly

assessment of the threat which will supplement our

regular intelligence assessment. Each phase of the

deployment will be reviewed to . insure that we are

doing as much as necessary but no more than that

required by the threat existing at that time.

Moveover, we will take maximum advantage of the information gathered from the initial deployment in

designing the later phases of the program."

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special responsibility to make a yearly, independent assessment of the

nuclear threat, supplementing regular intelligence assessments made

thereon by the intelligence community.

In, order that the Board may be enabled to fulfill its tasks, I ask the

heads of the Departments and Agencies concerned to furnish complete

information and full cooperation to the Board for the purpose of carrying

out its responsibilities to me.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 1969

Office of the White House Press Secretary

THE WHITE HOUSE

The President today issued an Executive Order establishing the President's

Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Today's Order reorganises

and reconstitutes the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board

originally established by President Eisenhower in 1956 as the President's

Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities and continued

by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson as the President's Foreign

Intelligence Advisory Board.

Under the terms of the Order the Board is charged with the responsibility

of keeping the President advised with respect to the total foreign intelligence

effort and of reporting periodically to the President its findings. appraisal

and recommendations for achieving increased effectiveness of the United

States foreign intelligence effort. The Board will make its reports after

conducting an objective review and assessment of foreign intelligence

and related activities of the Central Intelligence Agency and other United

States Government departments and agencies.

The members of the Board have been chosen by the President from

qualified persons outside the Government. The members of the Board

in whose qualifications and integrity the President has the fullest confidence

are as follows:

Mazwe11 D. Taylor, Chairman

President. Institute for Defense Analyses

George W. Anderson

Former Chief of Naval Operations

William 0. Baker

Vice President, Research, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.

Gordon Gray

Former Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Edwin IL Land

President, Polaroid Corporation

Franklin B. Lincoln, Jr.

Mudge, Rose, Guthrie and Alexander

Franklin D. Murphy

Chairman of the Board, Los Angeles Times

Robert D. Murphy

Chairman of the Board, Corning Glass International

Frank Pace, Jr.

President, International Executive Service Corps

Nelson A. Rockefeller

Governor of New York

3. Patrick Coyne has been appointed by the President to serve as

Executive Secretary of the Board. He has served in this capacity

with similar Intelligence Advisory Boards utilised by Presidents

Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson
IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 1969

Office of the White House Press Secretary

THE WHITE HOUSE

EXECUTIVE ORDER

ESTABLISHING THE PRESIDENT'S FOREIGN

INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY BOARD

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United

States, it is ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. There is hereby established the President's Foreign

Intelligence Advisory Board, hereinafter referred to as "the Board".

The Board shall:

advise the President concerning the objectives, conduct, management and coordination of the various activities maldng up the overall

national intelligence effort;

conduct a continuing review and assessment of foreign intelligence

and related activities in which the Central Intelligence Agency and other

Government departments and agencies are engaged:

receive, consider and take appropriate action with respect to

matters identified to the Board, by the Central Intelligence Agency and

other Government departments and agencies of the intelligence community,

in which the support of the Board will further the effectiveness of the

national intelligence effort; and

report to the President concerning the Board's findings and

appraisals, and make appropriate recommendations for actions to achieve

increased effectiveness of the Government's foreign intelligence effort in

meeting national intelligence needs.

SEC. 2. In order to facilitate performance of the Board's functions,

the Director of Central Intelligence and the heads of all other departments

and agencies shall make available to the Board all information with respect

to foreign intelligence and related matters which the Board may require

for the purpose of carrying out its responsibilities to the President in

accordance with the terms of this Order. Such information made available

to the Board shall be given all necessary security protection in accordance

with the terms and provisions of applicable laws and regulations.

SEC. 3. Members of the Board shall be appointed by the President

from among persons outside the Government, qualified on the basis of

know/edge and experience in matters relating to the national defense and

security, or possessing other knowledge and abilities which may be

expected to contribute to the effective performance of the Board's duties.

The members of the Board shall receive such compensation and allowances,

consonant with law, as may be prescribed hereafter.

' SEC. 4. The Board shall have a staff headed by an Executive

Secretary, who shall be appointed by the President and shall receive

such compensation and allowances, consonant with law, as may be

prescribed by the Board. The Executive Secretary shall be authorised,

subject to the approval of the Board and consonant with law, to appoint

and fix the compensation of such personnel as may be necessary for

performance of the Board's duties.

(OUR)
SEC. 5. Compensation and allowances of the Board, the

Executive Secretary, and members of the staff, together with other

I: expenses arising in connection with the work of the Board, shall be

:. paid from the appropriation appearing under the heading "Special

: Projects" in the Executive Office Appropriation Act, 1969, Public

1, Law 90-350, 82 Stat. 195, and, to the extent permitted by law, from

any corresponding appropriation whiclimay be made for subsequent

Il years. Such payments shall be made without regard to the provisions

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 of section 3681 of the Revised Statutes and section 9 of the Act of

March 4, 1909, 35 Stat. 1027 (31 U.S. C. 672 and 673).

SEC. 6. Executive Order No. 10938 of May 4, 1961, is hereby

revoked.

RICHARD NIXON

iTHE WHITE HOUSE,

March 20, 1969.