424-10185-10098 (25) ESTABLISHMENT OF BURBAU LIAISON WITH DUTCH | INTERNAL SECURITY SERVICE/~ 1960 In Januar 1960, our Legal Attache, trayeled: -€o Bolland¥or the purpose of exploring arrange- ments for liaison With appropriate DutchTuthorities, NAHE raised questions oifiting out that over . 4 Again, |___koula cite this-as an instance where we failed to coordinate in line with National Security Counc irectives. e In the latter part of 1959 we gave consideration to establishing a Legal Attache in.Copenhagen, Denmark. The purpose of the assignment was to follow Bureau leads in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Holland. We did not inform CIA of our intentions, . (26) BUREAU DISSEMINATION OF COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INFORMATION TO FOREIGN SERVICES ~ DATs By letter dated DATE | , CIA raised questions concerning the propriety of Bureau dissemination ,;of aounterintelligence information to foreign intelligence ‘services, CIA, at that time, had particular reference to pafoxmation which our Legal Attache had transmitted to the ec. sRorercir! Intelligence Service concerning, KG& operations, CIA. . “took” ‘the position that, pursuant to the coordinating
(28) Directive, the Bureau was obligated to coordinate with ‘CIA prior to such dissemination. The particular data had emanated from one of our sensitive Fofs/ev sources CopéVMAME We responded to CIA by stating that the information was the product of an internal security oproeds ‘and did not relate to any Cee cney ona activity én of Goordir that we had an obligatioi of Céordinating with the Agency, TITLE OF 00K BOOK AUTHORED BY AUTHOR : e 2 “ . $° “oy In August, 1963, we received information indi- cating that AvuTHe& in the process of gathering _ material for a book pertaining to activities of U. S. intelligence acti vi ties. . A vUTHEeR contacted the Bureau. It was recommended that liaison orally advise CIA that - AvTHoR preparing a book con- cerning U. S, intelligence agencies, The Director. noted “J see no reason doing so." . . It is not known if- CIA was aware of the contact with the Bureau. Av7hek subsequently published the book which contained extremely. derogatory information concerning CIA. COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES ~ AFRICA eat somerarerates “P94 teen eg ED tnt
oe a ee Lows told CIA we had no informants available because they were necessary for our own operations. We took the position that we saw no benefit to be gained by loaning an. informant on a short or long term basis. . o This item is. being mentioned because Africa -has become vitally important to UL. S..interest, bearing in mind that both the Soviets and Chinese Communists have (29) (s0) ’ Bureau sent to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory e ok te oge Me. 8 ADVISING THE WHITE HOUSE REGARDING CRITICISM OF INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS = EUROPE By letter dated October 23, 1964, we furnished the White House information received by our Legal Attache from the SOURCE | He was critical of intelligence operations in Europe and made particular reference to the overstaffing of personnel, We do not know if.CIA became cognizant of the existence of the Bureau-letter bearing in mind that the Agency undoubtedly would have considered the document as relating to. its operations. We do knéw that for several years, CIA personnel have been assigned to the White House and had access to considerable information, THE PRESIDENT'S FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY BOARD AND JOHN HC CONE In May, 1963, we became embroiled with CIA in a rather. critical conflict as a result of communication the Board. The matter dealt with consideration that might be given to increasing wire taps on diplomatic establishments. » 19 =