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- 8 - "PP operations themselves, at any one t i m e , whether through personal zrrangement betwcan the Secretary of S t a t e and the DCI (deciding batwean them on any one occasion t o use what they regard as the best 'assets' available) or undertaken at the personal discretion of the DCI, frequently and in d i r e c t and concinulng deelinLs between CIA representatives and the i;eads of forelgn S t a t e s I O f ten- times such dealings are i n r e a l l t y o r l y t n s contir!uatlon of relationships established at a tim when ths foreign personalities involved may have been 'the opposition'. ( I t I s somewhat d i f f i c u l t t o understmd why anyone less than t h e Senior 1J.S. Representative ;r, any county., should deal d i r e c t l y w i t h its Hsad in p r y m?tte; rdiich itlvolves the o f f i c i a l relationships of tke twr countries. ) One obvious, inevitable r e s u l t of this 2:: t o d i v i d e U.S. foreign pqllcy resources ar.d tr, iac3;ne t h e fort?l.;ner - often t h s former 'opposition I ncw cor'" I r t o p w e r (and "A c o r o l l a r j t o 215.9 is the excli.lslon of n~spons1bJ.e Anerican o f f i c i a l s fi-oln hcivlodge t h ~ ? j ~ shou2.d h ? . ~ ? t@ propsrly dlscharge t k i r obligation. (It has beet'! E- ported 3y people I n its Intelligence Arza that Lhcl'e 3 3 great concern thicwhout tlx S t a t e D..?.partnent we2 the impacts of C I A Y P actl.vi%ics on Otlr ::or?Lgr re1s::Lons. The Statc Department people f-?e1 tha: 2e-?haps tl:? g2eatest contribution. t h i s Sonrd could maki would be $0 brSi1g t o t h attention of the President t h e s,:.gnlficarit, almost u n i l a t e r a l .influences t h a t C I A rP ac*.,ivities hav? a? :he actual f'crmulatio lationships w l t h ave, at any one time, t h e most s i e n l f i c a n t impacts on t h e r2sponsibilltles of the local Ambassador are some- times completely unknown t o o r only hazily recognized by him. (On the other kana the C I A , or1 occasior! is called upon by t h e Ambassador and the State De ment itself to perfoim what w e f e l t t o be 'sub rosa' chores.) Too often differences of opinion regarding t h e U.S. a t t i t u d e toward local figurss or organlzatlons develop, especially as between th2 C I A arid the Stat2 Department (and our Allies) a t the cc?untry and even . : a t Departmental levels. (At times, the Secretary of ' S t a t e - DCI brot3er ?elationship may arbitrzrily set P. ...