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You are listening to Declassified, a podcast from storyflo that reads public domain government records aloud as audio briefings. Today we present a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record from vault.fbi.gov, titled "Military Intelligence Production Secret, Letter, February thirteenth, nineteen-fifty-one, two pages". This letter from a Major General in the Far East Command discusses the relationship between military intelligence and the C-I-A during the Korean War, highlighting the challenges of inter-agency cooperation. This document was released under the Freedom of Information Act and made publicly available by The Black Vault. The canonical record can be found at archive.org. The document is a letter dated February thirteenth, nineteen-fifty-one, from General Headquarters, Far East Command, Military Intelligence Section, General Staff, to Major General A. R. Bolling, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-Two, Department of the Army, Washington D. C. It reads: "This is a belated reply to your letter of January twentieth. I am delighted to have your favorable comment on your trip. I am always glad to be of service, and feel that when one takes a ten thousand mile slug, one is entitled to some extra local attention. I have a high regard for Bedell Smith and I realize that your own commitments in Washington require you to play ball with C-I-A. I am therefore committed to support them here along rational and agreeable lines. We are all working for Uncle Sam. As you will admit on reflection, there is always someone who will have to develop and pioneer a policy and often take a licking. I think both parties learn, however. What we have done is a pioneering job in the proper relation of C-I-A within a theater of War, and vis-a-vis a strong theater command. Both sides will have to make some concessions. We have made them. The general background behind all of this is another attitude of mind, for which you cannot blame me and hope will support me: to push military intelligence, army-procured intelligence, as a demonstration that if given a little money, personnel and organization, the Army G-Two can do anything in the intelligence collection line, from a Military Attaché net to operating a band of guerrillas. I understand of course, that Army participation is shrinking and that C-I-A is growing, but I felt that someone should tilt a lance in behalf of the Services. In this connection, this is also my attitude as regards the General Intelligence Series. I feel that I have rendered a service to the cause of military intelligence, as practiced by the Army, with its own resources and that it is to our psychological advantage, considering some of the stuff the Air Force is pulling; the Wringer project for instance. I have never regarded the Intelligence Series as a personal project, though I spent many hours on it as an editor and it certainly was not meant for self-aggrandizement. Therefore, I solicit your support [four lines redacted under exemption B1] for…

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Filed OCT 24 · 2026Runtime 1 min

CIA You Are Listening To Declassified, A Podcast From Storyflo That Reads Public

U.S. public record · FOIAUpdated October 24, 2026

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Date: OCT 24 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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You are listening to Declassified, a podcast from storyflo that reads public domain government records aloud as audio briefings. Today we present a declassified Central Intelligence Agency record from vault.fbi.gov, titled "Military Intelligence Production Secret, Letter, February thirteenth…

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Why was this case declassified?: This material entered the public record through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. Storyflo narrates it directly from the public release.

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