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I wish I could post your find on Pickle..I'll have to type the information so it's NOT over-looked. Great job Smoky.

In this book for Presidential Intelligence.

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Aside from the President and a few others-usually the secretary of state,secretary of defense,and national security advisor-no other government official was automatically cleared for "all sources" reports. The lesser recipients of specific code word data had to have a clearly established "need to know" the substance of the compartmented report. Compartmentation, as we called it, is one of the most effective means of protecting sensitive data. Even today, I hesitate to pick a typical code word to illustrate the system. As surely as Heaven gave us little green apples, it would be my luck to pick a five-letter noun that is in current use.

At the outset, the JFK briefing was known as the "Prisident's Intelligence Check List", otherwise, PICL-pronounced "PICKLE" by those involved in preparing the document. In the time this evolved into the "President's Daily Briefing", otherwise the "PDB". As I recall it, President Eisenhower had wanted his daily summery at reveille. JFK liked to read the Pickle on arrival at hie desk. President Johnson wanted the PDB in the late afternoon. Neither Jack Smith nor I was ever sure how often Nixon even glanced at his PDB.

LISA CROWLEY-On 13 May, Q asked "Who controls elected leaders?" and "Will Iran expose the names of corrupt officials?" Both questions were followed by the word "Pickle". Anons have offered multiple poss meanings. I had guessed it was re: CIA's nickname "Pickle Factory". Q confirms.

NIKK-The top work was found by smoky.

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Picl was first posted here from from Twitter by Steven w

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President’s Intelligence Check List, or PICL (pronounced “pickle”), was developed for Kennedy in June 1961.
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An Interview with Richard Lehman
Mr. Current Intelligence

Dick Lehman developed the President’s Intelligence Check List, or PICL (pronounced “pickle”) for President Kennedy in June 1961. The Kennedy White House had become overwhelmed with publications from the intelligence community, many of which were duplicative in nature, and important pieces of information were beginning to fall between the cracks. The President and his advisers wanted one concise summary of important issues that they could rely on, and Lehman provided that summary in the form of the PICL.

Kennedy’s enthusiastic response to the PICL ensured that it became an Agency institution. Former Deputy Director for Intelligence R. Jack Smith writes in his memoir, The Unknown CIA, that the President engaged in an “...exchange of comments with its producers, sometimes praising an account, sometimes criticizing a comment, once objecting to the word ‘boondocks’ as not an accepted word. For current intelligence people, this was heaven on earth!” (The PICL was renamed The President’s Daily Brief [PDB] in the Johnson administration.)

For many years thereafter, Lehman played a key role in supervising the Agency’s current intelligence support for the White House, including its briefings of Presidential candidates. Former Deputy Director for Intelligence (DDI) Ray Cline in his book The CIA Under Reagan, Bush, and Casey, calls him “the longtime genius of the President’s special daily intelligence report.”
465 posted on 5/13/2018, 6:34:13 PM by Steven W.