LETTER TO JOSEPH R. WEISBERGER FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP05S00620R000501190005-1
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: June 6, 1977
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Dir--'or of Central Intelligence
Yashington. D. C.20505
6 JUN 1977
Dear Mr. Justice,
Thanks so much for your kind letter of
congratulations on my Commencement address at
Bryant College. I was pleased to have the
opportunity to convey this message. I under-
stand the length of my talk was well received
by the students and I certainly hope that the
content was too.
Pat and I thoroughly enjoyed our short
stay at Bryant and the opportunity to meet
you.
Thanks too for your warm wishes on my new
assignment. I appreciate your support because
the challenge ahead truly is great.
Again, many thanks and all the best.
Yours sincerely----?,
STANSFIELD TURNER
STAT
The Honorable Joseph R. Weisberger
Presiding Justice
Superior Court of Rhode Island
Providence, Rhode Island 02903
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PRESIDING JUSTICE
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May 26, 1977
Admiral Stansfield Turner, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Admiral Turner:
Unfortunately, I did not have an opportunity
to express my congratulations to you after you delivered
your splendid Commencement address at Bryant College.
I felt that you struck a most appropriate note in urging
involvement on the part of the graduating seniors in
government, either professionally or as interested
volunteers.
There has been such a tendency in recent
years for young people to look with disdain upon al-
most all government activities, particularly the mili-
tary and the intelligence branches. Obviously, no
nation has a viable option to.forego significant acti-
vity in national defense, which must include strong
military forces adequately informed by competent intel-
ligence personnel.
In the fullest sense, all of our liberties
depend upon our willingness to protect our national
freedom and integrity. Freedom is not a self-executing
concept. Unless our young people are willing to parti-
cipate in the vital job of preserving this nation, we
shall obviously pass into the decline which has char-
acterized other great nations and empires, whose his-
tories we have known.
It was indeed a great pleasure to have the
opportunity to meet you and your wife at Bryant College.
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Admiral Stansfield Turner, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
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May 25, 1977
Let me take this. opportunity to wish for both of you
great success and happiness in your most difficult but
challenging assignment as Director of the Central Intel-
ligence Agency.
Sin erely yours,
Josephf R. Weisberger
"Presiding Justice
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