LETTER TO MORTON S. BARATZ FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP05S00620R000601540004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 10, 1978
• Content Type: LETTER

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10 April 1978
STAT
STAT
Dear Mr. Baratz:
I appreciate your prompt response to my verbal undertaking
to participate in the panel discussion on the intelligence agencies
and the academic community in New Haven on 10 June 1978. Thank you
for the invitation to lunch with Professor Peter Steiner, which I
am pleased to accept, though with the following proviso.
In my reply to the informal invitation from your office I said
that there was a roughly twenty percent chance that I might not be
able to meet the engagement. I have also ascertained that Mr.
Anthony Lapham, our General Counsel, who was designated by Mr. Knight
of your office as the replacement you would prefer, will be unable to
serve. I regret having to say so, but I really do believe that if I
should not be available at the time it is better that the Intelligence
Community not be represented on your panel. Having been concerned with
the scheduling of such events myself, I appreciate the awkward position
me and resign yourself to an all-academic discussion
it. Perhaps it would be better for you to withdraw i-h3 invitatinn to
. this leaves you in. I am afraid, however, that I cannot'improve upon
stand and remain grateful
~'~ tiegi5lr
The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington. D. C. 20505 '~ /,//,
If that should be your choice shall under-
to you for the invitation.
Sincerely,
STANSFIELD TURNER
Mr. Morton S. Baratz, General Secretary
American Association of University Professors
One Dupont Circle, Suite 500
Washington, D. C. 20036
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5 April 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA : Acting Director, National Foreign
Assessment Center
FROM . Coordinator for Academic Relations, NFAC
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