LETTER TO COLONEL MATTHEW BAIRD FROM DONALD G. BISHOP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03527A000400280030-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: April 19, 1962
• Content Type: LETTER

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SYRACUSEUNIVERSITY
SYRACUSE 10, NEW YORK
MAXWELL GRADUATE SCHOOL OF CITIZENSHIP AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
April 19, 1962
Colonel Matthew Baird
2430 E Street, N. W.
Washington 25 D. C.
Dear Matt:
It was good to see you again in Philadelphia last week, and also to
have your reassuring words about my inquiry.
Each June, for several years, we have held a Washington Seminar in
the capital for a period of three weeks, in which our group--30 to
40 students from Syracuse and other universities, graduate and
undergraduate, mainly American but often with a handful of foreign
students--study the American government att1first
inthand. We use a s
series of academic seminars but chiefly rely
with discussion--soheduled with officials of the government, labor,
management and other organizations.
It occurred to me a couple months ago that this would be a fine op-
s
portunity for your Agency to delegate someone to talk to our students
about the role of intelligence in the policy-formation process.
should also interest some of these--a picked group--students in the
Agency, later on. I had received no answer to my inquiry, tho I did
understand that there was some internal shuffling-about generally
which might delay this.
I had thot that we might have one of your people come to our hotel--
the Fairfax--to talk with us for an hour, because I had thot that a
trip to the new building would cause you people too much trouble.
It would surely be impressive to these students to be able to visit
the building, and I have written to D. C. Transit to see how much it
would cost us to charter a bus for such a trip. We can leave this
up in the air for the future.
What I would like to do now is to nail down a time schedule, whether
this would occur one place or the other. Would Tuesd morning, Jun ~;
people? We could make t e from .
l9~, be possible- for?=y~ o4 -
0.30 or from 0 to IQ as it suited you folks. I shall block off STAT
this time, tentat v , and hope to hear from you in the near future.
Thank you very much for your cooperative attitude. I hope
is doing better these days than we are in Syrauulsa*
Caro #aL1y,
n,