LETTER TO GEORGE BUSH, DIRECTOR CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY FROM JOHN WILLIAM WARD AMHERST COLLEGE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00498A000200080100-0
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 25, 2002
• Sequence Number: 100
• Publication Date: August 2, 1976
• Content Type: LETTER

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AMHERST COLL
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS 01002
413-542-2234
413-542-2000
$,e President
Aiigust 2, 1576
George Bush, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
20505
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. George Bush:
My slowness in responding to you is no measure of
my pleasure with your personal and thoughtful response to my
letter of inquiry-
I look forward to the response from "the appropriate
office" to the question concerning paid or unpaid contact be-
tween the Central InteilighncstACencygand any faculty member,
student, or employee of
I have deliberated for some time whether to. nespo ndh
at length, and have decided not to. First, Isimply truly polite Irwin
to impose myself upon you. I was not being pa
I said your responsibilities are heavy, and I would not wish to
add to o them unduly. Second, as a friend once said to me when
we were talking together about one's political responsibility,
my first responsibility is to see to it that theinsttitution
at which I have the pleasure of being President is runore
So, I would prefer to wait upon an answer to my inquiry
rhetorical. speculation..
There are distinctions properly to be made, and you
make some. There are also differences, I suspect, between us
t`on of learning may best serve
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American society. If I were to p so I j.~ii
would best be done by way of particular instances,
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C t--r:ul. r thanl- you for your letter.
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Cordially,
John \!i1 Liam War l
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