OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB DETAILS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00467A002700060012-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 11, 2002
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: April 2, 1976
• Content Type: MF

2 April 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM : Angus MacLean Thuermer
Assistant to the Director
SUBJECT : Overseas Press Club Details
in New York on May 3.
called today with details on the Overseas Press Club affair
- Mr. Robert Beck of Norton-Simons Communications
The guest of honor reception is at 6:30 in the Georgian
Room on the 18th floor of the Biltmore Hotel. The black tie
dinner at which you will be principal speaker will be in the
grand ballroom on the 19th floor at 8:00 p.m. The affair
should be over before 11:00 p.m.
The club will have a suite available for you to change
and freshen up. They anticipate your arrival there at about
5:30 p.m.
Once again I conveyed the information that you
regretted Mrs. Bush could not attend; I added that I regretted
Mrs. Thuermer could not make it.
I said that your party would consist of one security.
man, yourself myself; I added that oftentimes you wished to
fine.
present at public affairs of this sort. Mr. Beck said this was
have your
I told Mr. Beck that our people will be handling the
transportation, both to New York by air, and on the ground in
New York.
such matters as security, arrival, departure, etc.
Depending upon your plans and other commitments, DCI
Security may wish to get in touch with Mr. Beck to sort out
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In due course, we will need to know what message
you would like to get across to this dinner so we can have
a whack at a text. Events between now and May 3 may suggest
what the message should be. As a New York City event with a
lot of professional news tie-in, you may want to think of an
advance text. A previous memo on this matter is attached.
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Angus MacLean Thuermer
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484 NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING ? WASHINGTON, D.C. 20045
April 14, 1976
Mr. George Bush
Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
Dear Mr. Bush:
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Suburban Newspapers of America, the national trade association
serving the nation's suburban press, is holding its national con-
vention May 19-21, 1976, at the Brown Palace Hotel, Denver, Colorado.
On behalf of the officers, board of directors, and entire membership
of SNA, I extend to you an invitation to be our featured speaker for
the convention. The time and date would be the noon luncheon
on May 20 at the Brown Palace.
The audience will consist of publishers and other high-ranking
executives (and their wives) of newspapers published in the suburbs
of our country's metropolitan centers.
I will be happy to provide for you or members of your staff any
information you may require regarding our association or the
convention.
I look forward to your response with the hopeful expectation that
you will honor us with your presence.
ChrlAs4c 11,L
Executive' Director
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President
HAROLD G. TOWNSEND, JR. 77
Townsend Communications, Inc.
Kansas City. Missouri 64117
First Vice President
JULES JACOBSEN 76
North Jersey Suburbanite
Englewood, New Jersey 07631
Vice President - Research
-GEORGE W. HOYT'78
Pioneer Press, Inc.
Wilmette, Illinois 60091
Secretary
'GERALD W. CRANE 76
Decatur News Publishing Co.
Decatur, Georgia 30033
Treasurer
*R.S. BOSWORTH, JR. '76
Phoenix-Times Newspapers, Inc.
Bristol, Rhode Island 02809
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ORAN W. ASA 77
Northeast Los Angeles Publishing Co.
Los Angeles, California 90042
FRANK C. BICK77
St. Louis Suburban Newspapers, Inc.
St. Louis, Missouri 63118
JAMES M. CORNWELL'78
Murray Printing, Inc..
Murray, Utah 84107
-JOHN FOURNIER, JR. 78
Valley Publishing Co.
Kent, Washington 98031
ED L'HERAULT 78
Post Publishing Company, Inc.
Crystal, Minnesota 55437
V. DONALD HERSAM, JR. '78
Hersam Publishing Company, Inc.
New Canaan, Connecticut 06840
,THOMAS D. JONES'78
Tazewell Publishing Company
Morton, Illinois61550
DEAN S. LESHER'77
Lesher Newspapers
Walnut Creek, California 94596
'THOMAS F. NOONAN'77
Community Publications Company
Denver, Colorado 80216
PHILIP H. POWER 76
Suburban Communications Corp.
Livonia, Michigan 48150
'TED RICKENBACH ER '76
Times-Chronicle Newspapers, Inc.
Carrollton, Texas 75006
DAVID SKYLAR'77
ComCorp. Inc.
Valleyview, Ohio 44125
VERNON R. SPITALERI 76
Laguna Publishing Co.
Laguna Beach, California 92651
PAST PRESIDENTS
EDWARD L. DARDANELL, 1972-73
Dardanell Publications, Inc.
Monroeville. Pennsylvania 15146
WILLIAM P. DOLE. 1971-72
Dole Publishing Company, Inc.
Somerville, Massachusetts 02144
BRUCE H ELBERG, 1974-75
Bellevue American Publishing Company
Bellevue, Washington 981X39
JOHN H. WOLF, 1973-74
Cincinnati Suburban Newspapers, Inc.
Cincinnati. Ohio 45212
CHARLES H. NOEL, JR.
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