LETTER TO PROFESSOR GERALD F. RUTAN FROM:(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000200030016-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2005
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: September 5, 1974
• Content Type: LETTER

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5 September 1974
Processor Gerard F. Rutan
Department Chairman
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Western Washington State College
Bellingham, Washington 98225
Dear Professor Rutan,
Mr. Colby referred your letter of 22 July to me fora response.
I am sorry to be so tardy in replying, but I have been travelling anal I
have also wanted to give your request a thorough check within the
Agency.
Unfortunately, at the moment there is no program at CIA which
parallels the State Department's Scholar-Diplomat Seminar. Nonetheless,
your request coincides with a general concern of ours that too little is
understood about intelligence and its role in our society. As a conse-
quence of our concern, we have begun to experiment with a few ideas about
ways to share information about the intelligence function of the government.
If these work out, I am certain you will be interested. There might even
be a future opportunity for study along the lines you. suggested.
For now, however, we must put you off. I am sure that you can
appreciate our ambivalence about "going public" even to a limited degree,
.after so many years of silence. Let me promise to keep your letter on
file against the day when an opportunity for you to study intelligence
may present itself. In the meantime, if it would be useful as part of
one of your courses we might be able to send you a guest. speaker from
CIA.
Thank you for your interest.
DD/ oor tna or or ca emit Relations
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
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response wearing his CAR hat.Basic" is also
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WESTERN WASH I N~TON STATE COLLEGE
BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON 98225 ? AREA CODE 206 676-3468
Department of Political Science
Mr. William Colby
Director of Central
Intelligence
Central Intelligenc
e Agency
Washington, D.C.
20505
Dear Mr. Colby:
22 July 1974
In the spring of 1972 I was honored to take part in the U.S. Department
of State