LETTER TO MR. BENJAMIN C. BRADLEE FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R003300270010-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 20, 1979
• Content Type: LETTER

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Washington, D. C. ZOSOS
20 April 1979
Dear Ben,
:[ appreciate your nice note. There are, however, several points
of confusion.
:[ have not recently acquired a new daughter-in-law--unless my
son has become a bigamist. Perhaps you have Vice Admiral Fred Turner
in mind, although I don`t know if he has recently taken on a daughter-
in-law either.
Additionally, I am hardly in an "all-ar-nothing" status. with
respect to my article. I hardly consider reducing an 11-page article
to four pages as a matter of editing however. It defies me to
understand why, because there is some similarity with my Baca Raton
speech, you would be reluctant to print the other seven pages. There
were a few hundr?ed people in Boca Raton and there has beetin linvted
distr=ibution of the text since then. -Ben Schemmer`s article appeared
in toto in a nation-wide magazine with an extensive circulation and
yet there was no reluctance on your-part to print it without ed%ting
and with additions.. In short,. while you profess to rae ini:erested in
"new rnateria1?' only, there was nothing new in tf~e Schemmer piece?
My objective-was to give balance to your readers, not to refutes
Schemrner. Now that you have let so much time pass, I would prefer to
publish elsewhere.
Sorry this one didn't work out--I t}ought I f7ad made a good: and
timely offer. a
Mr. BE~njamin C. Bradlee
Executive Editor
The Washingtan Post
1150 l5th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20071
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