LETTER TO HANFORD D. STAFFORD FROM JOHN F. BLAKE

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: October 8, 1977
• Content Type: LETTER

The Dcputy Director
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Hanford D. Stafford, Executive Director
National Consortium for Black Professional Development
1816 Norris Place
Louisville, Kentucky 40205
Dear Mr. Stafford:
8 0 CT 1977
Referent to your request, by letter dated 27 June 1977, for CIA
funding of a Science and Engineering Newsletter for black students in
grades 4 through 8, I regret to inform you that the CIA cannot partici-
pate in your project for legal reasons.
The proposal that you made to CIA contains elements that would
clearly constitute a grant if funded. The purchase of a printing
machine and the payment of a year's salary go far beyond reimburse-
ment for resources expended in performance of the services offered.
The Agency's legal authorities do not extend to making a grant under
the circumstances described in your proposal, Also, the CIA does not
have authority comparable to that of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration to pay for the publication of articles favorable to CIA
in a private publication, as is being proposed in this case.
Another matter to be considered is the risk involved for your
organization and mine from a public affairs standpoint, Public
disclosure that CIA is providing financial support to a publication
any publication--for the young in the United States, regrettably, could
subject to question the motives of the publisher and the Agency. The
publication itself could become controversial and discredited.
The CIA continues to actively seek and recruit minorities in all
skills and disciplines needed by the Agency, In this effort we have,
during the past two years, participated as exhibitors at the Annual
Conference of the National Consortium for Black Professional Development
and other national minority conferences. We hope that we might cooperate
with your organization's ability to refer the resumes of qualified black
scientists and engineers,
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Thank you for your interest in seeking CIA assistance for your
project, and please feel free to continue the discussions you have
begun with Mr. Omego Ware, our Director of Equal Employment Opportunity.
Sincerely,
`/S/Joh F. Blatt j
John F. Blake
Acting Deputy Director
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