LETTER TO DR. RAY S. CLINE FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

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• Document Release Date: March 24, 2004
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• Publication Date: April 13, 1977
• Content Type: LETTER

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W ngton.D.C.20505
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13 April 1977
Your treatment of the importance of US
net economic advantage over the USSR was
particularly intriguing. This growing
advantage will have increasing importance in
both US and USSR policy-making decisions as
this gap expands.
Again, thanks for treating me to an
advanced look at your new book. All the best.
STANSFIELD TURNER
Admiral, U.S. Navy
Dr. Ray S. Cline
The Center for Strategic and
International Studies
Georgetown University
1800 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006
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Dear Ray,
Thank you for sending me the draft of the
new edition of your World Power Assessment. It
Js certainly an ambitious attempt to isolate,
weigh and add up the key factors in the US
power matchup with the USSR and the rest of the
world. The book is particularly useful because
it forces the reader to focus sharply upon
these variables as reinforcements to and sub-
tractions from national strength.
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Washington. D. C. 20505
Dear Ray,
Thank you for sending me the draft of ,the
new edition of your World Power Assessment. I
have referred it to some of your former,-tol-
leagues in your old Directorate, and they inform
me that they find it interesting and,'useful.
Again, many thanks and all the best.
Yours,
STANSFIELD TURNER
Admiral, U.S. Navy
Mr. Ray S. Cline
The Center for strategic and
International Studies
Georgetown University
1800 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20006
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