LETTER TO THE HON. E. HENRY KNOCHE FROM THEODORE C. SORENSEN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M00165A002600080001-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 2004
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• Publication Date: February 7, 1977
• Content Type: LETTER

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TELEPHONE (212) 644-6000
TELECOPIER [phone]
RANDOLPH E. PAUL 11948-19561
LOUIS S. WEISS (1927.1950)
CABLE. LONGSIGHT, N.Y.
TELEX 12-7831
JOHN F. WHARTON
LLOYD K. GARRISON
COUNSEL
February 7, 1977
STAT
The Hon. E. Henry Knoche
Office of DDCI
Central Intelligence Agency
McLean, Virginia
Dear Hank,
SIMON H. RIFKINO
HOWARD A. SEITZ
ADRIAN W. DEWIND
MORRIS B. ABRAM
MORDECAI ROCHLIN
PAUL J. NEWLON
JOSEPH S. ISEMAN
JAMES B. LEWIS
THEODORE C. SORENSEN
MARTIN KLEINBARD
RICHARD H. PAUL
NORMAN ZELENKO
JOHN E. MASSENGALE
JAY TOPKIS
EDWARD N. COSTIKYAN
ROBERT H. MONTGOMERY, JR.
JOHN C. TAYLOR, 3''a
BERNARD H. GREENE
ERNEST RUBENSTEIN
ALLAN B. ECKER
STUART ROBINOWITZ
JAMES L. PURCELL
ARTHUR KALISH
DAVID T. WASHBURN
BERNARD FINKELSTEIN
ARTHUR L. LIMAN
SEYMOUR HERTZ
WALTER F. LEINHARDT
GERALD D.STERN
ANTHONY B. KUKLIN
MARTIN LONDON
DAVID C. BRODHEAD
PETER R. HAJE
LEONARD V. OUIGLEY
ALLAN BLUMSTEIN
NEALE M. ALBERT
JAY OREENFIELD
KEVIN J. O'BRIEN
ALFRED D. YOUNGWOOD
DONALD F. MOORE
JOSEPH E. BROWDY
SIDNEY S. ROSDEITCHER
ROBERT L. LAUFER
ALLEN L. THOMAS
PETER L. FELCHER
MARK H. ALCOTT
.IOHN P. MCENWOE
PETER J. ROTHENBERG
JUDITH R.THOYER
RICHARD A. ENGELMAN
GEORGE P. FELLEMAN
STEVEN B. ROSENFELD
This note is to thank you and the Agency once?
again for all your help in my brief tenure as DCI-
designate and to confirm my telephone request to you of
three weeks ago -- namely, that each of the secretaries,
lawyers, assistants, security personnel, kitchen staff,
drivers and others who gave so unstintingly of their
time and talent during some very long nights and days
receive a special word of thanks. I only regret that I
cannot write each of them individually.
I regret as well that their work was in the
end for naught, and that I will not have the privilege
of working with you, I and all the deputies
and senior staff whom I.met and with whom I was so
favorably impressed. Please convey my thanks, regrets
and best wishes to all of them, and to Dan my hope in
addition that his wife is speedily recovering.
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Sincerely,)
Theodore C. Sorensen
Again, my personal thanks to you, Hank.
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The Director
Cen Intelligence Agency
14 February 1977
Theodore C. Sorensen, Esq.
Paul, Wiess, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
345 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10022
Dear Ted:
0
Thank you so much for your warm letter of
February 7. I, too, am sorry we will not be working
together in an Agency that has endured much but that
perseveres with a deep sense of its ability to contri-
bute constructively to our Government and our society.
I have indeed passed word of your tribute to those
you met here and I attach a copy of an Employee Bulletin
circulated the very day you asked me to pass the word.
All of us wish you and Mrs. Sorensen nothing but
the best for the future. When you pass through our
town, please call and plan on dropping by. You are more
than welcome.
Faithfully yours,
E. H. Knoche
Acting Director
Attachment a/s
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 Mr--.-,,.Sorensen-,asked methis afternoon to convey
word of his '.'tremendous.impression" of the very high
wished all of usVin the Agency all the best for -the future.
into the position of DCI.. He asked that all those
involved at 'all levels from Deputy Directors to Dining
.:Room .Staff be given,this word and he told me that he
ong ours
appreciates the efforts of those who-in I ves . ted s0
many
1 h .-
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