LETTER TO LIEUTENANT GENERAL VERNON WALTERS FROM JOHN M. FISHER

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Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80RO1731 R0021000200 STAT INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN STRATE BOSTON, VIRGINIA 22713 (703) 825-1776 Karl R. Bendetsen, Retired Chairman Champion International Lady Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, President The Committee to Unite America, Inc. The Honorable Elbridge Durbrow Former Ambassador Harold F. Falk, Chairman of the Board The Falk Corporation Sol Feinstone, President The S & R Foundation John M. Fisher, President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute for American Strategy Patrick J. Frawley, Jr., President Frawley Enterprises Robert W. Galvin, Chairman of the Board Motorola, Inc. The Honorable Mills E. Godwin, Jr. Governor of Virginia Mrs. Marjorie H. Hankins, Member Executive Com., Missouri Council on National Security Michael J. Harvey, Jr. The Michael J. Harvey, Jr. Foundation George R. Hearst, Jr., Publisher Los Angeles Herald-Examiner The Honorable Walter H. Judd, M.D., Former Member, U.S. House of Representatives James S. Kemper, Jr., President Kemper Insurance Companies Charles H. G. Kimball Partner, Ashcraft and Ashcraft Ollie W. Langhorst, Exec. Secretary-Treasurer Carpenters' District Council of St. Louis The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce Former Ambassador Lawrence J. Meisel, Chairman of the Exec. Com., Missouri Council on National Secu -Dr. Arthur G. B. Metcalf Chairman of the Board and President Electronics Corporation of America Lieutenant General Vernon Walters Deputy Director C.I.A. Washington, D. C. 20505 January 29, 1976 I am very deeply grateful for the contribution you made to our seminar program. Your talk was outstanding. I am sure you could tell from the reaction of the audience how much they appreciated the insight you provided into the problems now facing the intelligence community. I want to add a very sincere "good luck" on the speaking engagements you have planned for the future. The message you have to convey is one the American people need desper- ately to hear. I am convinced that if the talk you gave at our seminar could be aired on prime time television, the difficulties now faced by the C.I.A. would diminish rapidly. I will be forwarding in the next day or so the tape recording of your talk as we promised. Best regards, JMF/Ck Sincerely, ohn M. Fisher -Henry Regnery, Chairman of the Board Henry Regnery Company Henry Salvatori, President Grant Oil Tool Company D. French Slaughter, Jr. Partner, Button, Slaughter and Veaman D. A. Sullivan, Retired Conference Chairman Institute for American Strategy William H. Weldon, Publisher News Tribune Company, Inc. John R. Woods, Vice President E. F. Hutton and Company, Inc. -Officers and Members of the Executive Committee Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 pproved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R0021000200 - a,re Registry AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL - . T-2 - 76 TJT ~ Washington Communications Center BOSTON, VIRGINIA 22713 -TELEPHONE 703-825-8336 NATIONAL STRATEGY COMMITTEE (Partial Listing) Admiral John J. Bergen, USN (Rat.) The Honorable Elbridge Durbrow Former Ambassador Robert W. Galvin Chairman of the Board, Motorola, Inc. The Honorable Loy W. Henderson Former Ambassador General Bruce K. Holloway, USAF (Ret.) Former Commander-in-Chios Strategic Alr-Command General Lyman L. Lemnltzer, USA (Rat.) Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs-of-Staff John A. Mulcahy President, The Quigley Co. General Bernard A. Schriever, USAF (Ret.) Former Commanding General, Air Force Systems Command Dr. William J. Thaler Chairman, Physics Department, Georgetown University General Nathan F. Twining, USAF (Rot.) Former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff General Earle G. Wheeler Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff General Paul D. Adams, USA (Ret.) Former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Strike Command Lt. General Edward M. Almond, USA (Rat.) Former Chief of Staff to General Douglas MacArthur Bennett Archambault Chairman of the Board, Stewart-Warner Corp. Professor James D. Atkinson Department of Government, Georgetown University 0. Duncan Bauman Publisher St, Louis Globe-Democrat Admiral Robert L. Dennison, USN (Ret.) Former Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic General Paul D. Harkins, USA (Rat.) Former Commanding General, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Clifford F. Hood Former President, United States Steel Corporation James S. Kemper, Jr. President, Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. Vice Admiral Fitzhugh Lee, USN (Rot.) Former Commandant of the National War College The Honorable Clare Booths Luce Former Ambassador A. B. McKee, Jr. President, Forest Lumber Company and Imperial Valley Lumber Company Dr. Robert Morris President, University of Plano Dr. Nicholas Nyaradl Director, School of International Studios Bradley University Dr. Stefan T. Pass any Director of International Studies, Hoover Instltution, Stanford University General Maxwell D. Taylor, USA (Rat.) Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff Dr. Edward Teller Nuclear Scientist General Lewis W. Walt, USMC (Pet.) Former Assistant Commandant United States Marine Corps Rear Admiral Chester C. Ward, USN (Rat.) Former Judge Advocate General, U.S. Navy General Albert C. Wedemeyer, USA (Rat.) Chief U.S. Strategist, World War II Dr. Eugene P. Wigner Physicist, Princeton University Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters Central Intelligence Agency Washington, D. C. January 7, 1976 John M. Fisher President I am very pleased that you have agreed to speak at our national security Seminar of January 26-27. As Phil Clarke may have mentioned, we will be having the top officials of the American Legion in the audience, including the current and incoming national commanders and the current and incoming presidents of the Legion's Auxiliary. Colonel Phelps Jones, the foreign affairs specialist of the VFW will be there. In addition, the Co-Chairmen of our BICENTENNIAL OPERATION ALERT, General Lemnitzer, and Ambassadors Henderson and Durbrow 'will be in attendance (the National Commander of the American Legion is also a Co-Chairman). The other speakers at the Seminar will include Dr. James Dornan, the chairman of the department of politics at Catholic University; Dr. Stephan Gebert, Georgetown University; Professor Ray Sleeper, Space Institute of Tennessee; and Maj. General George Keegan, head of Air Force intelligence. The Seminar runs from 5:30 p.m. on January 26th to 4:00 p.m. on the 27th. We have scheduled you as the first speaker. You will be on after dinner on the 26th. We'd appreciate it if you could talk for about half an hour to forty-five minutes with an equal time for questions, answers and discussion afterwards. I know that the audience is especially interested in how seriously you view Soviet political warfare efforts and how changes have affected CIA's capability to meet the challenge. I am enclosing a map showing the way to the Freedom Studies Center. Warm regards, JMF/Cc Sincerely, ohn M. Fisher Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 Directional Guide D.C. Freedom Studies Center LWASHINGTON Hazel River EVA HS ST. ` F.- WEAVER BUICA PEPS , Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 PHILIP.C. CLARKE 12/31/75 Dear Angus: Here's the transcript of Dr. Cline--Part I.= Another program is in the works dealing with his observations on whether the CIA can compete with the KGB vis-a-vis an open- vs. closed society. I'll see that you get this as well. Our Boston,Va., office is mailing directly to you a map with instructions for Gen. Walter's use in driving there on the easeet me know if you 'caff_ln .ke p t; too, and whether any of" the General' s associates might accompany him. FYI, have program scheduled with David Phillips on Friday and lunch with Jim Angleton next Tuesday. I should like noth- ing better one day soon than to take a sabbatical and write a definitive book or series of articles presenting an objective insight into the CIA. The American people need desperately to know --within the bounds of security--the full story of the Agency's contributions and why its preservation is absolutely necessary to our national survival. AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL 1101 1 7th Street, N. W. Approved For Releahq~jf 5~- RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 WASHINGTON REPORT OF THE AIR AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL REPORTER Philip C. Clarke with 1101 17th St. NW Professor Ray S. Cline of Washington, D.C. 20036 Georgetown University INDEX U.S.-C.I.A. FOR BROADCAST: Friday, January 2, 1976 THE CIA: CAN IT SURVIVE? Nineteen seventy-five was by all measures a bad year for the CIA. The question now is: Can the Central Intelligence Agency survive in the years ahead, and, if so, by what means? As a veteran of 30 years experience in the intelligence field, Dr. Ray S. Cline, former CIA deputy director and head of intelligence and research for the State Department finds the CIA at a critical point: RAY S. CLINE: "My feeling is that the agencies, particularly the CIA, have been so denegrated by exaggerated criticism and by the spotlight of adverse publicity for a whole year thdttthey are unable to do the job of collecting intelligence, which they formerly did, and are at a very awkward position for doing any covert action in supporting a U.S. policy abroad. We see how handicapped CIA has been in taking any positive role in supporting democratic parties in Portugal. We see that we have not been able to approach directly assisting the independence movements in Angola which are resisting a very blatt attempt by the Soviet Union to organize a guerrilla army which will be beholde to them. I think it's easy to see that foreign people who might in the past have been quite anxious to assist the United States either by giving informa- tion of value to us or by cooperating in political movements of the moderate, democratic kind are reluctant to be associated with CIA. The term has become a bad name. We've discredited it ourselves, press has discredited it, our Congress has discredited it, and I am quite sure that the recruiting of agents and securing foreign cooperation is extremely difficult in this atmosphere." Dr. Cline, who new serves as Executive Director of Studies for the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University, believes the CIA can and should be maintained to protect our national security. At the same time, he would reorganize the CIA to provide a clearer distinction between the analytical functions of the agency and its covert activities. These should be related, he says, but administratively separated. And finally, Dr. Cline recommends that the CIA Director be elevated from his subordinate position to full Cabinet level status. Only then, he says, can there be proper understanding by the nation's leadership of the importance of intelligence in today's world. Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 P. C. Clarke AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL 1101 - 17TH STREET, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. 20036 Mr. Angus Thuermer Central Intelligence Agency Washington, D.C. 20505 Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 SENDER. 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Told him DDCI would be accompanied by an assistant named Asked him if he could arrange to tape the General' s presentation and make the tape available to us so that we could transcribe his remarks. He agreed to do that. They expect him to arrive in afternoon. Starts at 5:30. DDCI speaks after dinner. ncl STAT Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 This information sheet is to acquaint you with the Manor and special services for your convenience. If there is anything we can do to make your stay more comfortable, please let us know. DINING All meals are served in the Manor House dining rooms. See seminar program for schedule. MANOR BEDROOMS Bedrooms 1, 2, and 3 are located to the right of the main staircase on the second floor. Bedrooms 4 to 9 are on the left of the main staircase on the second floor. Bedrooms in the conference wing - C-1, C-2, and C-3 are located on the second floor above the confer- ence room. - PLEASANT HILL BEDROOMS Bedroom PH-1 is located at the rear of the main floor. Bedrooms PH-2, PH-3, and PH-4 are located on the second floor. TELEPHONE SERVICE Incomiug calls will be received and messages delivered to you between lectures. For your convenience, there are telephones located in the booth off the main entrance hall and in the library. Please charge long distance calls to your credit card, or to home or office phone. During the day, dial "9" for an outside line and then dial "0." At night, dial "0." NEWSPAPERS Complimentary morning and afternoon newspapers are available in the main entry hall of the Manor. CIGARETTES Cigarettes are available at the desk in the conference lobby. Smoking is permitted, however, we urge you to be careful - butts and ashes do burn! NIGHT EMERGENCY Please contact John M. Fisher at 825-1439. ATTIRE Casual dress is encouraged during the day. For the social hour and dinner, we ask that the men wear a coat and tie and the women dress accordingly. Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 SEMINAR PARTICIPANTS FREEDOM STUDIES CENTER January 26, 27, 1976 CLARENCE BLAKE, Aide to National Commander, American Legion MRS. PAUL BROWN, National Vice President, American Legion Auxiliary PHILIP C. CLARKE, Editor, American Security Council Washington Report of the Air, Washington, D. C. PHILIP S. COX, Assistant to President, American Security Council I Aide to Lt. Gen. Vernon Walters, CIA DR. JAMES E. DORNAN, Chairman, Department of Politics, Catholic University, Washington, D. C. AMBASSADOR ELBRIDGE DURBROW, Director, Freedom Studies Center, Boston, Virginia, and Washington, D. C. JOHN ENGALITCHEFF, JR.,-Retired Chairman of Board, Baltimore Air Coil Company, Baltimore, Maryland JOHN M. FISHER, President, American Security Council, President, Institute for American Strategy DR. STEPHEN P. GIBERT, Prof. of Government, Georgetown University, Senior Research Consultant, Strategic Studies Center, Stanford Research Institute BRIG. GEN. JAMES M. GIBSON, USA (Ret.), Executive Vice President, National Association Uniformed Services LAUREN GOIN, President, Public Safety Services, Inc. COL. F. PHELPS JONES, USA (Ret.), Director, National Security and Foreign Affairs, Veterans of Foreign Wars MRS. MELVIN W. JUNGE, National Security Chairwoman, American Legion Auxiliary MAJ. GEN. GEORGE KEEGAN, Director of Intelligence, Headquarters United States Air Force GEN. LYMAN L. LEMNITZER, USA (Ret.), Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs-of-Staff; Co-chairman Bicentennial Operation Alert, ASC LT. GEM.1WILLIAM J. McCAFFREY, USA (Ret.), Director of Regional Affairs/ Chapter Activities, Association of the United States Army STEPHEN H. MAYERHOFER, Library Director, Institute for American Strategy Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 MILTON A. PILCHER, National' Security Council, American Legion WILLIAM J. ROGERS, Adviser to National Commander, American Legion MRS. ALAN M. SCHANEL, National President, American Legion Auxiliary MICHAEL SCHLEE, Deputy Director for National Security, American Legion MAJ. GEN. WINANT SIDLE, USA (Ret.), Special Assistant to Executive Vice President, Assoc. of the United States Army PROF. RAYMOND SLEEPER, Space Institute, University of Tennessee CAPT. VINCENT C. THOMAS, JR., USN (Ret.), Executive Director, Navy League LT. GEN. VERNON A. WALTERS, Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency HARRY G. WILES, National Commander, American Legion JAMES R. WILSON, Director of National Security and Foreign Relations Division, American Legion Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 NATIONAL SECURITY SEMINAR at FREEDOM STUDIES CENTER Boston, Virginia January 26, 27, 1976 MONDAY, JANUARY 26 5:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. After Dinner TUESDAY, JANUARY 27 8:00 a.m. 8:45 a.m. Reception GUEST LECTURER Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters Deputy Director, C.I.A. SYSTEMS IN CONFLICT Professor Raymond S. Sleeper 12:30 p.m. 1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m. 4:00 p.m. GUEST LECTURER Maj. Gen. George Keegan Dir., USAF Intelligence WHAT CAN BE DONE John M. Fisher THE SOVIET VIEW OF DETENTE Dr. Stephan Gibert KISSINGER'S FOREIGN POLICY Dr. James Dornan Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 WELCOME TO THE FREEDOM STUDIES CENTER This information sheet is to acquaint you with the Manor and special services for your convenience. If there is anything we can do to make your stay more comfortable, please let us know. DINING All meals are served in the Manor House dining rooms. See seminar program for schedule. MANOR BEDROOMS Bedrooms 1, 2, and 3 are located to the right of the main staircase on the second floor. Bedrooms 4 to 9 are on the left of the main staircase on the second floor. Bedrooms in the conference wing - C-1, C-2, and C-3 are located on the second floor above the confer- ence room. PLEASANT HILL BEDROOMS Bedroom PH-1 is located at the rear of the main floor. Bedrooms PH-2, PH-3, and PH-4 are located on the second floor. TELEPHONE SERVICE Incoming calls will be received and messages delivered to you between lectures. For your convenience, there are telephones located in the booth off the main entrance hall and in the library. Please charge long distance calls to your credit card, or to home or office phone. During the day, dial "9" for an outside line and then dial "0." At night, dial "0." NEWSPAPERS Complimentary morning and afternoon newspapers are available in the main entry hall of the Manor. CIGARETTES Cigarettes are available at the desk in the conference lobby. Smoking is permitted, however, w2 urge you to be careful - butts and ashes do burn! NIGHT EMERGENCY Please contact John M. Fisher at 825-1439. ATTIRE Casual dress is encouraged during the day. For the social hour and dinner, we ask that the men wear a coat and tie and the women dress accordingly. John M. Fisher Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 SEMINAR PARTICIPANTS FREEDOM STUDIES CENTER January 26, 27, 1976 CLARENCE BLAKE, Aide to National Commander, American Legion MRS. PAUL BROWN, National Vice President, American Legion Auxiliary PHILIP C. CLARKE, Editor, American Security Council Washington Report of the Air, Washington, D. C. PHILIP S. COX, Assistant to President, American Security Council Aide to Lt. Gen. Vernon Walters, CIA DR. JAMES E. DORNAN, Chairman, Department of Politics, Catholic University, Washington, D. C. AMBASSADOR ELBRIDGE DURBROW, Director, Freedom Studies Center, Boston, Virginia, and Washington, D. C. JOHN ENGALITCHEFF, JR., Retired Chairman of Board, Baltimore Air Coil Company, Baltimore, Maryland JOHN M. FISHER, President, American Security Council, President, Institute for American Strategy DR. STEPHEN P. GIBERT, Prof. of Government, Georgetown University, Senior Research Consultant, Strategic Studies Center, Stanford Research Institute BRIG. GEN. JAMES M. GIBSON, USA (Ret.), Executive Vice President, National Association Uniformed Services LAUREN GOIN, President, Public Safety Services, Inc. COL. F. PHELPS JONES, USA (Ret.), Director, National Security and Foreign Affairs, Veterans of Foreign Wars MRS. MELVIN W. JUNGE, National Security Chairwoman, American Legion Auxiliary MAJ. GEN. GEORGE KEEGAN, Director of Intelligence, Headquarters United States Air Force GEN. LYMAN L. LEMNITZER, USA (Ret.), Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs-of-Staff; Co-chairman Bicentennial Operation Alert, ASC LT. GEN. WILLIAM J. McCAFFREY, USA (Ret.), Director of Regional Affairs/ Chapter Activities, Association of the United States Army STEPHEN H. MAYERHOFER, Library Director, Institute for-American Strategy Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 MILTON A. PILCHER, National Security Council, American Legion WILLIAM J. ROGERS, Adviser to National Commander, American Legion MRS. ALAN M. SCHANEL, National President, American Legion Auxiliary MICHAEL SCHLEE, Deputy Director for National Security, American Legion MAJ. GEN. WINANT SIDLE, USA (Ret.), Special Assistant to Executive Vice President, Assoc. of the United States Army PROF. RAYMOND SLEEPER, Space Institute, University of Tennessee CAPT. VINCENT C. THOMAS, JR., USN (Ret.), Executive Director, Navy League LT. GEN. VERNON A. WALTERS, Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency HARRY G. WILES, National Commander, American Legion JAMES R. WILSON, Director of National Security and Foreign Relations Division, American Legion Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4 NATIONAL SECURITY SEMINAR at FREEDOM STUDIES CENTER Boston, Virginia January 26, 27, 1976 MONDAY, JANUARY 26 5:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. After Dinner TUESDAY, JANUARY 27 8:00 a.m. 8:45 a.m. Reception GUEST LECTURER Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters Deputy Director, C.I.A. SYSTEMS IN CONFLICT Professor Raymond S. Sleeper 12:30 p.m. 1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m. 4:00 p.m. GUEST LECTURER Maj. Gen. George Keegan Dir., USAF Intelligence WHAT CAN BE DONE John M. Fisher THE SOVIET VIEW OF DETENTE Dr. Stephan Gibert KISSINGER'S FOREIGN POLICY Dr. James Dornan End of Seminar Approved For Release 2003/07/30 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R002100020034-4