EPILOGUE TO WESTMINSTER SPEECH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R000600980016-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Sequence Number: 16
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2008/02/27: CIA-RDP85M00364R000600980016-5
31 OCTOBER 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR:
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE
FROM: DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
SUBJECT: EPILOGUE TO WESTMINSTER SPEECH
1- 1 APPRECIATE YOUR HELP ON THE WESTMINSTER SPEECH. IT WORKED VERY
WELL AND WAS ENTHUSIASTICALLY RECEIVED- YOU WILL SEE THAT I TOSSED IN A
FEW PARAGRAPHS AT THE END OF PAGE 3 WHICH RELATE TO THE CURRENT INTEREST
IN LEBANON AND GRENADA. ALSO, TOWARDS THE END, I NOTE A REFERENCE TO
SIR JOHN PLUM'S LECTURE AT WESTMINSTER IN THE KEMPER LECTURE SERIES WHICH
HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED AT THE CHURCHILL MEMORIAL.
2. IN THE FIRST OF THOSE LECTURES, BY CHURCHILL'S BIOGRAPHER, MARTIN
GILBERT, THEY LEARNED ABOUT A LETTER WHICH CHURCHILL'WROTE ONLY TWO DAYS
AFTER SPEAKING AT WESTMINSTER- I UNDERLINED THE HIGH POINTS OF THAT
LETTER ON PAGES 16 AND 17 OF THE GILBERT SPEECH (ATTACHED)- IN DISCUSSING
THIS WITH PRESIDENT SAUNDERS AT WESTMINISTER AND CLARE LUCE, RELATED EVENTS
CAME INTO FOCUS AND WE THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA TO DEVELOP A LITTLE
EPILOGUE FOR THE PRINTED COPY- YOU WILL SEE THAT THE DISPATCH OF THE MISSOURI
TO TURKEY IS SOMETHING OF A PRECURSOR TO PRESIDENT REAGAN'S USE OF THE FLEET
OVER THE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS- MRS. LUCE'S RECOLLECTION IS THAT THIS WAS
OCCASICNED BY THE RUSSIANS' INITIAL REFUSAL TO LEAVE IRAN, WHICH IT HAD
GONE INTO ALONG WITH THE BRITISH TO CARRY OUT SUPPLY OPERATIONS AND PERHAPS
TO PROTECT AGAINST INTRUSION BY AXIS FORCES.
3? SO, I NEED TO GET THE BASIC FACTS ABOUT RUSSIA'S PRESENCE IN IRAN
AT THE END OF THE WAR, THE TIME OF THE BRITISH DEPARTURE, THE RUSSIANS
INITIAL REFUSAL TO LEAVE AND WHEN AND UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES THEY FINALLY
DID LEAVE- I WOULD WANT TO RELATE THIS TO THE ACTUAL APPEARANCE OF THE
MISSOURI IN THE AREA AND THE DURATION OF ITS STAY- CHURCHILL'S LETTER SAID
IT WAS "TO STAY FOR AN UNSPECIFIED PERIOD-" THEN, ON THE OTHER SIDE"I
WOULD WANT TO RELATE THIS REACTION AND ANY SUBSEQUENT REACTIONS TO RECEIVING
SUBSEQUENT THREATENING MOVES WHICH THE SOVIETS MAY HAVE MADE TOWARDS GREECE
AND TURKEY AND ULTIMATELY TO THE PROMULGATION OF THE TRUMAN DOCUMENT. AS.
PART OF THIS, THE QUOTATION ABOUT THE TRUMAN DOCUMENT IN PRESIDENT REAGAN
SPEECH TO THE JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS LAST SPRING SHOULD BE WORKED IN-
4? TRY TO GET THIS BASIC INFORMATION QUICKLY SO I CAN DECIDE WHETHER
I WANT TO USE IT AND GET IT WRITTEN SATISFACTORILY THIS EVENING IF AT ALL
POSSIBLE.
WILLIAM J. CASEY
STAT
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