LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM BERNARD WEXLER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R001703270046-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 30, 2008
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: January 4, 1983
• Content Type: LETTER

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I know that you are busy saving the Republic and
guarding the ramparts.
But this means that you need some comic relief. So
I enclose a little something along that line. It is an
industry trade journal's comment on my latest state paper.
You may find it amusing.
With every warm good wish for 1983 to you and to
Sophia,
Bernard Wexler, Director
Office of Opinions and Review
Honorable William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
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how hypothetical historical scenarios would have work. fir that Is. own shall in Lind, be very
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like today No" America would be much In Bualnaoo anrP~rlsov~ f
Y had the Colonists never broken with the eleemosynary Institutions. New Ere t};
would have taken had the Republic- c ?" 'sY svcifo-xd to be
Mother Country, shout what curse America Chnvory dais nterestod servants of the public Interest. That I. out
ton of 1 880 chosen Seward rather Than Lincoln, a not Cynic As, Gay b 8avrtain. Show ~ rarefy
the precis, nature of the foreign policy asrved, Cynicism may be a Win.
the United States would be e ~' Drobteme that miatsken.' ??
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the political acumen and had Lenin not *ban- legally required. So we expect it to a I our decision
and
practice of low In Saint Petersburg for revolu- . to stick with the ICC's rate base methodology. sty it I, l g,
tlonory politics, of about what the ultimate structure of likely to be ecstatic over our views of d lead
the dl busineea would have been Ilk* If John D, rote of return .... Equal or even
Rocksldier had rie'or been porn? depreciation and
FERC's expected from most of the inanater Critic .}o" y can Ce
tor E the ruling was authored by Bernard Wexler, divot. undoubtedly censure us for willful to e. h will
to r tit agency's Office of Opinions and Reviews. He of reason and for blind adh u: to II o the that
may, making all the more remarkable the docu- was flawed from birth, thanca roc of tlhe aioolhat
mom's sardonic CJrnrnents about the legal process. ? Age of economic n, ih a reatiould lic of the fore have
?he statutes on which we spend moat of our time end i fr senility de that ago. and that have
energy were Carefully designed to close gaps been reined for senility decades ago, and that active fabric that the states had previously gu previously in the n fashioned ed "Of belongs in course, we historical
we think a think these Criticisms a regulatory Pathology.
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