LETTER TO WILLIAM CASEY FROM (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R002204200003-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 24, 1983
• Content Type: LETTER

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c/o Indochina Refugee Action Center
1424 16th Street, N.W., Suite 404
Washington, D.C. 20036
A 4- - ~~ ~
June 24, 1983 lam
Mr. William Casey
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Mr. Casey:
I am enclosing a draft initial appeal for contributions to
establish a development loan fund for the Hmong and other highland
refugees from Laos.
About 70,000 Hmong/highlander refugees are in the United States.
You will see from the enclosed material that no special strategy
for their resettlement was devised, despite our very close associa-
tion with these people during the war years. Because of their
continuing resettlement problems, we are considering the launching
of an economic development loan fund to finance Hmong/highlander
ventures which would not be supportable by conventional lending
institutions.
Initially we will seek contributions from friends of the Hmong/
highlanders in the United States -- people familiar with their
extraordinary contribution. We believe that, through individual
contributions, we can raise modest funds quickly. Naturally we hope
that when the Fund is organized you will be able to be generous, but
I am writing now to ask your help in introducing us to potential
corporate and foundation sources of support.
We believe that the idea.of a development loan fund -- espe-
cially one aimed at this particular group of refugees -- will he
seen as an exciting innovation, complementing Federal assistance
efforts. The loan fund concept emerged most recently from suggestions
made by Hmong/highlander leaders from around the country at a
February meeting in Washington. Serious funding support, however,
will require effective entree to the foundations and corporate sector,
Would it be possible to meet or talk with you in the near future
to get your best advice on this enterprise? My sabbatical grant ends
next month and Z will be posted abroad in the Foreign Service. I
will endeavor therefore to contact you next week.
Thank you very much for your interest.
Sincerely,
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