LETTER TO DR. MICHAEL SAMUELS FROM L. GRAY COWAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00985R000200250026-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: March 17, 1980
• Content Type: LETTER

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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505
17 March 1980
Dr. Michael Samuels
Center for Strategic and
International Studies
1800 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006
Dear Mike:
Further to our telephone conversation, I would like to invite you
formally to come to the Director's dinner on Thursday, April 24, and to
participate in an all-day conference on Friday, April 25. The subject
of both meetings will be current developments in Nigeria with some
emphasis on future estimates of Nigerian stability and progress. The
Director's dinner will be hosted by Adm. Turner, and top officials of
the Agency, including the Deputy Director, the Director of NFAC, the
Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, and some analysts from
the Agency, will attend. The Director usually invites special guests
as he sees fit from other parts of the Intelligence Community.
The meeting the following day, which will probably take place
outside the building here, would be attended by analysts from our own
shop, and representatives of State, DIA, and possibly other agencies.
We would need to have you here at Headquarters around dinner time
on April 24, and we would finish with the conference on the 25th in the
late afternoon. Needless to say, the usual amenities of expenses for
local transportation and consulting fee would be included.
We hope to have Henry Bienen and possibly one other person from
outside who are specialists on Nigeria attend both the dinner and the
conference the next day. The latter would take the form probably of
three two-hour sessions, the agenda of which will be worked out shortly.
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I hope very much that you will be able to be here with us for this
meeting. Apart from the discussion with the analysts on Friday, it
will be an opportunity to inform the top of the Intelligence Community
in greater degree as to what is happening in Nigeria.
We look forward to having you with us.
Sincerely',
cc: NFAC/CAR
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