LETTER TO(Sanitized) FROM W. E. COLBY

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: September 4, 1975
• Content Type: LETTER

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON,D.C. 20505
4 SEP1,S
Professor Francis Winter
Faculty Advisor
International Affairs Organization
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613
Dear Professor Winter:
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Thank you for your kind remarks concerning Bill ParmenterFs
recent visit to your campus.
We welcome the opportunity to exchange views with students
and faculty members whose fresh insights can be most valuable. I
hope our participation also gives those we meet a clearer picture
of what I regard as our indispensable mission: to provide the
timely, accurate information and assessments our government needs
to meet its international responsibilities.
Sincerely,
1:61 W. E. C o1b"G
W. E. Colby
Director
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Letter to: Professor Francis Winter, Faculty Advisor
University of Northern Iowa
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My thanks and appreciation to Bill Parmenter for
a job well done.
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UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA ? Cedar Falls, Iowa so613
Political Science Department
AREA 319 273-2039
Augwst 18, 1975
W-ulJ i.am E. Colby, DiAecton
Centtt.ae Intelligence Agency
W"htington, D. C. 20505
Dears Mn.. Co'b y :
We've just eompteted the pnocem o6 eva.2ua ,i.ng our. speafzeu pnogn.am son the
1974-75 academic yeah. The Depatttment of PoVtieae Science and the Intett.na ions
A66ai,u Organization have asked me to thank you on behat6 o4 the students o4
the Un..veu.cty og Northern Iowa eon_ yowc e4~onts in making W-iMam Pahmenten',s
vi,s.it pots be.e. We considened hiz visit a high point in out a en,%ea . Each
yeah we my to .ncIude a member of the InteLUgenee Community (.last yeax Ray
CILne spoke to us). We 6ee.l that Mn. Pahmenteh iz by Jan the most capable and
fznow2edgeab.ee spokezman jot the community that we have had to date, however.
He e.6tabti.shed immediate nappont with h.iz student qud%enees and answeAed student
que-stLonz with e.andon and expextiz e. In an era when the CIA is under 4stnong
attach in the nati.onat pnm,&, Mn. Patmenteh had no dt.U{.i.eutty in atabWh,i.ng
h cxedLb.it ty and that of the CIA with an audience which nonmc1I y tends to
be somewhat .6fzep ica2. We axe pajcti,cu,laAty gnate5uL that you bound it pos4.cbte
to send a man o6 Mn. Panmentex'4s catLbne. H,co wide (znowtedge, his ateAt Mind
and his easy manner o6 appnoaeh showed students something about the natuhe o4
the CIA that they would be unable to {,%nd in the press on in .leetutes. The
ongan-tza ti.on' -us made up, ct ten all, o4 men and men tike M. Patmenta ate
.tmpne,s,sive indeed. Judging {ynom student and 6acu.e..ty comment, I think you wor d
be p!eaaed with the ne4u.Lt,6 o6 Mn. PanmenteA's viz.it. From out point o6 view,
we ant extremely gnate6ut {'on the ern.-i.ehrne.nt which his wi,5-it hays bnough t to
out students' thinking on some o6 the problems and prospects {ion the ,%ntePJ.%ge.nce
community as it 6aces the chaUenga o4 the '70.6.
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24 April 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: DDI Academic Coordinator
SUBJECT Visit to University of Northern Iowa
by DD/OCI, 21 April 1975
1. The visit was sponsored by the International Affairs
Organization, a student activity at UNI of which Professor
Francis Winter is the faculty advisor. Winter wrote the DCI
asking that CIA send an officer to speak on a substantive
subject to a student audience.
2. I took on the basic task, speaking formally on Middle
East background problems to a capacity crowd of students in the
IAO meeting, talking informally on the intelligence function
in the US Government to a freshman course in political science,
lunching with a group of faculty from the political science and
history departments, and finally meeting in a free-wheeling ses-
sion with a kind of "open" political science seminar which in-
cluded faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates.
3. The arrangements were good. My plane was met, housing
arranged, and I was given time to myself. The sponsors had
adhered closely to our request for minimum publicity; so closely,
in fact, that they feared they might not have much of a crowd
for me and were relieved to find their concern unfounded. I was
consulted--almost anxiously--at each stage of the proceedings as
to how I wished to handle the class, seminar, etc. I declined
opportunities to have my lecture taped, to be interviewed on the
university radio station, and to have my picture in the university
newspaper. There was no pressure at all on this--"I'd really
rather not" ended the matter. (I can't guarantee that there won't
be a story of some kind, of course--I did. not say I was "on back-
ground" since this seemed silly; if we're not prepared to risk
some publicity we shouldn't go.)
4. The student and faculty reception was unanimously
friendly, but not uncritical. If there were real hostiles, they
did not show. There was genuine interest--and a surprising
amount of intelligent current background knowledge--on the Middle
East, as well as perceptive curiosity about the Agency and its
works. My responses to questions seemed to be accepted as author-
itative--a pleasant change, and humbling. One student asked how
he could apply for a job.
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