LETTER TO JOSEPH P. ADDABBO FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2010
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: July 29, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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Central Intelligence Agency
2 9 JUL 1985
The Honorable Joseph P. Addabbo
Chairman
Subcommittee on Defense
Committee on Appropriations
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C. 20515
I have your letter of 25 July requesting cooperation in
briefing Messrs. O'Brien, Mineta, Markey, Eckert a~ d Brown on
the current situation and outlook regarding the American
hostages in Lebanon. I appreciate the pressure you and they are
under from the families and share the sense of ang~r and
frustration that the families and their congressional
representatives feel. I conveyed this, along with1my assurances
that the Administration is earnestly and continuou ly working
toward release of the hostages, to Congressman O'Brien in a
telephone conversation last week.
I am willing to have Clair George meet personally with
Messrs. O'Brien, Mineta, Markey, Eckert and Brown to present the
I am aware that Congressman O'Brien discussed 'this subject
at length during breakfast with Acting Secretary of State
Whitehead. I'm not at all sure that Clair George an convey
anything new or different; he cannot speak to the rognosis for
release. But if his knowledge of the facts and hi personal
familiarity with the realities of life in that part) of the world
can in some way be helpful, I do wish to cooperate, repeating,
as I must, the caveats as to passage of the information to the
families and staff exclusion from the briefing.
Sincerely,
i iam Casey
1Directo of Central Intelligence
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