LETTER TO MR. ANGUS THUERMER FROM JOSEPH FROMM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300280019-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: October 17, 1974
• Content Type: LETTER

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U. S. News & World Report
Mr. Angus Thuermer
Assistant for the Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
October 17, 1974
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Dear Angus:
As you will see from the enclosed copy of a letter, we would like
very much to set up an interview with Mr. Colby in order to try to clear
the air in the controversy over the need for an intelligence organization
in contemporary America. I tried to reach you to discuss the project but
found you were on vacation. I do want to make sure, however, that I don't
cross wires there and hope very much that you will throw your considerable
weight behind this proposal. I think that it would offer an exceptional
opportunity to put this very confused picture into some perspective in
circumstances that would guarantee accuracy.
Sincerely,
enclosure:
,TF/ag
AsPocia.te Executive Editor
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October 10, 1974
Mr. William Colby
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Mr. Colby:
I was glad to hear the other day when I returned from London that you
found my article on the CIA in the September 16 issue of U.S. News & World
:Report a fair and balanced presentation of an exceedingly controversial
situation.
Now I would like to propose a project that I think would contribute
a great deal to a more realistic and intelligent understanding of the role
of the CIA, its contribution to American security and the peculiar problems
of operating a foreign intelligence organization in the current political
climate in this country.
What I have in mind is, of aLr j a ?oxinterviews. This would offer
you an opportunity to answer the questions that are widely being asked about
your organization with full confidence that your views would be presented
accurately. We would conduct the interview in our conference room--which
is appropriately "bugged" for the purpose. The final, edited version would
be submitted. to you for any corrections that you wished to make. The
interview would be published in the form finally approved by you.
I do hope that you will find it possible to accept this proposal and that
we can arrange to schedule the interview session 1; r_early_.da es. I look
forward to hearing from you.
With kindest personal regards, I am
Sincerely,
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