LETTER TO JAMES L. BUCKLEY FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R001404060061-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2008
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: May 13, 1983
• Content Type: LETTER

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Central Intelligence Agency
13 May 1983
Dear Jim,
I like your idea for a program in Soviet Central Asian and Turkic
studies and the assets and expenses that could be put behind it.
We are very good in our government about finding reasons not to
do things and that sears my soul. But there is a rather clear-cut
Congressional intent to keep CIA disentangled from the radios. For
that reason and because State has funds not so embargoed and is working
on what seems to be a parallel undertaking, I've written the enclosed
letter to Frank Shakespeare.
L i[illiam J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
The Honorable James L. Buckley
President, RFE/RL Inc.
67 Oettingenstrasse Am Englischen Graten
8000 Munich 22, West Germany
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