LETTER TO DAN MCKINNON FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 86
• Publication Date: April 2, 1986
• Content Type: LETTER

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Ex6cutive'Registry
86- 1429
The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington. D. C. 20505
Dear Dan,
2 April 1986
I read your book all the way through and I found it
excellent, gripping and fast moving. I have turned down
a corner of pages on which I made some pencilled notations
which may be helpful to you.
My only negative reaction is that I thought your
chapter on the "Fallout" was too long and drawn out. I
think many readers will be like me and not too much
interested in what the media had to say about the affair.
It comes as sort of an anti-climax. I would cut that
chapter down to a minimum -- perhaps some of the diplomatic
impacts should be retained.
I thought carefully about writing the blurb for the
jacket but decided that some of the things in the book
reflecting CIA findings and judgments which have appeared
in the press but not been acknowledged or confirmed or
denied by CIA precluded me letting my name be associated
with the book, and that even a general endorsement might
be taken as some kind of confirmation statement on which
the Agency is not publicly committed.
I congratulate you on your splendid digging and
analysis.
Warm regards.
Yours
Wil yam J. C
asey
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By
Dan McKinnon
The first successful use of conventional weapons by one nation to
destroy another nation's nuclear capability.
An example of why the Israeli Air Force has become a legend.
A daring raid with imaginative planning and precision execution.
"It was the riskiest mission in the history of the Israeli Air
Force."
----A Pilot Who Flew It.
Israel's bold air strike that destroyed Iraq's nuclear bomb
factory.
The greatest surgical bombing attack in aviation history.
The most dramatic and spectacular bombing raid since Jimmy
Doolittle spent 30 seconds over Tokyo in 1942.
How the Israeli Air Force completely escaped detection and
interception on the way to Iraq and on the return flight from
their devastating raid.
Read in spellbinding detail what it's like to fly with the famed
Israeli Air Force.
Copyright 1986
Dan McKinnon
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