THE LUCE MYSTIQUE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000403830005-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 9, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Clare Boothe Luce; whom de-
tractors think of as a "Dragon. Lady,"-
has returned to Washington. She is
back in 'a ' city inhere Republicans
currently preside and where she has
lived on and-off for half .a century.
She is back for a spiral of reasons,
not least, you' suspect; out of a.desire
-for some good conversation at dinner
parties again. (The Daniel Boorstins
are due at her'door'in anhour to
take her to the. Cosmos' Club.)' Fn
advanced age.she has. answered -ai'
other bid to serve her country, some
thing she has, been doing.. sporadie-~
ally' in one-capacity or. another since
she was a. member of Congress from.
Connecticut- in- the-'40s. 'Doubtless;.
:she doesn't mind the-limelight again;:
either. The other evening she. gar-
speech in-,;Connecticut: on.'-:foreign"
intelligence: It was a sellout. Accord.
ing to her. secretary of 35-years, Dor"'.?'
othy Farmer,-people stood in line=in,
.the rain:for.tickets.
In the middle distance, past-thee
blond -locks-falling to her shoulder;-'
-lay the :interior "of her new ..apart=;
ment: There' have been many-L'ucee~'
abodes' over-`the years, in Connecti a
cut and Hawaii-and Rome grid other
climes: This'newest is near the S116:1-
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reham HoteL She to hav;a''.
was sold 'ancl'?ha 1g putting up hew, -
oorwa y now. Froiriyhe_ (w_-h- lch=he
THE WASHINGTON POST
9 April 1982
.`visitor is still trying to get past), the!
..apartment looks serene and tasteful,
.maybe not Diamond-Head-breath-I
taking, but with hues of blue, fine
J ,4p and paintings; lashes of f-after-i
noon sun lying. on gleaming furni- ~
ture:-'Her--diningr room- table- hasn't'.
come from Hawaii yet and that isa ;
%t'`of art irritant. , 77.
'T'his time around Luce is ''serving
on Ronald Reagan's reinstated For-
eign Intelligence Advisory Bo
e was on the, oar -before, as an
then Gerald Ford; Jimmy Carter
,abolished it.) She is also a consultant
,te.?the National Security Council.
jfriepd of 30 years, National Se=
;crity Affairs adviser William Clark,
called her up' and she accepted on'-
'tFie spot. (She had been advising him
tat the State Department.) She and
Clark have known ^ each other since
Clark and Luce'.s daughter, were at
Sthnford. ? Her- daughter, Ann
'B'i'akav' ' who was - her only child,
"died in an automobile accident. in
'40s
.the
': Most 'Aprils, Clare Boothe' Luce
celebrates ' her . birthday 'with-'-the.
;Eiarks at their, home in:California.
"Hers.was the first name I thought
of when came over ere"ssa
.Clark. " asked her to a consul-
t because of her interest an
know ge in the NSC rocess ' par-
''tftularly in intelligence. might a
that.the president has a great trust
V!her, too."=She goes down. to the
.'%Vhite House regularly, according to
n 'aide; whenever Clark ` wishes . to
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