LETTER TO MEG GREENFIELD FROM GEORGE V. LAUDER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000201250010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 19, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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PUBLIC AFFAIRS
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGEN
WASHINGTON. D. C. 20505
19 April 1985
Ms. Meg Greenfield
Editor of Editorial Page
THE WASHINGTON POS~?W?
1150 15th Street,
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Ms. Greenfield:
that
A WASHINGTON POST editorial on 18 April proposed, inter alia,
subjects of CIA psychiatric
persons who without their consent became and
dru testing programs during the 1950s should be traced and compensated.
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Had the POST the professionalism to check its facts with the Agency - Agency made
before writing its editorial, it would have learned
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programs in which the
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might have been unwitting subjects of ge 19 of the Supreme Court's
'Agency had been involved. Indeed, on pa prompted the POST's
decision on CIA vs. Sims (the decision which Pfor of Central
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editorial), the court in a footnote referred to the
this regard while Admiral Stansfield Turnr was Di .
Intelligence.
Sincerely,
George V. Lauder
Director, Public Affairs
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