LETTER TO ROBERT M. GATES FROM ARTHUR CYR

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• Publication Date: May 14, 1987
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Chicago Council 87-0604X/2 116 S. Michigan Ave.
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May 14, 1987
Mr. Robert M. Gates
Acting Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Thank you very much indeed for making time to come to
Chicago to visit with and inform the members of our Chicago Committee.
This senior invitational group represents a large share of
the most influential business and other professional leadership
of the city and surrounding region. This was a good opportunity
to inform and educate important people here. At the same time,
we realize there are many pressures on you, especially now,
and so we are particularly grateful you accepted the invitation and
made the trip. We run a very extensive program here, including other
specialized invitational meetings, often involving the academic
community, as well as more general public education. We would
value an opportunity to have you back with us for a different group
when your schedule permits. Please consider this a standing
invitation.
Chairman
John M. Richman
President
John E. Rielly
Vice Chairmen
Roger E. Anderson
Mrs. Charles A. Meyer
Richard M. Morrow
Treasurer
Robert P. McNeill
Secretary
Mrs. Jo Minow
Vice President
t Prom Director
Arthur Cyr
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
James F. Bare
Edward A. Brennan
William J. Brodsky
T. Kimball Brooker
Norman W. Brown
John H. Bryan, Jr.
Weston R. Christopherson, Jr.
Donald C. Clark
Stanton R. Cook
Richard Dennis
William F. Farley
Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.
Wilbur H. Lantz
Bruce J. Graham
Hanna Holborn Gray
J. Douglas Gray
Robert A. Hanson
Mrs. Augustin S. Hart
Robert A. Heiman
Robert S. Ingersoll
D. Gale Johnson
Mrs. Colleen Karr
Silas Keehn
Arthur L. Kelly
George Di Kennedy
John J. Knsella
Mrs. Patricia Koldyke
Duane R. Kullberg
Jewel Lafontant
John J. Louis, Jr.
Robert H. Malott
John F. Manley
Walter E. Massey
Aloysius A. Mazewski
William J. McCarter
Peter H. Merlin
Charles A. Meyer
Mrs. Kenneth Montgomery
William S. Ogden
Romuaid J. Poplawski
Arthur E. Rasmussen
David J. Rosso
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Mrs. Shirley Ryan
William D. Sanders
Adlai E. Stevenson III
Charles E. Swanson
Arnold R. Weber
William L. Weiss
Clayton K. Yeutter
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Edmund A. Stephen
Charles A. Bane
Melvin Brorby
Walter T. Fisher
John D. Gray
Augustin S. Hart
Richard A. Hoefs
Herbert V. Prochnow
Alex R. Seith
Richard H. Templeton
Richard L. Thomas
Robert E. Wieczorowski
Robert B. Wilcox
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?ThE Chicago CommittEE 87-1687X
Sponsored by The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations
April 20, 1987
Mr. Robert M. Gates
Acting Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agnecy
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Mr. Gates,
Following my recent conversations with Mrs. Mary Evelyn Dean it
is my pleasure to confirm your appearance as a featured speaker
before the Chicago Committee on May 5, 1987, from 12:00 noon to
1:45 p.m. Your appearance will be an important and interesting
addition to our program.
We ask our speakers to address the group and then respond to
questions from the members. The luncehon schedule will be as
follows: 12:00 - 12:20, reception and informal discussion; 12:20 -1:00,
luncheon; 1:00 - 1:30, prepared remarks; 1:30 - 1:55, discussion and
questions. All sessions of the Chicago Committe are strictly off the
record, allowing guests to speak with absolute candor. I have enclosed
for your information material about the Chicago Committee and about
the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations in general.
We look forward to welcoming you to Chicago. It will be an honor
and a pleasure to include you in our program.
Sincerely,
Anne N. McIntosh
Program Officer
The Chicago Committee
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PAO 87-0006/1
1 May 1987
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: George V. Lauder
Director, Public Affairs Office
SUBJECT: Trip to Chicago
CHICAGO TRIBUNE editorial board
to Chicago on ues ay, May, to address the Chicago Committee. meet with the
1. Action Requested: None. This is background information for your trip
2. Address the CHICAGO COMMITTEE: You are requested to be at the main
entrance of the Chicago Club at 81 East Van Buren Street at 1200 where you
will be met by Chicago Committee Program Officer Anne McIntosh who will escort
you to the 8th floor for the reception in the Buckingham Room and luncheon at
1220 in the John Black Room. Robert P. McNeill Executive Vice President of
Stein Rowe & Farnham Investment Firm and Chairman of the meeting will be
seated at your right, and he will introduce you. John E. Rielly President of
the Chicago World Affairs Council will be on your left. (See Chicago
Committee tab for biographies.) Your remarks are scheduled to begin at
approximately 1300. You have been asked to speak for 30 minutes and allow 25
minutes for Questions and Answers. A podium and microphone will be available
near the head table, and your remarks will be taped by this group for our
historical files. Adjournment is at approximately 1400.
The audience will ?e made up of 40 influential business, financial,
academic, and other prdfessional leaders from Chicago and the surrounding
region. (See Chicago Committee tab for list of attendees.) Although almost
all Committee members are US citizens, the Committee is unable to say for sure
whether a small number of members are naturalized US citizens or remain
foreign nationals. Since the citizenship of several Japanese, UK, Italian,
and West Germans is in question, foreign nationals could be in the audience.
According to the Committee, none of their members represent foreign
governments. Although the Chicago Committee officers state that all sessions
are off-the-record, an event that includes foreign nationals cannot be
considered off-the-record by our definition. Working members of the Dress
will not be present. I will remain throughout the meeting.
Although the head tab a seating s su sect to c ange, as o t s a e, you
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will be seated with the
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John E. Rielly
Robert P. McNeill
John D. Gray
J. Douglas Gray
Edward H. Levi
Jeffrey Short, Jr.
Robert K. Wilmouth
following (see tab for biographies and related news
President, The Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs
Executive Vice President, Stein Rowe and Farnham
Chairman Emeritus, Hartmarx
Managing Director, Morgan Stanley & Co.
Former US Attorney General 1975 - 1977
President Emeritus, University of Chicago
President, J. R. Short Milling Company
President, National Futures Association
The Chicago Committee's membership of approximately 570 is made up of
senior business and professional leaders from the Chicago area who are
concerned with problems confronting the United States. The Committee meets
regularly to hear distinguished US and foreign leaders as well as leading
personalities in business, the press, and academic circles discuss vital
issues affecting international relations and foreign policies. Recent
speakers have been Abba Eban, Ted Turner, Senator Richard C. Lugar, Senator
David Durenberger, Ambassador from South Africa to the US Herbert Buekes,
Chinese Finance Minister Wang Bingqian, Chairman of Fiat Gianni Agnelli,
Assistant Secretary for European and Canadian Affairs Rozanne L. Ridgway,
British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff Admiral William Crowe. (See brochure in back of book for further
information including membership list.) John McMahon spoke to this group in
April 1983.
The Committee is sponsored by the broader-based Chicago Council on Foreign
Relations, a non-partisan organization founded in 1922 that has a membership
of approximately 15,000. The mission of the Council is to inform area
citizens of significant international issues and their bearing on American
foreign policy through addresses by leading statesmen, discussion groups, and
other activities. Research activities are sponsored in foreign policy,
international relations, international economics, and major political
developments within countries. (See back of book for the brochure "American
Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy 1987.") The Council also maintains
data from public opinion surveys.
3. Meet with CHICAGO TRIBUNE Editorial Board: You will meet with editor
of the editorial page Jack Fuller and of er members of the editorial board
from 1415 - 1515 at the CHICAGO TRIBUNE offices, 435 North Michigan Avenue.
We are to check-in at the Tower Lobby entrance with security chief Ken Miller
SECRET
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who will escort us to the 4th floor for our meeting in the editorial board
room. I will remain with you throughout the meeting. The tentative list of
attendees is:
James D. Squires
Lois J. Wille
Joan W. Beck
Terry Brown
Stephen J. Chapman
Ray Coffey
Kenneth Knox
Richard Liefer
Richard Locher
Jeff MacNelly
Daniel Tucker
Howard Tyner
Charles Madigan
Dean Baquet
Executive Editorial Vice President
Associate Editorial Page Editor
Board member and syndicated columnist
Board member
Board member and syndicated columnist
Board member and syndicated columnist
Board member
Board member
Editorial cartoonist
Editorial cartoonist
Board member
Foreign news editor
National editor
Associate metropolitan editor of
investigation, City Desk
Attendees will introduce themselves at the beginning of the meeting.
(See background materials for the editorial profile, available biographies of
the editors, and selected editorials and articles.)
George V. Lauder
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Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C.
[phone]
Ezecatire Registry
87-0604X/1
George V. Lauder
Director, Public Affairs
24 March 1987
ADCI:
According to your office, you are interested
in addressing the Chicago Committee sponsored by
the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations at a
convenient date sometime this spring in Chicago.
The Committee has proposed a luncheon meeting on
any Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday the first
three weeks of April or the first week of May, and
suggested one of the following topics: US
intelligence today and the general direction that
intelligence is taking; how intelligence
influences policymaking; reference to the
Iran/Contra problem. Please indicate your
preference below, and Public Affairs will make the
appropriate response.
George V Lauder
Please circle desired date:
14, 15, 16 April
21, 22, 23 April
28, 29, 30 April ( 5J6, 7 May
Unable to work into my spri schedule.
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5 March 1987
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: George V. Lauder
Director, Public Affairs Office
SUBJECT: Invitation to Address the Chicago Committee
of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations
1. Action Requested: Accept or decline an invitation to address the
members o the icago onmittee of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations
luncheon meeting at the Chicago Club in Chicago on a mutually convenient
date. The program year runs from September through June.
2. Background: Mr. James F. Bere, Chairman and CEO of the Borg-Warner
Corporation and airman of the Chicago Committee, has invited you to speak to
their membership on important issues in international affairs. The suggested
format is 30 minutes of remarks followed by 20 minutes of Questions and
Answers. According to Mr. Bere, all sessions are "off-the-record." You could
expect an audience of 40 - 50 influential business, financial, academic, and
other professional leaders from Chicago and the surrounding region. Although
a publisher could be present, there will be neither working members of the
press nor foreign nationals in the audience.
The Chicago Committee's membership of approximately 570 is made up of
senior business and professional leaders from the Chicago area who are
concerned with problems confronting the United States. The Committee meets
regularly to hear distinguished US and foreign leaders as well as leading
personalities in business, the press, and academic circles discuss vital
issues affecting international relations and foreign policies. Recent
speakers have been Abba Eban, Ted Turner, Senator Richard C. Lugar,
Senator David Durenberger, Ambassador of South Africa to the US
Herbert Buekes, Chinese Finance Minister Wang Bingqian, Chairman of Fiat
Gianni Agnelli, and Assistant Secretary for European and Canadian Affairs
Rozanne L. Ridgway. (See brochure opposite for further information including
membership list.) John McMahon spoke to this group in April 1983.
The Committee is sponsored by the broader based Chicago Council on Foreign
Relations, a non-partisan organization founded in 1922 that has a membership
of approximately 15,000. The mission of the Council is to inform area
citizens of significant international issues and their bearing on American
foreign policy in the area through addresses by leading statesmen, discussion
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of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations
groups, and other activities. Research activities are sponsored in foreign
policy, international relations, including studies on arms control and
international security, international economics, diplomacy between countries,
and major political developments within countries.
3. Recommendation: None. If you plan to be in the Chicago area sometime
in the next year, you may wish to schedule a meeting with this influential
group. Indicate your preference below and Public Affairs will make the
appropriate response.
George W. Lauder
ACCEPT:
Acting erector of entra me gence
DECLINE:
Acting Director of Central Intelligence
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