REWALD THE WRITER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605480164-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 164
• Publication Date: August 28, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN (HI
28 August 1983
by the way
By JClhn ~riffin
Advertiser Editorial Page Editor
Rewald the -writer
While today he is renowned in other ways,
Ronald R. Rewald a few years ago was .perhaps
-best known to? us and many others .as a scpne-
ime writer of ?letters to the editor. ---
In ~ October of 1978s for example, he wrotip to
ask: "How long can Americans stand by Viand
watch- the slaughter of millions of Cambodians
by the. Khmer .Rouge government of- Premier
Pol Pot?"
The letter. praised Lyon Nol, the exiled
Cambodian president who -had lived here for a
time, for his concern about the refugees from
that country. Rewald. had -bought Lon Nol's
Hawaii Kai -.house the year before. '
Next Rewald took on a perennial local issue,
saying:. "The use of pidgin as an acceptable
means of communication cannot be tolerated by
any of us who care :what happens to our chil-
dren."
In early 1979, he suggested that the energy
children put into fun runs or walks for charity
might- better -be .combined .with litter cleanups
or ocher useful community work projects.
There was a December 1978 letter from him
in The. Advertiser, saying: "I think Carter
would do well to direct his criticism not at the
CIA and other intelligence gathering organiza-
tTns, but at the Congress .and the media. The
CIA in particular has long been too easy a
target for headline-seeking politicans and
journalists..."
The last letter we find was in .May of 1980 to
the Star-Bulletin. It was on the same general
subject, saying in part: "Our nation has danger-
ously disarmed itself by making it imprac:.ical
for the CIA to undertake clandestine opera-
tions." -;
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