LETTER TO MR.FRED ABLIN FROM RICHARD HELMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000200020025-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2005
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: January 24, 1972
• Content Type: LETTER

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
Mr. Fred Ablin
Executive Vice-President
and Editorial Director
International Arts and Sciences Press Inc.
901 North Broadway
White Plains, New York 10603
Dear Mr. Ablin:
I appreciate your interest in sending me your
brochure and representative samples of your Chinese
translation series. This Agency has its own docu-
ment procurement and translation service which I feel
can adequately handle our needs. I asked one of my
officers to review your, journals and found that we
already processed material pertinent to our interests.
Again my thanks, however.
Sincerely,
Richard Helms
Director
Deputy Director for Inte igence
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~JTERNATIONAL ARTS & SCIENCES PRESS Inc. 901 North Broadway,
White Plains, New York 10603
(914) 428-87001 L'xocudvc
January 10, 1972 a i~
Mr. Richard Helms
Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
We are writing to you as one of a highly select group of people
who are professionally interested in China's domestic affairs
and its role in international relations. I do not think that
it is necessary to indicate why we have chosen this moment to
draw your attention to our series of publications dealing with
China.
I am enclosing sample copies of each of the six Chinese journals
that we have been publishing for several years. I am also en-
closing, for your convenience, a mailing piece that succinctly
describes the journals, as well as an evaluation of our Asian
series that recently appeared in Library Journal.
The IASP journals provide translations of important mainland
Chinese material that originally appeared in scholarly publi-
cations, books and newspapers. The editor of each journal is
a specialist in the corresponding field and knows Chinese. He
selects the items for translation and checks the translations
for accuracy and completeness. His efforts are supported by
an advisory committee of distinguished scholars.
The journals are intended to be as comprehensive as possible
in the areas that they cover. They offer both current and
background material. They are objective in nature, that is,
they are designed to provide information rather than to ad-
vance any particular point of view.
We hope that you will examine the enclosed journals in terms
of their potential value to you and to others who might share
your interest.
Sincerely,
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Fred Ablin
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and Editorial Director