LETTER TO MR. CHESTER L. COOPER FROM L. K. WHITE

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• Document Release Date: January 16, 2003
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• Publication Date: March 17, 1966
• Content Type: LETTER

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17 March 1966
Mr. Chester L.,, Coope
The White House
Washington, D. C.
This letter acknowledges receipt of your letter of 11 March
1966. With the assurance you have given me that you intend to
return to duty with the Agency on or about 1 April 1967, we are
pleased to approve your request for leave without pay from the
Agency until that date. If you should change your mind about this
at any time during this period, we should appreciate the earliest
possible notification. We, of course, understand that the spe-
cific position to which you return will need to be mutually agreed.
I have discussed your lecturing and consulting with the Gen-
eral Counsel, and based upon the information you have given us,
he sees no conflict of interest in principle. If any of these ac-
tivities are to progress beyond the simple details you have sup-
plied, I suggest that you contact either Larry Houston or John
Warner, give them the details, and abide by their guidance.
Best of luck in your well-deserved sabbatical. We look for-
ward to having you as a member of the team again on or about
I April 1967.
Sincerely,
/s/ Red
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March 11, 1966
Starting 1 April 1966, I hope to embark on a year's
"sabbatical." - a year which I would like to take on Leave without Pay
status from the Agency. I will be spending the year as a "scholar
in residence" at the Institute for Defense Analyses. My salary will
be paid out of Ford Foundation funds which have been made available
to IDA.
During the course of the year I will be doing some writing
and may also be doing some lecturing at a university or two. I have
been asked to do some occasional consulting at RAND. The Hudson
Research Institute has also made some overtures.
How much time I will have for any activities outside my
writing I do not now know, but I would like to make sure that none of
these activities run counter to the letter or spirit of the conflict-of-
interest regulations. If I find myself contemplating any activity
over-and-above those I have mentioned, I will seek your guidance.
Best regards,
STAT
Colonel Lawrence K. White
Executive Director
Central Intelligence Agency
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Remarks :
To 1 and 2: Attached are copies of recent cor-
respondence between Chet Cooper and the Execu-
tive Director. The Executive Director requests
that each of you keep copies for your files; the
copies are attached. Please also review the
Executive Director's letter to Cooper and let me
know if it presents any difficulties. Otherwise,
please send onward to the Executive Registry for
mailing to Cooper.
3: For mailing to Mr. Cooper.
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SIGNATURE
Remarks :
To 1 and 2: Attached are copies of recent cor-
respondence between Chet Cooper and the Execu-
tive Director. The Executive Director requests
that each of you keep copies for your files; the
copies are attached. Please also review the
Executive Director's letter to Cooper and let me
know if it presents any difficulties. Otherwise,
please send onward to the Executive Registry for
mailing to Cooper.
3: For mailing to Mr. Cooper.
FOLD HERE TO RETURN TO SENDER
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