LETTER TO(Sanitized) FROM MATTHEW BAIRD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R001800090037-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2003
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: August 26, 1952
• Content Type: LETTER

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AUG 2G t
ftar consultation with I m cleased
to enclose a check for Three Hundred Dollars (34a? in payment
for the notes, syllabi and reading lists you, prepared for the
proposed .'u er ..rea Program of this r,,,ency. This is in full
satisfaction of amounts due you by this Agency.
eye look forward to receiving, at your earliest convenie:ice,
the notes, syllabi and readinn lists so that to this limited
extent we may have the benefit of the contribution you would
have rade had we not unfortunately had to cancel our Su.-. er 'area
Program. Please send the material to:
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'.-4s), .nrton 25, D
Sincerely yours,
4ATiHe,t BfS W
Director of Tai nin
STAT
'STAT
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August 21, 1952
STAT
2130 "E" Street N. W.
Washington 25, D. C.
I received your letter of July 21st and, today, your telegram of .August
20th. Yesterday, on my arrival from a lengthy journey, I also learned that
you had attempted to reach me by phone. Calling back, I spoke to a colleague
of yours in your office. I eve his name was if I understood
it right. I told that I would write today an gave him the
figure of $300 as an evaluation of the material that I was to use for the
Washington program this summer. I was very reluctant to set a monetary value
on material which I developed for my own use, but I learned in the meantime
that two colleagues who were also involved in the cancellation of the same
project have already given you an estimate of the value of their material
and the loss they had incurred, and that the settlement of this issue de-
pends on my making a similar request. It will take me a few days to put my
material into readable form and I will send it to you later.
As to your letter, I am grateful to you for your expression of disappoint-
ment that the program was cancelled and for your efforts in my behalf. I
want, however, not to close this matter without expressing to you and through
you to your superiors, my own disappointment at the manner in which your ne-
gotiations were conducted. The breaking of arrangements involving summer
school time brings up more than financial problems. It affects colleagues
and students, and most of all the dignity of the professor involved. I am
sure that you realize that it will be easier to secure the cooperation of
the academic world if matters such as this are handled with greater cir-
cumspection. It is inevitable that the way in which this matter was handled
has seriously shaken general confidence in your very important organization.
Yours sincerely,
STAT
FM: jt
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