MEMO (SANITIZED) FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

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5 November 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR:
Curator, Historical Intelligence
Director of Central, Intelligence
1. Thanks for sending me all that material. Last weekend I put the
enclosed together, taking large portions from your documents and from my
Revolutionary War book. I think it's only necessary to go on and do about
the same thing with South-Carolina and Yorktown,-plus a few intervening
events.
2. The material taken from my book perhaps gets.into.too much detail
and will need to be edited down. Then there's a need for., some broad coverage
on the general intellligence of the war which would put the whole concept
of the book.in context. I need to work in somewhere the.Nathan Hale story
and any other earlier intelligence missions and activities.
3. Take a look at it and let me have whatever ideas. you have for
rounding it out, improving and polishing it. I am quite sure I can get a
commercial publisher and would let the in-house educational fund take the
royalties, provided you agree. Much of the material woul_d?_be yours.
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Mr. Casey:
2. Page 5, para. 1. This paragraph. is much the same as Page 6,
paragraph 2.
"Committee of Secret Correspondence." Are these all the same committee?
. Incase they might be helpful--and to clue you in on what I did
in a coupe-_p:laces that were unclear to me--here are some notes:
1. 1~ge 5, line 2. "committee of safety and correspondence."
I notice that in your book there's a "Committee of Public Safety; in
Flexner's, -a "Committee of Safety"; and in "Intell in the War
3. Page 6, para. 3. Note ? on the date.
4. Page 21A. Marking on page 16, "Intell. in_the. War..." not clear,
but I believe you do not want this page included.
5. Page 29. I have paperclipped to this page a paragraph "D" marked
in your book, page 69, but not on your outline. If it should be included
it would be the penultimate paragraph.
6. Page 8. The last sentence on this page is marked paragraph "F"
in Flexner's book, page 173, but not on your outline.' Perhaps this sentence
should 'be deleted.
7. All excerpts from Flexner's "The Young Hamilton" are underlined.
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