LETTER TO THE HONORABLE WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM DAVID M. ABSHIRE REGARDING OUR CENTER'S EUROPEAN WORKING GROUP

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: October 22, 1982
• Content Type: LETTER

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David M. Abshire
President
Pisos A. Jordan, Jr.
Vice Chairman
Christa D. K. Dantzler
Chief Financial Officer
EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
Alvin J. Cottrell
Robert Kupperman
SENIOR RESEARCH AND
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
Yonah Alexander
Michael Blaker
Robert F. Byrnes
Sevinc Carlson
George A. Carver, Jr.
Ann C. Coffey, C.S.J.
Robert Downen
Charles K. Ebinger
Georges Fauriol
Penelope Hartland-Thunberg
Robert E. Hunter
Rodney W. Jones
Helen Kitchen
Robert Leiken
Edward N. Luttwak
Francis X. Murray
Kenneth A. Myers
William Perry
Paul Craig Roberts
Barry Rubin
Thibaut de Saint Phalle
John A. Shaw
William J. Taylor
Allen Weinstein
David Williamson, Jr.
R. James Woolsey
Wayne Berman
Patricia Denny
Pamela Scholl Mahaffee
Michael Moodie
Jean C. Newsom
Etta S. Pollock
Lea Rogers
Sterling G. Slappey
M. Jon Vondracek
David A. Wendt
John Yochelson
ADVISORY BOARD
Anne Armstrong
Chairman
Sen. Sam Nunn
Frederick Seitz
Cochairmen
Theodore A. Burtis
Ralph A. Pfeiffer, Jr.
Vice Chairmen
Richard V. Allen
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen
Rep. Don Bonker
Emile Boursier
Rep. Clarence Brown
W. Glenn Campbell
Rep. Richard Cheney
Leo Cherne
Jack Clarke
Lester Crown
Carlo De Benedetti
Sen. Robert Dole
Henry Dudley
Oscar Dystel
Rep. Dante B. Fascell
Rep. Millicent Fenwick
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Sen. John Glenn
Sen. Barry Goldwater
Armand Hammer
Sylvia Hassenfeld
lchiro Hattori
Eric Hutting
Sen. J. Bennett Johnston
Donald M. Kendall
Donald Kerr
William F. Kieschnick
Lane Kirkland
Joseph Kraft
Sen. Paul Laxalt
James E. Lee
Walter J. Levy
John C. Marcus
Sen. James A. McClure
Warren Meeker
Thomas H. Moorer
Robert Mosbacher
Martha T. Muse
Robert G. Neumann
Eddy Nicholson
Most Rev. John J. O'Connor, D.D.
Suliman Olayan
Sen. Claiborne Pell
Rep. John J. Rhodes
J. Hugh Roff, Jr.
Arthur Ross
Sen. William V. Roth, Jr.
Michael A. Samuels
Rep. James D. Santini
George T. Scharttenberger
Stephan Schmidheiny
Sen. Harrison Schmitt
Brent Scowcroft
Harvey L. Silbert
Joseph Sisco
Howard K. Smith
William French Smith
Frank Stanton
Rep. Samuel Stratton
Robert S. Strauss
Yasuo Takeyama
William Timmons
Sen. John Tower
Shoichiro Toyoda
Jean-Louis van den Branden
George Will
Rep. Clement J. Zablocki
Gordon B. Zacks
Harriet M. Zimmerman
The Center for Strategic and International Studies
Georgetown University/ 1800 K Street/ Washington DC 20006 /Telephone [phone]
Henry A. Kissinger, Gounseior Janros r,. asn~esu. yr, Robert J. Henle, S.J., Counselor Zbigniew Brzezinski, Senior Adviser Ray S. Cline, Senior Associate TWX: 7108229583
Robert G. Neumann, Senior Adviser Jack H. Bridges, Senior Associate
EXECUTIVE BOARD: Leonard H. Marks, Chairman/ Anne Armstrong, Vice Chairman/ David M. Abshire IT. Byron Collins, S.J./Leo Cherne/ Peter F. Krogh/ Morris 1. Leibman
Nathaniel Samuels / Richard Schwartz / Frederick Seitz / Ronald L. Smith / R. James Woolsey
October 22, 1982
The Honorable William S. Casey
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
I think it is very important that you meet, however briefly,
with our Center's European Working Group who will be in Washington
on December 13-14 to discuss with senior policymakers their
analysis and recommendations regarding current Alliance problems.
I have attached a short statement of the purpose of the group
and a list of its members. Such a meeting could be extremely
beneficial since an unofficial and diverse group of senior Europeans
of this kind can provide an unvarnished, realistic view of the
critical state we have reached with our NATO partners.
Sin r ly yours,
David M. Abshire
President
OVERSEAS REPRESENTATIVES: Joyce R. Starr / Kenichi Ito / Joseph Godson
RESEARCH COUNCIL: Walter Laqueur, Chairman / James H. Billington / B. Boutros Boutros-Ghali/ Robert F. Byrnes /Curt Gasteyger / Stephen P. Gibert/ Samuel Huntington /
Pierre Hassner / Robert J. Henle, S.J. / Charles Issawi / Bernard Lewis / Laurence W. Martin / John Norton Moore / Theodore H. Moran / David D. Newsom / Alec Nove /
Robert Osgood / Paul Seabury / Hugh Seton-Watson / Robert Scalapino / Gaston J. Sigur / Henri Simonet / Robert E. Ward / Ben J. Wattenberg / Albert Wohlstetter /
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The Center for Strategic and International Studies
Georgetown University/1 800 K Street Northwest / Washington DC 20006 /Telephone [phone]
Cable Address: CENSTRAT
TWX: 7108229583
To advance understanding and exchange with our European allies,
CSIS has had in operation since 1979 a European working Group that
was organized to follow up in Europe on the issues discussed during
the Center's historic conference at the Palais d' Egmont in Brussels.
Coordinated by Joseph Godson, CSIS Overseas Representative in London,
this group is composed of a wide range of people from the business,
academic, government, media and military communities who bring vastly
different perspectives to the examination of the problems confronting
the Alliance.
For the last year, this Group has been working on a written analysis
of alliance problems and developing recommendations for their resolution.
This analysis is especially noteworthy because the agreed recommendations
reached by such a diverse group have a political realism that one-dimensional
groupings may not achieve.
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1. Emile Boursier, Member CSIS Advisory Board, Executive Vice President
of Metallurgy and Mining in France
2. Fritz Bolkestien, Foreign Affairs Spokesman for the Liberal party
in Holland
3. Irving Brown, Director of International Relations, AFL-CIO, Paris
4. Frank Chapple, President British Trade Union Congress
5. Peter Corterier, Member of Parliament, West Germany; President,
Atlantic Treaty Organization
6. Andre de Staercke, former British Ambassador to NATO; Foreign
Affairs Advisor to Geomines, Belgium
7. Alan Lee Williams, Director General of the English Speaking Union,
London
8. Max Van der Stoel, former Foreign Minister of Holland
9. Brian Beedham, Foreign Editor for The Economist, London
10. Joseph Godson, Overseas London Representative, CSIS
Chairman, CSIS European Working Group
11. Peter Shore, Shadow Chancellor of Parliment's Labor Party of Britain
12. Maurice Faure, Foreign Minister of Justice, Member of the Executive
French Socialist Party.
13. David Lomax, Chief Economist of the National Westminster Bank, London
14. Gerd Schmukler, Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.
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