LETTER TO HARRY A. WELLINGTON FROM STANLEY SPORKIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R001903710085-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2008
• Sequence Number: 85
• Content Type: LETTER

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
General Counsel
Dean Harry A. Wellington
Yale Law School
Placement Office
P.O. Box 401A, Yale Station
New Haven, CT 06520
Dear Dean Wellington:
In light of our recent conversation, I believe it would
be in the best interests of our respective institutions for
the Agency to cancel its recruiting trip to Yale Law School
this Fall. I am simply not prepared at this time to have
the Yale Law School perform a substantive review of the
security clearance standards of the United States Government.
While for the moment I do not want to press the recruitment
issue, I may desire to revisit it with you and other faculty
members in the future. I fervently believe that it would
not be in the best interests of this Nation or the Yale Law
School to deny to those exceptionally talented law students
graduating from Yale the opportunity to serve their Nation
as a member of this extremely important agency of the United
States Government. It is indeed ironic that those critical
of the Agency would seek to prevent the Agency from recruiting
the kind of first-rate legal talent necessary to provide
effective legal oversight and counselling for the conduct of
intelligence activities in the modern world.
Although we will not recruit on campus this year, we
will, of course, welcome Yale law students to apply to us
for permanent employment or participation in our summer
legal intern program.
Sincerely,
Stanley Sporkin
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