(SANITIZED), COX NEWSPAPERS, REQUEST FOR INTERVIEW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R002204260015-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: June 29, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
OEXAtr'8 3-1578
2J JUN 198'0
Director, Office of External Affairs
Request for
1. Action Requested: Decline or accept request for
interview by
STAT
STAT
STAT
2. Background: called to request a private STAT
off-the-record interview with you that he said would not be
for publication. He said he wanted to know what your
thinking was these days on a wide range of topics and said he
would be glad to tell you what he had learned on recent trips
to Moscow, Afghanistan, and Poland. STAT
be told he is good friends with both STAT
who, according to are also friends of yours. STAT
requested and was granted a briefing by STAT
CIA analysts in may before his trip to the USSR and
Afghanistan. He said he was scheduled to see Marshall
Ustinov in the USSR and Babrak Kamal in Afghanistan and would
be willing to talk to us about his trip when he returned.
However, he did not get the access in Moscow or Kabul that he
expected and the articles he wrote shed no new light on the
situation in that area, according to our analysts. He
recently went to. Poland to cover the Pope's trip.
was also scheduled for your breakfast with STAT
the press on,13 April 83 which was cancelled a few days
before it was to be held.
3. Recommendation: None. Indicate whether you wish to
decline or accept this interview and authorize Public Affairs
to respond in your behalf.
STAT
DCI
EXEC
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ACCEPT THE INTERVIEW:
Director of Central Intelligence Date
DECLINE THE INTERVIEW:
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Director of Central Intelligence
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