LETTER TO DEAR PROFESSOR T.W. WALKER FROM JAMES E. KING

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• Publication Date: October 18, 1979
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
October 13, 1979
I have been asked to acknowledge your letter of 30 August to
Admiral Turner. I have read the paper you enclosed. It does, indeed,
set forth very clearly the critique of U. S. policy you offered in our
discussion on 2 August. I am passing it to our analysts concerned with
Central America.
Meantime, we are all watching the developments in Nicaragua attentively
and hoping for the best.
Let me add an expression of my personal appreciation for your contribution
to our discussion. My knowledge and understanding of Latin America is
decidedly limited as my regional expertise when (and if) I had such was
focused upon Europe and the Mediterranean. But to the extent that I have
followed events in Latin America my perspective is very similar to yours. I
fear it is unrealistic to expect the U. S. Government to discount stability
in that part of the world as much as you (and I in my private capacity) might
like it to, but your case for the alternatives was salutary and I am sure it
was not lost on our analysts.
Sincerely,
Coordinator o Academic Relations
National Foreign Assessment Center
Professor T. W. Walker
Ohio University
Department of Political Science
Bentl ey Hall
Athens, Ohio 47501
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Letter to Professor T. W. Walker
Distribution:
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1 - Exec. Reg.
1 - NFAC/Action Staff
1 - NFAC Reg.
3 - NFAC/CAR
NFAC/CAR
(18 October 1979)
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