LETTER TO RALPH LEE WOODWARD FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

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• Document Release Date: December 29, 2004
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• Publication Date: August 13, 1979
• Content Type: LETTER

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Dear Ralph:
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I have your letter of August fourth regarding your student,
He certainly seems to be someone we shall want to
talk to a out developments in Guatemala and El Salvador and to consider
as a prospective employee. Thank you for telling me about him.
I also want to thank you for your contributions to our discussion
on August second. I am sorry I had to miss your opening remarks at the
beginning of the discussion. What I did hear, though, was informative
and stimulating. It was particularly helpful that our three academic
visitors were not in perfect agreement on all points. The differences
not only added to the vigor of the discussion but also, as usual, served
to bring out salient issues that might otherwise have been passed over
too quickly for those of us who were not specialists.
We shall have to follow developments in that troubled if small
corner of the world very closely for a while, anyway, perhaps indefinitely.
I assume we can call on you again when we need your insight into develop-
ments we are following and I shall look forward to seeing you when we do.
Yours,
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Dr. Ralph Lee Woodward
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Letter to Dr. Ralph Lee Woodward
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The Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Dear Tom :
I want to thank you for your splendid contributions
to our discussion on "Central America after Somoza" on
August second. I regret I was unable to be present at
the beginning when you and our other guest experts
made your opening remarks. Even without that privilege,
however, I found the evening informative and stimulating.
No doubt part of the stimulus resulted from the fact
that you did not agree on all points and that you pre-
sented and defended your different positions so well.
Somehow differences always make a better discussion.
You may assume that our National Intelligence
Officer for Latin America and our analysts who are
specialists on Central America will keep you in mind
and, as the evolving situation suggests, in touch. For
myself, I shall look forward to our next meeting.
Yours ,
STANSFIELD TURNER
Dr. Thomas
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Letter to Dr. Thomas W. Walker
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The Director
Central Intelligence Agency
I want to thank you for your splendid contributions
to our discussion on "Central America after Somoza" on
August second. I regret I was unable to be present at
the beginning when you and our other guest experts
made your opening remarks. Even without that privilege,
however, I found the evening informative and stimulating.
No doubt part of the stimulus resulted from the fact
that you did not agree on all points and that you pre-
sented and defended your different positions so well.
Somehow differences always make a better discussion.
You may assume that our National Intelligence
Officer for Latin America and our analysts who are
specialists on Central America will keep you in mind
and, as the evolving situation suggests, in touch. For
myself, I shall look forward to our next meeting.
STANSFIELD TURNER
Dr. Kenneth J. Grieb
Department of History
University of Wisconsin
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901
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Letter to Dr. Kenneth J. Grieb
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