LETTER TO ALBERT WOHLSTETTER FROM ROBERT M. GATES

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• Publication Date: December 12, 1986
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The Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, Q C zosos
12 December 1986
Mr. Albert Wohlstetter
Many thanks for your kind note of December 5th.
I am happy to forward to you a copy of my speech at
the Commonwealth Club and also include a copy of a
speech I delivered the same day to the World Affairs
Council of Northern California.
Regais,
Enclosures:
As Stated
Robert M. Gates
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December 5, 1986
Mr. Robert Gates
Deputy Director
CIA
Washington D.C. 20505
The PFIAB staff sent me some excerpts from your splendid talk
before the Commonwealth Club in California. It was very clear,
concrete and basic. Just the sort of thing that is likely to be
missed in the confused debate on process that has gotten under
way. It's essential but will take quite an effort of the will in the
next two years to remember that substance is not a distraction.
May I have a copy of the complete talk?
Sincerely,
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Mr. Robert Gates
Deputy Director
CIA
Washington, D.C. 20505
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The Soviets and SDI
An Address to the World Affairs Council of Northern California
(Bay Area International Forum)
by Robert M. Gates, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
November 25, 1986
One of the most significant developments in the nuclear age
was the President's call to the nation in March 1983 to
research a strategic defense system to protect the United
States and its allies, This visionary concept and the
President's determination to bring it to reality initially was
greeted with widespread skepticism and a good deal of head
shaking over his presumed naivete. And yet, as the nation's
scientists and engineers have been mobilized, the technologies
examined, and successful tests carried out a growing number of
scientific and political leaders have come not only to accept
the validity of the concept but the wisdom of implementing it,
While skeptics and critics continue to voice their doubts,
there is one person in the world who believes nearly as
strongly as Ronald Reagan that SDI will work and that America
can build it if it decides to do so -- and that person is
Mikhail Gorbachev,
It seemed appropriate to me to speak today in this center
of high technology development not of our own SDI with which
some of you are more familiar than I am but rather the Soviet
approach to strategic defense and their own pursuit of SDI type
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War By Another Name
An Address to the Commonwealth Club of California
by Robert M, Gates, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
November 25, 1986
The most divisive and controversial port of American
foreign policy for nearly four decades has been our effort in
the Third World to preserve and defend pro-Western governments,
to resist Communist aggression and subversion, and to promote
economic development and democracy.
Our continuing difficulty in formulating a coherent and
sustainable bipartisan strategy for the Third World over two
generations contrasts sharply with the Soviet Union's
relentless effort there to eliminate Western influence,
establish strategically located client Communist states, and to
gain access to strategic resources.
But while we may debate strategy and how to respond, the
facts of Soviet involvement in major Third 'World conflicts are
undeniable. Consider two very painful memories:
-- It is clear that the Soviet Union, and Stalin
personally, played a central role in prompting North
Korea's invasion of the South in 195u,the cause of our
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PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Phone: [phone]
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
20 October 1986
Mr. Casimir A. Yost
Executive Director
World Affairs Council
of Northern California
World Affairs Center
312 Sutter Street, Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94108
This is to confirm arrangements for CIA Deputy Director Robert M. Gates to
address the Bay Area International Forum (BAIF) of the World Affairs Council
on Tuesday, 25 November, at the City Club of the St. Francis Hotel in San
Francisco.
The reception is scheduled for noon, lunch at 12:15 p.m. and his remarks
at 12:45 p.m. The proposed format is 30 minutes of remarks followed by
15 minutes of Questions and Answers. Departure is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.
Since this is an off-the-record event, we request that you do not put out a
press release, and that you have neither print media nor electronic media
covering his appearance. According to our conversation, foreign nationals
will not be in the audience. We ask that a podium with a mike be available.
Also, according to my conversation with Mr. McCadden, you do not normally tape
the speaker's remarks. We will be glad to abide by your practice in this
case. We would appreciate receiving a list of attendees with their corporate
designations and short biographies of several of the gentlemen who will be
hosting Mr. Gates. Would you also include a paragraph on the background of
the BAIF?
Enclosed as you requested is a photograph and biography of Mr. Gates. If
you have any further questions on the arrangements for the event or if there
is anything I can do to help you, please feel free to call me on (703)
351-2053.
Sincerely,
Mary Evelyn Dean
Public Affairs
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2 October 1986
Mr. Robert Gates
Deputy Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
I am delighted that you have accepted our invitation to
speak to the Bay. Area International Forum of the World
Affairs Council on November 25. BAIF is composed of an
influential group of local CEOs, academics and civic leaders.
Your address will follow a luncheon in the City Club of the
St. Francis Hotel, located in Union Square. There will be
a brief reception at noon, followed by lunch at 12:15 p.m.
Your remarks before BAIF are off the record, and no foreign
nationals will be in the audience and no members of the
press will be present.
I would appreciate it if you would forward to me at your
earliest convenience a topic for your presentation and a
copy of your Curriculum Vitae.
I hope these arrangements are satisfactory. If you have
any questions, do not hesitate to call.
Casimir A. Yost
Executive Director
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cc: Mary Dean
Public Affairs
Central Intelligence Agency
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OFFICERS AND STAFF
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Paul A. O'Leary
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Max Thelen, Jr.
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Executive Director
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WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL
OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Mr. Robert Gates
Deputy Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
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August 22, 1986
After ten years on Capitol Hill, most recently on the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, I have become the new Executive
Director of the World Affairs Council of Northern California.
It was a privilege for me, during my years on the Hill, to work
closely with people in the Agency. I value the friendships I
made and appreciated the professionalism with which I was treated
by your personnel.
It would be my hope that I might entice you to come to San Fran-
cisco to speak. The Bay Area International Forum (BAIF), made
up of senior executives of the major Bay Area corporations and
financial institutions, might provide the right audience for you.
The meetings of this Council-affiliated organization are off the
record and conducive to an in-depth exchange of views.
If, in principle, you would be prepared to come west, I would
appreciate a contact in your office with whom I might arrange
specific scheduling for sometime this fall.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Casimir A. Yost
Executive Director
CAY:pr
World Affairs Center, 312 Sutter Street, Suite 200, Son Francisco CA 94108, [phone]
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