LETTER TO GEORGE V. LAUDER FROM MARTIN H. MILLER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404270003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 7, 1986
• Content Type: LETTER

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STAT
August 7, 1986
STAT
Mr. George V. Lauder
Director
Public Affairs office
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
The new map of Jordan is beautiful! Its colors are
attractive. what makes it especially lovely is its dramatic
improvement in accuracy over the preceding summary map of Jordan
and over many of the maps of the Middle East still in circulation.
The new map should inspire correction of other new official
maps which embrace Jordan and also the correction of erroneous
maps in the media, in encyclopedias, atlases, textbooks, and
other reference works.
The accurate maps and text in the annual CIA_WORLD_FACTBOOK
have already been useful in the work of endeavoring to supplant
the general misinformation about the status of the area in
question. I am confident the accurate maps and texts on Jordan
in future editions will also help in this work.
Many thanks for your gracious letter of July 28 and for the
copy of the map. I am grateful to you for both. Many thanks,
too, for your significant contribution to the issuance of the new
map. I am writing to Robert M. Gates to thank him for bringing
us together a year ago January 2. Enclosed is a copy of my
letter.
Ma I also note that you are ably represented by
STAT ~ She is both competent and personable.
Sincerely,
~-'
Martin H. Miller
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STAT
August 7, 1986
Mr. Robert M. Gates
Deputy Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
We talked on the phone on December 31, 1984. You then
arranged for Mr. George V. Lauder, your Director of Public
Affairs, to call me. I met with him on January 2. Asa result
of our discussion that day and subsequent letters, conversations
with members of his staff and with specialists in other sections
of your agency, anew summary map of Jordan has just been issued.
Enclosed is a copy of Mr. Lauder's letter to me of July 28 and a
copy of the letter of thanks I am sending him today.
Many many thanks for initiating the process which
culminated in the issuance of the new map. This will mean a
great deal for the work of correcting a significant--virtually
universal--distortion of the facts about an area of considerable
significance for American foreign policy. The people in the
Agency with whom I dealt exemplify the high degree of
professionalism you set as your standard. My experience with
you, Mr. Lauder, and your associates makes me proud of the
Central Intelligence Agency.
Sincerely,
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