LETTER TO WILLIAM B. SMART FROM WILLIAM H. WEBSTER

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• Publication Date: July 7, 1987
• Content Type: LETTER

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ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
SUBJECT: (Optional) Invitation to address the Bonneville Knife and Fork Club
Salt Lake City, Utah
FROM:
William M. Baker
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Central Intelligence Agency
7 JUL 1987
Mr. William B. Smart
Senior Editor
DESERET NEWS
P.O. Box 1257
Salt Lake City, Utah 84110
Thank you for your invitation to speak to the Bonneville Knife and Fork
Club in Salt Lake City at some convenient date this fall or next spring. A
repeat invitation is indeed an honor. Unfortunately, due to the transition
period of moving from one agency to another, I am unable to make a
commitment at this time. If I find my official duties bring me to Salt Lake
City, I will keep your invitation in mind.
Please express my good wishes to all your members. I regret missing the
opportunity for a return match with you.
Sincerely yours,
William H. Webster
Director of Central Intelligence
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Central Intelligence Agency
Mr. William B. Smart
Senior Editor
DESERET NEWS
P.O. Box 1257
Salt Lake City, Utah 84110
Thank you for your invitation to speak to the Bonneville Knife and Fork
Club in Salt Lake City at some convenient date this fall or next spring. A
repeat invitation is indeed an honor. Unfortunately, due to the transition
period of moving from one agency to another, I am unable to make a
commitment at this time. If I find my official duties bring me to Salt Lake
City, I will keep your invitation in mind.
Please express my good wishes to all your members. I regret missing the
opportunity for a return match with you.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ William H. Webster
William H. Webster
Director of Central Intelligence
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ER 87-2401
PAO-87-0022
19 June 1987
RE: Speaking Invitation
Bonneville Knife and Fork Club
Salt Lake City, Utah
September 1987 - May 1988
STAT
Senior Editor of the DESERET NEWS William B. Smart has invited you to
speak to the Bonneville Knife and Fork Club at a convenient time during the
period between September 1987 and May 1988. You spoke to this group on "Law
Enforcement as a Judicial Process" in January 1983. Approximately 50
community leaders attended including the Governor of Utah. The Bonneville
Knife and Fork Club is a local chapter of the national social dinner club of
professional men and women. At this time, the Knife and Fork Club does not
seem to be the best group for you to address, and I believe that you should
decline the invitation. If you agree, I have attached a letter of regret to
William Smart for your signature.
STAT
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Central Intelligence Agency
William B. Smart
Senior Editor
DESERET NEWS
P.O. Box 1257
Sal t Lake City, Utah. 84.110
Thank you for your invita
Club in Salt Lake City at some
ion to speak to the Bonneville Knife and Fork
onvenient date this fall or next spring. A
repeat invitation is indeed an h
period of moving from one agency
por. Unfortunately, due to the transition
commitment at this time. If I fin
City, I will keep your invitation i
another, I am unable to make a
official duties bring me to Salt Lake
ind.
Please express my good wishes to al\your members. I regret missing the
opportunity for a return match with you.
Sincerely yours,
William H. Webster
Director of Celqral Intelligence
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Senior )dicor
DESERET NEWS
F' 0 BOX 1257. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH E34110
"',ONE (801) 237 2175
March 10, 1987
William H. Webster, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
Heartiest congratulations on your appointment to direct the CIA
and attempt to restore its stature and credibility as you did so
effectively with the FBI. You are a great public servant, and it is
remarkable how two different Presidents have turned to you in times
of trouble. I join millions of Americans in wishing you all success
in this difficult and tremendously important task.
Now, a request. Would you consider a return trip to Salt Lake
City to address the Bonneville Knife and Fork Club, the same distinguish-
ed group you addressed so effectively several years ago? Members of
the club still speak of the splendid talk you gave, opening and broaden-
ing our understanding of the operations of the FBI. I can hardly imagine
a more important talk that could be given here in the next few months
than one helping our community leaders to understand better what the
CIA is all about and what you are doing to improve it.
The timing would be any time between next September and May, 1988.
We would make almost any accomodation to meet your schedule.
I have, of course, my own special agenda--a return of our friendly
tennis competition. I so much enjoyed playing with you, and look forward
to another match.
Again, our hopes and prayers are with you for success in meeting
the great challenges ahead of you.
Y.S. You may be interested in the enclosed local editorials on your
appointment.
P.P.S. I have just read the T 9E magazine article. My tennis game
may not be as exciting as Eva Gabor's, but I will. do my best.
WBS/mma
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CIS, and we , are; doing it the way the
good stead'in the move to Langley' Constitution demands of us.
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As FBI chief he took over an outfit It is . viewa..like these that make
still: racked by disclosures of its in- this j edlaw-enforcer well
volvement in a wide range of unsa- qualified to takl 'over the nation's top
vory, activities, including domestic intelligence gathering operation. He
surveillance campaigns, illegal wire- appears.to d appreciate the, ab-
taps and "black bag" jobs directed at solute need for ll-run, effectively-
radical and civil rights groups. Under manned spy., age.,At the same time
Mr. Webster's guidance, the. FBI has he is dedicated to enforcing theope a-
been pulledinto the modern era of law tional restrictioni-necessarily placed
enforcement-, and `nits reputation,-; ~ on awagen `Ilikethe CIA in art open
restored. and free society.
Mr. Webster, during his tenure at William 11. Webster is the right
,the FBI, has assigned a`special`impor- man at.the right time. By his proven
fence to the-bureau's ?counterintelli- track record at the FBI he is singular-
gence work, ann interosst>that;has been ly qualified to bolster morale at the
especially successful of late, and, as CIA, hale 'simultMeously lifting -the
such, should give him a leg up in over- cloud of suspicil9 hanging over the
coming any lingering remnants of the agency as a resfid of its involvement
-historic feuding between the,CIA and In the .Iran-Contra fiasco. "Judge"
the FBI. Webster is de
'`. Most'. observers see his confirma- ministrator'. n at this : troubled
Lion by the U.S. Senate as a definite time, at the Central Intelligence
shoo-in, and for good reason if one ex- Agency.
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President Reagan's decision to
h ve'Willi'am H.'' Webster head the
Central Intelligence'Agepccyqy is some-
'thing.aki t tti'~getting a full. hopse.'on
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for Robert :Gates"43, dit the right credibility where?the new Cu di-
~thing for the country as well as for rector will needit -- on Capitol Hill and
'self this week in withdrawing his.no>Yii in the intelligence community.
nation to -become full-fledged director As FBI director, Webster has warned
,of the CIA. If confirmrmed, he; would have that the U.S. faced thieats by terrorists,
r'been the youngest CIA director ever. but during his tenure acts of domestic
Despite his consistent denials of any terrorism `declined. There were more
;wrong-doing in the sale of U.S. arms to 100 terrorist acts in the U.S. in
A o-year-old a ier fe ra jtt~'~S Y'~ q y ._. t.4 111 the le and.
Websteir`has run the. FBT'for idy at -0~ pdssibe and
longer than anyone-but J..Edg0 y eve tdf keep'th
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var. Webster took Over;`*" hen;the FBI:, pr p .by laog, bitter confirmation
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Central Intelligence Agency
William B. Smart
Senior Editor
DESERET NEWS
P.O. Box 1257
Salt Lake City, Utah 84110
Dear Bill:
Thank you for your invitation to speak to the Boj'neville Knife and Fork
Club in Salt Lake City at some convenient date this fall or next spring. A
repeat invitation is indeed an honor. Unfortunate.y, due to the transition
period of moving from one agency to another, I unable to make a
commitment at this time. If I find my official uties bring me to Salt Lake
City, I will keep your invitation in mind.
Please express my good wishes to all you/ members. I regret missing the
opportunity for a return match with you.
Sincerely yours,
William H. Webster
Director of Central Intelligence
STAT; I / PA0/WMB
as/19 June/87~
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1 - PAO Ames
1 - MED (Subject)
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