LETTER TO BARRY M. GOLDWATER FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91B00135R000701310047-0
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• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2008
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: May 13, 1983
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Honorable Barry M. Goldwater
Chairman
Select Committee on Intelligence
United States Senate
Washington, D. C. 20510
Dear Barry:
Thank you for your letter of 2 May concerning the Agency's publication
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during our discussion of 24 March that I would reexamine the issue but would
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of Intelligence and Research, Soviet and East European Aid to the Third World,
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felt we should continue to p t Aid
publish on an unclassified basis, Communist Aid
Activities in Non-Communist Less Develo ed Countries This 4n ormat
In your letter of 13-.-April 1983 you noted another CIA re n,+ wh4,k
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vo ving our people directly in Public controversy.
Uca.asl L410" Our previous PUDlicatlons but nonetheless summarize our analysis
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Fiscal Year 1984, and in the statement to the Congress by the Under Secretary
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,.._released in this way recently. The dollar cost cmmnaricnn of fit *nd t1ccD
,::through responsible departments rather than under the Agency's seal. Some
In the meantime, we will continue to release unclassified information
Economic Advisory'Panel under the direction of and should be in STAT:'
When the l I report arrives in early .lt,np - ? w411 e?n/wn1 s+.. +{.w .:....: _.-.
Sincerely,
William J. Casey
Director of-Central Intelligence
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April 13, 1983
The honorable W"111016 3- Cucc;y
Director of Geatral Intellig"cu
Central linteiligcx%cc Agency
yssbington. b.C. 20505
Dear Bill;
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Thank you for appearing before LUC e4sn.1.itt-fw on March 24,. 1983.,.
to discuss publication of a dollar colt comparisort?-wf- $oviat and)
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.ishingtan, D. C. 20505
Dear Bill: - .: - - ,
would urge you to reinstitute its publication. If you care to !.calk
your predecessor. -t do'thihk it- is a-most desirable document. Bn I
have your doubts.. However, I know that It wasn't done by.you'but, by .
annual economic report. I know this is a burden to you and I know You
countryo the more I think you should resume the publication of your
the. more, 1. think about It and the more-people'I talk to across this
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