LETTER TO ADM. STANSFIELD TURNER FROM THOMAS VAIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000300050011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2007
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: November 8, 1979
• Content Type: LETTER

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15 November 1979
NOTE FOR: SA/DCI
George;
Here is the letter from the PLAIN-DEALER
we talked about. Let's discuss the op-ed piece
after you have had a chance to think about it.
FxS~is1:~ S`~
Herbert E. Hetu
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. EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT (O/DCI)
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SUSPENSE DATE: 23 November 1979
Remarks:
To 13: Please advise DCI.
D/Txecu"Ye 30cre ~bqy
 THE PLAIN DEALER
OHIO'S LARGEST NEWSPAPER
1801 SUPERIOR AVENUE
CLEVELAND, OHIO 44114
November 8, 1979
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Adm. Stansfield Turner
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
Dear Adm. Turner:
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AREA CODE 216
344-4220
What a pleasure it was to meet you in Cleveland
yesterday. I enjoyed our candid conversations, privately,
with members of our staff and later at the dinner hosted by
Rube Mettler.
You certainly humanize our intelligence efforts,
even keeping your sense of humor. With our staff and the
businessmen with whom you met, you conveyed a confidence in
our intelligence abilities which is very important to say
the least. I hope you keep on with this kind of program as
it is most effective, particularly the way you go about it.
I did not offer to have a professional reporter
interview you as I felt you did not want to do that this time
or your staff would have suggested it. However, if you do this
elsewhere you may want to separate the public and private effort
to reach a larger audience.
I would like to suggest that as you made so many
interesting points, you have one of your aides put these thoughts
together, say not over 1,000 words, and send an article along
for our opposite-editorial page. We try to run analytical
pieces there by prominent people. We can also arrange to send
the article out on the wire if you would like us to do that.
Most people do not understand our "hardware1f advantage, K.G.B.
analytical problems, and so on.
In;any case, I hope we will keep in touch on and off
the record and that you will let me know if there is anything
we can do for you or your organization.
With best wishes and kindest regards,
Thomas Vail