LETTER TO MR. KARL G. HARR, JR. FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

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• Publication Date: September 23, 1977
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Dear Karl:
Thank you for your letter of 6 September.
I very much appreciate your invitation to address
your fall meeting in Phoenix in November. Unfor-
tunately, due to an-already overflowing schedule
I am again forced to regret.
I would, however, ask to be reconsidered for
your spring meeting in Williamsburg. I will do
my best to hold those dates, but obviously events
could take over again and force another deferral.
In any case, let's keep trying.
Yours,
STANSFIELD TURNER
Mr. Karl G. Harr, Jr.
Aerospace Industries Association
of America, Inc.
1725 De Sales Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
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Dear Karl:
Thank you for your letter of 6 September.
I very much appreciate your invitation to address
your fall meeting in Phoenix in November. Unfor-
tunately, due to an already overflowing schedule
I am again forced to regret.
I would, however, ask to be reconsidered for
your spring meeting in Williamsburg. I will do
my best to hold those dates, but obviously events
could take over again and force another deferral.
In any case, let's keep trying.
Yours,
/s/ Stansfield Turner
STANSFIELD TURNER
Mr. Karl G. Harr, Jr.
Aerospace Industries Association
of America, Inc.
1725 De Sales Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
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AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA. INC.
Admiral Stansfield Turner
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
September 6, 1977
Dear Stan:
You will recall my letter of last March 31 in which I invited you to address
AIA's annual spring conference in Williamsburg, Virginia in mid-May. Unfortunately
you were unable to accept our invitation,
I would now like to invite you to address our fall meeting which will be held
in Phoenix, Arizona on November 17-19, 1977. We can make available almost any
hour that would be convenient for you during those three days.
As I said in my March 31 letter, we believe this conference can provide you a
unique opportunity to acquaint the chief executives of the aerospace industry with
the Carter Administration's outlook on key international issues. This subject,
especially foreign policy as it relates to defense activities of our and other
nations, is especially significant to the leaders of the firms which set the pace
for weapons technology development. The attendees at the meeting will he the
chief executive officers of the 47 companies who are at a forefront of weapon,
space, and related high technology.
A list of the individuals who attended our spring meeting is attached to give
you a feel for the type of audience you could expect in Phoenix.
In past years this Association has been honored by appearances at its annual
spring conference by individuals such as one of your predecessors, Alan Dulles,
numerous Cabinet officers, and two Vice Presidents of the United States. We hope
that it will be possible for you to break away from your busy tasks to join us in
Phoenix. Should that not be possible, I can assure you that we will ask you again
for our spring meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia, to be held May 24-26, 1978.
I look forward hearing from you.
Yours very truly,
Karl G. Harr, Jr.
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ATTENDANCE
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Governors Present:
T. A. Wilson, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, The Boeing Company
Guy C. Shafer, Group Vice President, Colt Industries Inc., Chandler Evans Inc.
Harry H. Wetzel, President & Chairman of the Board, The Garrett Corporation
David S. Lewis, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, General Dynamics Corporation
Gerhard Neumann, Vice President & Group Executive, Aircraft Engine Group, General
Electric Company
E. D. Crittenden, Jr., General Manager, Hercules Incorporated, Industrial Systems
Department
John W. Anderson, Corporate Vice President, Honeywell, Inc.
Allen E. Puckett, President, 4ughes Aircraft Company
S. N. McDonnell, President & Chief Executive Officer, McDonnell Douglas Corporation
Thomas V. Jones, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Northrop Corporation
Gerard A. Fulham, Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer, Pneumo Corporation
D. Brainerd Holmes, President, Raytheon Company
Robert Anderson, President & Chief Executive Officer, Rockwell International
Corporation
Frederick W. Garry, Chairman, Chief Executive & President, Rohr Industries, Inc.
.William F. Schmied, Executive Vice President, The Singer Company
Richard L. Gehring, Vice President, Defense & Aerospace, Sperry,Rand Corporation
James M. Stone, Group Vice President, Government Systems Group, Thiokol Corporation
Harry J. Gray, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, United Technologies
Corporation
Paul Thayer, Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer, The LTV Corporation
T. J..Murrin., President, Public Systems Company, Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Karl G. Harr, Jr., President, Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc.
Other Company Representatives Present:
Donald S. Malmberg, President, Abex Corporation, Aerospace Division
William L.. Gore, Senior Vice President, Aerojet-General Corporation
Jack L. Heckel, President, Aerojet Liquid Rocket Company
James E. Bevins,.Senior Vice President & Group Executive, Aerospace-Electronics
Group, The Bendix Corporation
Frank M. Adams, Vice President & Group Executive, The Bendix Corporation, Aerospace-
Electronics Group
B. William Lalush, Director - Aerospace Marketing, The Bendix Corporation, Aerospace-
Electronics Group
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A HOFNGOVERNORS
May 20, 1977
Russell B. Light, Vice President - Congressional Affairs, Washington,. DC Office,
The Boeing Company
C. B. Higgins, Jr., Assistant to the President, The Marquardt Company, CCI
Corporation
John W. Dixon, Chairman of the Board & President, E-Systems, Inc.
William J. Pattison, Executive Vice President, Sales & Service, The Garrett
Corporation
Michael S. Rachlin, Vice President, Government Relations, The Garrett Corporation
Edward J. LeFevre, Vice President - Government Relations, Washington Office,
General Dynamics Corporation
Orville E. Enders, Manager, Aerospace Ind./Government Activities, Aerospace
Group, General Electric Company
Harold T. Hokanson, Manager, Business & Venture Analysis, Aircraft Engine Group,
General Electric Company
James E. Knott, Vice President & General Manager, Detroit Diesel Allison Division,
General Motors Corporation
Edward B. Colby, Manager, Indianapolis Operations, Detroit Ditesel Allison Division,
General Motors Corporation
Norman E. Eggers, Sales Manager, Indianapolis Operations, Detroit Diesel Allison
Division, General Motors Corporation
Lawrence H. Pomeroy, Division President, BFGoodrich Engineered Systems Division
Jesse L. Dunbar, Division Vice President, Analysis & Control, BFGoodrich
Engineered Systems Division
Willis S. Zeigler, Vice President, Advanced Programs & Planning, Goodyear Aero-
space Corporation
C. M. Martenson, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Heath Tecna Corporation
D. D. Welder, Director, Systems Group, Industrial Systems Department, Hercules
Incorporated
Robert E. Clifford, Director, Washington. Office, Aerospace & Defense Group,
Honeywell, Inc.
John W. O'Malley, Vice President, Marketing , IBM Corporation, Federal Systems
Division
K. Robert Hahn, Executive Vice President, Lear Siegler, Inc.
James V. Bitner, Group Vice President, Lear Siegler, Inc., Aerospace/Electronics
Group
Ronald V. Paolucci, Vice President/Group Executive, Lear Siegler, Inc., Aerospace/
Electronics Group
Roy A. Anderson, Vice Chairman & Chief Financial & Administrative Officer, Lockheed
Aircraft Corporation
William R. Wilson, Senior Vice President - Marketing, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Norman R. Augustine, Vice President - Technical Operations, Martin Marietta
Aerospace
John Sant, Vice President & General Counsel, McDonnell Douglas Corporation
William H. A i-I~ld ~~dr Fete X11% '?i': 6QA-NP> tIb %9Aounoz5U0r0~~0 9r jorati on
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Gerald G. Auerbach, Vice President, Aerospace & Industrial Operations, Pneumo
Corporation
John H. Sidebottom, Vice President, Eastern Regional Office, Raytheon Company
Stephen W. Rowen, Director, Government Contracts, Raytheon Company
James Vollmer, Division Vice President & General Manager, RCA Government Systems
Division
William F. Tait, Division Vice President, Government Field Marketing Operations,
RCA Corporation
C. S. Constantino, Division Vice President & Gen. Manager, RCA Astro-Electronics,
Government Systems Division
Dale D. Myers, President, North American Aircraft Operations, Rockwell International
Corporation
Jerome J. Filiciotto, Senior Vice President, Aerospace & Marine Systems, Rohr
Industries, Inc.
J. Gilbert Nettleton, Jr., Vice President, Government Marketing, Aerospace &
Marine Systems, The Singer Company
George F. Jude, President, Sperry Flight Systems
Carl L. Sadler, Vice Chairman of the Board, Sundstrand Corporation
Evans W. Erikson, President, Sundstrand Corporation
Robert P. Schiller, Vice President - Marketing, Teledyne CAE
Carl A. Covington, Vice President, Washington Operations, Teledyne CAE
Jack H. Shaffer, Director,TRE Corporation
Ralph D. Clark, Director, District Marketing, TRW Defense & Systems Group
Bruce Benefield, Director of Finance - Washington Office, TRW Inc.
Clark MacGregor, Vice President, United Technologies Corporation
Robert L. Kirk, President, Vought Corporation
Harry B. Smith, President, Defense & Electronic Center, Westinghouse Electric
Corporation
William R. Smanko, Marketing Manager - Defense Group, Westinghouse Electric
Corporation
AIA Staff Members Present:
George F. Copsey Franz 0. Ohlson
Marshall J. Garrett Morton H. Wilner
Lloyd R. Kuhn Robert Worthen
Julian Levine Samuel L. Wright
C. Ronald Lowry
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The Director of Central Intelligence
Dear Karl,
Thank you for your letter of March 31 and for your kind comments
concerning my new responsibilities. It is gratifying to know we
have the interest and support of people in influential positions
such as yourself.
I am well aware of the very important contribution the members
of the Aerospace Industries Association of America make to the
national defense and security of the United States. The
representatives of the industry you expect at your annual spring
conference is indeed a Who's Who of the aerospace industry. I very
much wish I could be with you in Will i amsburg but unfortunately I am
completely scheduled during that period of May and just can't take
on any additional commitments, I very much appreciate your thinking
of me and regret that I am forced to decline.
Very best personal wishes to you and the AIA for a pleasant and
productive conference.
Yours,
/s1_ btansiiesd. Turner
STANSFIELD TURNER
Admiral, U.S. Navy
Mr. Karl G. Harr, Jr.
Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc.
1725 De Sales St. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
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March 31, 1977
Admiral Stansfield Turner
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C.20505
Those of us who have known you over the years and have watched
your career evolve are especially pleased and proud that the President
selected you to carry the heavy responsibilities you now bear. As an
old friend and former Intelligence type, I have no doubt about the
superb leadership our Intelligence Community now has.
In past years this Association has been honored by appearances at
its annual spring conference by individuals such as one of your prede-
cessors,. Alan Dulles, numerous Cabinet officers, and two Vice Presidents
of the United States. Our spring meeting, as you can deduce, is intended
to provide a platform for dialogue between the senior executives of one
of the most vital segments of American industry and representatives
of the government.
We believe this conference can provide you with a unique opportunity
to acquaint the aerospace industry's chief executives with the Carter
Administration's outlook on key international issues. Obviously, the
aerospace industry and the government play vital, mutually supportive
roles in the maintenance of our nation's military and economic strength.
Thus, we feel that we can function best in the national interest with
open and frank discussion of the government's hopes and plans for the
future. All such discussions, of course, are entirely off the record
and in the thirty years we have held this conference we have never been
embarrassed in this regard.
It is in that sense that I invite you to address our conference's
opening session at 6 p.m., Wednesday, May 18. The conference is held
at the Conference Center in Williamsburg, Virginia, a location which
could allow you to be "down and back" in a few hours.
Stan, I sincerely believe that the national interest would be well
served by your discussions with this group of men who play such an im-
portant supportive role to the government in the maintenance of our
national security. I also think you would enjoy it and I know we would.
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I hope very much that you will be able to join us on the evening of
May 18 and look forward to your favorable reply.
A list of the expected industry attendees is attached.
Again, my congratulations on your appointment.
Yours very truly,
Aro-~
Karl G. Harr, Jr.
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AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC.
1725 DE SALES STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON. D. C. 20036 TEL. (2O2) 347-2315
AIA SENIOR REPRESENTATIVES
Donald S. Malmberg
President
William L. Gore
Senior Vice President
A. G. Handschumacher
Chairman
Mac C. Adams
Senior Vice President & Group Executive
William C. Purple
President
T. A. Wilson
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Aerospace Division
Abex Corporation
Aerojet-General Corporation
Aeronca, Inc.
Avco Corporation
Aerospace-Electronics Group
The Bendix Corporation
The Boeing Company
George H. Hanauer
President
Guy C. Shafer
Group Vice President
John W. Dixon
Chairman of the Board & President
Harry H. Wetzel
President & Chairman of the Board
Donald J. Grommesh
Vice President - Research & Engineering
David S. Lewis
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Gerhard Neumann
Vice President & Group Executive
James E. Knott
Vice President & General Manager
The Marquardt Company
CCI Corporation
Control Systems Division
Colt Industries Inc.
Chandler Evans Inc.
E-Systems, Inc.
The Garrett Corporation
Aircraft Division
Gates Learjet Corporation
General Dynamics Corporation
Aircraft Engine Group
General Electric Company
Detroit Diesel Allison Division
General Motors Corporation
Lawrence H. Pomeroy Engineered Systems Company
Division President B. F. Goodri hh
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Morris B. Jobe
President
Joseph G. Gavin, Jr.
President
C. M. Martenson
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Goodyear Aerospace Corporation.
Grumman Corporation
Heath Tecna Corporation
E. D. Crittenden, Jr.
General Manager
John W. Anderson
Vice President & Group Executive
Allen E. Puckett
President
John B. Jackson
President
Rand V. Araskog
Executive Vice President, ITT Corporation
H. J. Smead
President & Chief Operating Officer
K. Robert Hahn
Executive Vice President
Robert W. Haack
Chairman of the Board
T. G. Pownall
Executive Vice President, Martin
Marietta Corporation
S. N. McDonnell
President & Chief Executive Officer
Gerald J. Lynch
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Thomas V. Jones
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Gerard A. Fulham
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive
Officer
D. Brainerd Holmes
President
Industrial Systems Department
Hercules Incorporated
Aerospace & Defense Group
Honeywell Inc.
Hughes Aircraft Company
Federal Systems Division
IBM Corporation
ITT Aerospace, Electronics,
Components & Energy. Group
Kaiser Aerospace & Electronics
Corporation
Lear Siegler, Inc.
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Martin Marietta Aerospace
McDonnell Douglas Corporation
Menasco Manufacturing Company
Northrop Corporation
Pneumo Corporation
Raytheon Company
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Irving K. Kessler
Group Vice President
Robert Anderson
President & Chief Executive Officer
Frederick W. Garry
Chairman, Chief Executive & President
William F. Schmied
Executive Vice President
Richard L. Gehring
Vice President, Defense.& Aerospace
Carl L. Sadler
President
James L. Murray
President
Teck A. Wilson
President
Robert S. Ames
Senior Vice President
James M. Stone
Group Vice President, Government
Systems Group
RCA Corporation
Rockwell International Corporation
Rohr Industries, Inc.
The Singer Company
Sperry Rand Corporation
Sundstrand Corporation
Teledyne CAE
Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical
Textron, Inc.
Thiokol Corporation
L. S. Wyler
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive
Officer
Richard D. DeLauer
Executive Vice President
Harry J. Gray
Chairman, President & Chief Executive
Officer
Payl Thayer
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive
Officer, The LTV Corporation
Bernard J. Bannan
Chairman
T. J. Murrin
President
THE Corporation
United Technologies Corporation
Vought Corporation
Western Gear Corporation
Public Systems Company
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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