LETTER (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87M00539R002403940031-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2009
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: January 11, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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Executive Registry
Central Intelligence Agency
. 2
11 January 1985
Thank you for your letter of December 11th to Director Casey,
for whom I am responding. Your directness and candor in writing are
appreciated and I hope that, in approaching you, our representative
was similarly courteous, straightforward and fully professional.
The feelings which you expressed in your letter are
understandable and by no means exceptional within the American
society. Our government's foreign policy in Latin America, as
elsewhere, is a matter of ongoing debate and questionable
consensus. But this policy is determined at the highest levels of
our government, at the direction or with the approval of the
President of the United States, who has been elected by our
citizenry; it then falls to officials within this Agency, among
others, to implement such policy.
The very nature of intelligence precludes full disclosure of the
total information available within official quarters. We cannot
compromise sensitive sources of information and methods of
collection for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that
they would no longer be productive. In our work, however, we are
subject to U.S. laws, presidential executive orders, congressional
oversight, internal organizational controls, and the principles of
decency which govern our lives as U.S. citizens and human beings. I
believe the leaders and employees of this Agency are honoring these
obligations. At the same time, *I respect your views and your
forthrightness in conveying them.
Coordinator for Academic Affairs
STAT
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Mr. William Casey, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC, 20505
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Dear Mr Casey,
Decembor 11, 1984
I am Recently I was
approached by a CIA investigator, asking if I would be willing to share
with him information and impressions that I might have concerning
science and technology in other countries, impressions that might have
been learned in International meetings or from visitors to our
laboratories.
The gathering of information concerning the state of technology in
other nations seems to me to be a proper activity of the CIA, and under
normal circumstances I would have cooperated fully with him. I do not
consider the present times to be normal, however. I am deeply upset over
our present (and past) foreign policy in Latin America and in particular
with numerous activities of the CIA which, as far as I can determine, are
illegal within the context of the laws of this country, are outrageous in
the context of any decent system of morals, and are in complete
contradiction to the principles upon which our nation is founded.
In this situation I find I have no choice but to refuse cooperation
with the CIA.
STAT
STAT
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