LETTER FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM G. MCMURTRIE GODLEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000302400002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 16, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D C.20505
16 December 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Public Affairs
FROM: DCI
Here's a note of appreciation to you
from Mac Godley along with a similar
request from John Ehrlichman which I am
answering as per the attached.
William J. Casey
Attachments:
As stated
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G. MC MURTRIE GODLEY
July 9, 1985
Mi.. William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, DC 20505
Dear Bill:
A word of thanks for what your people have
done for me.
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me in both the Congo and Laos, spent the day with
me, and we discussed at le7gth_re book and the
will help I be requiring. is a man wham I SI-AT
admire tremendously, and I am most appreciative
of Mr. Lauder or someone else assigning him to
help me at this time.
I am sure his assistance will be invaluable
and hope the end result is worthy of your help
and meets with the Agency's approval.
G1C/mbd
Gratefully yours,
G. McMiirtrie Godley
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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington. D. C.20505
16 December 1985
Dear John,
I have your request for information about photo
reconnaissance satellites and how they work. We can't
give you information on that except to point out that a
considerable amount of information has unfortunately
appeared in the public media.
The best thing I can do for you is to refer you to
two books published by Ballinger Publishing Company, 54
Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts
02138. One is Sword and Shield which has a chapter on
technical collection, including.imagery and ocean and space
surveillance. The other, I believe by the same publisher,
is about the American intelligence system and has virtually
all the information that has been published, some of it
accurate and some of it inaccurate, about alleged photo
reconnaissance activities which, despite all the publicity,
is still classified. The author of the two books is
Jeffrey Richelson. He used to work in Defense intelligence
I believe and now teaches at American University here in
Washington. The book about the Soviet system just came out
and the other one on the US Intelligence Community was
published in 1985.
Yours,
William J. Casey
Mr. John Ehrlichman
Post Office Box 5559
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502
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John Ehrlichman
P.O. Box 5559
Santa Fe, NM 87502
November 21, 1985
National Photographic Interpretation Center
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Gentlemen:
Last week at the National War College (where I was lecturing)
of N.S.A. suggested that I write you for assistance.
In connection with some writing I am doing I need to educate myself
about photo reconnaissance satellites, both American and Russian. /
need to understand something of how they work, how their photographs
are transmitted or transported to earth and how interpreters use them.
I am sure much information is classified and I am not asking for
that. I seek information that is in the public domain, in print, and
I would like to interview someone who can explain the material that
is properly available.
Can you suggest unclassified sources for some or all of this information?
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I'll very much appreciate your help.
Yours truly,
John Ehrlichman
sdiir. William Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
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