WHAT MR. GATES WASN'T ASKED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-01448R000301290019-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2012
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: March 9, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/16: CIA-RDP99-01448R000301290019-4
WASHINGTON POST
9 March 1987
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
STAT
Mt. Mr. Gates Wasn't Asked
The article "Hunt Begins for New
CIA Chief' [March 51 incorrectly
states that during acting CIA director
Robert Gates' confirmation hearings,
last month, he "refused to say flatly
he would resign if ordered to do
something illegal."
We have reviewed carefully the
transcript of Mr. Gates' hearings. He.
was never asked i he would resign in,
the event he were asked to commit an
illegality. If the question had been put
to him, he would have replied that he
would indeed resign rather than carry
out an illegal act.
GEORGE.V. LAUDER
Director, Public Affairs
Central intelligence Agency
Washington
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/16: CIA-RDP99-01448R000301290019-4