SPEAKING INVITATION NATIONAL PRESS CLUB WASHINGTON, D.C. CONVENIENT DATE

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RE: Speaking Invitation
National Press Club
Washington, D.C.
Convenient Date
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Mr. Andrew Mollison, President of the National Press Club and national
correspondent for Cox newspapers in Washington, has invited you on behalf of
the Board of Governors of the National Press Club to address the Press Club's
luncheon meeting at a mutually convenient time in the near future. The
suggested format is 20 minutes of remarks followed by 30 minutes of questions
and answers. You could expect an audience of newsmen and in addition your
address would be carried live over more than 335 stations of the National
Public Radio network and some 2,500 cable systems affiliated with the Cable
Satellite Public Affairs Network, C-SPAN.
As you remember, you spoke to the Press Club when you were Director of the
FBI in 1980 and 1985. Since you have recently addressed this group, I
recommend that you wait further into your term as Director of Central
Intelligence before a return appearance. I suggest that you postpone the
invitation for some future date. If you agree, attached is a letter for your
signature.
Bill Baker
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Mr. Andrew Mollison
President
National Press Club
Washington, D.C. 20045
Dear Mr. Mollison:
Many thanks for your invitation to address the National Press Club at a
convenient date in the near future. In my new position as Director of Central
Intelligence, my schedule is heavily committed for the next months and I am
unable to speak to your group. However, I am sure that sometime in the future
we will be able to work out a mutually convenient date. It is always an honor
to be invited for a return appearance and I will look forward to meeting with
the National Press Club again.
Sincerely yours,
William H. Webster
Director of Central Intelligence
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OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
NATIONAL PRESS CLUB
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20046
The Honorable
William H. Webster
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Mr. Webster:
August 24, 1987
On behalf of the members and Board of Governors of the National
Press Club, I would like to extend an invitation to you to address a
National Press Club luncheon at a mutually convenient time in the near
future.
Since you have addressed our group in the past you are aware of the
prestigious historical background of our newsmaker luncheon program as
well as of its prominence as a newsmaking forum.
Your audience will be not only those people seated in the room but
all those who listen to the luncheon live over the more than 335 stations
of the National Public Radio network, and those who see it via one of the
2,500 cable systems affiliated with the Cable Satellite Public Affairs
Network, C-SPAN.
To refresh your memory, our format provides for an address of about
20 minutes, followed by about 30 minutes of questions sent up from the
audience in writing. We customarily have a reception for the speaker and
invited guests at noon, and then go to the ballroom for the luncheon at
12:30. Our program begins at I p.m. and is completed at 2 p.m.
Mr. Gil Klein of Media General Newspapers is the chairman of our
speakers committee. Please contact him with your answer or with any
questions. Mr. Klein's address is 1214 National Press Building,
Washington, D.C. 20045. His telephone number is 662-7660.
We sincerely hope you will accept our invitation and visit our club
again soon.
Sincerely,
Andrew MolIison
President
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Copyright ? 1985 The Christian Science Publishing Society;
The Christian Science Monitor
December 12, 1985, Thursday
SECTION: News in Brief; Pg. 2
LENGTH: 76 words
HEADLINE: 33% of communist officials in US have spy ties: Webster
DATELINE: Washington
KEYWORD: Stats
BODY:
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One-third of the 4,000 diplomatic and commercial representatives of communist
nations In the United States are affiliated with intelligence services,
according to FBI Director William Webster.
In an appearance at the National Press Club, Mr. Webster said his agency
has improved its counterintelligence ability because of increased manpower and
better surveillance equipment. But he added that the FBI cannot possibly keep
track of all foreign agents.
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Copyright 0 1985 The Times Mirror Company;
Los Angeles Times
December 12, 1985, Thursday, Home Edition
SECTION: Part 1; Page 17; Column 5; National Desk
LENGTH: 228 words
HEADLINE: FBI STEPS UP EFFORTS IN PROBE OF ATTACKS ON ARAB-AMERICANS
BYLINE: From a Times Staff Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
The FBI is stepping up efforts to identify the source of a series of violent
attacks on Arab-Americans and suspected neo-Nazis in California, New York and
New Jersey, FBI officials said Wednesday.
About 40 FBI intelligence agents trained in combatting terrorism were
summoned to Washington last month to exchange information about the violence in
three states and to coordinate efforts to apprehend those responsible, officials
said.
The officials, who spoke on the condition that they not be identified, said
they wished to elaborate on brief remarks made by FBI Director William H.
Webster in a question-and-answer session at the National Press Club
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'Zone of Danger'
Webster warned that Arab-Americans were in a "zone of danger" because, he
said, "a group as yet to be fully identified and brought to justice" is
targeting persons it deems to be "enemies of Israel."
Officials said he had special reference to the bombing last October of the
Santa Ana office of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in which
Alex M. Odeh, the organization's West Coast director, was killed.
Webster noted that one group has repeatedly denied responsibility for the
violent acts. Officials said he was referring to the Jewish Defense League.
Similar bombings of suspected Nazis have occurred in recent months in
Paterson, N.J., and Brentwood, N.Y.
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Proprietary to the United Press International 1985
December 11, 1985, Wednesday, PM cycle
SECTION: Washington News
LENGTH: 392 words
HEADLINE: Webster: Would-be spies thinking twice
BYLINE: By ANNE SAKER
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
KEYWORD: Webster
BODY:
FBI Director William Webster says there are too many classified documents
and the millions of people with security clearances must be reminded that
passing such material Illegally is '' betrayal. ''
Addressing the National Press Club Tuesday, Webster also said stepped-up
anti-espionage efforts by the FBI and other agencies had made Americans who
might be tempted to meet with foreign agents think twice.
A growing ''spider web'' of law enforcement snared an unprecedented number of
spy suspects this year and the FBI now is focusing on agents from other
countries who come to the United States to recruit spies, Webster said.
But he said the United States can take one important action to counteract
espionage: Tighten up access to classified documents.
''There are simply too many classified documents and too many people -- over
4 million people -- with access to classified Information,'' he said. ''This has
produced a lack of respect for classified information and the principle of
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''We must find a way to build back into our system a more sensitive awareness
that to give classified information to persons not authorized to receive it is
to permit a crime and is a serious form of betrayal,'' he said.
Webster addressed the gathering three weeks after a five-day FBI dragnet
reeled in four suspects believed to have been spying for Israel, the Soviet
Union and China. Those arrests brought to 14 the number of people apprehended
this year for selling secrets to foreign countries - the largest ever.
The common denominator for spy suspects arrested in the last two years is
money, Webster said.
''I haven't seen a purely ideological case (of espionage) since I've been in
office,'' said Webster, who became FBI chief during the Carter administration.
Webster said he favors the death penalty for peacetime espionage convictions
because It ''would provide some degree of deterrence.''
More spies are caught now, he said, because the Reagan administration devoted
more resources and personnel to the FBI and other agencies to find them.
''Our focus, indeed our strategy, must be on the Intelligence operatives
themselves and the identification of those who come here on Intelligence
missions by building a spider web throughout the United States that focuses on
them rather than on our own citizens,'' Webster said.
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Copyright a 1985 The Washington Post
December 11, 1985, Wednesday, Final Edition
SECTION: First Section; A31
LENGTH: 406 words
HEADLINE: FBI Rules Out Closer Watch On Americans
BYLINE: By Mary Thornton, Washington Post Staff Writer
KEYWORD: FBI
BODY:
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director William H. Webster said yesterday
that he has no plans to increase FBI surveillance of U.S. citizens, even though
four have been arrested for espionage activities in the last three weeks.
"In a free society, this is the only way we can function without turning into
a police state," he said. "Our focus . . . must be on the (foreign] Intelligence
operatives themselves."
Webster said the government should improve its security-clearance processes
and reduce the number of classified documents and the employes who have access
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"There are too many classified documents and too many people -- more than 4
million -- with access to classified information," he said.
Included in the recent rash of espionage-related cases are those of Navy
intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard and his wife, Anne Henderson-Pollard,
accused of selling highly classified Information to Israel; Larry Wu-Tai Chin, a
retired Central Intelligence Agency analyst charged with spying for China for 30
years, and Ronald William Pelton, a former National Security Agency employe
charged with selling secrets to the Soviet Union.
Webster said that these cases show "penetration or betrayal in each of our
intelligence agencies . . . . The threat is real."
Speaking to the National Press Club, Webster said that the FBI does not
have enough foreign counterintelligence agents to maintain surveillance of
suspected spies from the Soviet Union and other hostile communist countries. The
number of counterintelligence agents is classified.
Webster said there are more than 4,000 diplomatic and commercial officials
from communist countries In the United States, about 2,500 of them Soviets.
Based on the bureau's experience, he said, about one-third of those officials
are affiliated with intelligence services in their home countries.'
In addition, he said, there are spies among the 15,000 students and 90,000
visitors who come to the United States each year from communist countries.
Webster said that the Soviets are becoming more aggressive in their spying
activities, and have "an insatiable thirst for high technology" Information and
equipment .
The only common denominator in the cases of the Americans spying for foreign
countries, Webster said, is money.
In addition, Webster said, some Americans become involved in espionage to
avenge themselves on a former employer or to seek excitement.
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OFFICE OF THE PPESiOENT
NATIONAL PRESS CLUB
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20046
The Honorable
William H. Webster
Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Mr. Webster:
August 24, 1987
On behalf of the members and Board of Governors of the National
Press Club, I would like to extend an invitation to you to address a
National Press Club luncheon at a mutually convenient time in the near
future.
Since you have addressed our group in the past you are aware of the
prestigious historical background of our newsmaker luncheon program as
well as of its prominence as a newsmaking forum.
Your audience will be not only those people seated in the room but
all those who listen to the luncheon live over the more than 335 stations
of the National Public Radio network, and those who see it via one of the
2,500 cable systems affiliated with the Cable Satellite Public Affairs
Network, C-SPAN.
To refresh your memory, our format provides for an address of about
20 minutes, followed by about 30 minutes of questions sent up from the
audience in writing. We customarily have a reception for the speaker and
invited guests at noon, and then go to the ballroom for the luncheon at
12:30. Our program begins at I p.m. and is completed at 2 p.m.
Mr. Gil Klein of Media General Newspapers is the chairman of our
speakers committee. Please contact him with your answer or with any
questions. Mr. Klein's address is 1214 National Press Building,
Washington, D.C. 20045. His telephone number is 662-7660.
We sincerely hope you will accept our invitation and visit our club
again soon.
Sincerely,
hqAoll
Andrew Mollison
President
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