LETTER TO HONORABLE WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM MICHAEL J. BRASSINGTON

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Recommendation pleaser.e the attached.
Mr. Casey plans to be in San Francisco
for a speaking engagement on Saturday,
22 May and inasmuch as the letter mentions
Friday, perhaps he could arrange to do
this on 21 May -- if you think it is
something he might wish an"ould do.
DO NOT use this form as a RECORD of approvals, concurrences, disposals,
clearances, and similar actions
FROM: (Name, org. symbol, Agency/Post)
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5042-102 OPTIONAL FORM 41 (Rev. 7-76)
Prescribed by GSA
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Commonwealth Club of California
681 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94105 ? [phone]
March 8, 1982
OFFICERS
Richard C. Dinkelsplel
President
Nelson S. Weller
Vice President
Hon. Shirley Temple Black
Chmn. Exec Comm.
Judith S. Johnson
Secretary
Bruce Hasenkamp
Treasurer
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Ygnacio Bonillas
J. Dennis Bonney
Eugene M. Herson
Walter E. Hoadley
E. Roxie Howlett
Lawrence W. Jordan, Jr.
James L McDonald
William T. O'Leary
Carl E. Rosenfeld
Renee Rubin
Barton W. Shackelford
John R. Shuman
Fredric Speier
Leigh Steinberg
Bruce T. Mitchell
Chairman, Luncheon
Program Committee
Michael J. Brassington
Executive Director
James L Coplan
Assistant Executive Director
The Honorable William J. Casey
Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Mr. Casey:
The Commonwealth Club of California renews its invitation to you to
address its members at a luncheon meeting on a mutually agreeable date.
The Commonwealth Club is dedicated to "getting the facts." Founded
in 1903, the Club is an educational, non-profit organization with a
membership of 14,000. The largest public forum in the United States,
the Club offers its podium to national and international figures to
present their views on vital issues.
.If you can arrange to address the Club on aFridav your speech will
be broadcast on our radio network of 130 stations throughout the
thirteen states of California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Nevada,
olorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Louisiana, Nebraska, Indiana
and Massachusetts. If arrangements are made for a date othr? hen a
Priday, a tape will be made and offered to our radio network. This
will allow you to reach a potential audience of millions of people in an
effort to achieve vast public awareness and to answer questions which
might otherwise remain unanswered.
Copies of your speech are made available here and abroad to schools
and universities for research and educational purposes, thus greatly
expanding your audience.
Your remarks will also be distributed in the Club's weekly publication,
The Commonwealth, to our membership throughout the United States
and overseas, and to over 200 libraries.
I have enclosed materials about the Club : a Club brochure, an information
sheet and a list of a few of our past speakers.
We look forward to hearing from you and hope the Commonwealth Club
can be included in your schedule. -
Mic iael J. lrassingt
Erecutive,/Directo
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Commonwealth Club of California
681 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94105 ? [phone]
(Information Prepared Solely for Submission to Invited Speakers)
MEMBERSHIP: The Commonwealth Club membership totals more than 14,100 men and
women, with nearly 8,500 members located within 40 miles of San Francisco.
FOUNDING: Established in 1903 by leading Californians to:
1) Provide an open forum for public discussion of disputed questions; and
2) Investigate state, national and international problems and aid in their solution.
NOTED SPEAKERS: The Club has welcomed most U.S. Presidents since its founding, as well
as many heads of state from around the world, plus other distinguished statesmen,
spokesmen and scholars.
FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS: The Commonwealth Club is a non-profit, educational
organization and is unable to offer honorariums or expenses to its speakers.
WEEKLY BROADCASTS: More than 115 radio stations in 11 states broadcast the weekly
Friday luncheon addresses of the Commonwealth Club, on adelayed basis.
PRESS: The Commonwealth Club enjoys an excellent working relationship with-local and
national press in the San Francisco-Bay Area. Where applicable, the Club will
arrange for news conferences, local radio and television appearances, and inter-
views. When materials are made available in advance, promotional releases will
be issued to the news media. '
PUBLICATION OF ADDRESS: Edited versions of speeches made to 'the Commonwealth
Club are published in the Club's weekly publication, "The Commonwealth," and
distributed to the entire membership and to libraries worldwide.
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? A Few of the Speakers Who Have Appeared
Before: the Commonwealth Club of California Since 1903
Chancellor Konrad Adenaur
William Randolph Hearst, Jr.
Lord C. Northcote Parkinson
Saul D. Alinsky
Conrad Hilton
King Paul of Hellenes
Apollo 14 and 16 Astronauts
Benjamin L. Hooks
Dr. Linus Pauling
General H.H. "Hap" Arnold
President Herbert Hoover
Westbrook Pegler
Hon. Roy L. Ash
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey
Senator Charles H. Percy
Ambassador Shirley Temple Black
Roy Innis
Hon. Shimon Peres
Gov. Edmund G. Brown
Rev. Jesse Jackson
President Georges Pompidou
Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr.
Lt. Gen. Daniel "Chappie" James
Dr. Stefan T. Possony
Hon. William Jennings Bryan
Leon Jaworski
President Ronald Reagan
Ralph Bunche
Marshal Joseph Joffre
Walter Reuther
Vice President George Bush
Queen Julianna
President Syngman Rhee
Mme. Claire L. Chennault
Herman Kahn
Captain Edward Rickenbacker
Mme. Chiang Kai-shek
Hon. Jack Kemp
Paul Robeson
General Mark Clark
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Vice President Nelson Rockefeller
Hon. Tom C. Clark
Senator Robert F. Kennedy
Hon. William P. Rogers
President Calvin Coolidge
Premier Alexander Kerensky
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Norman Cousins
Chairman Nikita Khrushchev
President Theodore Roosevelt
His Holiness Dalai Lama XIV
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hon. Eugene V. Rostow
Clarence Darrow
Hon. Henry A. Kissinger
Hon. Dean Rusk
His Excellency Mararji R. Desai
H.E. Juscelino De Olivera Kubitschek
Harrison E. Salisbury
Eamon DeValera
Premier Nguyen Cao Ky
Dr. Fayez A. Sayegh
John Foster Dulles
Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg
Will & Ariel Durant
Ann Landers
Emperor Haile Selassie I
Cyrus Eaton
John L. Lewis
Hon. George P. Shultz
Foreign Minister Abba Eban
Ambassador Sol Linowitz
Hon. William E. Simon
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Otis Skinner
Dr. Daniel Ellsberg
Henry R. Luce
Senator Margaret Chase Smith
Chancellor Ludwig Erhard
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
Hon. Paul Henri Spaak
Foreign Minister Garrett Fitzgerald
U.N. President Charles Malik
Robert Gordon Sproul
Frank Fitzsimmons
Guglielmo Marconi
Lincoln Steffens
Henry Ford II
Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk
Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson
Secretary James Forrestal
Dr. Charles H. Mayo
Senator Robert A. Taft
Douglas Fraser
Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken
President William Howard Taft
Dr. Milton Friedman
Ambassador Donald F. McHenry
Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka
Gen. James M. Gavin
George Meany
Dr. Edward Teller
Sir John Glubb
Dr. Roy W. Menninger
Norman Thomas
Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg
Hon. V.K. Krishna Menon
President Harry S. Truman
Senator Barry Goldwater
Vice President Walter Mondale
Abigail Van Buren
Samuel Gompers
Hon. Edmund S. Muskie
Dr. Wernher Von Braun
Rev. Billy Graham
Ralph Nader
Governor George C. Wallace
Hon. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu
Hon. Caspar W. Weinberger
Alex Haley
Admiral Chester Nimitz
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Lord Halifax
President Richard M. Nixon
Roy Wilkins
Admiral William F. Halsey
Jesse. Owens
President Woodrow Wilson
Dr. Armand Hammer
Hon. Leonard Woodcock
Hon. W. Averell Harriman
Hon. Whitney M. Young, Jr.
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16 March 1982
TO: (Name, office symbol, room number,
building, enc Post)
i. Director
initials
Date
2.
Office of
External Affairs
S.
4
IL
on
File
Note and Return
pproval
ForlClearance
Per Conversation
Requested
For Correction
Prepare Reply
irculate
For Your Information
See Me
mment
Investigate
Signature
Coordination
Justify
Recommendation please re the attached.
Mr. Casey plans to be in San Francisco
for a speaking engagement.on Saturday,
22 May and inasmuch as the letter mentions
Friday, perhaps he could arrange to do
this on 21 May -- if you think it is
something he might ould do.
DO NOT use this form as a RECORD of approvals, concurrences, disposals,
clearances, and similar actions
FROM: (Name, org. symbol, Agency/Post)
O/DCI
Phone No.
5041-102 OPTIONAL FORM 41 (Rev. 7-76)
Prescribed by GSA
U S_ GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1979-291-19411 .FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.206
STAT
 Approved For Release 2007/01/18: CIA-RDP83M00914R002700210097-8
March 8, 1982
681 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94105 . [phone]
OFFICERS
Richard C. Dinkelspiel
President
Nelson S. Weller
Vice President
Hon. Shirley Temple Black
Chmn. Exec. Comm.
Judith S. Johnson.
Secretary
Bruce Hasenkamp
Treasurer
Ygnacic Bonillas
J. Dennis Bonney
Eugene M. Herson
Walter E. Hoadley
E. Roxie Howlett
Lawrence W. Jordan, Jr.
James L McDonald
William T. O'Leary
Carl 1? Rosenfeld
Renee Rubin
Barton W. Shackelford
John R. Shuman
Fredric Scaler
Leigh Steinberg
Bruce T. Mitchell
Chairman. Luncheon
Program Committee
Michael J. Brassington
Executive Director
Commonwealth Club of California
The Honorable William J. Casey
Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Mr. Casey:
The Commonwealth Club of California renews its invitation to you to
address its members at a luncheon meeting on a mutually agreeable date.
The Commonwealth Club is dedicated to "getting the facts." Founded
in 1903, the Club is an educational, non-profit organization with a
membership of 14,000. The largest public forum in the United States,
the Club offers its podium to national and international figures to
present their views on vital issues.
X you can arrange to address the Club on a Friday, your speech will ' be broadcast on our radio network of 130 stations throughout the
thirteen states of California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Nevada,
olorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Louisiana, Nebraska, Indiana
And Massachusetts. If arrangements are made for a date Qtber_ than_a
`ridgy, a tape will bemade and offered to our radio network. This
will allow you to reach a potential audience of millions of people in an
effort to achieve vast public awareness and to answer questions which
might otherwise remain unanswered.
Copies of your speech are made available here and abroad to schools
and universities for research and educational purposes, thus greatly
expanding your audience.
James L. Coplan
Assistant Executive Director
Your remarks will also be distributed in the Club's weekly publication,
The Commonwealth, to our membership throughout the United States
and overseas, and to over 200 libraries. .
I have enclosed materials about the Club: a Club brochure, an information
sheet and a list of a few of our past speakers.
We look forward to hearing from you and hope the Commonwealth Club
can be included in your schedule.
Sincerely
Executive/Director
MJB : jr
~pc1psures
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