LETTER TO THE HONORABLE JOHN MCMAHON FROM JOHN M. CLARKE REGARDING A "SEMINAR ON PUBLIC POLICY"

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R002400010024-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: October 1, 1982
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Honorable Sohn I icMahon
Depute Director of Central Intelligence
The Central Intelligence Agency
Was' ngton, D. C. 20505
1 Octc~:er 1982
This letter seeks your help wittlli a "Swinar on PuLlic Policy" being
:3ponsored by The Brookings Institution in cooperation with Nova
University on 14-17 November 1982.
It specifically asks for the opportunity to visit CIA= on November 17,
1982, have a lunch in the Executive Dining Rocn (to be paid by
Brookings) followed' by a short briefing with opportunity to ask
c stiors and/or rake observations w? .hin the confines of unclassified
content. V.e hope this can be accarralished with an arrival at 12:30,
and a departure no later than 3:30. Note: if that rate and tir-e
is unsuitable, either the 15th or 16th can be arranged in our program
schedule.
You gray recall that I brought a similar group of Nova alumni to
the Agency last yea--. Booby Iru;an net with us for a short period
folloring the substantive coverage. Hopefully, your schedule will
permit you to reef with us for scae part of the visit. I take
personal pride in having them rleet you and be exposed to the in-
sights gained by your on public Iianag`'rent experiences.
one participants in the program have earned their doctorates in
b: siness and public acmiiistration; they are erp1oyed in pi~bl i c
se:-vi,;e careers at the Federal, State, or local levels or in business,
education and. criminal justice functions. They are in their 40's
and active practitioners, and are d. S. citizens.;. They seek, to
better understand the rranage-rent issues facing gove__,-tent and busi-
ness in the public context and to get a fist-hand exposure to
substantive areas of foreign affairs. An unclassified, of the
record, i ?o al briefing on the 2,4idt:le East, Central ?nerica, etc.
or on such matters as the International Econa-tic Outlook would be Y-
.nost appropriate. Coverage in disc`_ion of Agency a_4- J strative
tasks, processes, constraints and scope would also prove topical
for this group. Their program schedule includes visits with policy
people across Executive agencies and the Congress. Therefore, the
role of intelligence in relation to such groups will provide im-
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:-e visit to CIA last year was the high point of the Seminar. As
I c.ld i'?riral irr-a.^., the perspective gained of the Agenc ~ s 0=.-.
r d _".a.':t to purpose, orderliness in execution of its mission, C.ality
of its people, and depth of insights into c= ..;ley. international
natters provided an e=erience beyond description that has been
lasting to these public rnanagers. I sincerely hope we can repeat
this year, and I look for ward to personally ' escorting the group
there.
he senior Brookings staff person directing the conference for
Brookings is Pester IMalof. Peter is known to many Agency persons
and has a distinguished career. He is available to Agency staff
at 797 6281 to work out the details. Please nacre a contact point
he pray use. I shall be working directly with the program for Nova,
but .may b` reached at Brookings 797 6281, at Nova i n Wash- in ta*i
783 1044, or after 12 October 1982 at rrry hare nu_^.u'oer
I alerted that this letter would be caring and also that I
will be looking forward to arranging our elusive lunch when -you
re tsars in late October or early Novetber an will be seeing you
on Nove:r1:er 1, at
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%John 11. Clarke
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