LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM (SANITIZED)

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 17, 2008
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 27, 1984
• Content Type: LETTER

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OFFICERS:
Reed 1. Irvine, Chairman
Murray Baron, President
Wdson C. Lucom. Vice-President
John R. Van [vera. E.ecutive Secretary
John K. McLean, Treasurer
Millon Mitchell. General Counsel
NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD.
Hon. Karl R. Bendeoen
Director and Retired Chairman,
Champion International Corp.
Hon. Shelby Cullom Davis
former Ambassador
Hun. [Ibndge Durhrow
former Ambassador
Dr. Thomas H. jukes
Professor of Medical Physics,
University of California, Berkeley
Charles Keating, Jr.
Chairman of the Board,
American Continental Corp.
Robert H. Kreible
Chairman of the Board,
Loctite corp.
Hon. Clare Boothe Luce
former Ambassador and
Member of Congress
Eugene Lyons
Author, former Senior Editor,
Reader's Digest
Writer and Analyst
Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, USN (Ret.)
Former Chairman,
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Dr. Charles A. Moser
Professor,
George Washington University
R. Adm. William C. Mott, USN (Ret.)
Vice President
National Strategy Information Center
I. L. Robertson,
former Vice Chairman,
Federal Reserve Board
Walter W. Seifert
Professor of Journalism,
Ohio State University
Henry Salvatoti
Founder and Retired CE. O. of
Western Geophysical Company
Dr. Frederick Seitz
President Emeritus,
Rockefeller University
Hon. William E. Simon
former Secretary
of the Treasury
Independent Oil and
Gas Producer
Dr. Edward Teller
Physicist Co-founder of
Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory
Gen. Lewis W. Walt, USMC IRet.l
Dr. Eugene P. Wigner
Nobel Laureate in Physics
CY IN MEDIA, INC.
1275 K Street, N.W., Suite 1150 ? Washington, D.C 20005
Phone: [phone]
Mr. William J. Casey
Director
C.I.A.
Washington, DC 20006
Executive Registry
84. 9131
September, 27 1984
Dear Mr. Casey:
The PBS 13-part series Vietnam: A Television History
has outraged patriotic Americans. The organization of
American Historians, among others, has criticized this
version of the war as journalistic and not historically
factual.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the
government agency that contributed $1.2 million to this
$5.6 million production is reported to have received more
protests over this project than any other. The views of
historians who were interviewed and listed as consultants
were almost totally left out.
This PBS misrepresentation of the facts, if allowed
to go uncorrected, will continue to misinform and confuse
American understanding of the geopolitical realities of
today, undermining our resolve as Americans to face mount-
ing Communist aggression in other areas such as Central
America - just two hours from our southern border.
The danger goes deeper. The PBS production is
already being used in over 150 colleges throughout our
nation. Our youth is having its mind set by this media
rewriting of history.
Something must be done and something is being done.
Accuracy in Media (AIM) is taking action. The National
Endowment for the Humanities has responded to our repre-
sentation with
a grant of $30,000 to prepare a critique
of the PBS series for television. We need to raise an
additional $170,000 to cover the cost of production and
dist
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stor
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Our production is well advanced and will be ready for
national distribution by next month. Mr. Charlton Heston
is the narrator.
We need your help. Will you join with others in making
a special contribution to this project? Hundreds of AIM
supporters, individuals and corporations, are responding with
contributions that range from-five dollars to ten thousand
dollars. Please help us to get the facts out to the American
people on the Vietnam War.
Chairman of the Board
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