LETTERS
Letters Spies Who Blow Whistles As a former CIA officer I want to say about Thomas N. Bethell's "The Spy Who Went Out in the Cold Warh (March) that everyone at the agency holding a position...
...or perhaps, "Oh, I get it-he's over draft age...
...Nixon discovered, at other times too...
...With 36.000 taxis and almost as many buses...
...MURRA Y S. DAVIS, Jr...
...As for Mr...
...Just as you suggest, though, I get a Leviathan...
...If he had resigned, his place would have been taken by someone less competent and more amenable to presidential arm-twisting...
...Mexico City would be one terminal traffic jam were it not for the low-fare magnet beneath the streets...
...What I feel Mr...
...I drive a minipickUp truck normally and seek nothing longer...
...Shapiro failed to acknowledge is (that J an intelligent and evocative speech can turn on the sullen citizenry who are disenchanted with politicians, frustrated by big government, and angered by high taxes...
...Who denounces the President...
...Think of the gas we could save...
...The editor replies: STEPHEN K. GALPIN Southport...
...PETE WILSON New York, N.Y...
...so you have to wait a while to pick up your car-are more willing to give you what you ask for, in return for a modicum of inconvenience...
...Could you discover...
...And a Good 5-Cent Car As an "expense-account executive" who rents cars from time to time...
...You point out in "Tilting at Windmills" (March) that to order a "compact" is to get a behemoth gas-guzzler billable to the company merely as a "Ford...
...Lee Dreyfus, I especially enjoyed Walter Shapiro's "Tales from the Bore War" (February...
...Then the remedy for presidential misconduct would be impeachment, and the director of the CIA and others could (and, I trust, would) blow the whistle...
...While Mr...
...The situation that developed was one endemic to any hierarchical organization, and its name is courtiership...
...Stimulating the Sullen Citizenry As a staff member with responsibility for preparing speech materials for Wisconsin Gov...
...Shapiro would probably concur with Adlai Stevenson that "the best after-dinner speech is THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY IMay 1980 'Waiter, I'll take the check...
...Connecticut Our far-flung investigative apparatus suggests approaching all car-rental agencies with extreme caution...
...I tried to suggest that the solution, if there is one, lies not with charters and amendments but with finding presidents willing to listen to messengers who bring bad news...
...I seek your help...
...Benicia, California The author replies: Do we really need a constitutional amendment requiring good conduct...
...This Country Needs a Good 5-Cent Subway Your suggestion in "Tilting at Windmills" (February) that reduced fares would make public transit more attractive whisked me back to the spotless marble halls of the MexicoCity subway, where you can ride one of the shiny, Whisper-quiet trains for less than a nickel...
...Helms, I doubt that even the protection of an amendment would have made him a whistle-blower...
...After all, who appoints the director of the CIA...
...In the March issue of a public affairs journal, The Washington Monthly, the editor writes: "Kennedy's price controls and gas rationing might protect my money, but his opposition to the draft might endimger my life:" You could run this under a heading such as "Whose Life...
...Everyone also knew the culprit...
...COLIN G. JAMESON Key West, Florida...
...through your far-flung investigative apparatus, just what nomenclature works to get a truly small car...
...The entire Constitution addresses that issue, and remedies for presidential misconduct are quadrennially available- and, as Mr...
...In many cities, however, the smaller agencies-the ones that can't afford to rent space at the airport...
...That's my experience...
...Helms had blown the whistle, he would have been discredited...
...JOSEPH A. RICE Madison, Wisc'onsin Your Money and/or Your Life I've come across an ideal item for your "Tidbits and Outrages" column...
...If Mr...
...more lavish, or less economical when I rent...
...Letters Spies Who Blow Whistles As a former CIA officer I want to say about Thomas N. Bethell's "The Spy Who Went Out in the Cold Warh (March) that everyone at the agency holding a position higher than clerk typist knew or suspected what the article reveals...
...I believe it important that the public be allowed to hear policy-makers...
...The only cure for it that I can see is a constitutional amendment specifically embodying the restrictions in the CIA charter...
...he was too much a courtier by nature...
Vol. 12 • May 1980 • No. 3
