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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: steve harris who wrote (189961)6/8/2004 4:18:23 PM
From: Thomas M.  Read Replies (1) of 1573909
 
Did you say something about a book? -g-

<<< ... In 1987, the Pentagon’s Office of General Counsel opened an inquiry into whether Richard Perle’s attempts to write a fictional novel based on classified intelligence information were a conflict-of-interest. At the time, Perle was offered a $300,000 advance for the novel, titled “Memoranda.”

The proposal for the novel described an inside look at the bureaucracy and promised a plot that seemed a thinly veiled account of Perle's long-running internecine struggle with former assistant secretary of state Richard R. Burt. It promised “an array of bureaucratic maneuvers recounted in the context of actual events altered only enough to make them publishable, to preserve the fiction in “Memoranda.”

In April of 1987, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), the former ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, wrote an angry letter to Reagan suggesting that Perle’s book “creates a climate encouraging disrespect for the protection of classified information” and might have “a chilling effect on the candor of {officials'} policy analysis and recommendations.” Nunn also raised questions about the propriety of the sale of the book during Perle's tenure in office ... >>>

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