The first letter I wrote to the nice folks at the CIA ...

OK. So like I said I was emboldened by the success with getting the FBI to speak at my library so I made it my life dream to get the CIA to come and talk. This was the first letter I wrote to the agency. I don't care if you come and knock on my door at 1540 Logan St. in central Denver, but I can't very well tell you at what library I work. Sorry. They have to approve of stuff you write. You just can't connect your name with the library district without running stuff past the PR office. So for obvious reasons I had to remove the name of my library and library district. Anyway! So this letter I thought was downright friendly. Since I didn't get any response, the second one wasn't quite so sweet. Look for me to post that one next -- soon, too. Love from your fan club prez, Jeanie
P.S. That's me hanging at a commie monument in Romania.

14 November 2007

Central Intelligence Agency
Office of Public Affairs
Public Communications Branch
Washington, D.C. 20505

Dear OPA Public Communications Branch official:

I am writing to inquire about the possibility of scheduling a Denver-based speaker from the Central Intelligence Agency for patrons of ANY CITY Library, a branch of the publicly-funded XYZ Libraries system in Colorado.

We will have the privilege of playing host to FBI Denver Division Special Agent THIS WAS THE NICE DUDE I MENTIONED, who will be speaking on the storied FBI's Civil Rights program on Dec. 12 at ANY CITY Library, and would be similarly honored to schedule a speaker from the CIA.

I know that the CIA considers the American public its primary customers, and that the public's thirst for knowledge about the agency is apparent from the immense volume of letters, phone calls, e-mails and faxes that the agency receives on an annual basis. How wonderful that as part of outreach efforts you provide talks to a variety of groups, including other government agencies.

I have eagerly followed media coverage on the CIA's expansion of its domestic presence by placing agents with most of the FBI's 56 terrorism task forces in U.S. cities, and on the possibility that the CIA would move its National Resources Division to the Federal Center in Lakewood, Colorado.

ANY CITY residents are well educated and well versed in world and national affairs. They would be interested in attending a talk on any intelligence issue. Open dates include Jan. 30, Feb. 27, March 26 and April 30. My paperwork deadline, for poster design and PR, is the 10th of the previous month.

I can be reached at 303-ANY-CITY-LIBRARY or by email at js@ANYCITYLIBRARY.

Thank you very much for your serious consideration of this request.

Sincerely,

Jeanie