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SEATTLE '90
David Gogol
Washington Office
(202) 223-0956
FAX: (202) 223-1393
TM
Uniting The World's Best
Memo to:
Andy Card
Memo from:
David Gogol
Subject:
Goodwill Games Issues
Date:
February 7, 1990
There are a wide variety of issues that will need to be addressed
between now and the Games. Some are minor, some are more
difficult. This memo provides an overview of the Games
preparations at this time as well as a short description of the
federal issues that have been identified to date.
OVERVIEW
The preparations of the Goodwill Games are proceeding very well.
Although several million dollars must yet be raised, the bulk of
the funding has been secured.
Ticket sales have been well ahead of projections. In fact,
ticket sales at the end of January had surpassed the projections
for the end of June. There are a large number of events that are
already sold out. So far the NGB's have invited 80% of the
athletes. Virtually every athlete has accepted the invitation.
From a competition perspective, the Games will be a success.
It is also clear that the Games will be a success from a
Soviet/American relations perspective. The Games will be the
largest exchange between the two countries in the history of the
two countries in six areas: 1) Sports - there will be more
Soviet and US athletes competing together than ever before.
2) Visual Arts - the visual arts program is larger than any
previous set of exhibits and shows in the U.S. 3) Performing
Arts - there will be more Soviet performers in the US than have
ever been in the country at the same time. 4) Exchange - with
the Rotary, the SOC is hosting more than 1000 Soviets in US homes
(the previous biggest program involved 130 Soviets). 5)
Conferences - the SOC is sponsoring a series of business, trade
and policy conferences of greater scale than past such programs.
6) Television - there will be more than 100 hours of live
television coverage of the Games in the Soviet Union that will
reach 120 million Soviets. This is unprecedented in the USSR.
1701 K Street Northwest Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20006
Andy Card
February 7, 1990
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From a political perspective, the Games are now very positive.
Where there had been some ambivalence in the past, the Games are
now the subject of some competition in the Northwest among
political figures.
ISSUES
Charter Flights
A. The Soviets will request permission to bring between 27 and
35 charter flights from the Soviet Union to Seattle during the
period of the Games. The charters will be sponsored by the
Sports Ministry of the USSR. Aeroflot will fly the charter
flights. Among the aviation staff of the State Department, there
is a view that the Soviet Union should split the charter flights
between US and Soviet air carriers. This view is unacceptable to
the Seattle Organizing Committee. It is the charter flights that
make possible the broad-based program that has been designed. If
US carriers would accept rubles for the flights, then a sharing
of the business might make sense. As it is, such a requirement
will cause serious, but unpredictable consequences.
Involved Agency: State Department
B. Assuming that the Soviet charter flights are permitted, there
is then a subsidiary issue. The one-way nature of the flights
creates the opportunity to send US citizens to the Soviet Union.
The SOC has preliminary approval to utilize the unused capacity
of the planes to construct an exchange program involving 400-600
US citizens. The Sports Committee, which has already purchased
the charter flights, has offered the SOC the seats for a round
trip price of about $400 per person. This fare, obviously under
fare, is only available because of the nature of the event and
the charters. The SOC would like to construct an exchange
program involving US citizens. The State Department staff has
stated that such a program cannot be permitted because it does
not offer shared business with US air carriers.
Involved Agency: State Department
Andy Card
February 7, 1990
Page 3
Department of Defense Support
The Department of Defense has authorization and appropriations to
provide security and logistical assistance to the state and local
government in support of the Goodwill Games. There are a number
of requests for assistance that DOD staff have rejected, which
the local government and the SOC believe are both logical and
legal. There is adequate funding available to meet the requests.
If these requests are not approved, there will be a reduction in
the level of security provided and it is likely that the Games
will not break even.
Involved Agencies: Defense, Justice Departments
Closed Cities
Seattle is a "closed city." This means that US-based Soviet
diplomats and press cannot get permission to attend the Games.
While hardly central to the success of the Games, this issue
presents difficult political problems for the SOC and has
attracted press attention. The Washington State Congressional
Delegation has requested a temporary relaxation of the rule for
Seattle during the Games, but the State Department has not yet
responded to the request and has rejected at least one request to
cover the preparations of the Games by a Soviet journalist.
Involved Agency: State Department
Soviet Flying Team
The equivalent of the Thunderbirds in the USSR have been in
discussions with the organizers of the Opening Ceremonies of the
Games. It is their hope that they will be permitted to
participate in the Opening Ceremonies. A request is expected
shortly.
Involved Agencies: Transportation, Defense, State Departments
Smithsonian Overhead Charge
The SOC, in conjunction with the Smithsonian, has organized a
very large art exhibit called "Treasures of Moscow.' It features
art that has never been out of the USSR and has been compared to
the King Tut exhibit of a few years ago. This exhibit involves a
unique partnership between the Smithsonian and the SOC. The
Andy Card
February 7, 1990
Page 4
exhibit, which is a multi-million dollar show, is now threatened
because of the Smithsonian's requirement that an overhead rate of
40% be paid to the Smithsonian. This rate is charged in addition
to the over one million dollars that has been paid to the
Smithsonian for direct services. The SOC is attempting to keep
this show alive through a reduction in the overhead rate charged
by the Smithsonian.
Involved Agency: Smithsonian Institution
Gorbachev Visit
There remains great speculation that Gorbachev desires to attend
the Games. There has been communication between a broad range of
Soviet officials and the Games on this issue. It appears that
the fact that there will be more than 120 hours of live
television broadcast in the Soviet Union has become increasingly
attractive to Gorbachev as an opportunity to reach his people.
The current dates of the Summit and the lack of an invitation
from President Bush have made a decision to attend the Games
problematical.
Involved Agency: White House
President Bush Visit
The SOC, and the people of Washington have great hopes that
President Bush will attend the Games. The President has been
invited but has not responded.
Involved Agency: White House
Guest of the United States status
The SOC has requested that the participants in the Goodwill Games
be given "Guest of the United States" status. This status was
provided to the participants in the LA Olympics and the Pan Am
Games. It provides for joint federal jurisdiction in police
matters and helps assure more diplomatic handling of problems
that might develop.
Involved Agency: State Department
Andy Card
February 7, 1990
Page 5
Visa Procedure
The SOC has been working with the State Department to develop a
procedure that will ease the visa process for participants in the
Games. That procedure is not yet developed but is proceeding on
schedule.
Involved Agency: State Department
Conferences
The SOC is sponsoring a number of conferences and exchange
meetings that advance a number of the key political issues now in
debate in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The set of
conferences has been hailed as facilitating some of the most
important such discussions of the past five years. There remains
a funding gap that could be met by the USIA from funds provided
for supporting such programs. The USIA has not yet agreed to
support any of this program.
Involved Agency: USIA
Duty-Free Status
There are a number of import quota and Customs regulations that
complicate the entry of goods and equipment involved in the
Goodwill Games. Following the precedent of the LA Olympics,
Congressman Rod Chandler has introduced legislation that will
provide duty-free status to those items during the Games.
Involved Agency: U.S. Customs Service
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Sunday
February 4 1990
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The voice of the Northwest since 1863
Editorials
Goodwill Games
and the summit
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no Goodwill Games in
more than athletics There will be
Seattle next summer will
5 hast of trade exhibits
feature stbletes from some
scientific forume and Soviet
50 nations though the foundation
for this global competition has
cultural events including the
Treasures of the Kremlin on
been laid by representatives of the
display here for the first time
United States and Soviet Union.
outside the Soviet Union
There would be no more
Also some 1,500 Soviez
appropr ate place for this
citizens are expected to be Seattle
summer's summit meeting
between President Bush and
area visitors, arriving here on
Mikhail Gorbachev than here, in
27 chartered Aerofiot flights.
Gorbachev in recent months
conjunction with the games.
Secretary of State James
has been subjected to sharp
criticism from discontented
Baker and Soviet Foreign
Minister Edu di Shevardnadze
Soviet citizens, impatient with the
pace of economic reforms and
are scheduled to meet this week in
Moscow, and a date for the
continuing shortages of consumer
goods The Sollet presence
summit is among topics expected
to be discussed The summit
here in 86 many positive ways
cannot help but reflect
tentatively has been targeted for
late June in Washington D.C.
fevorably on Gorbachev among
Soviet citizens; the Seattle
The Goodwill Games begin
in Seattle on July 20 and run
events will graphically portray to
through Aug 5 It would be a
them what strides their country
relatively minor adjustment to
has made in improved U.S. Seviet
schedule the summit a few
relations imde his leadership
Helping bolsted Gorbachev's
weeks later to take place either
position at home DDI only is in his
on the eve of the games or
during the competition.
political Interest, bet in that of
the United States as well
There are numerous reasons
BUSH LIBRARY PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION
for Bush and Gorbachev and their
There would n course, be a
need for extratul planning,
respective governments to
particularly in the area of
consider seriously & Seattle
security But a high level of
summit.
First and foremost, the
security planning for the games
games will provide a vivid
already is well under way
Seattle Mayor Norm Rice,
showcase of improved relations
Gov. Booth Gardner and members
between the superpowers and the
events will be witnessed
of the state's congressional
worldwide on television by
delegation could help immensely
perhaps @ billion viewers,
by expressing to the White
House and State Department their
indluding millions in the Soviet
Union
support for about a Secure
The games will involve much
Goodwill support. We urge them
to
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BO,
SEATTLE
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David Gogol
Washington Office
(202) 223-0956
GOODWILL
FAX: (202) 223-1393
TM
Uniting The World's Best
Memo to:
Andy Card
Memo from:
David Gogol
Subject:
Agencies Involved with Goodwill Games
Date:
February 6, 1990
There is a very broad group of agencies that are involved with
the Goodwill Games. There may be additional agencies involved,
but this is the group that we know about.
Department of Defense (Assistant Secretary for Force Management)
Department of Labor (Job Corps) - A/S for Admin.
Department of State (Soviet Affairs, Consular Affairs, Security,
John Bernie Engel Boltor
Bernie Engel and Development Program)
International Organizations, Aviation, Trade
Department of Transportation (Coast Guard, FAA, Overflight
Security Committee)
Treasury Department (Secret Service, Customs Service, Asset
Control)
DAS For Info. Systems
Justice Department (FBI, INS)
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Commerce
General Services Administration
Interior
HHS
U.S. Postal Service
MsTrade Dear Pros
United States Information Agency
Small Business Administration
Smithsonian Institution
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
1701 K Street Northwest Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20006
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Goodwill Exchange Experience:
Special Programs Of The
1990 Seattle Goodwill Games
The Goodwill Exchange Experience:
Special Programs Of The 1990 Seattle Goodwill Games
Introduction
As an integral part of the 1990 Seattle Goodwill Games experience, the Seattle Organizing Committee, the
event's non-profit organizing committee, has developed an unprecedented set of interactions between the
peoples of the United States and the Soviet Union. The four program components which constitute the
Goodwill Exchange Program include a series of citizen and leadership conferences on issues of importance
to both nations, hosting of the over 2,500 international athletes and artists participating in the Games,
homestays and hosting for the 1,000 visiting Soviet citizens coming during the Games, and special
opportunities for over 8,000 Americans to meet person to person with Soviets in a friendship center. This paper
summarizes each program.
I. Goodwill Exchange Program Conferences
A variety of important sessions will be held in conjunction with the 1990 Goodwill Games. Each of these will
involve prominent and knowledgeable Soviets and Americans and each will seek to identify ongoing initiatives
which can be undertaken in specific high priority subject areas. The following is a summary of the conferences.
Each is described more fully in the accompanying packet.
A. Leadership Events
Two leadership events are being organized for senior leaders of the US and USSR. The first event is the
Leadership Conference involving distinguished Soviets and Americans. The second is the North Pacific
Economic Roundtable involving seven governors from the northwest representing five states and two
Canadian provinces, and their counterparts from the seven regions that make up the Soviet Far East.
Leadership Conference
A group of eight senior Soviets and eight Americans will be joined by three additional international leaders
for the purpose of examining special opportunities for ongoing U.S./Soviet cooperation. The subjects
addressed will include the opportunity and challenge associated with reducing military spending, the
global environmental crisis, and the Pacific theater.
North Pacific Economic Roundtable
The Soviet Far East and the Northern region of the West Coast of North America share many
characteristics. It may be possible for the regional governments and major industries in these areas to
develop mutually beneficial economic relationships. A meeting is being organized to bring high ranking
political and economic officials together to discuss the establishment of these economic ties.
B. Human Rights Conference
Human Rights issues are a continuing source of concern to many in both the United States and the Soviet
Union. The situation in the Soviet Union has changed significantly in the past several years and the discussions
at the Goodwill Games will focus on current issues. These include an examination of the rights of the individual,
the rule of law, and the rights of national and ethnic groups in a modern state. Each set of issues would be
considered as they relate to the Soviet Union and the United States.
C. Citizen Initiatives Conferences
Ten topic areas will be explored in conferences involving 10 - 15 Americans and a comparable number of
Soviets. These conferences will begin and end with joint plenary sessions where all participants
(approximately 210) will share ideas and conference outcomes. The ten conference topic areas are:
Business: Working Toward More Successful U.S./Soviet Economic Partnerships
To provide the business communities of each country with improved information about the ways and the
reasons for doing business together, and to begin the process of making contacts for potential trade.
Rehabilitation: Meeting the Needs of the Physically Challenged
To identify rehabilitation strategies and services that can enable physically challenged people to become
active participants in society.
Juvenile and Family Law: Supporting and Enforcing Juvenile and Family Interests
To explore issues of mutual concern in the areas of juvenile and family law. Topics of interest include
methods of incarceration, roles of government in providing for children and families, and a comparison
of available services.
Volunteerism and Philanthropy: Exploring the Voluntary Initiative
To exchange information on organizing, coordinating, and managing voluntary initiatives. Topics of
interest include agency start-up, fundraising, management, and community involvement.
Environment: Improving and Protecting Our Environment
To explore common concerns in the areas of energy futures, biodiversity, and global change and to
address strategies to work together toward solutions in these areas.
Sports Psychology: Its Role in the Athletic Experience
To exchange ideas concerning the diverse roles of psychology in enhancing the athletic experience.
Intellectual Properties: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
To address the questions concerning intellectual property that will result from trade and technology
exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Communications Exchange: Journalism and Allied Media
To help American and Soviet citizens understand one another better through the disciplines of
communication media, and to develop a program of continuing exchanges and working relationships
among our colleagues in Uzbekistan and elsewhere in the U.S.S.R.
Women's Issues: Roles and Expectations in the Changing Economic Environment
To exchange ideas concerning the similarities and differences between the roles of women in the U.S.
and the U.S.S.R.; to examine the influence of government, economics, and culture on these roles; and to
explore strategies for women from the two countries to work together.
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Planned Change: Identifying and Diffusing Principles and Models of Planned Change
To identify and share principles and models involved in responding to and managing organizational,
community and societal change. Topics of interest could include managing the shift to free-market and
market-driven economies, and managing in a pluralistic decentralized society.
II. Hosting of International Athletes and Artists
A series of special opportunities to learn more about the United States and its people will be provided to the
athletes and artists attending the Games from more than fifty nations. The Seattle Organizing Committee
expects Soviets to have eight hundred athletes and sports officials and three hundred performing and visual
artists and cultural officials here for the 1990 events. While some of these people will be experienced travelers
in the United States, many will have had little if any direct exposure to Americans. A program has been planned
which will afford each visitor opportunities to meet with Americans, be involved in sports and arts events, visit
places of interest in the State of Washington, and learn more about the people and culture.
III. American Homestays for Soviets
The Rotary organization is coordinating a homestay program for the Seattle Organizing Committee to host
and house one thousand Soviets visitors arriving in Seattle during the Goodwill Games. The Soviet visitors
will come from throughout the U.S.S.R. and will include people from diverse backgrounds. Many of them will
be making their first visit to the United States.
The Soviets will be hosted as "guests" in the homes of Americans from the Seattle area. Some will be matched
in homes with people from the same profession and include visits to work sites. Others will be youth who will
participate in educational experiences with American youth. All one thousand visitors will take part in a planned
program including organized discussions, social interactions, participation in Goodwill Games sports and
arts events, and other engagements to experience the American cultural, economic, and political systems.
IV. Friendship Center
To encourage interactions between Americans and the one thousand visiting Soviets and the Soviet athletes
and artists participating in the Games, a central gathering place is being planned. This gathering place will be
called the Friendship Center.
The Friendship Center will be a place where informal discussions can occur between Americans and Soviets,
aided by translators. The Center will be hosted by groups from diverse ethnic, religious and civic
organizations and will include a variety of cultural activities. The main purpose will be "people to people"
interactions in a comfortable, informal atmosphere.
International Exposure and Program Outcomes
The Goodwill Exchange Programs are of a scale and significance that is unprecedented. When combined
with the sports, arts, and trade activities of the Seattle Games, the exchange activities will receive significant
media attention in both the United States and the Soviet Union.
Of particular significance will be Gostelradio's TV coverage in the Soviet Union. In addition to covering the
Goodwill Games sports events, Gostelradio will produce twenty hours of documentaries. The experiences of
Soviet/American exchanges is expected to become an important part of this T.V. programming. Through this
T.V. coverage in the Soviet Union, over one hundred million Soviets will learn of the experiences their citizens
are having in the United States. Such "people to people" experiences, when magnified by T.V., can have a
significant impact on the how Soviets view the U.S. and understand its economic and political systems. The
Goodwill Exchange Programs promise to help build genuine understanding between the U.S. and Soviet
people.
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I. Goodwill Conferences
A. Leadership Events
1. Goodwill Leadership
Conference
2. North Pacific Economic
Roundtable
B. Human Rights Conference
C. Citizen Initiatives Conferences
A. Leadership Events
1. Goodwill Leadership
Conference
2. North Pacific Economic
Roundtable
Leadership Events
Introduction
The 1990 Seattle Goodwill Games will be the largest gathering of Soviet and American civilians in history.
Athletes, artists, officials, traders, and spectators in unprecedented numbers will come from the Soviet Union
to the United States at an historic moment of realignment between the two superpowers. The Goodwill Games
offers all a chance to experience the cultural, economic, and political systems of this nation in an atmosphere
of celebration and optimism prompted by the astounding changes of recent years and months.
Two important events are being organized at the Seattle Games for senior leaders of the two countries. The
first event is a Goodwill Leadership Conference involving a group of approximately sixteen distinguished
Soviets and Americans who will meet to discuss national initiatives which can be jointly undertaken in three
priority areas. The second event is a "North Pacific Economic Roundtable" involving leaders of the seven
northwest states and Canadian provinces meeting with their counterparts from the seven regions that make
up the Soviet Far East.
I. Goodwill Leadership Conference
The Participants
The concept of this leadership conference was initiated by Soviet Foreign Ministry officials. In discussions in
Seattle and Moscow, the Soviets have identified Mr. Evgeney Primakov, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet, as
their choice for giving leadership to the recruitment of the Soviet group. The involvement of Mr. Primakov in
the organization of these discussions will insure a very significant level of Soviet participants. On the United
States side, we are now in the process of identifying an equivalent United States delegation.
Both delegations will involve national leaders who are widely respected for their expertise in foreign affairs
and who have backgrounds in one or more of the areas to be addressed during the program.
Timing
The Goodwill Games will open in Seattle on July 20, 1990 and continue through August 5, 1990. It is the
intention of organizers of the Leadership Conference that it be held on July 30, 31, and August 1, 1990. The
participants in this conference would have available to them the results of the Citizen Initiatives Conferences
and the North Pacific Economic Roundtable that would precede the Leadership Conference. The campus of
Seattle University has been identified as a desirable site for the conference.
Program Description
At the time of the Goodwill Games, a meeting will be convened of ten American and ten Soviet leaders. The
group will meet for three days. On each day a separate topic will be addressed. The group will seek to reach
basic points of agreement in each day's discussions.
Day One: Addressing the challenges of reduced military spending and the redirection of resources to
the needs of civilian economies
A primary challenge relates to the confidence and incentives required by each side to make the continuation
of such shifts both productive and politically viable. There are ingrained institutional concerns regarding each
superpower's intentions and military capacities. In addition, the dislocations that can ensue in the economies
of communities in which defense production and military facilities reside are an important consideration.
There is a strong argument that the redirection of resources from military to civilian purposes will economically
benefit citizens generally, but those who will bear the brunt of change also require consideration and attention.
A central question is how savings in defense can most effectively be applied to stimulate the long term strength
of each economy. For example, how can the technologies of the arms race that were developed at such
enormous expense be applied to enhance the standard of living and international economic competitiveness
of our two nations?
Proposed Papers to be Circulated Prior to the Conference
1. The Economic Consequences and Opportunities of Arms Reduction in the United States and in the Soviet
Union.
2. Political Preconditions for the Continuation of Movement Toward Substantial Arms Reductions in Each
Nation.
3. Strategies to Alleviate Economic Disruptions from Arms Reductions in the United States and in the Soviet
Union.
4. Strategies for Strengthening Civilian Economies of the Soviet Union and the United States through
Reapplication of Defense Oriented Technologies and Production Capacities.
5. Reducing the Competitive Flow of Arms to Third World Countries.
Day Two: The United States/Soviet Influence on the Global Environment
The second day of this Leadership Conference will focus on the international environment, a subject on which
General Secretary Gorbachev has spoken eloquently and addressed as a primary concern at the recent
economic summit of the Council of Seven. The proliferation of toxic wastes, global warming, eradication of
species, and the need and implications of energy supplies are among the topics of profound importance. In
the pursuit of short-term economic and military goals the environment on which we depend has been
compromised. Given the scale of the United States and Soviet industrial economies, the vastness of their land
masses, and their roles in the world community, cooperation is essential is global problems are to be effectively
addressed.
The Seattle Organizing Committee for the 1990 Goodwill Games also is working with environmental groups
as part of the Citizens Initiative Conferences to convene a group of United States and Soviet environmental
experts prior to the Leadership Conference. A report on the conclusions reached by the environmental experts
will be given to the Leadership Conference participants.
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Proposed Papers to Circulate Prior to the Event
1. The Toxic Wastes Situations in the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
2. Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the U.S. and Soviet Union, and Measures to Meet the Threat of Global
Warming.
3. Species Eradication, National Parks, Wilderness Protection in the Soviet Union and the United States.
4. Strategies to Enhance the Efficient Use of Energy in the U.S.S.R. and U.S.
5. The Role of Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
Day Three: The Pacific Century
The third day will concentrate on the fact that although the Pacific is now the largest and fastest-growing
economic zone in the world, the Soviet Union and the United States have minimal contact across the Pacific.
Opportunities for political and economic cooperation between the Soviet Union and the United States in the
Pacific will be focused by the work of the North Pacific Economic Roundtable that will precede the Leadership
Conference. National policy changes that will facilitate regional cooperation and economic opportunity will
be identified and discussed.
Proposed Papers for Circulation Prior to the Conference
1. Projected Economic Development in the Pacific Region and Consequences for the U.S. and the Soviet
Union.
2. Prospects for Economic Cooperation between the Soviet Union and the U.S. in the Pacific.
3. Soviet and U.S. Security Issues in the Pacific.
II. North Pacific Economic Roundtable
The Participants
A second major leadership event will bring together governors and leaders from the states and provinces of
Alaska, British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana and their Soviet counterparts
from Primore, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Kamchatka, Sakhalin, Amursky, and Yakutsk. The North Pacific
Economic Roundtable will be co-chaired by Governor Booth Gardner of Washington and one of the Soviet
governors. Each governor will be asked to bring three aides or representatives with special expertise in one
or more of the substantive areas to be addressed in separate seminars during the roundtable.
The Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Canada, and the Soviet Union are natural partners in the development of
the Pacific. The peoples of these nations have in common huge land masses in the far Northern Hemisphere;
similar climates; relatively sparse populations and similar mineral, fisheries, forestry, and agricultural
resources. As neighbors, they are only separated by the narrow Bering Straights and the Arctic Ocean.
An ex-officio active "roundtable" relationship between the state and provincial governments of Washington,
Oregon, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, British Columbia, and Alberta and the seven regional governments of the
Soviet Far East: Primore, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Kamchatka, Sakhalin, Amursky, and Yakutsk would serve
to enhance and accelerate regional cooperation. This cooperation can take many forms that range from
sister city relationships to specific economic development and trade proposals, and over time, to possible
trade offices.
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Movement along these lines is already taking place. Bellingham, Washington, is an official sister city of
Nakhodka. The Mayor of Bellingham, who speaks Russian, has led two delegations to Nakhodka in the past
year. Khabarovsk is now the sister city of Portland, Oregon. Alaska has a sister region relationship with
Khabaarovsk Krai; Tacoma, Washington wants to be the sister city of Vladivostok; and Washington State has
asked for a special relationship with the Primore Krai. Last year, high-level delegations from each of the four
Pacific Coast states visited the Soviet Far East. There are similar plans for this year.
Program Description
The program will run from the evening of July 30 through August 3rd. The first day will be devoted to learning
more about the jurisdictions represented at the Roundtable (basic geographic, economic, historic, and
personal information) and to addressing the differences (socialist/capitalist; developed/developing; capital
surplus/capital deficit) that complicate and challenge the development of understanding and productive
relationships.
The second day will involve discussions on topics of common interest to all participants. Specific subjects
will be determined in consultation with Soviet members of the steering committee. The topics may include:
State administrators' roles in facilitating project development; fundamentals of project development; case
studies of successful and unsuccessful projects; and discussion of policy issues important to the region (such
as the "doughnut hole," environmental protection, education, inter-regional communication, and
transportation). The second day's session will end early to allow participants to attend other Goodwill Games
functions, including the International Trade Exhibition which will take place from August 1-3.
The third day will be devoted to industry specific seminars/field trips organized by U.S. and Canadian industry
representatives after consultation with the Soviet participants who will be attending. These seminars/fieldtrips
may include: fisheries; forest resources; medicine; education; banking; transportation; communication;
agriculture; housing; media; mining; oil and gas exploration; food processing; consumer goods; and
manufacturing.
The final day is purposefully left open for discussions between individual conference participants or groups
that have identified areas of interest. The Roundtable will end with a reception, dinner and reports/comments
from the participants.
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B. Human Rights Conference
C. Citizen Initiatives Conferences
Citizen Initiatives Conferences: U.S./U.S.S.R.
Background
The Seattle Goodwill events will occur at a time when the U.S.S.R. is opening its doors to the world to an
unprecedented degree and the Cold War is showing signs of coming to an end. Such a time provides an
important opportunity for the citizens of the Seattle area, the State of Washington, and indeed the entire world.
New vistas are emerging for improved trade and for closer associations between Soviet and American
professionals, scientists, artists, and people from all walks of life. The Goodwill Conferences will explore these
vistas and further the overall mission of "Uniting the World's Best."
Purpose
The Goodwill Games conference series will be held July 23-27, 1990. The participants in the conference will
be citizens from throughout the United States and the Soviet Union. The purposes are:
first, to enhance mutual understanding between U.S. and Soviet citizens, and
second, to identify and take steps toward further initiatives that advance common interests.
Examples of further initiatives might include: staff exchanges, joint research projects, professional sabbaticals,
information exchanges, common ventures, improved trading relations, and technology exchanges.
Staff And Organization
The Citizen Initiatives Conferences will begin and end with plenary sessions. There will be conferences held
in ten topic areas. The opening day conference and final banquet are being organized by the Goodwill Games
staff and volunteers. Staff and volunteers are also serving as overall "conference coordinators." The ten topic
areas are being organized by committees made up of individuals from the Seattle/Tacoma area.
The staff and volunteers of the Goodwill Games work in support of the conference committees to confirm
participants and agendas, arrange visas and transportation for Soviet participants, raise funds, make logistical
arrangements, find translators, and provide a summary record of the proceedings.
Participants
Each of the conferences will include 10 - 15 participants from the Soviet Union and a comparable number of
partcipants from the United States who have specific background and expertise on the topic. Participants will
be selected by conference committees and formally invited by the Seattle Organizing Committee of the
Goodwill Games. Soviet participants will be hosted in private homes as part of the Goodwill Games Homestay
Program.
Agenda
The conferences will be conducted Monday, July 23 - Friday, July 27. The schedule is as follows:
Monday, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
An opening plenary session will be held for all conference participants. It will include a
welcome, an overview of the week's activities, a key-note address, and a short planning
meeting among each of the conference topic areas.
Tuesday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - - 12:00 p.m.
Conference committees will conduct meetings at selected locations. Written reports
summarizing conference discussions will be developed.
Monday - Friday afternoons:
Soviet conference participants will participate in selected Goodwill Game events or other
cultural activities.
Friday evening, 6:00 p.m.
All conference participants will attend a final banquet that will include summary reports from
each of the conference topic areas and closing remarks.
Topics
The Goodwill Games conference staff has accepted proposals from committees representing ten conference
topic areas. The topics are:
1. Business: Working Toward More Successful U.S. Soviet Economic Partnerships
2. Rehabilitation: Meeting the Needs of the Physically Challenged
3. Juvenile and Family Law: Supporting and Enforcing Juvenile and Family Interests
4. Volunteerism and Philanthropy: Exploring the Voluntary Initiative
5. Environment: Improving and Protecting Our Environment
6. Sports Psychology: Its Role In The Athletic Experience
7. Intellectual Properties: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
8. Communications Exchange: Journalism and Allied Media
9. Women's Issues: Roles and Expectations in the Changing Economic Environment
10. Planned Change: Identifying and Diffusing Principles and Models of Planned Change
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Business: Working Toward More Successful U.S. Soviet Economic Partnerships
Purpose
To provide the business communities of each country with improved information about the ways and the
reasons for doing business together, and to begin the process of making contacts for potential trade.
Conference Description
The Business conference will occur over a two-week time frame (two four days during the week of July
16 - 20 and five days during the week of July 23 -27). During the first week 15 Soviet businesspeople will
be hosted by 15 American companies. The goal is to provide opportunities for one-on-one contact in a
place of business that encourages more in-depth, unstructured discussions. Participants can determine
areas of mutual interest and then use the resources of the organization to extend their exploration.
On Monday of the second week, the 30 Soviet and American participants will join the Citizen Initiatives
plenary session. On Tuesday and Wednesday, they will divide into three smaller groups to discuss their
experiences during the on-site visits. While exact topics will be determined by participants, possible topics
include: legal issues; worker motivation; marketing strategies; accounting methods; government
regulation; and public-sector support activities. The goal of these discussions is to better understand how
business is done in the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and to then use this information and explore ways to do
business between the two countries.
The Business conference will also host a meeting for the Seattle area business community. The
conference will conclude with the Friday evening banquet at which participants from the Business
conference will share their accomplishments with individuals from the other Citizen Initiatives conferences.
Long-Term Impact
The goal is for Soviet and American businesspeople to learn firsthand how the two countries can better
work together. Possibilities of expanded trade, economic cooperation, business initiatives and the
beginning of long-term relationships are only a few of the valuable outcomes that might result.
Conference Committee Members
Carol Vipperman
Margaret A. Niles
Foundation for Soviet/American Economic
Garvey, Schubert and Barer
Cooperation
James Lowe
Thomas Hobson
Vice President and General Counsel
Communications Manager
Seattle Goodwill Games
Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce
Elisa B. Miller, Ph.D.
Department of Marketing and International
Business
University of Washington School of Business
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Rehabilitation: Meeting the Needs of the Physically Challenged
Purpose
To identify rehabilitation strategies and services that can enable physically challenged people to become
active participants in society.
Conference Description
The Rehabilitation conference will involve 8-10 Soviets and 8-10 Americans involved in the field of physical
rehabilitation. Representatives will include members of both the medical community and the vocational
training community. The focus is on exploring the barriers that prevent physically challenged
(handicapped) persons from employment and from greater participation in society.
The conference will begin on Monday with the Citizen Initiatives plenary session. On Tuesday through
Friday participants will meet in small groups. The discussions will include a historical review of the
development of rehabilitation in the United States and the Soviet Union. Emphasis will be on the simple
and often inexpensive programs, techniques and technologies that can lead to greater involvement of
physically challenged people in the workforce and society. Topics such as vocational rehabilitation,
accessible housing, and accessible work sites will be explored.
In addition to discussions, participants will receive tours of selected rehabilitation facilities, vocational
training centers and businesses which employ the physically challenged. The conference will conclude
with the Friday evening banquet at which participants from the Rehabilitation conference will share their
accomplishments with individuals from the other Citizen Initiatives conferences.
Long-Term Impact
The main thrust of the conference will be to establish relationships between Soviets and Americans
involved in rehabilitation. Emphasis will be on developing contacts that lead to an on-going transfer of
ideas, techniques, and technologies that ultimately improve the lives of the physically challenged in both
the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
Conference Committee Members
Donald R. Silverman, M.D.
Diane Burgher, M.P.A.
Rehabilitation Medicine
Administrative Director, Rehabilitation Services
Providence Medical Center
Providence Medical Center
Rich Walsh
Barbara Allen
Executive Director
Easterseal Society
Resource Center for the Handicapped
Ernest F. La Palm
George Kraft, M.D.
Deputy Commissioner
Rehabilitation Medicine
State of Washington
University of Washington Medical Center
Sherwood Young, M.D.
Green Mountain Rehabilitation
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Juvenile and Family Law: Supporting and Enforcing Juvenile and Family Interests
Purpose
To explore issues of mutual concern in the areas of juvenile and family law. Topics of interest include
methods of incarceration, roles of government in providing for children and families, and a comparison of
available services.
Conference Description
The Juvenile and Family Law conference will bring together approximately 15 Soviets and 15 Americans
with an expertise and interest in the special concerns facing children and families, particularly those
concerns which often have legal implications. The focus is on exploring the challenges that local, regional,
and national institutions must address to better meet the needs of children and families.
The conference will begin on Monday with the Citizen Initiatives plenary session. On Tuesday through
Friday participants will meet in small groups. The discussions will begin with an introductory orientation.
Participants will assess the the needs and problems confronting children and families in both the U.S. and
the U.S.S.R. Concentration will be upon children who fall into one of the following three categories:
(1) abused and neglected children and their families; (2) children who are from families in conflict; and
(3) juvenile offenders. What are the similarities? What are the differences? The focus will then turn to how
countries are attempting (both successfully and unsuccessfully) to meet the needs and address the
problems. Areas of discussion might include: the legal rights of children and families, when and how the
legal system gets involved, methods of incarceration/rehabilitation, and the protection of such children.
The conference will end with the Friday evening banquet at which participants from the Juvenile and
Family Law conference will share their accomplishments with individuals from the other Citizen Initiatives
conferences.
Long-Term Impact
The main thrust of the conference will be to establish relationships with Soviets involved in Juvenile and
Family Law. Common problem areas will be explored for common ideas and solutions. Strategies for
on-going exchanges of information will be pursued.
Conference Committee Members
Judge Terrence A. Carroll
Jim Austin
King County Superior Court
Attorney at Law
Larry Fehr
Karr, Tuttle, and Campbell
Executive Director
Robert Alsdorf
Washington State Council on Crime and
Attorney at Law
Delinquency
Honorable June Leonard
John LeVeque
Washington State Representative
Executive Director
Alliance for Children, Youth and Families
Robert Morrow
Attorney at Law
Judge Rosanne Buckner
Pierce County Superior Court
Tom Tanaka
Attorney at Law
Harold Delia
Port of Seattle
Director
King County Department of Youth Services
Brian Linn
Attorney at Law
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Volunteerism and Philanthropy: Exploring the Voluntary Initiative
Purpose
To exchange information on organizing, coordinating, and managing voluntary initiatives. Topics of
interest include agency startup, fundraising, management, and community involvement.
Conference Description
The Volunteerism and Philanthropy conference will involve approximately 15 Soviets and 15 Americans
with backgrounds in the creation and management of volunteer organizations.
The conference will begin on Monday morning with the Citizen Initiatives plenary session. On Tuesday
through Friday participants will meet in small groups. The groups will visit a variety of community-service
agencies and discuss approaches to common problems. Emphasis will be on identifying successful
models that are transferable between the two countries.
The conference will end with a Friday evening banquet at which participants from the Volunteerism and
Philanthropy conference will share their accomplishments with individuals from the other Citizen Initiatives
conferences.
Long-Term Impact
The week of discussions will help involved people from both nations better understand volunteerism in
each culture. Professional relationships will be established to begin an organizing process that will
continue with the United Way International conference planned for this fall in the Soviet Union.
Conference Committee Members
Mary Gates
Boardmember and Past Chair,
United Way International
Roberta van der Voort
President,
United Way of King County
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Environment: Improving and Protecting Our Environment
Purpose
To explore common concerns in the areas of energy futures, biodiversity, and global change and to
address strategies to work together toward solutions in these areas.
Conference Description
The Environment conference will involve approximately 15 Soviets and 15 Americans in a week of
discussions about how to improve and protect the environment. Emphasis will be on addressing
successful "grassroots" or community-based approaches that have led to the advancement of knowledge
and/or the preservation of the environment.
The conference will begin on Monday with the Citizen Initiatives plenary session. On Tuesday through
Friday participants will meet in small groups for discussion of grassroots strategies that have been
employed by individuals or groups within a community. A list of critical problems confronting each
country will be explored and ideas for improvement will be developed.
The conference will conclude with the Friday evening banquet at which participants from the Environment
conference will share their accomplishments with individuals from the other Citizen Initiatives conferences.
Long-Term Impact
The main thrust of the conference will be to establish relationships between Soviets and Americans who
are working at the grass-roots level to improve and protect the environment. Emphasis will be on
developing contacts that lead to an on-going transfer of ideas, techniques, and technologies.
Conference Committee Members
Gordon Orians
Director, Institute of Environmental Studies
University of Washington
Edward Miles
Director, Institute for Marine Sciences
University of Washington
Richard Gamman
Professor of Chemistry and Oceanography
University of Washington
Kai Lee
Department of Political Science
University of Washington
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Sports Psychology: Its Role In The Athletic Experience
Purpose
To exchange ideas concerning the diverse roles of psychology in enhancing the athletic experience.
Conference Description
The Sports Psychology conference will work with the Washington State Psychological Association, the
Association for the Advancement of Applied Sports Psychology, Group Health Cooperative, and University
of Washington to host a meeting of 10-15 sports psychologists from the U.S.S.R. and a comparable
number from the U.S. The conference will begin on Monday with the Citizen Initiatives plenary session.
On Tuesday through Friday participants will meet in small groups.
The participants will initially come together for informal discussions and background information about the
field of Sports Psychology in the two countries. Which strategies have been effective? Which have not
worked? One area of interest will be to explore a potential "model delivery system" for providing sports
psychology services at major athletic competitions. In addition to these small-group discussions, the
general public will be invited to listen to a major address by a prominent Soviet and/or American sports
psychologist regarding the "state of the profession."
The conference will conclude with the Friday evening banquet where participants from the Sports
Psychology conference will share their accomplishments with individuals from the other Citizen Initiatives
conferences.
Long-Term Impact
The week of activities can lay the groundwork for future academic and professional conferences and
sabbatical exchanges. Ideas for improving the delivery of sports psychology services at major athletic
events could lead to an improvement in athletic performance and a furthering of the role of sports
psychology.
Conference Committee Members
Hubert E. Armstrong, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington
David B. Coppel, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist/Sports Psychologist
Vicki Boyd, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound
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Intellectual Properties: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
Purpose
To address the questions concerning intellectual properties that will result from trade and technology
exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Conference Description
The Intellectual Properties conference will focus on the exchange of computer software between the U.S.
and the U.S.S.R. and the challenges of establishing and enforcing copyright laws.
The conference will bring together approximately 5-10 Soviets and a comparable number of Americans for
discussions. Participants will include representatives from the business, legal, and governmental
communities which have a background in intellectual properties and an interest in furthering the
conference goals.
The conference will conclude with the Friday evening banquet where participants from the Intellectual
Properties conference will share their accomplishments with individuals from the other Citizen Initiatives
conferences.
Long-Term Impact
The goal is to lay the groundwork for further discussions and agreements to enhance the transfer of
technologies and copyrighted material between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Further meetings, proposals,
and agreements would be encouraged.
Conference Committee Members
Michael Mines
Betts, Patterson, and Mines, P.S.
Harry M. Cross, Jr.
Patent Attorney
Dowrey, Cross and Cole
David Curtis
Senior Corporate Attorney
Microsoft Corporation
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Communications Exchange: Journalism and Allied Media
Purpose
To help American and Soviet citizens understand one another better through the disciplines of
communication media, and to develop a program of continuing exchanges and working relationships
among our colleagues in Uzbekistan and elsewhere in the U.S.S.R.
Conference Description
The Communications conference will open on Monday with the overall plenary session. The
communications participants will then hold an initial program to discuss the week's activities and introduce
the U.S. and U.S.S.R. participants.
Each Soviet participant will spend Tuesday - Friday working alongside an American counterpart. American
participants will include representatives from print, radio, television and other communications media. The
pairs will spend their time learning about the similarities and differences of the respective communications
area. On Wednesday and Friday, all participants will come together and meet as a group to discuss their
experiences. A formal report will be developed and opportunities for further exchanges explored.
The conference will conclude with the Friday evening banquet where participants from the
Communications conference will share their accomplishments with individuals from the other Citizen
Initiatives conferences.
Long-Term Impact
The opportunity for Soviet and American communications professionals to meet and work together
promises to help set the stage for a program of ongoing communication exchanges. These exchanges
could be complemented by other forms of cooperative relationships and joint ventures.
Conference Committee Members
Anne Stadler
Alan Boyle
TV Producer
Foreign Desk Editor
KING-TV
Post Intelligencer
David Endicott
Mike McGloin
Vice President
Director of Operations, Goodwill Games
Communication Northwest, Inc.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Happi Mikki McQuirk
Laurie Ludwick
Small Business Consultant
TRADEC
Randy Coplen
Roseanne Royer
President, Printing Control
Seattle Sister Cities
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Women's Issues: Roles and Expectations in the Changing Economic Environment
Purpose
To exchange ideas concerning the similarities and differences between the roles of women in the U.S. and
the U.S.S.R.; to examine the influence of government, economics and culture on these roles; and to explore
strategies for women from the two countries to work together.
Conference Description
The Women's Issues conference will involve 30 women, 15 from the Soviet Union and 15 from the United
States, who have demonstrated themselves to be role models and leaders for improving the lives of women.
These women will come from a variety of backgrounds and cultures so as to represent the diverse roles of
and important challenges for women in both countries.
The conference will begin on Monday with the Citizen Initiatives plenary session. On Tuesday through Friday
participants will meet in small groups. The discussions will begin by exploring common roles women play in
each country ranging from roles within families to roles within business and the community. Participants will
then identify challenges facing women. Examples of anticipated topics will be health issues, child care,
employment, education, and job training. Common problems will be explored for common solutions.
The conference will conclude with the Friday evening banquet where participants from the Women's Issues
conference will share their accomplishments with individuals from the other Citizen Initiatives conferences.
Long-Term Impact
The main thrust of the conference will be to establish relationships between Soviet and American women who
are interested in improving the lives of women in both countries. Conference participants will identify
possibilities for further exchanges and share ideas for encouraging joint problem-solving. These exchanges
and opportunities for continued interaction will help enable women to take a leadership role and become
better aware of the problems that diminish the lives of women, and better aware of the strategies for addressing
these problems.
Conference Committee Members
Cecilia Funkhouser
Zoya Walker
Executive Director
Education Coordinator
Washington Women's Employment
Washington Women's Employment
and Education
and Education
Barbara Annis
Nancy Mendoza
Washington State Business and
Executive Director
Professional Women
BASH
Nancy Dudacek Lopez
Linda BeMiller
Regional Manager
Program Officer
AAA Travel
Forest Foundation
Judie Fortier
Jeannie Darnielle
Director
Director
Human Rights, City of Tacoma
Pierce County Aids Foundation
T.K. Knickerbocker
Dawn Lucien
Owner, Publisher
Community Leader
Puget Sound Women's Digest
Tacoma
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Planned Change: Identifying and Diffusing Principles/Models of Planned Change
Purpose
To identify and share principles and models involved in responding to and managing organizational,
community, and societal change. Topics of interest could include managing the shift to free-market and
market-driven economies, ethics of planned change, and participative management.
Conference Description
The Planned Change conference will involve approximately 6 Soviets and 6 Americans with backgrounds
as practitioners, consultants, and scholars of change in organizations, communities, and society.
The conference will begin on Monday morning with the Citizen Initiatives plenary session. On Tuesday
through Friday participants will meet in small groups. The groups will present papers and discuss
approaches to managing large-scale change. Emphasis will be on identifying successful principles and
models that are transferable between the two countries.
The conference will end with a Friday evening banquet at which participants from the Planned Change
conference will share their accomplishments with individuals from the other Citizen Initiatives conferences.
Long-Term Impact
As the relationship between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. improves, society and organizations will need to adapt
to fit the new reality. This week of discussions can lead to joint projects and research focussed on
improving this transition process.
Conference Committee Members
Hy Resnick, Ph.D.
Nancy Freeman
Professor of Social Work
Director of Division Operations
University of Washington
The Casey Family Program
William Hershey, Ph.D.
Ben Lindekugel
Executive Director
Director of Community Affairs
The Lutheran Social Service
United Way of King County
Teresa Raphael
Executive Vice President
Western Washington Regional Director
Childrens Home Society
Thomas McWhinnie
Director, Human Resource Development
Group Health Cooperative
Nora Stabler
Associate Director
Seattle Day Center for Adults
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Conference Organizing Committee
Conference Chair
Herb Ellison, Ph.D.
Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington
Advisory Committee
Charles Schmid
Honeywell, Inc.
Priscilla Collins
Owner
Stimson-Green Mansion
Jim Gustafson
Senior Vice President
Washington Natural Gas Company
Hidde Van Duym, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Washington Commission for the Humanities
Kingsley McComber
Contractor
Anne Stadler
TV Producer
KING-TV
Judge Terrence Carroll
King County Superior Court
Michael Mines
Betts, Patterson, and Mines, P.S.
Conference Staff
Emory Bundy
1990 Goodwill Games
Kathy Becker
1990 Goodwill Games
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II. Athlete/Artist Hosting
Athlete/Artist Hosting
Background
A series of special opportunities to learn more about the United States and its people will be provided to the
athletes and artists attending the Games from more than fifty nations. The Seattle Organizing Committee
expects Soviets to have eight hundred athletes and sports officials and three hundred performing and visual
artists and cultural officials here for the 1990 events. While some of these people will be experienced travelers
in the United States, many will have had little direct exposure to Americans. A program has been planned
which will afford each visitor opportunities to meet with Americans, be involved in sports and arts events, visit
places of interest in the State of Washington, and learn more about the people and culture of the United States.
Organization
The Seattle Organizing Committee plans to work with the YMCA of Greater Seattle and other local
organizations to coordinate the Athlete Hosting Program. A blue-ribbon executive committee will represent
the sponsoring organizations and the interests of competitive sports, arts, entertainment and tourism, and
ethnic communities. The executive committee will prepare a general plan and guidelines for the hosting
program.
Subcommittees will address each of the twenty-one Goodwill Games sports areas. The sports subcommittees
will involve the Goodwill Games Commissioner for the designated sport and forward their plans to the National
Governing Body for approval. The subcommittees will plan the schedule, locations and logistics of hospitality
activities and involve appropriate sports, arts, recreation, or ethnic organizations. They will invite participation
by the visiting athletes, coaches, trainers, and artists. In addition, sightseeing, shopping, and social events
will be offered. The support of local organizations and availability of translation services will be important
components of the hosting program.
International artists who will be involved in Goodwill Games activities will be hosted by Washington-area peer
organizations. A variety of activites and social interactions will be planned.
Program Components
Sightseeing and shopping trips will be offered on a daily basis by volunteers from sports and ethnic
organizations. Visitors will be transported in YMCA vehicles and/or private cars. A schedule will be planned
for each day, based on other event demands. The coordinator for each day's trips will maintain close contact
with the Seattle Organizing Committee staff and security staff as well as with other officials such as
representatives of national sports teams.
Sports clinics and picnics will be planned for many of the sports areas. These clinics/picnics will be organized
in conjunction with sports and recreational programs in schools, park departments, the YMCA, sports leagues,
athletic, recreation clubs, etc. Visiting coaches and athletes will be invited to participate in the clinics so as to
provide local youth with access to world-class performers.
Private dinners will be offered and hosted by individuals in the community with similar backgrounds as the
visiting athletes/artists. This will provide the visitors with an opportunity to experience "home hospitality" while
offering the local host a chance to become acquainted with world-class athletes, coaches, and artists.
Receptions will be hosted by local ethnic organizations to provide contact between athletes and local
organizations representing similar national origins.
Recruitment and Training of Hosts
The executive committee will involve representatives of various ethnic communities and others acquainted
with the cultures and languages of the visiting sports/arts delegations. A broad cross-section of youth, sports,
and recreational organizations will be included. This involvement will afford very distinguished visitors the
opportunity to be graciously hosted, and afford members of the community an opportunity to interact with
and learn from their guests.
All volunteers involved in hosting activities will participate in a special training prior to the Goodwill Games.
This training will address the issues pertinent to assuring a successful hospitality experience.
Goals
The hosting program will provide visiting artists, athletes, and coaches with exposure to the community,
including informal interactions with a cross-section of people.
III. American Homestays For Soviets
American Homestays For Soviets
Background
In conjunction with the 1990 Goodwill Games, Seattle and other Washington State communities will host the
largest number of Soviet citizens ever to visit the United States. In addition to large contingents of sports and
arts personnel - participants in the Goodwill games athletic events and the Goodwill Arts
Festival approximately 1,000 Soviet tourists will arrive at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Aeroflot
charter flights from the Soviet Union. They will stay in the homes of Americans for about ten days.
Thousands of individuals/families will participate as "hosts" enabling Americans and Soviets alike to build
understanding across the barriers that have divided them. The hosts will provide the visitors with
accommodations and access to the lives and work of typical Americans. The purpose of the Soviet homestay
program is to graciously host visitors in our communities, promote greater understanding between citizens
of the US and USSR, cultivate new friendships, and lay the foundation for the pursuit of common interests in
the future. The invitation extended to the Soviet visitors, and their government's response, portend a hopeful
future for the citizens of the US and the USSR.
Rotary International District 503
The Soviet homestay program is being organized by the Rotary International District 503 (Seattle-area Rotary
chapters) under a contract between Rotary and the Seattle Goodwill Games Organizing Committee. The
program is called the Rotary Goodwill Exchange. Rotary District 503 has extensive experience with exchange
programs, hosting foreign students and businesspeople in the Seattle area. With this experience has come
a wealth of knowledge about the components of a successful exchange program including the organization,
selection, and training requirements.
Recruitment of Host Families
Rotary will recruit, train and organize over 5,000 individuals/families to host the Soviet visitors. The hosting
will extend to other communities in the State of Washington where there will be Goodwill Games events:
Tacoma, Spokane, and the Tri-Cities.
The hosting will be organized on a "team" basis with a target of five families per team. A team coordinator will
serve as liaison between the guest, host families and the Rotary Goodwill Exchange program. During the
course of the ten-day visit a typical visitor will stay in two homes. This will moderate the demands on the host
families and provide the visiting Soviet with additional exposure to family life in America. The team of five
families will comprise a support group to provide the guest with sightseeing opportunities, visits to workplaces,
attendance at the sports and arts events of the Goodwill Games, and social occasions. The use of multiple
host families also will broaden the opportunities for Americans to have first-hand encounters with the Soviet
visitors.
The mechanics of the recruitment include activating Rotary's own membership and promotional publicity
throughout the broader community. Extensive coverage has been provided in District Rotary's monthly
newspaper and presentations are a prominent feature of each chapter's program this year. For the general
public, a central telephone number, 768-2791 (dial "ROTARY 1") begins the process of application and
selection. Pertinent information required of the prospective host includes a description of available
accommodations, language skills and occupation.
A special effort is underway to ensure that the ethnic diversity of the US is represented. This will give the
visitors a more accurate exposure to the American people, and distribute the benefits of hosting throughout
the community. We have also asked the Soviets to select tourists from diverse regions of their country.
Selection of Soviet Visitors
The coordinating agency in the Soviet Union is Goskomsport (Ministry of Sports). In turn, the selection of the
1,000 visitors has been parceled out to several organizations. Of the total, 250 will be selected by the Seattle
Organizing Committee of the Goodwill Games in order to accommodate the Goodwill Conferences and other
particular needs such as opening events. Goskomsport will select many figures from the sports world - former
athletes, coaches who are not on the official team, Ministers of Sport from the 15 Soviet Republics, families
of athletes, etc. The All Union Council will choose members eager to learn more about their vocational
counterparts in the US. The Friendship Society will select citizens from Soviet communities with formal "sister
city" relationships in the Northwest US, especially citizens from Tashkent. (Seattle and Tashkent formed the
first US/USSR sister cities.) Sputnik will select a contingent of young people and Intourist will round out the
delegation. Most of these individuals will be arriving in the U.S. for their very first time. Rotary hopes to have
specific information on the guests well in advance in order to facilitate the optimal assignment of host families.
Staff and Organization
The Seattle Organizing Committee (SOC) staff will work closely with the Rotary to develop a program which
fully serves the mutual interests and commitments of Rotary and the Goodwill Games. The SOC will extend
the formal invitations to the USSR and handle the necessary travel arrangements with the Soviets (represented
by Goskomsport).
Rotary District 503 is organizing the Rotary Exchange program at its own expense, drawing on its rich tradition
of exchange programs for the benefit of world peace and understanding. A steering committee is responsible
for planning the exchange and an operating committee is organizing the forty Rotary chapters which comprise
District 503. Each of these 40 chapters has a Rotary Goodwill Exchange coordinator responsible for recruiting
and organizing the host teams.
Each of the 1000 host teams will include a leader who is selected by the Rotary chapters. Team leaders will
inspect the prospective accommodations and act as a liaison with the Rotary Goodwill Exchange program.
Other team members will provide the Soviet guests with housing, interaction with their families, transportation,
sightseeing opportunities, and other cultural and social experiences.
Rotary's operations committee will take the lead role in matching hosts and guests, training host families,
arranging insurance coverage, preparing emergency plans and procedures, and organizing a computer-aided
service to track the whereabouts of every Soviet citizen. This daily tracking will enable a prompt response
should a guest have a home emergency or other important reason for immediate contact.
Training
There will be mandatory training for all families in the Rotary Goodwill Exchange program. Four training sites
have been selected for the metropolitan area. Training will be offered at each site on several occasions during
May 1990. There will be additional sites established to serve host teams in Tacoma, Spokane, and the Tri-Cities.
A training manual has been developed by the American Cultural Exchange that will address topics related to
being a host in the Rotary Goodwill Exchange program. Each host will have a manual available for ready
reference. Puget Sound Power and Light Company has agreed to print the manuals.
The Seattle Organizing Committee, through its Language Service, will provide round-the-clock translation
services by telephone for any need, especially in the event of a medical emergency. As a part of the training,
Rotary will require every team leader to identify one or more accessible individuals to translate between the
guest and hosts.
Each Soviet guest will be assigned a five-digit identifying number signifying the specific Rotary chapter, team
leader, and host families. This will be centrally maintained by computer. Each chapter coordinator will have
the printout for the chapter. Team leaders will be responsible for keeping the information updated and accurate
for the central operation.
Suggested Activities
The Rotary chapters will provide tickets for the Soviet guests to attend Goodwill sports and arts activities.
General sightseeing, involvement in family gatherings, and neighborhood social events will be encouraged.
Chapters will be encouraged to help the host teams plan innovative ideas for hosting activities. The Emerald
City Rotary chapter offered a list of "Fifty Ways to Entertain a Soviet." Ideas ranged from the predictable-
to the Space Needle, zoo, Ballard Locks and salmon ladder, or Public Market-to the surprising- a trip to a
workplace or video games center. Other activities that will be encouraged include:
1. Participation in family meals, talks, and traditions.
2. Interaction with people from diverse ethnic, cultural, professional, etc. backgrounds.
3. Attendance at Goodwill Games sports and cultural activities.
4. Interactions that lead to long-term friendships and further exchanges.
Anticipated Outcomes
As described by the chair of the Rotary Goodwill Exchange steering committee, Dr. Leroy Jacques, "Rotary
seeks to promote world peace and understanding through citizen exchanges." This program hopes to create
more accurate and better understanding and communications between Soviet and American citizens.
Relations between the two countries are rapidly improving. The Rotary Goodwill Exchange promises to play
a part in this improvement.
The exchange program will give a large and diverse contingent of Soviet citizens-tradespeople, local
dignitaries, coaches and other sports figures, professionals, government officials, Peoples Deputies, and
young people-an intimate look at American life and a close association with many American citizens. The
hope is that these guests will in turn share their experiences with other Soviets upon their return. The Rotary
Goodwill Exchange will provide an opportunity to open doors between the people of the US and the USSR.
Some of these doors will remain open as many of the guests and their hosts maintain contact following the
Goodwill Games. The full impact of the exchange experience is not likely to be known for many years.
IV. Friendship Center
Friendship Center
Background
A special program is being organized to allow large numbers of Americans to meet the Soviets who will be
in Seattle for the Goodwill Games events. A central gathering will be established at which Americans and
Soviets can sit together, converse using the assistance of a translator, and enjoy a snack. The Seattle
Organizing Committee has invited thea corporation to sponsor this gathering place.
Site Location and Purpose
The Friendship Center will be designed and managed by the Seattle Organizing Committee and be open
during the 1990 Goodwill Games. It will be located at the Seattle Center, a major tourist attraction and
gathering place for the Seattle area. A large tent will provide a meeting place for citizens of the USA and
USSR. The principal activity at the Friendship Center will be friendly, informal conversations between
Americans and Soviets.
The Friendship Center will be open from noon until eight in the evening for the seventeen days of the 1990
Goodwill Games. The role of the Center will be incorporated into the training of the American hosts. Soviet
visitors will be scheduled to spend specified hours at the Center. As this will be a major convening place for
the Soviet visitors, a number of services will be made available at the tent. The services may include a
departure point for group tours, free tickets to places and events in the Seattle area, and additional tickets to
the Goodwill sports and Arts events. The fact that Seattle Center is one of the premier gathering sites for
citizens of the Seattle area will ensure strong American participation.
Multicultural Emphasis
The Goodwill Exchange Program will emphasize the diversity of people that together make the Seattle area
and the entire United States a land of opportunity. A cross-section of seventeen ethnic, civic and religious
groups will be selected to act as hosts-one group per day and will be trained by the Goodwill Exchange
Program for that purpose.
This emphasis will provide an organized cadre of people anxious to meet the Soviet visitors and to host both
the Soviets and Americans who frequent the Center. In addition, the local groups will provide entertainment
that reflects their culture or community once or twice a day. Examples might include choirs, dance groups,
or instrumental ensembles.
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In addition to the involvement of local organizations, the Friendship Center will include welcomes and
appearances by various dignitaries such as the Mayor of Seattle, King County Executives, Soviet and US
officials, athletes and artists. As with the entertainment, these events will be scheduled sparingly so as not to
defeat the central purpose of the Friendship Center: informal discussions between ordinary Americans and
Soviets.
Conclusion
The opportunity to have a central gathering place during the Goodwill Games will afford an unprecedented
opportunity for large numbers of Soviets and Americans to exchange ideas and gain understanding. Such
exchanges-person to person-will receive significant coverage in both the U.S. and Soviet media.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
December 21, 1984
MEMORANDUM FOR MICHAEL K. DEAVER
FROM:
KENNETH J. HILL KgH
SUBJECT:
1984 Olympic Games
Attached is my closing report for the 1984 Olympic
Games. I have focused on the role of the White House
Coordinator, the White House Task Force, and the
Federal Security Coordinator. With an eye to the
Archives and future events, I attempted to explain what
we did in the planning process and why.
Each individual Agency is in the process of
submitting a final report, but only a few have been re-
ceived to date. These reports gathered as part of a
package will tell the whole story.
Of overriding interest, however, is that while
not all the figures are in yet, it appears that not
more than $35 million of the $50 million Department of
Defense appropriation was actually spent. All the
equipment lent to local law enforcement has been, or
soon will be, recovered and replaced in DOD inventory.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Now that the applause and congratulations have con-
cluded over what has to have been an Olympics that
succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams, it is wise to
address some issues that arose that are specific to
managing and coordinating an event of the magnitude of
the 1984 Olympics and the attendent responsibilities of
the Federal Government.
Each individual agency is presently in the process
of preparing a closing report that will deal with the
specifics of that agency's involvement, including ex-
penditures, personnel commitments, programs, and future
recommendations. In assembling a final report for the
Federal Government, each individual agency's report
should be incorporated in the overall package, something
not done after our involvement in the 1980 Winter Olympic
Games at Lake Placid, New York. The intention of this
report is to comment upon the White House's participation
in the planning process and how the coordination effort
was carried out.
It has become obvious that the single most important
issue that must be addressed in coming to grips with an
unusual event such as the Olympics which were in Los Angeles,
or the Pan Am Games may be in Indianapolis in 1987, is
whether such an event is deemed in the national interest.
This was the decision that was made at an early date
for Los Angeles, and now with the luxury of hindsight
we can readily see that it was correct, as the dramatic
impact that these Games had on the psyche and well-being
of America is readily apparent. A special event that
can be such a force, positive or negative should not be
readily dismissed. Clearly the encouragement of
President Reagan and the support of the Federal Govern-
ment went a long way in assuring the success of the Games,
something with which the directors and staff of the
Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee have admitted
on several occasions.
Certainly the "national interest" decision should
be one that the White House reaches in concert with the
Congress, enabling the full resources of both the Execu-
tive and Legislative branches to be brought to bear on
any event. Again, in Los Angeles this proved to be a
vital point as the monies appropriated by Congress were
critical in supporting the overall security effort, and
without which, would have undermined the years of effort
and planning on the parts of thousands of law enforce-
ment personnel.
The White House, by necessity, must take the lead
Federal role in preparing and coordinating an effort the
size of what was envisioned for Los Angeles. It was
prudent that a single individual be nominated by the
President to be responsible for all Executive branch
activities that would be contemplated for the 1984
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Olympic Games, and be able to address with a single
voice, the numerous issues and problems that were to
arise on almost a daily basis.
In 1983, with the appointment of Presidential
Assistant, Michael K. Deaver, this responsibility was
undertaken. At this time, a crucial step was taken to
transmit the President's firm commitment for the Olympics
to the Cabinet Secretaries and enlist, in no uncertain
terms, their total support for our effort. Passing
this message was key towards getting the planning process
flowing on a national scale, as, left to their own devices,
some agencies may not necessarily develop the same pri-
orities and may not participate with the level of vigor
and enthusiasm for which one might wish. With Mr. Deaver
setting the tone, a vast majority of Federal agencies
were behind this national effort and provided an appro-
priate level of assistance and interest befitting the
White House's objectives.
An important tool in preparing and coordinating the
Federal activities was the Interagency Task Force on the
1984 Olympic Games. Chaired by Mr. Deaver and meeting
regularly at the White House, this Task Force provided
a forum for all critically involved agencies to become
acquainted with their counterparts, look for policy
guidance, and stay abreast of the Olympic Planning ef-
forts in general. As a practical matter, most of the
agency representatives had occasion to contact White
House or Olympic representatives on a regular basis,
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but the presence of the task force was worthwhile in
addressing broader policy questions and in reinforcing
the White House's control over the total Federal effort.
Agencies participating on the Task Force were:
White House staff
State Department
Justice Department
Treasury Department
U.S. Customs
INS
FBI
USSS
Coast Guard
DOD
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
GSA
FAA
FEMA
U.S. Post Office
Despite the initial efforts of the Task Force, plan-
ning on the national level necessarily lagged behind
that going on in Los Angeles by local jurisdictions and
field offices of the Federal agencies. Obviously, the
Olympics was only one of a myriad of daily responsibili-
ties facing Mr. Deaver and his staff. Likewise, the
Task Force representatives from each agency had other
duties to perform, resulting in no one in Washington
working full time on the Olympics and possible Federal
participation.
An area that was developing into one of growing
concern was that of security. With the image of the
tragedy of Munich in the back of everyone's mind, a
determination was made that everything appropriate
within the Federal Government's power to preclude an
incident occuring in Los Angeles would be attempted.
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At the same time reports were appearing in the news
media and comments were being made in law enforcement
circles that the security planning effort in Los Angeles
was less than perfect. Accusations of lack of coopera-
tion and coordination were numerous. Certainly not an
atmosphere that would assure success, if true.
Recognizing the need to have an independent assess-
ment made on exactly what was going on in Los Angeles,
Deaver contracted with Colonel (Ret.) Charlie Beckwith
to undertake an examination of the status of security
planning. Col. Beckwith, over the course of several
months in early 1983, determined that the question of
cooperation and coordination in Los Angeles was moot.
He found in fact that up to 50 different jurisdictions
and agencies were working closely together with the
Olympic Organizing Committee and cooperation was excel-
lent.
What was also apparent to Col. Beckwith was the
fact that the Federal Government had no one to speak for
them as a group and did not have someone that could pre-
clude or settle potential jurisdictional disputes.
The FBI was designated the lead Federal agency in re-
sponding to terrorist incidents, but it was unclear
whether they could, or would, be able to task other
federal agencies in planning for a massive preventive
security effort. Clearly this was something that would
have to come from the White House in regard to a major
event of "national interest." Bearing this in mind,
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ordinator be selected. This individual would serve on
the White House staff and report directly to Mr. Deaver.
Acting on this advice, Deaver selected Kenneth Hill, a
State Department officer, to fill `this role.
The Reagan Administration's philosophy on support
to the Olympics, was that each Federal agency would
fulfill its normal functions and responsibilities and
limit the creation of as few new entities or committees
as possible in attempting to deal with this security
effort. The role of Federal Security Coordinator was to
be simple. He was not there to be operational, per se.
It was not necessary to tell the Secret Service how to
protect the President, or tell the FBI how to conduct a
criminal investigation. These normal duties were left
to the expertise and professionalism of each agency.
However, among the key responsibilities with which the
Security Coordinator was charged with were:
1) Regularly brief Mr. Deaver on all facets of
security for the 1984 Olympics
2) Ensuring that the Federal community is co-
ordinating its security efforts in Los Angeles
3) Ensuring all appropriate agencies are involved
and giving the Olympics a priority
4) Serves as member of Olympic Law Enforcement
Coordinating Council in Los Angeles, repre-
senting the White House and other Federal
agencies
5) Monitoring the monies being used by Department
of Defense in support of local law enforcement
in Los Angeles.
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disputes between Federal agencies and local/state
governments relating to law enforcement/intel-
ligence activities at the Summer Games.
To be frank, the position of Federal Security
Coordinator was not one welcomed by all Federal agencies.
One or two of those that had become accustomed to operat-
ing with minimal supervision were wary of anyone at-
tempting to dictate the level of participation they
should provide for an event such as the Olympics.
However, for the vast majority of agencies, the role of
coordinator provided them with the ability to get quick,
decisive action on a wide range of issues. As with many
things at the highest levels of government, reaching a
decision is often less troublesome than getting specific
topics on the decision makers' agenda. The Federal Co-
ordinator was able to accomplish this.
A decision was made early in the program to not
physically locate the Security Coordinator in Los Angeles,
as many people suggested. An office was set up in the
Old Executive Office Building. This was done on the
assumption that while the actual operational planning
was being done in Los Angeles, the Coordinator could do
more for everyone by assisting in Washington on the budget
process, liasion with Congress, reviewing DOD's assistance
to law enforcement, monitoring Federal agencies' policy
decisions, and maintaining close proximity to the White
House staff. This worked quite well, although neces-
sitating frequent travel to Los Angeles, on the average
of twice a month.
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ApproxImately prior to opening or the
Olympic Games, the Coordinator moved to Los Angeles and
maintained an office at Forward Military Support quarters
in Piper Center. As the overall planning process was
deemed satisfactory and the plan went into effect just
prior to the arrival of athletes, the Coordinator's role
evolved to that of liaison. During the course of the
Games, his responsibilities were basically:
1) Serve as senior White House representative to
the Olympic effort
2) Represent Mr. Deaver at the site of any incident,
terrorist or otherwise, that might adversely
impact on the United States
3) Brief White House officials as necessary
4) Be prepared to resolve any disputes arising
between Federal/State or Federal/Local agencies
or jurisdictions
In preparation for the event of a terrorist incident,
White House Communications installed both a secure voice
system and a regular Signal switch between Hill's LA
Office and Mr. Deaver in Santa Barbara, where he was
travelling with the President. Of course, these communi-
cations could also be routed to the White House and
Situation Room.
Aside from the normal duties and responsibilites of the
Coordinator previously outlined, three programs evolved
that were of particular value to the overall security
planning effort. They were 1) ensuring Federal parti-
cipation in Command Post Exercises 2) Liaison with Con-
gress and 3) Liaison with Department of Defense.
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the Olympic Law Enforcement Coordinating Council
(OLECC) sponsored two command post exercises. The first,
in October 1983, was a desk top exercise, and the second,
in June 1984, was a more ambitious effort. On each oc-
casion the participation of the Federal agencies was
vital. As occurred throughout the Olympic effort,
enthusiasm varied from agency to agency, and it proved
to be very important to have White House support in order
to ensure a proper level of participation.
These exercises were important in addressing problem
areas. During the June 1984, exercise, an attempt was
made to exercise the national mechanism for responding
to a terrorist incident. To highlight the White House
commitment to this effort, the National Security Advisor to
the President, Robert McFarlane, and the White House
Situation Room staff, involved themselves in the prepara-
tion and actual game playing. This was viewed by those
local/state/federal personnel in Los Angeles as an example
of the White House's serious attitude towards law en-
forcement and its resolve in ensuring a safe and suc-
cessful Olympic Games. Toward the principal of only
being involved operationally in the event of a dire
emergency, the Security Coordinator did not actually
participate in the exercises, but was on hand as an
observer.
The second role of dealing with Congress was less
concrete. A spirit of bi-partisanship had arisen
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concerning the Olympic Games and commitment to pre-
cluding a serious security incident was obvious.
Interest was apparent at an early date from Senator
Jeremiah Denton and his subcommittee on Security and
Terrorism. Twice he scheduled closed hearings on the
status of Olympic planning, soliciting testimony from
a wide range of public and private agencies. Ken Hill,
in conjunction with Joe Wright of OMB, testified at each
hearing, representing the White House. Senator Denton's
and his staff's support was important toward facilitat-
ing our efforts and lending them increased credibility.
In another vein, as basically being a foreign
affairs event, the Olympics stirred immense interest
among those dealing with the diplomatic community and
our interests abroad. Consequently, the Coordinator's
role expanded to include briefings of both the Senate
and House Foreign Affairs Committees and almost daily
contact with the various bureaus of the Department of
State. Support from this diverse foreign affairs com-
munity was helpful in fulfilling other missions and
goals of our planning process.
The desire of Congress to aid our efforts wherever
appropriate, led to the third major program involving
the Security Coordinator's expanded duties. This was
in the area of the Department of Defense. Based upon
our experience at the 1980 Olympic Games at Lake Placid,
it was obvious that local jurisdictions would have an
extremely difficult time in coping with the massive
financial outlays required to provide a comprehensive
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security package to an event with the magnitude of
the Olympic Games. Sensing that Federal support
would be required to alleviate some of this burden,
and recognizing. successful Games were indeed in the
"national interest", Congress set about determining
what would be both appropriate and feasible.
With the support provided by the military at
Lake Placid in mind, and recognizing they had both
unique experience and equipment available, Congress
determined that the Department of Defense should be
used as the executive agent in assisting local law en-
forcement in Southern California in meeting the unusual
challenge of hosting the 1984 Olympic Games. Towards
this end, $50 million was appropriated toward the DOD
budget for this support.
These monies were administered by DOD, with the
Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, Ms. Jeanne Fites,
having final approval/disapproval authority over requests
for DOD assistance. In practical terms, the White House
Security Coordinator generally reviewed most requests
as they were received and any single request for more
than $100,000 was subject to a second review by OMB.
Stringent guidelines and a system of accountability
were put in place early in the process to assure that
this support system would be effective yet at the same
time, meet the spirit of intent that both the White
House and Congress had in mind.
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By all accounts, this program was a resounding
success. While local law enforcement had the option
to appeal to the Security Coordinator in the event a
request for assistance was denied, in fact, this was
a very rare occurrence. The Department of Defense
established a military liaison office in Los Angeles
during early 1983, and through the efforts of their
personnel on-site, reasonable and appropriate support
was provided without serious disagreement occurring.
For future events of national stature, the consideration
of such support is imperative toward potential success
or failure.
While the 1984 Olympics may be unique in our
lifetimes, the precedent of the interagency support to
the Games and the side issue of an unprecedented
security planning effort, will serve as a model for
future events of national importance. The success we
experienced was based upon the thousands of people who
displayed a total commitment to these efforts and ex-
panding the "realm of the possible." Doubters were not
in short supply early in these endeavors. But, based on
the support and accomplishment of this whole Administra-
tion, we persevered.
End Note: Much discussion occurred early in the
program over what size staff the Federal Security
Coordinator should have. The decision, and not
clearly the right one until the Games were over,
was to not have a large staff. Bearing in mind
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the non-operational nature of his role (barring
an incident of national consequences) a staff of
any size would only serve to interfere with the
daily planning of any number of agencies. Sup-
porting Mr. Hill was his Administrative Assistant,
Mary Jane Regan, and to her goes his thanks for a
difficult task performed in an exceptional manner.
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AC HAS SEEN 2/21
SEATTLE '90
David Gogol
Washington Office
(202) 223-0956
FAX: (202) 223-1393
TM
Uniting The World's Best
February 12, 1990
Mr. Andrew H. Card, Jr.
Deputy Chief of Staff
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Andy:
Just a note to thank you for your time last week. It was
kind of you to discuss a few of the issues with me. Your
reactions have made it clear that we need to either make a case
on the charter issue more compelling or rethink our position.
You may not know it, but you have a sports event expert on
the White House staff. Robert Marbut is a White House Fellow
assigned to the Office on National Service. He ran the local
organizing committee when the Junior Olympics were in San Antonio
last year. More importantly, he helped change the nature of that
event from a lackluster, money losing event to a really terrific
youth participatory event. He had the vision and the ability to
really make a difference. He is excited about the Goodwill Games
(the White House Fellows are participating in one of our exchange
programs) and would be willing to help if you need any
assistance. I thought you would be interested in this resource.
Sincerely,
D-J
David U. Gogol
DUG: dm
1701 K Street Northwest Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20006
GOODWILL GAMES TASK FORCE MEETING
Tuesday, January 16, 1990
Attendees
Name
Dept./Agency
Phone Number
ANDY CARD
WH
456-2533
Jim Lobmastere
GSA
535-0800
Cary Weil
State
647-6098
Bernard Engel
STATE
647-6401
KEN COWELL
US POSTAL Service
268-3388
ANTOUIO LOPEZ
FEMA
696-2828
STEVE GUBACK
PRES.
272-3421
STEVE BROARBENT
TREASURY
566-5877
PERCY Reynolds
TRADE! Development Augrom
875-4357
Bob RAUNER
DEFENSE
697-9155
Jeff Hathaway
DOT
366-5742
BART HOUSE
DOI
343 - 7566
D. JERRY RUBINO
DOJ
633-2094
Tom Collamore
Commerce
377-4951
Tom Komarek
DOL
523-9086
Ann Brooks
DOD
695-1802
Jim Arthur
6SA
566-0689
Julianne Dans
NEA
682-5506
Jonathan Stoat
USIA
485-8742
Goodwill Games Venues/Sports
Goodwill Games Facts
The games are scheduled for July 20- Aug. 5, 1990.
Description:
The Goodwill Games is an international
Source: Seattle
Shilshole
Husky
Organizing Committee
multi-sport invitational uniting approx-
imately 2,500 of the world's best athletes
Bay
Stadium
for the 1990 Gecowill
Games
from more than 50 countries for 17 days of
competition, July 20-August 5, 1990 in
Yachting
Opening ceremonies
Seattle, Washington.
Track and field
Marathon start/finish
N
Invitations to compete will be extended to
the top eight athletes and teams in each
Seattle
event by the participating U.S. sports federa-
Center
Hec
tions, based on performances at the 1988
SNCHOMISH
Coliseum
Edmundson
Olympics, World Championships and other
KING
Pavilion
international competitions.
Men's basketball
Wrestling
Sports:
Women's basketball
Men's volleyball
Athletics
Rhythmic
(Track & Field)
Gymnastics
Baseball
LAKE
Rowing
Seattle
Redmond
SAMMAMISH
Basketball
Swimming
Center
LAKE
Baxing
Synchronized
WASHINGTON
Arena
Seattle
Cycling
Swimming
Diving
Team Handball
Team handball
PUGET
GO
Marymoor
Figure Skating
Valleyball
Boxing
Park
Gymnastics
Water Polo
Velodrome
Ice Hockey
Weightlifting
Judo
Wrestling
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Cycling
Modern Pentathlon
Yachting
Seattle
University
SOUND
Venues:
Mount Baker
Judo
VASHON
Rowing Center
Cheney Stadium, Connolly Center, Hec
Edmundson Pavilion, Husky Stadium, King
ISLAND
Rowing
County Aquatics Center, King County
Aquatics
Fairgrounds, Marymoor Park Velodrome,
Center
Tacoma
Mt. Baker Rowing Center, Seattle Center
Coliseum and Arena, Shilshole Bay,
Dome
Swimming
Spokane Coliseum, the Tacoma Dome, and
Synchronized swimming
Federal
Tri Cities Coliseum.
Way
Figure skating
Water polo
Ice hockey
Diving
Tacoma
Organization:
Men's gymnastics
The Seattle Organizing Committee (SOC)
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Women's
is responsible for planning and staging the
Cheney
gymnastics
Games United States sports federations are
Stadium
responsible for technical aspects and the
issuance of invitations. Turner Broadcasting
Baseball
King County
Enumclaw
System, Inc. (TBS) holds the worldwide
Fairgrounds
broadcast rights and is the official host
KING
PIERCE
broadcaster.
Modern pentathlon
The 1990 Goodwill Games are jointly
presented by the SOC, the participating U.S.
WASHINGTON
Spokane
sports federations, TBS, the USSR State
Committee for Physical Culture and Sport
Seattle Spokane
Coliseum
(Goskomsport) and the USSR State Commit-
Tri-Cities
tee for Television and Radio (Gosteleradio).
Tacoma
Women's volleyball
Arena
Kennewick
Rhythmic gymnastics
Ice hockey
Weightlifting
Vol. 2, No. 3. COUNTDOWN is the official
newsletter of the 1990 Goodwill Games.
Please send all inquiries, information,
Copyright © 1989
Randee S. Fox, Rob Kemp /Seattle Times
comments and address corrections to:
U.S. OLYMPIC GOLD: A TBS SPORTS EXCLUSIVE
Donn Bernstein
Vice President
U.S. Olympic Gold: A TBS Sports
exhibition (July 29, 9:50 p.m.); The
Director of Media Relations
Exclusive presents some of the finest
Alamo Cup (Aug. 26, 5:05 p.m. live),
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Update
1990
INTEGRATED
POLICE
PLANNING
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A MONTHLY REPORT FROM THE INTEGRATED POLICE PLANNING GROUP
VOL. 2, NO. 1
JANUARY 1990
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1990 GOODWILL GAMES LAW ENFORCEMENT SECURITY PLAN IS COMPLETED
Regular publication of Update has been interrupted for the past few
months because much of the Integrated Police Planning Group's work has
been focused on completing the 1990 Goodwill Games Law Enforcement
Security Plan.
Under the direction of the Joint Forces Coordinating Committee,
IPPG has prepared a comprehensive summary of joint and agency-specific
missions addressing support and special operations, venue and athlete
village planning and preliminary personnel requirements.
In many ways, the plan is unprecedented.
No other inter-agency police planning effort has before produced
such a detailed compilation of information in advance of a major
international sporting event.
In addition to serving as the Joint Forces model for the overall
Goodwill Games security program, the Law Enforcement Security Plan was
also instrumental in the state Department of Community Development's
evaluation of Joint Forces security operations. It provided a foundation
for budget analysis for both agency-specific and coordinated efforts and
was used to justify requests for legislative appropriations and
disbursement of state funds.
Portions of the Law Enforcement Security Plan text are reprinted
in this issue of Update. Copies of the entire plan are available for
review through IPPG and JFCC representatives.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
LAW ENFORCEMENT SECURITY PLAN
Pages 2-14
TRAINING MILESTONES
Pages 15-17
PERSONNEL SCHEDULING
Page 20
CALENDAR OF JANUARY MEETINGS
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GOODWILL GAMES: AN OVERVIEW
Established and presented as a world-class
sports competition and source of international
goodwill through sports, the first Goodwill
Games were held in Moscow in 1986.
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Pursuant to an agreement with the Turner
Broadcasting System, the Goodwill Games Seattle
Organizing Committee (SOC) has the responsibility
for organizing and implementing the 1990 Games in
Seattle and other locations throughout the State
of Washington. The SOC has been chartered in
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Washington as a non-profit corporation "organized
exclusively for the purpose of fostering
international understanding by conducting
Uniting The World's Best
international amateur sports competition, and in
particular, by organizing, implementing and hosting the 1990 Goodwill
Games, and by sponsoring international cultural activities in
connection with the Goodwill Games."
Although the Games are open to qualifying athletes from any
nation, the Games have a character that is distinctly American and
Soviet. The Games are to be staged every four years, alternating
between cities in the US and USSR, and each event will have at least
one American and one Soviet participant. Likewise, Goodwill Games
cultural events and exchanges will involve primarily American and
Soviet musicians, performers and artists.
In the summer of 1990, the Goodwill Games will bring a variety
of sports and cultural events and associated activities to Washington
State.
The Goodwill Games will be the largest international sports
competition to be held in the US until the end of the next decade.
It will involve competition in 22 sports to be held in 15 locations
across the state from July 20 through Aug. 5, 1990.
Each event will involve eight athletes or teams; one each from
the US and USSR, with invitations extended to the six best from the
rest of the world. Except for team events, there will be no
preliminary rounds, just finals.
Goodwill Games organizers predict that 2500 athletes from more
than 50 countries will participate in the Games.
The Turner Broadcasting System holds the worldwide broadcasting
rights to the Games and will broadcast them throughout the US and
the world. The SOC reports that up to one billion people will be
reached by television broadcasts of the Games.
CULTURAL EVENTS ARE A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE GOODWILL GAMES
A Goodwill Arts Festival to include a number of music, performing
and visual arts programs, are planned before, during and after the
Games.
Many of these events will appear on the west coast for the first
time, and some will be a first for the US. Never have there been as
many US-USSR cultural events occurring at the same time in one place in
the world. Festival organizers are predicting total attendance at
these events will exceed 600,000.
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THE GOODWILL GAMES ARE MORE THAN SPORTS AND THE ARTS
In addition to sports and cultural events, the
Goodwill Games will serve as the catalyst for a
number of other activities, which will take place
in Washington State.
These include conferences on topics of
international concern, a major trade show to
promote US exports, visits by Soviet cruise ships
and direct flights by the Soviet national airline.
Other possibilities include visits by the President
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of the US, Soviet leaders and other dignitaries.
The Goodwill Arts Festival will have the attention of the arts
community and spectators around the world. The various associated
activities have the potential for overshadowing even the athletic
competition in terms of public attention. Finally, the interaction
between athletes, artists and citizens from the US and USSR will be
on a scale never before experienced. Ultimately, the Goodwill Games
may very well be more of a showcase for US-USSR relations than a
showcase for athletic competition.
During a recent visit to Seattle, Alexander Kozlovsky, a Soviet
statesman, identified the Games as the most important international
sports event to take place anywhere in the world over the next two
years. That is according to the Seattle Organizing Committee's
newsletter, "1990." Kozlovsky said the relationship that is developing
between the US and USSR transcends the athletic competition in
importance.
THE JFCC HAS EVALUATED THE SITUATION AND IS PLANNING ACCORDINGLY
The combination of Goodwill Games sports competition, cultural
programs and other activities related to the Games constitute an
event that is unprecedented in the history of
Washington State in terms of character, scope
and potential significance.
Since the tragedy at the 1972 Summer Olympics
in Munich, the potential for acts of terrorism has
played a dominant role in security planning for
international sporting events, and has required
extraordinary security measures to provide for the
safety of athletes, spectators and other persons
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associated with the event.
The international character and scope of the Goodwill Games
places the Games in the category of events with sufficient national
and international significance and visibility to make the Games an
attractive terrorist target.
On any given day, for a variety of reasons, acts of terrorism
take place throughout the world, making the issue of terrorism a
high national priority for law enforcement agencies at all levels.
The Pacific Northwest has a wide and varied population base and is
located adjacent to an unguarded international border, which is
crossed daily by thousands of persons. The Northwest also has a large
number of sensitive military and civilian installations engaged in
classified work for the US Government. (continued)
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In response to this situation, in January 1989, the US Department
of Justice certified 'that there are terrorist
infrastructures deployed in the US with sufficient
capability to carry out an act of terrorism against
the Goodwill Games and that the Games have
sufficient visibility and international interest to
make them an attractive target.
Potentially serious security issues are also
raised by persons other than terrorists who may
target or attempt to take advantage of the highly
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visible, internationally significant character of
the Games. In fact, experience in the US shows a clear potential for
event related incidents by such persons.
An example: Demonstrators who may attempt to advance a political
or social cause not related to the Games by taking advantage of the
world forum and audience the Games will provide. Another is
demonstrators, who may make a participating nation or individual or
the Games itself the subject of a protest. Such a demonstration
occurred at the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis, when anti-
Cuban Americans burned a Cuban flag at the boxing venue. The Cuban
boxing team responded by rushing into the spectator area and attacking
the demonstrators and several bystanders.
Just as outside parties may cause disruptions in the Games,
planners of international events have also had to be alert for
potential problems within the Games community caused by national
antipathies. In terms of the number of athletes and nations involved,
the Goodwill Games is second only to the Olympic Games. Based upon
current projections, at least ten invited nations have historically
antipathetic relationships. This does not include antipathy directed
at either the US or the USSR, the co-sponsors of the Games.
A less predictable and less defined problem that is disturbingly
random and very significant, is the threat posed by persons, who for
whatever personal reason, are triggered by the Games or something
unrelated to the Games and commit a serious criminal act against
participants or spectators. The only significant
incident that occurred during the 1984 Summer Olympics
in Los Angeles was caused by a disturbed individual
who used his car to run over scores of pedestrians on
a crowded sidewalk near the Olympic Village on the eve
of opening ceremonies. The person was not a terrorist,
nor was he attempting to make an anti-Olympic statement.
For reasons unknown, he simply appeared to have chosen
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the Olympics as his forum. Although the police
presence in the area did not prevent the incident, it
did facilitate a level of immediate police response that resulted in
the saving of lives and the apprehension of the offender. This would
not have occurred in the absence of the heightened level of security
that was in place for the Games.
In addition to the above described threats, which play a major
role in police planning and operations for a unique event like the
Goodwill Games, there are a variety of other security, enforcement
and service functions traditionally provided by the police at all
special events. These include crowd control, traffic control,
enforcement of laws, crime prevention, pro-active patrols, fixed
post security at perimeter points of entry and exit and interior
points of limited access, security for participants, emergency response,
property security, coordination with other affected agencies, (continued)
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and public service functions such as assisting lost
children and staffing for these ordinary operations
would be significant for any event the size, scope
and duration of the Goodwill Games.
Many law enforcement agencies in Washington
State already have experience in policing threat
assessed events such as visits by the President and
other national and international leaders,
demonstrations and nationally and internationally
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significant conferences. These events have required
an intensive level of police planning, resources and special
operations.
However, none of these events have approached the magnitude and
duration of the Goodwill Games. When considering the large number
of Goodwill Games events and associated activities, the international
and political importance of the Games, the dispersal of venues
across the state, the athlete village and satellite housing for
athletes, the number of athletes, participants and spectators, and
the nations to be involved, the scope and significance of the Goodwill
Games exceeds the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis and is
comparable to the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The
situation becomes even more extraordinary when unknown factors
associated with the Goodwill Games are considered. Some possibilities
include visits by the President of the US, the President of the Soviet
Union and other national and international leaders, the arrival of
Soviet cruise ships, and direct flights by Soviet airlines.
In assessing the situation presented by the Goodwill
it is
important to remember that the Games will not occur in a vacuum. Non-
Games related demands for police service will not stop and law
enforcement agencies must continue to provide the level of service to
the public that would be available in the absence of the Games.
This is not an easy task since local and state law enforcement
agencies already face unprecedented demands for police
services. Year-by-year, law enforcement agencies in
Washington have experienced significant, ever
increasing calls for service, investigative caseloads
and other demands. On an annual basis, the workload
traditionally reaches its peak in the summer during
the same period the Goodwill Games are scheduled to
occur.
In addition to peak demands for ordinary police
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services, the months of July and August bring a variety
of other special events that requre an additional amount of police
planning and resources. In Seattle these events include the Seafair
Festival, Fourth of July Celebration, Bumbershoot music festival,
Mariners baseball games and a variety of community events. In
Kennewick the Water Follies and the hydroplane races on the Columbia
River are concurrent with the Goodwill Games. Every agency in the
State faces similar summer events immediately before, after and during
the Goodwill Games.
Law enforcement agencies in Washington can respond to all of
these demands in the summer of 1990, but only with the most efficient
and judicious use of resources and an unparalleled degree of inter-
agency cooperation and coordination between federal, state and local
agencies.
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LAW ENFORCEMENT'S RESPONSE
A number of federal, state and local law
enforcement agencies are directly and indirectly
affected by the Goodwill Games.
Federal agencies are affected because the
international character and scope of the Games and
the threat assessment present issues that fall
within the jurisdiction of federal agencies. These
agencies have and will continue to devote a
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significant amount of personnel and resources to
security planning and operations. In addition, the US
Congress has appropriated $5 million FY 89 and is in the process of
appropriating $14.6 million FY 90 to the US Department of Defense.
These funds are to be used for logistical support and security
equipment for state and local law enforcement agencies involved in
providing security for the Games.
A number of state and local agencies are affected by the
Goodwill Games because of the dispersal of venues, cultural events
and associated activities across the state.
Security planning and operations for the Games are an enormous
and complex undertaking. Four general areas of focus can be defined.
There are interagency organization and planning, venue security,
athlete village security and support and special operations. The
following provides an overview of each of these areas.
INTERAGENCY ORGANIZATION AND PLANNING
The involved federal, state and local law enforcement agencies
have recognized the need for close interagency cooperation and
coordination in providing security for the Games while respecting
each agency's jurisdictional autonomy.
This cooperation and coordination is necessary because of the
complexities in security planning and other issues of
concern presented by the Games. Furthermore, it will
allow the involved agencies to avoid duplication of
effort, gaps in the planning process and the
unnecessary use of limited police resources.
In order to facilitate planning, cooperation and
coordination, a four-level planning and organizational
structure has been created and in operation since
the winter of 1987. It consists of the Law Enforcement
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Council, Joint Forces Coordinating Committee, Integrated
Police Planning Group and Advisory Subcommittees.
Law Enforcement Council: The LEC consists of the chiefs of the
Washington State Patrol, King County Department of Public Safety, and
the University of Washington, Port of Seattle, Seattle, Kennewick,
Spokane, Tacoma and Bellevue Police Departments; a representative of
the King County Association of Chiefs and Sheriffs; representatives
from the FBI, US Secret Service, US Coast Guard, US Customs Service,
US Immigration and Naturalization, US Marshal's Service, Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the US Postal Inspector and the
President of the Seattle Organizing Committee. (continued)
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The LEC makes major policy decisions on matters
such as jurisdictional responsibilities, federal,
state and local interrelations, mutual assistance
agreements, and those issues forwarded to the LEC
by the JFCC.
Joint Forces Coordinating Committee: The
JFCC consists of command and supervisory level
representatives from the same agencies that
constitute the LEC. A representative from the
Seattle Organizing Committee is also on the JFCC.
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The JFCC is charged with overall planning and
implementation of security procedures for the Games.
Integrated Police Planning Group: The IPPG consists of
representatives from the Washington State Patrol, King County
Department of Public Safety, and the Port of Seattle, Kennewick,
Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma and University of Washington Police
Departments; the US Department of Defense, Federal Bureau of
Investigation and US Coast Guard; and a representative from the
Seattle Organizing Committee.
The IPPG is the central staff for the JFCC. In addition to
providing staff support to the various advisory subcommittees and
developing operations guidelines for the JFCC, the IPPG ties together
the work of the subcommittees, drafts resolutions and official
actions, prepares requests to the Department of Defense, does
research on a variety of issues, coordinates mutual assistance
planning, develops budgets, coordinates computer personnel forecasting
and scheduling and maintains archival and after-action information.
Advisory Subcomittees: There are 13 Advisory Subcommittees:
Accreditation, Air Support, Bomb/EOD, Communications, Crime Suppression,
Dignitary Protection, Emergency Response, Intelligence, Media, Off-
Venue, Training, Village/Venue and Volunteer Services.
Each Subcommittee is made up of a number of representatives from
the various federal, state and local agencies and in some cases the
Seattle Organizing Committee. Many subcommittee
members have been assigned to subcommittees on the
basis of their expertise in a particular area of police
support and special operations.
The subcommittees have the responsibility for
developing security plans and procedures for their
respective areas of support and special operations.
In many cases, subcommittee members will assume a
functional role corresponding to their subcommittee
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role during the actual staging of the Games.
VENUE SECURITY
The Goodwill Games will involve 15 sports venues and six non-
sports venues, not including the athlete village, located in six
different jurisdictions in Washington State.
Sports venues are sites where Goodwill Games athletic events
will be staged. Non-sports venues are sites of significant security-
sensitive activities directly related to the Games.
Because police jurisdiction is based primarily on geographic
borders, the local law enforcement agency in which jurisdiction (continued
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a venue resides, will be the agency that has primary police
authority and responsibility for the venue.
Generally, each venue will be treated as an
operational entity, with police command falling
under a venue commander. A venue specific police
command, as opposed to a more generalized multi-
venue police command, is necessary due to the
large number of venues, the details of planning
venue security and the complexity and volume of
work that will be involved managing day-to-day
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police operations at each venue.
Each agency has already chosen ranking command-level officers
to serve as venue commanders. These commanders have been actively
involved in the process of planning security and police operations
for their respective venues since the winter of 1989. This process
has included: Briefings; review of reports and practices at other
major threat-assessed special events such as the 1986 Pan American
Games, the 1986 Winter Olympics and the 1984 Summer Olympics;
meetings and liaison with the Seattle Organizing Committee, US
Department of Defense, and venue property owners and managers; visits
to venues and review of venue plans; on-site security assessments;
potential for physical changes to the facility and use of specialized
security equipment; and ongoing meetings with other venue commanders,
the various subcommittees and the IPPG.
Although the Goodwill Games present unique circumstances and
conditions, venue security planning has benefited by the experience
that the involved agencies already have in special event security
planning and operations. This includes ordinary special events,
threat assessed special events and familiarity with policing most
of the facilities that will serve as Goodwill Games venues.
Differences in venue security operations between jurisdictions
can be expected. This is due to factors such as differences in
jurisdiction-specific methods of operation, command-specific
methods of operation, character of the event that will be staged at
venue and physical differences in venues.
However, a number of concepts of operation are
common to all Goodwill Games venues. These include
plans and operations common to all special events
such as traffic control, crowd control, proactive
patrol, control of perimeter and interior access
points, coordination with other affected agencies,
property security, participant security, emergency
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response and providing other ordinary public safety
services.
The threat-assessed dimension of the Goodwill Games presents a
host of other issues that require enhanced, ordinary event planning
and operations and also special plans and operations common only to
threat-assessed events. These include special plans and operations
for venue-sited command posts, sanitization and 24-hour security for
the venue, accreditation, specialized training, dignitary protection,
participant protection, intelligence coordination and dissemination,
off-venue escort coordination, specialized communications, special
emergency response contingencies, volunteer supervision and
coordination and air support and bomb planning and operations.
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THE ATHLETE VILLAGE
Goodwill Games athletes and their support staffs
will be housed at the Athlete Village on the
University of Washington campus.
The Village will comprise 31 acres in the
northeast corner of the campus, with housing,
recreational, dining and administrative facilities
located in existing dormitories and adjacent buildings.
The Montlake parking lot to the east of the main
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buses and other vehicles. It is anticipated that on opening day of
campus will serve as the sanitation site for athlete
the Village, July 16, the census will be 420, with peak census
during the Games rising to 1800.
Security planning and operations for the Village will be co-
managed and staffed by the University of Washington Police Department
and the Washington State Patrol. Each agency will adhere to their
own internal command and general non-Games specific operational
policies and procedures. The University of Washington Police
Department will retain primary jurisdiction over criminal matters.
The Washington State Patrol will take the lead in matters concerning
emergency response, bombs, and management and staffing of the Village
sanitation zone.
The Athlete Village will be subject to extremely high security
measures, due to its size and potential exposure in the absence of
appropriate measures, the presence of athletes 24 hours a day, and
its inherent attractiveness as a target of outside threats.
Security will be provided by officers and volunteers on fixed
posts and roving patrols. The Village will also rely heavily upon
a number of physical security measures, such as security fences,
electronic intrusion detection systems, closed circuit monitors,
vehicle and pedestrian control points with weapon detection
capability, additional lighting and alarm systems.
SUPPORT AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS
All police field operations, such as patrol and
investigations, are backed by a variety of support
and special operations, such as communications,
emergency response and intelligence.
Although crucial to the success of field
operations, support and special operations do not
take precedenceover field operations. Rather, they
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complement and facilitate them. In this sense,
Goodwill Games security operations are the same as
other police operations with the venues and Athlete Village representing
a precinct or other front-line operation.
Thirteen categories of police support and special operations have
been identified for Goodwill Games security planning and operations.
These are accreditation, air support, bomb/EOD, communications, crime
suppression, dignitary protection, ERT, intelligence, media relations,
off-venue security, training, volunteer services and the Joint Operations
Center. (continued)
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Advisory subcommittees, which are responsible for planning and
operations in each of these areas, have been established by the
Joint Forces Coordinating Committee as delegated by the Law
Enforcement Council. Subcommittee members have been chosen based
largely on their experience and expertise in a specific area of
support and operations. Many subcommittee chairmen and subcommittee
members will assume a functional role corresponding to their
subcommittee role during the actual staging of the Games.
The law enforcement agencies involved in providing security
for the Goodwill Games already have extensive experience and
expertise in most areas of support and special operations for the
Games. However, the unique situation presented by the Games does
require increased coordination and integration and enhancement in
these areas. To this end, all involved law enforcement agencies are
directly or indirectly involved in the planning being carried out
by the subcommittees, and major support and special operations
decisions and procedures must be ratified by the Joint Forces
Coordinating Committee.
MISSION STATEMENTS OF THE 13 SUBCOMMITTEES
ACCREDITATION: To develop a process whereby vendors, service
personnel, volunteers and employees of the 1990 Goodwill Games
receive an appropriate criminal history background check through
state and federal records, providing the subcommittee the ability
to make recommendations to the Seattle Organizing Committee on the
suitability of hiring or providing access to said individuals.
The committee has no responsibility for the official credentialing
of athletes, volunteers, or employees of the Games: this is the
sole responsibility of the SOC. In order to accomplish the stated
goals, the subcommittee is made up of representatives from the
SOC, law enforcement agencies and other government agencies directly
involved in security planning for the 1990 Goodwill Games.
AIR SUPPORT: To design and implement specific Air Support services,
principally reconnaissance surveillance/observation, airborne
transport for EOD, ERT and Dignitary Protection, as well as Medivac,
and management of venue related airspace during the Games.
BOMB/EOD: To develop and implement a plan to facilitate the
handling of any real or suspected explosive device or materials
during the Games. Additionally, the Bomb/EOD Subcommittee will
assist in the development of procedures and standards relative to
explosive device issues, for example, the sanitation of buildings
and vehicles.
COMMUNICATIONS: To design, based upon specifications and needs
analysis by the Joint Forces, a radio and telephonic communications
system for law enforcement operations during the Goodwill Games;
to formulate a request for Department of Defense support based upon
the finalized communications concepts; to provide liaison and
technical support to the DoD during the bid, procurement, contract
and systems installation phases; to test the system and design a
training program; to facilitate the execution of loan agreements;
to provide management oversight at the joint dispatch center.
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DIGNITARY PROTECTION: To plan for the protection of US and foreign
dignitaries consistent with established policy. The subcommittee
will interface with local and federal agencies and the Seattle
Organizing Committee on coordination of issues of jurisdiction,
resource logistics and communications.
EMERGENCY RESPONSE: To plan and implement the organized and
controlled deployment of specially trained and equipped tactical
personnel to major incidents or high-risk situations related to the
Goodwill Games without detracting from each agency's ability to
continue to provide ERT (SWAT-negotiator) coverage for non-Goodwill
Games related incidents.
INTELLIGENCE: To collect, process, analyze and disseminate
information of interest to law enforcement on threats, actions or
anticipated activity that will impact venues, athletes, delegations
or surrounding jurisdictions during the 1990 Goodwill Games.
MEDIA RELATIONS: To develop lines of communication between law
enforcement agencies involved in Goodwill Games security planning
and all media sources having an interest in reporting on Goodwill
Games events and activities. Additionally, the subcommittee will
establish a means to disseminate information relative to security
planning within those law enforcement agencies involved and to
coordinate press releases addressing both routine and critical
situations under the auspices of the Joint Forces Coordinating
Committee.
OFF-VENUE SECURITY: To establish operational standards for the
inspection of all athlete transportation vechicles to ensure the
vehicles are free of any explosive, hazardous device or major
mechanical defect that may present a potential or suspected danger
to athletes or others. In addition, Off-Venue will provide and
maintain'a secure transportation escort for the athletes in the
event of threats to their safety. Transportation security will
be in effect while the athletes are traveling to and from the
Village and other venues while participating in scheduled events
and practices.
TRAINING: To provide a centralized planning group responsible for
coordinating, standardizing and facilitating the production and
distribution of all Joint Forces training; to oversee the production
of manuals, guides and other Joint Forces resource material, as
well as Joint Forces command post, table top and field excercises.
VOLUNTEER: To identify security functions that can be filled by
volunteers, and recruit, train and supervise volunteers to fill
those identified positions.
CRIME SUPPRESSION: To reduce and prevent criminal activity in
and around Goodwill Games venue sites prior to and during the Games
operational period by means of employing speciał police missions
and publicizing police presence. Directed patrol missions will
emphasize street crime such as prostitution and drug sales, public
indecency, drunkenness, pedestrian interference and other
interpersonal crimes.
UPDATE JANUARY 1990
PAGE 13
GOODWILL GAMES JOINT OPERATIONS CENTER
The Goodwill Games law enforcement Joint Operations Center
(JOC) will be located in the old Federal Office Building at
909 1st Ave., in downtown Seattle, the current offices of the
Integrated Police Planning Group.
The mission of the JOC will be to support Village/Venue
commanders and other affected Goodwill Games law enforcement
mission commanders in assessing concerns and addressing incidents
that exceed the scope of their resources.
Pursuant to this mission, a functional joint operations
center will be established under the direction and control of
the Joint Forces Coordinating Committee; communications procedures
will be created to link the JOC with the Athlete Village, venues,
Specialized Management Centers (ERT, Bombs/EOD, Air Support, etc.)
and other elements in order to provide the best information
available in a timely and complete fashion; and to establish
mechanisms to address region-wide critical situations that
exceed the resources of individual agencies. For example, the
procedures to back-fill resources from Specialized Management
Centers if resources have been deployed for missions will be
developed and implemented by the JOC.
The JOC will be staffed by the eight executive members or
their designees of the Joint Forces Coordinating Committee, who
represent the Seattle, Tacoma, Port of Seattle and University of
Washington Police Departments, the King County Department of
Public Safety, the Washington State Patrol, the FBI and the US
Coast Guard.
Other Joint Forces members as well as representatives from
public works, DoD, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, etc.
may also provide staff support to the JOC, as determined by the
Joint Forces Coordinating Committee.
The JOC will include five Specialized Management Centers:
ERT, Bomb/EOD, Dignitary Protection, Off-Venue Security and
Air Support. Each will be staffed 24 hours a day by a coordinator
having direct supervisory control over the individual specialized
resources. The Specialized Management Centers will be linked
to a forward staging area at Boeing Field, where the majority of
special teams will be standing by with air support helicopters
and other field units. In the event of a call-out, the Specialized
Management Center commanders will initiate deployment and
coordinate with the forward staging area, venue commander requesting
the resources and the Joint Forces watch commander.
Separately secured and located adjacent to the JOC is the
Coordinated Threat Assessment Group (CTAG). The CTAG will be the
intellegence center for law enforcement during the Games. Through
centralized analysis of domestic and international intelligence,
the CTAG will provide 24-hour collection, analysis and timely
dissemination of risk assessments that could impact the security of
the Games. Much of the information that will be analyzed will be
collected by on-site Situational Assessment Teams (SAT teams).
The FBI is the lead agency for the CTAG.
The JOC will also house a computerized central scheduling
system, a VIP viewing and conference room, a press briefing area
and the nexus of the JOC, the Goodwill Games communications center.
UPDATE JANUARY 1990
PAGE 14
GOODWILL GAMES VENUE COMMANDERS
VENUE
EVENTS
COMMANDER
Tacoma Dome
Figure Skating
Capt. Walt Copeland,
Gymnastics
Tacoma Police
Cheney Stadium
Baseball
Lt. Paul Meilbrecht,
Tacoma Police
Aquatics Center
Swimming and
Maj. Oliver Moore,
Diving
King County Police
Tyee High School
Accreditation
Maj. Dick Kraske,
Center
King County Police
Enumclaw
Modern
Maj. Terry Allman,
Pentathlon
King County Police
Marymoor Park
Bicycling
Maj. Jackson Beard,
King County Police
Husky Stadium/
Edmundson Pavilion
Opening Ceremony
Capt. Larry Farrar,
Track and Field
Seattle Police
Volleyball
Wrestling
Shilshole Bay
Yachting
Capt. Larry Farrar,
Seattle Police
Seattle Center
Basketball
Lt. Fred Hill,
Team Handball
Seattle Police
Boxing
Seattle University
Judo
Capt. John Pirak,
Seattle Police
Stan Sayers Pits
Rowing
Capt. John Pirak,
Seattle Police
Downtown Seattle
Dignitary Hotels
Capt. Mike O'Mahony
Seattle Police
US West Marathon
Marathon
Capt. John Moffat,
Seattle Police
Spokane
Weight Lifting
Sgt. Al Odenthal,
Volleyball
Spokane Police
Gymnastics
Kennewick
Hockey
Chief Bob Farnkoff,
Kennewick Police
UPDATE JANUARY 1990
PAGE 15
TRAINING EXERCISES TO BE DEVELOPED IN PREPARATION FOR THE GAMES
To supplement and bring together the preparations and
training of individuals and agencies responsible for providing
security for the 1990 Goodwill Games, exercises are being
developed to instill a sense of confidence among the participants
that the security system will work under stress.
The participants will also gain an understanding for the
complexities involved in planning security-responses at 18
venues; protecting land, water and air movements; and coordinating
the involvement of numerous local, state and federal law
enforcement and support agencies.
The exercises will provide training for all participants in
a comprehensive, realistic environment. They validate the security
concept and system; test facilities and procedures; potentially
expose unanticipated interface and problems; and build an
experience base that justifies any needed repairs or fine tuning
to the security system before the Games operational period begins.
The Training Subcommittee has considered many levels and types
of training exercises. A total program can build on a series of
individual agency and venue exercises and on preliminary and
partial exercises at the system level.
The minimum program suggested consists of a table-top
exercise, a communications exercise and a total system exercise.
For Goodwill Games planning purposes, the requirement for
two table-top exercises and a final or total system exercise has
been determined. The communications exercise will be included as
a preamble to the final exercise.
Additionally, an exercise to test the exercise will be
conducted using IPPG personnel and will precede the first table-
top exercise. To assist in the development and refinement of
procedures, each JFCC subcommittee will be afforded the opportunity
to review scenario events each time they meet between January and
June of 1990. One event per subcommittee meeting will be presented
for discussion by the members. A resolution should be arrived at
within about 15 minutes. Each session may be coordinated and
controlled and observed by the Training Subcommittee.
The following are definitions for the three types of training
exercises.
Table-Top: A simulation exercise in seminar format, played
by selected senior representatives of major security organizations.
Its purpose is to ensure that policies and procedures for
information flow and/or joint action (verses single agency action)
and support are mutually understood or clarified.
Communications: A technical exercise to ensure all
Goodwill Games installed equipment works and all systems integrate
properly. Its purpose is to ensure information can flow quickly
throughout the entire network.
Final: A full-dress rehearsal involving as many people as
possible performing their actual Games duties and responsibilities
while using the planned communications network.
UPDATE JANUARY 1990
PAGE 16
PROPOSED TRAINING MILESTONES
January 4, 1990: Discussion of Joint Forces exercises with
subcommittee chairs. Assign tasking for Feb. 1 and Feb. 15 milestones.
February 1, 1990: Identification of 10 "worst scenarios" by each
of the subcommittees for purposes of developing master scenario
list.
February 15, 1990: Formal development of written standard
operating procedures for each of the subcommittees.
March 1, 1990: In January and February the Joint Operations Center
will be developed and constructed and a standard operating
procedures manual will be written. Project Staff: Pat Vezetinski,
(DoD), Clark Kimerer (IPPG), Dick Thurston (FBI). JFCC will develop
and ratify the SOP for the JOC no later than March 1, 1990.
March 19, 1990: IPPG table-top shakedown exercise, preparatory to
the first table-top March 28, 1990.
March 28, 1990: KFCC-Specialized Management table-top exercises.
April 30, 1990: IPPG table-top shakedown exercise, preparatory
to the May 9, 1990 table-top exercise.
May 9, 1990: JFCC-Specialized Management-Venue (limited) table-
top exercise.
June 20, 1990: Communications table-top/field test exercise.
July 10, 1990: IPPG shakedown exercise for July 12, 1990, full
field Joint Forces exercise.
July 11, 1990: Final communications test/exercise.
July 12, 1990; Joint Forces full field exercise.
OVERALL CONSIDERATIONS:
These exercises belong to the law enforcement agencies. The
designated law enforcement official (Chairman of the Training
Subcommittee) is responsible for the entire exercise program and
will have full control. The US Department of Defense will assist
the Training Subcommittee in designing and developing the requested
exercises. For a successful exercise program, early collaboration
of all agencies is needed to ensure willing participation. Also,
training of participants is required to ensure enthusiastic play.
Finally, realistic scenarios and control measures are needed to
keep players engaged and stressed.
UPDATE JANUARY 1990
PAGE 17
TRAINING EXERCISES TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Subcommittees:
-Development of 10 "worst scenarios" list
-Development for formal SOP for the operational
period of Games
JFCC:
-Identification and formalization of agency-
specific SOP, based upon each agency's policies
and procedures
-Development of Joint Operations Center SOP
IPPG/Training
Subcommittee:
-Provide staff support to JFCC and subcommittees
-Compile and develop comprehensive SOP manual,
both Joint Forces/Specialized Management and
agency specific
-Construct table-top and field exercises based
on the master scenario list
-Act in the capacity of controllers, facilitators,
role players and assessors during the scenarios
-Compile and develop the after-action reports
-Develop "Officers' Pocket Manual", JOC-Venue
operations manuals and other SOP manuals as needed
Department of
Defense:
-Lead contact: Ted Paterson via Pat Vezetinski
-Facilitate development and execution of scenario
exercises
-Provide support equipment, as needed
-Provide outside personnel, including independent
assessors/facilitators, as needed
-Construct table-top and field exercises in
conjunction with IPPG, Training Subcommittee and
consultants from the Joint Forces (e.g.
communications, as needed)
-Interface with Spokane, Kennewick, FEMA and
federal representatives
GOALS TO MEET IN ORDER TO PREPARE AND EXECUTE TRAINING PROGRAM
-Research, coordinate and write overall exercise plans
-Build and operate an exercise management system
-Write scenarios and master incident list
-Train exercise support staff and participants
-Provide exercise control staff
-Provide a situation cell to provide realistic stimulus
and feedback in free-play situations
-Provide an exercise assessment team
UPDATE JANUARY 1990
PAGE 18
IN BRIEF
Seattle Police Capt. Pat Munter is the new chairman of the Crime
Suppression Subcommittee, replacing King County Maj. Jackson Beard.
Maj. Beard, who was recently promoted, has been named commander
of the Marymoor Park venue.
Carol Butler has been added to the IPPG's secretarial support staff,
joining Vera Dewey. Ms Butler, who worked for the City of Seattle
for the past five years in a variety of temporary positions, is
well-acquainted with the interdepartmental workings of city
government. Her flexibility has proved invaluable to the planners.
She replaces Terrie Johnston, who was promoted and is now working
in the Seattle Police Crime Prevention unit.
Seattle Police Officer Margie O'Hare was recently assigned to the
IPPG staff. A 12-year veteran of the department, she has served
in a variety of positions in the patrol and communications divisions.
Her duties as an IPPG planner will include acting as a venue and
agency liaison in matters of computerized personnel scheduling.
As of January 1, 1990, there are 200 days left until the Goodwill
Games begin.
The Law Enforcement Volunteer Hotline number is 554-4812.
President Bush has formed a White House task force for the Goodwill
Games, according to Vice President Dan Quayle, who visited Seattle
this past October. Fifteen federal departments and agencies are
working on the Games, and $23 million has been set aside for the
event. Quayle also said either he or the President will attend the
Games.
Although the Seattle Organizing Committee has sent President Bush
and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev invitations to the Goodwill
Games, it seems unlikely the leaders will meet in Seattle, according
to a Seattle newspaper. During the Malta summit this past November,
Bush and Gorbachev agreed to hold another summit in the US in June,
reducing the chance that the two might meet again only a month
later.
All visitors to the Seattle Organizing Committee offices must now
have an accreditation badge to enter. Bob Agnew, Vice President
of SOC Security, advises that visitors check in at the reception
desk to obtain a visitor's pass before entering.
The cutoff date for the last batch of background investigation
inquiries is June 27, 1990. The data disk must be in the hands
of the Washington State Patrol no later than the morning of June
28, according to Accreditation Subcommittee Chairman Capt. John
Tierney, of WSP.
Tacoma Police Officer Fred Dryer and Washington State Patrol Trooper
Tim Walters will be trained by the Los Angeles Police Department to
develop a curriculumand instruct more than 30 potential police
air observers for the Goodwill Games.
UPDATE JANUARY 1990
PAGE 19
SOC NAMES MANAGERS FOR GOODWILL GAMES VENUES
The Seattle Organizing Committee has hired venue managers for
each Goodwill Games athletic venue.
The managers will be meeting regularly with venue commanders
to brief them regarding SOC venue operations.
For King County venues, Beverly Hawkins will manage swimming
and diving events at the Aquatics Center; Dale Verdugo will manage
the modern pentathlon at King County Park; Barclay Kruse will direct
the cycling events at Marymoor Park; and Dave Maider will manage
the Accreditation Center at Tyee High School.
For the Seattle venues, Leslie Brown is the athlete village
and dignitary hotels manager; John Ryan will manage opening ceremonies,
track and field, wrestling and volleyball events at Husky Stadium
and Hec Edmundson Pavilion; Rick Lockhard has judo at Seattle
University; Linda Rasmussen will manage basketball, team handball
and boxing at the Seattle Center; and Dale Verdugo has rowing at
Mount Baker Beach. A manager has yet to be named for the Shilshole
Bay venue, the location for the yachting events.
For the Tacoma venues, Cynthia Fair will manage ice skating
and gymnastics at the Tacoma Dome and Mark Pajak will manage
baseball at Cheney Stadium.
All of the SOC venue managers may be reached by calling the
SOC's main number, 554-1990.
FROM THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Gov. Booth Gardner announced in November that he would request
an additional $3.6 million in state funds from the Legislature to
help pay for the cost of providing security for the 1990 Goodwill
Games.
The funds would be in addition to the $3.5 million appropriated
by the Legislature earlier this year, bringing the total state
commitment to the Goodwill Games to $7.1 million to help finance
and Washington State Patrol and local security costs. The legislature
included $200,000 in last year's appropriation for administration
costs for the state Department of Community Development, which is
responsible for submitting a security plan evaluation to the state.
Gov. Gardner said the direct revenues from the Games will
raise $7.4 million in state revenue.
The Governor said the state will continue to make the
availability of its funds contingent on local government security
also being funded by $2 million from the Seattle Organizing Committee
and local governments using their estimated $1.9 million in revenue
generated from the Games. With state funds, the total reimbursible
security costs will be $10.8 million.
Of the $10.8 million, about $3.7 million will go directly to
local governments and WSP for personnel costs to staff athletic
venue sites. Another $2.2million is for planning costs, $900,000
is for indirect costs, such as backfilling staff, $950,000 is for
joint police support operations and $330,000 is for miscellaneous
costs. A proposed fund of $2.6 million has also been set aside to
pay for training, vehicle costs, the Joint Operations Center,
dignitary protection and athlete transportation, once plans for
those expenses have been further defined. (continued)
UPDATE JANUARY 1989
PAGE 20
(continued)
Local governments originally requested about $2.2 million
than Gov. Gardner is proposing.
The Governor will include his request for additional state
funds in the supplemental budget to go before the Legislature in
this. month.
PERSONNEL SCHEDULING ISSUES ARE ADDRESSED
During the past few months IPPG has made progress toward
providing participating agencies with access to an Automated
Manpower On-line Scheduling (AMOS) system.
The purpose of AMOS is to assist in collecting information
on personnel resources and assignment requirements, and to provide
a system that will efficiently match people to posts using
priorities provided by the participating agencies. In addition,
the system will provide structured roll call sheets with post
assignment information, a selection of summarized management and
other reports to be used for advanced schedule reporting.
Seattle Police Sgt. Alan Bernstein will address the venue
commanders at their monthly meeting at 1000 hours on Jan. 12, 1990,
at the Boeing Field Annex, to explain how the system will work.
Each agency providing personnel for use in Goodwill Games
assignments will determine the availability of its personnel.
to ensure each agency meets the needs of its non-Games related
responsibilities. Each agency will also assist in determining
how officers will be scheduled, whether it be by shift, rank, sex,
current assignment, specialized training, etc.
Individual subcommittees will select and schedule the personnel
required for their functions as those assignments often require
personnel with specialized trainingand/or equipment.
Each venue requiring personnel assignments will complete a
request form that specifies the type of personnel needed and
information of the assignment itself. These assignments will be
filled automatically based on the personnel available and the
criteria specified on the request form.
Each agency will be provided with management reports
summarizing the manpower resources that have been scheduled
for Goodwill Games activities. These reports will be available
on a daily, event and operational period basis.
Each agency with venue responsibilities may designate a
prioritized list of other agencies whose personnel will be used
at the venue when its own personnel resources are depleted.
The manpower scheduling system will not be a timekeeping or
payroll system. All reports produced will be based on the hours
that personnel are scheduled to work and not on the actual hours
worked. Actual hours worked should be reported to the employees'
department on standard overtime or special event forms.
Within the next few months, IPPG members will contact all
of the agencies that have indicated an interest in participating
in the AMOS system. Questions about the system should be directed
to Sgt. Bernstein in the IPPG offices, 554-4800.
UPDATE JANUARY 1990
PAGE 21
SEVERAL OFFICERS JOIN DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE STAFF
Additional military officers have been added to the staff of
Col. Ted Paterson, the US Department of Defense liaison to the
Goodwill Games.
Lt. Commander Pat Vezetinski has been appointed to the IPPG.
In addition to his management responsibilities there, he also
provides staff support to the Coordinated Threat Assessment Group,
the Joint Operations Center, and the Media Relations Subcommittee.
He is assisted by Yeoman Willie Trammell.
Capt. Bobby Wells has been named the supply and logistics
officer, Master Sgt. Ricardo Valencia is in charge of personnel
and administration and Radioman Chief Roseann Higgins provides
technical and computer support in addition to her public relations
responsibilities. All three are stationed at McChord Airforce Base.
The new appointees join Lt. Col. Buryl Dooley, the air support
project manager; Maj. Andy Campbell, the training and communicaitons
projects manager; Col. Ray Stephens, who is Col. Paterson's
deputy director and liaison to the Tacoma and Aquatics Center
venues; and Lt. Chuck Mingonet, the liaison to the rest of the King
County venues.
In addition to overseeing the DoD staff, Col. Paterson provides
liaison support to the Seattle, Spokane and Kennewick venues.
The central point of contact for all of the DoD support staff
members is Lt. Commander Vezetinski, in the IPPG offices.
FORMER MEDINA POLICE CHIEF JOINS SOC
Al Anglin, the former chief of the Medina Police Department,
is the most recent addition to the Seattle Organizing Committee's
security staff.
Mr. Anglin's duties will include assisting Vern Thomas, Vice
President of SOC security, with managing security volunteers during
the Goodwill Games. He will also sit on the Joint Forces Volunteer
and Training Subcommittees.
Mr. Anglin joins Dave Maider, who is the SOC Accreditation
Manager, and Bob Agnew, Assistant Vice President of SOC Security.
AIR FORCE VIDEO CREW DUE HERE IN APRIL
A video crew from the US Airforce will return in April to
continue production of Goodwill Games training video tapes.
In preparation for the crew's arrival, the following deadlines
have been set for the police technical advisors:
Jan. 15, 1990: First Draft of script due
Feb. 01, 1990: Second draft of script due
Mar. 01, 1990: Final script due
Apr. 04, 1990: Technical advisors meet with Airforce crew
Apr. 09, 1990: Production of tapes begins
May 15, 1990: All masters and copies of tapes completed
(continued)
UPDATE JANUARY 1990
PAGE 22
TAPES TO BE PRODUCED THIS SPRING
Production
Advisor
In-Transit Security
Hans Kwast, Washington State
Patrol
Computer Access and
Automated Scheduling
Mike Dillion, King County Police
Access Control/Credentials
Jack Humphrey, Washington State
Patrol
Media Relations Overview
Dick Thurston, FBI
Orientation to CTAG
Stephanie Gleason, FBI
Husky Stadium Venue
Dennis Zimnisky, Seattle Police
Seattle Center Venue
Joe Nicholas, Seattle Police
Aquatic Center Venue
Lt. Max Osborne, King County
Police
Tacoma Venues
Darrell Larsen, Tacoma Police
Kennewick Venues
Bob Farnkoff, Kennewick Police
Multi-Agency Cooperation
Al Noel, Seattle Fire Department
TAPES PRODUCED BY THE AIR FORCE LAST FALL
Traffic Control Training
Goodwill Games Update
Emergency Medical Procedures
Volunteer Operations
Air Support Orientation
Bomb Threat Procedures
Vital Point Security
Stadium Sanitation Procedures
US Identification Issued to Foreign Nationals
Asylum Defection Procedures
Explosive Team Overview
Bomb Threat
Vehicle Sanitation
Sea-Tac Airport Orientation
Personal Protection for Volunteers
Village Venue Orientation
UPDATE
JANUARY 1990
PAGE 23
JANUARY MEETINGS
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
1
2
3
4
5
JFCC
General
Membership
1000 hrs at
IPPG
8
9
10
11
12
Media
JFCC Exec.
Crime
Village/Venue
Relations
1000 hrs at
Suppression
1000 hrs at
1000 hrs
IPPG
1300 hrs at
Boeing Field
WSP at
Boeing
Annex
Bellevue
Commo
Field Annex
1300 hrs at
IPPG
15
16 *
17
18
19
Accreditation
ERT
Intelligence
0900 hrs at
1000 hrs
1000 hrs at
IPPG
at Boeing
IPPG
Field Annex
Bombs/EOD
Training
1030 hrs at
1300 hrs at
Boeing Field
CJTC
Annex
22
23
24
25
26
Dignitary
JFCC Exec
Air Support
No Village/Venue
Protection
1000 hrs at
1000 hrs at
meeting
1000 hrs at
IPPG
Boeing Field
scheduled
Boeing Field
Annex
Off-Venue
Annex
1000 hrs at
Boeing Field
Annex
29
30
31
Volunteers
1000 hrs at
Boeing Field
Annex
*Volunteer Subcommittee is also meeting at 1000 hours on Jan. 16 at
the Dept. of Transportation, 6431 Corson S. in room 205.
1990 Games
UPDATE
VOL. 2, NO. 1
JANUARY 1990
909 First Ave.
Room 1300
Seattle, WA 98174
206-554-4800
Update is the monthly newsletter of the Integrated
Police Planning Group, which was appointed by federal,
state and local law enforcement agencies to assist in
planning security for the 1990 Goodwill Games. Sub-
missions to Update are welcome, but must be received
no later than a week before the first day of pub-
lication month. Address correspondence to: Chris Tate,
909 First Ave., Room 1300, Seattle, WA 98174.
The Integrated Police Planning Group
909 First Ave., Room 1300
Seattle, WA 98104
GOODWILL GAMES TASK FORCE MEETING
Tuesday, January 16, 1990
Attendees
Name
Dept /Agency
Phone Number
ANDY CARD
WH
456-2533
Jim Lobmaster
GSA
535-0800
Cary Weil
State
647-6098
Bernard Engel
STATE
647-6401
KEN COWELL
US POSTAL Service
268-3388
ANTOUIO hopez
FEMA
696-2828
STEVE GUBACK
PRES. COUNCIL on PhyFit+Sports
272-3421
STEVE BROADBENT
TREASURY
566-5847
PERCY Reynolds
TRADE! Development Augrom
875-4357
Bob RAUNER
DEFENSE
697-9155
Jeff Hathaway
DOT
366-5742
BART HOUSE
DOI
343 - 7566
D. JERRY RUBINO
DOJ
633-2094
Tom Collamore
Commerce
377-4951
Tom Komarek
DOL
523-9086
Ann Brooks
DOD
695-1802
Jim Arthur
6SA
566-0689
Julianne Dans
NEA
682-5506
Jonathan Stoat
USIA
485-8742
Goodwill Games Venues/Sports
Goodwill Games Facts
The games are scheduled for July 20- Aug. 5, 1990.
Description:
The Goodwill Games is an international
Source: Seattle
:multi-sport invitational uniting approx-
Shilshole
Husky
Organizing Committee
imately 2,500 of the world's best athletes
Bay
Stadium
for the 1990 Goodwill
Games
from more than 50 countries for 17 days of
competition, July 20-August 5, 1990 in
Yachting
Opening ceremonies
Seattle, Washington.
Track and field
Marathon start/finish
Invitations to compete will be extended to
N
the top eight athletes and teams in each
Seattle
event by the participating U.S. sports federa-
Center
Hec
tions, based on performances at the 1988
SNCHOMISH
Coliseum
Edmundson
Olympics, World Championships and other
KING
Pavilion
international competitions.
Men's basketball
Wrestling
Sports:
Women's basketball
Men's volleyball
Athletics
Rhythmic
(Track & Field)
Gymnastics
Baseball
LAKE
Rowing
Seattle
Redmond
SAMMAMISH
Basketball
Swimming
Center
LAKE
Baxing
Synchronized
WASHINGTON
Arena
Seattle
Cycling
Swimming
Diving
Team Handball
Team handball
PUGET
90
Marymoor
Figure Skating
Volleyball
Boxing
Park
Gymnastics
Water Polo
Ice Hockey
Weightlifting
Velodrome
Judo
Wrestling
5
Cycling
Modern Pentathlon
Yachting
Seattle
University
SOUND
Venues:
Mount Baker
Judo
VASHON
Rowing Center
Cheney Stadium, Connolly Center, Hec
Edmundson Pavilion, Husky Stadium, King
ISLAND
Rowing
County Aquatics Center, King County
Fairgrounds, Marymoor Park Velodrome,
Aquatics
Mt. Baker Rowing Center, Seattle Center
Center
Tacoma
Coliseum and Arena, Shilshole Bay,
Dome
Spokane Coliseum, the Tacoma Dome, and
Swimming
Tri Cities Coliseum.
Synchronized swimming
Federal
Water polo
Way
Figure skating
Ice hockey
Diving
Tacoma
Organization:
Men's gymnastics
The Seattle Organizing Committee (SOC)
16
Women's
is responsible for planning and staging the
Cheney
gymnastics
Games. United States sports federations are
Stadium
responsible for technical aspects and the
issuance of invitations. Turner Broadcasting
Baseball
King County
Enumclaw
System, Inc. (TBS) holds the worldwide
broadcast rights and is the official host
Fairgrounds
KING
PIERCE
broadcaster.
Modern pentathlon
The 1990 Goodwill Games are jointly
presented by the SOC, the participating U.S.
sports federations, TBS, the USSR State
WASHINGTON
Spokane
Committee for Physical Culture and Sport
Seattle Spokane
Coliseum
(Goskomsport) and the USSR State Commit-
Tri-Cities
tee for Television and Radio (Gosteleradio).
Tacoma
Women's volleyball
Arena
Kennewick
Rhythmic gymnastics
Ice hockey
Weightlifting
Vol. 2, No. 3. COUNTDOWN is the official
newsletter of the 1990 Goodwill Games.
Please send all inquiries, information,
Copyright © 1989
Randee S. Fox, Rob Kemp /Seattle Times
comments and address corrections to:
U.S. OLYMPIC GOLD: A TBS SPORTS EXCLUSIVE
Donn Bernstein
Vice President
U.S. Olympic Gold: A TBS Sports
exhibition (July 29, 9:50 p.m.); The
Director of Media Relations
Exclusive presents some of the finest
Alamo Cup (Aug. 26, 5:05 p.m. live),
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a dual swimming competition
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 29, 1989
Dear Senator Gorton:
Thank you for the letters from Senator Adams,
Congressman Dicks and you regarding the
Goodwill Games and the associated Contemporary
Soviet Arts Exhibit. Your follow-up to our
earlier telephone conversation is appreciated.
I will follow-up with the Director of the
U.S.I.A regarding your interest.
Please keep in touch.
Sincerely,
Andrew Jr.
AndyCard H. Card,
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
The Honorable Slade Gorton
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 29, 1989
Dear Senator Adams:
Thank you for the letters from Senator Gorton,
Congressman Dicks and you regarding the
Goodwill Games and the associated Contemporary
Soviet Arts Exhibit. Your follow-up to our
earlier telephone conversation is appreciated.
I will follow-up with the Director of the
U.S.I.A regarding your interest.
Please keep in touch.
Sincerely,
Andrew Jr.
Andy Card H. Card, Card
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
The Honorable Brock Adams
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
11/24/89
THE WHITE HOUSE
Dear Con gressman Dicks-
Thank you for the letter from Senators Adams
and Gorton and you regarding the Goodwill
Games and the associated Contemporary
Soviet arts Exhibit. your follow up to our
earlies telep home conversation is appreciated.
I will follow up with the Director of
the USIA. regarding your interest.
Please keep in touch. Sincerely,
Andy Card
THE HOUSE
Andy WHITE Card
WASHINGTON
The Honorabl Norm Dirks
Member of Congress
House of Representatives
Washington, DC
20515
Congress of the United States
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11/24
November 21, 1989
Mr. Andrew Card
Assistant to the President and
Deputy to the Chief of Staff
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20501
Dear Mr. Card:
We are writing to thank you for taking a personal interest
in the 1990 Goodwill Games and to commend the President on the
leadership he has shown in establishing a White House task force
to facilitate federal assistance for the Games. Having the Vice
President make the announcement during his recent visit to
Seattle provided a tremendous boost toward making the Games a
success.
As you know, the Games' international amateur athletic
competition incorporates the most comprehensive U.S./Soviet
cultural, arts, athletic, trade, and tourism exchange in the
history of the two countries. More Soviets, including over 1,000
athletes, will be visiting our country than at any other time in
modern history.
The broad scope of the activities associated with the Games
and the wide variety of sponsorship possibilities has made
competition for private funds very intense. One of the projects
that has tremendous potential, but is currently underfunded, is
the Contemporary Soviet Arts Exhibit that will be shown at the
Tacoma Art Museum. This will be the first exhibit of Soviet
contemporary art in the United States and the largest Soviet art
exhibit to be displayed in the U.S. for several decades.
To date, with Congressional assistance, the United States
Information Agency has provided critical financial assistance to
the Games. Some of these funds have been used to organize and
produce this special art exhibit. We had anticipated that an
additional $250,00 would be earmarked for the exhibit in this
year's USIA appropriations, but unfortunately, budget
considerations did not make this possible.
It is our hope that through the grant process, USIA will be
able to meet the remaining funding needs for this special art
exhibit. Your assistance in working with the task force and USIA
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Mr. Bruce Gelb
November 21, 1989
We appreciate the previous assistance of USIA which in has the been
extremely helpful and look forward to working with you
future.
Brocl A shade Sincerely, SLADE GORTON NORM DICKS Dich
BROCK
ADAMS
U.S. Senator
Member of Congress
U.S. Senator
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Mr. Bill Glade
Associate Director for Educational
and Cultural Affairs
Mr. Andrew Card
Assistant to the President and
Deputy Chief of Staff
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Date: 11-24-89
FOR: hen. Scowcroft
FROM:
ANDY CARD Andy
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GOODWILL
GAMES
SEATTLE
November 21, 1989
Andy Card
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20050
Dear Andy:
We have just returned from seven days of meeting in Moscow in
preparation for next summer's Goodwill Games. Our
discussions are progressing well and the support for the
Games from the Soviet Union remains overwhelmingly strong.
As you know the Gorbachev Administration views the Games as a
very important project in their program for the coming year.
This point was reinforced in meeting after meeting.
I was contacted separately by Mr. Rusak, the new Chairman of
Goskomsport, by his Vice Chairman Alexander Kozlovsky and by
Gennadi Garasamov of the Foreign Affairs Ministry regarding
the possibility of General Secretary Gorbachev visiting the
Goodwill Games in Seattle. The central theme in each contact
was that an invitation by President Bush to the General
Secretary to attend the Games would be well received.
There is no question in my mind that they hope such an
invitation from the White House will occur during the talks
in Malta next month.
It appears the Soviets have a strong interest in having the
previously announced Summit for next year scheduled with some
proximity to the Games thus allowing Mr. Gorbachev to attend
while in the United States for the Summit.
Once again, on behalf of the Board of Directors, thank you
for your tremendous support, particularly your role in Vice
President Quayle's trip to Seattle and his announcement of a
task force to assure the success of the 1990 Goodwill Games.
Sincerely,
Boblochsh Bob Walsh, President
Seattle Organizing Committee
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SEATTLE GOODWILL GAMES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
999 FIRST AVENUE SEATTLE. WASHINGTON 98151-1990 (206) 554-1990 FAX: (206) 343-1542
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 13, 1989
MEMORANDUM FOR BILL KRISTOL
FROM:
ANDY CARD And
SUBJECT:
Goodwill Games Task Force Announcement
For insertion in Vice President's speech in Seattle
I am pleased to announce that today the President is forming a
White House Task Force on the Goodwill Games to ensure inter-
agency support for the Games' success. It will be coordinated
directly out of the White House, and a member of my staff will
serve on the Task Force.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
DATE: October 13, 1989
TO:
Jim Cicconi
FROM:
ANDY CARD Ad
The Vice President will be announcing the
formation of the WH Task Force on the
Goodwill Games on Monday while he is in
Seattle.
Please make sure that a corresponding press
release is prepared for Monday.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 11, 1989
Dear Senator Gorton:
On behalf of Governor Sununu, thank you for
your letter of October 5th regarding the
Goodwill Games.
We are working on the possibility of having the
Vice President make the announcement while he
is in Seattle next week. We appreciate your
input.
With best wishes,
Sincerely,
Andrew Lig H. Card, Jr.
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
The Honorable Slade Gorton
United States Senate
Washington, D.C.
20510
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WASHINGTON
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October 19, 1989
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Dear Mr. Card:
I understand that you have been charged with following
through on the Vice President's initiative of creating a task
force to coordinate Federal Government activities in support of
the 1990 Goodwill Games.
The Games - along with the associated exchange and cultural
program - represent a major undertaking that will involve a
number of Federal agencies.
In the State Department it is the Bureau of International
Organization Affairs (IO) that has the responsibility for
international athletic issues and events, and I wish to assure
you that we are prepared to provide whatever support we can to
your efforts.
Within the IO Bureau Bernard Engel serves as the
Coordinator of our International Athletic Program. He can be
reached at 647-6401. Mr. Engel has already begun to work with
the Goodwill Games' Washington office.
Mr. Engel and I - as well as the rest of the IO Bureau -
look forward to working with you.
Sincerely yours,
JoeR.Bolto
John R. Bolton
International
Organization Affairs
Andrew H. Card, Jr.
Assistant to the President and
Deputy to the Chief of Staff
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500.
October 26, 1989
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To: AC
Fr: LG
Call from Ellen Monrad w/Cong. John Miller's Office (Washington)
206-672-4224
Subject: American Indian participation in Goodwill Games
Chairman Robert Joe - Swinomish Tribe
and Mr. Hughes, Executive Director of American Indian
Goodwill Commission
and Mr. William Black, National Coordinator, BIA
would like to meet with you next week.
Concerned about Indians thinking everything is given to
them by Democrats need pluses from Republicans.
(will also be applying for a grant from DOI)
Are you willing to meet with them?
Y
N
Do you want Deb to meet with them?
Y
N
October 17th
To: AC
Fr: LG
Re: Goodwill Games
You received 2 calls today re the Goodwill Games.
1. Bernie Engel, Dept. of State, Bureau of International Organization Affairs.
(647-6660)
He is the Director/Coordinator for International Sports and should be
key point of contact for the Dept. of State for the Goodwill Games.
Was looking for more information - any upcoming meetings?
2. Bill Black, Bureau of Indian Affairs. (391-8796)
He is the National Coordinator for American Indian involvement.
Wanted to set up a meeting with you.
Do we need to set up an interagency meeting to get this going?
Do you want to task this to someone else?
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 9, 1989
MEMORANDUM:
TO:
BILL CRISTAL
Andy Card
FROM:
RON KAUFMAN nk
SUBJ:
GOODWILL GAMES
I vaguely remember the Vice President saying that he had
promised some West Coast folks that he would task force
this.
If you aren't the right person, it's too bad. I promised
I'd pass this along.
VP up: for plassman Asst In Nate
Deputy Security
DEFENSE
THE OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
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WASHINGTON, D.C. 20301-4000
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FORCE
OCT 30 1989
and personnel
Mr. Ron Kaufman
Deputy Assistant to the President
Old Executive Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20500
NOT
Dear Mr. Kaufman:
Thank you for the opportunity to meet and discuss our
involvement with the 1990 Goodwill Games planning effort.
Enclosed is a list of the White House Task Force members from the
1984 Olympics.
We have searched our files and have not come up with a pub-
lished list of names from the similar Task Force set up for the
1987 Pan American Games. However, based on my records from the
meetings, the attendees and the offices involved were very simi-
lar to those during the Olympics.
In both instances, the Task Force proved to be very worth-
while in activating and channeling appropriate Federal support to
the events and in establishing a channel for resolving issues
with political significance.
We also discussed steps to promote continuity across the
Federal Agencies at the working level for special events. We
will forward some ideas to you on this in the near future. My
office has already initiated a working level meeting relative to
the 1990 Goodwill Games on November 3, and we will begin to flesh
out the idea with this group.
Sincerely,
Dand Buton David J. Berteau
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Resource Management & Support)
Enclosure
as stated
THE WHITE HOUSE
October 12, 1983
WASHINGTON
Federal Inter-Agency Task Force on the Olympics
Department of Agriculture
William C. McMillan
Assistant Secretary for Marketing
and Inspection Services
Department of Agriculture
Room 242 E
12th St. and Jefferson Drive, SW
Washington, D.C. 20250
202-447-4256
James O. Lee, Jr.
Associate Administrator, Animal
and Plant Health Inspection Service
Department of Agriculture
Room 312E
12th Street and Jefferson Drive, SW
Washington, D.C. 20250
202-447-3861
Patricia A. Madson
Confidential Assistant to
the Administrator
Department of Agriculture
APHIS
Office of Legislative and
Intergovernmental Affairs
Room 1147, South Building
Washington, D.C. 20250
202-447-2511
Department of Commerce
Heidi Eddy
Office of the Secretary
Department of Commerce
Room 5854
14th & Constitution Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20230
202-377-2112
Department of Defense
Lawrence J. Korb
Assistant Secretary for Manpower,
Reserve Affairs and Logistics
Department of Defense
Room 3E808
The Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 20301
202-695-5254
Inter-Agency Task Force on the Olympics
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Department of Defense - continued
Jeannie Fietz
1 Director, Intergovernmental
Affairs
Department of Defense
ASD (MRA&L)
PI-IA
The Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 20301
202-697-0617
Department of Justice
Robert A. McConnell
Assistant Attorney General
Office of Legislative Affairs
Department of Justice
Room 1630
10th & Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20530
202-633-2141
Department of Health and Human Services
Public Health Service
Dr. Michael McGinnis
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health,
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Department of Health and Human Services
Room 719H
HHH Building
Washington, D.C. 20201
202-245-7611
Food & Drug Administration
Dr. Stuart Nightingale
Associate Commissioner for
Health Affairs
Food & Drug Administration
Room 14-57
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
301-443-6143
Department of Labor
Francis X. Lilly
Deputy Solicitor
Department of Labor
Room S-2002
200 Constitution Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20210
202-523-7684
éderal Inter-Agency Task Force on the Olympics
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Department of State
Edward J. Derwinski
Counselor of the Department
Department of State
Room 7250
2201 C Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20520
202-632-4404
John W. Kimball
Executive Assistant to
the Counselor
Department of State
Room 7250
2201 C Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20520
202-632-4404
Susan Clark
Special Assistant to
the Counselor
Deparmtent of State
Room 7250
2201 C Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20520
202-632-4404
Department of Transportation
Urban Mass Transportation Administration
Ralph Stanley
Special Assistant to the
Administrator
Department of Transportation
UMTA, Room 9328
400 Seventh Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20590
202-426-4040
Federal Aviation Administration
B. Keith Potts
Manager Airspace
Rules & Aeronautical Information
Division
Department of Transportation
FAA
AAT-200
800 Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20591
202-426-3731
Department of Transportation - continued
U.S. Coast Guard
Captain Jules Peebles
U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters (G-WPE)
2100 Second Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20539
202-426-1934
Department of the Treasury
Robert E. Powis
Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Enforcement
Department of the Treasury
Room 4308
1500 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20220
202-566-5054
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Wayne Gilbert
Deputy Assistant Director
Criminal Investigative Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Room 5012
9th & Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20535
202-324-4262
Federal Communications Commission
Charles Turner
Chief, Operations Review Branch
Federal Communications Commission
Room 5114
2025 M Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20554
202-632-6497
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Frank Salcedo
Chief, Civil Security Division
Federal Emergency Management Agency
500 C Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20472
202-287-0788
al Inter-Agency Task Force on the Olympics
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General Service Administration
1 James Arthur
Olympic Coordinator
Office of Assistant Administrator
General Services Administration
Room 1138, Crystal City Mall Building 4
Arlington, VA 20376
202-557-0242
Immigration & Naturalization
Lisa Duperier
Special Assistant to the
Commissioner
INS, Room 7100
425 Eye Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20530
202-633-1900
Andrew J. Carmichael
Associate Commissioner
Examinations
INS, Room 7114
425 Eye Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20530
202-633-2982
National Park Service
Larry Finks
Deputy Chief
National Park Service
1100 Ohio Drive, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20242
202-426-6650
Office of Management and Budget
Joseph R. Wright
Deputy Director
OMB
252 Old Executive Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20503
202-395-4742
U.S. Customs
Gene Mach
Deputy Assistant Commissioner
Office of Enforcement
U.S. Customs Service
Room 3104
1301 Constitution Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20029
202-566-2366
Inter-Agency Task Force on the Olympics
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U.S. Customs Service - continued
- John O'Mally
Investigation
U.S. Customs Service
Room 4136
1301 Constitution Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20229
202-566-8164
U.S. Postal Service
W.L. (Pete) Davidson
Director, Office of Consumer
Marketing
U.S. Postal Service
Room 5656
475 L'Enfant Plaza
Washington, D.C. 20260
202-245-5739
U.S. Secret Service
Jack Kippenberger
Special Agent-In-Charge
U.S. Secret Service
Room 810
1800 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20223
202-535-5721
Edward Pollard
(same address and phone as above)
United States Information Agency
John Hedges
Counsel to Agency
USIA, Room 816
400 C Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20547
202-485-8619
Robert Jones
Executive Director
USIA Olympic Task Force
Room 816
400 C Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20547
202-485-8619 or 7900
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David Gogol
Washington Office
(202) 223-0956
FAX: (202) 223-1393
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Uniting The World's Best
October 12, 1989
The Honorable Andrew Card
Deputy Chief of Staff
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Andy:
Thank you for taking the time to see Bob, Bernie, Mike, and
me last week. We are, of course, delighted that plans for the
task force are moving along so well. The Task Force will bring a
more coordinated federal response to the planning process. Thank
you again for your efforts toward that end.
The folks in Seattle are now busily planning a great event
for Vice President Quayle's visit. The announcement of a task
force has been kept under wraps. The Vice President will
certainly bring pleasing news. Thanks for making it happen.
Sincerely,
David U. Gogol
DUG: dm
1701 K Street Northwest Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20006
foll
GOGOL & ASSOCIATES
June 15, 1989
Honorable Andy Card
Deputy to the Chief of Staff
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Andy:
In the nick of time, like the proverbial U.S. Cavalry, the
President's letter supporting Buffalo's bid for the World
University Games in 1993 was delivered to Buffalo a few hours
before the bidding delegation left for Europe. The letter will
add greatly to the community's bid. Thank you for shepherding
the letter through the White House in the midst of your other
work.
Fortunately, the President's support has come as other
events have helped Buffalo's effort. The principal competition
to Buffalo's bid has been China. We now feel confident that the
China bid will not be very strong. The Organizing Committee was
also able to secure the necessary $500,000 letter of credit that
was required to accompany the bid. Thus the Buffalo delegation
will arrive armed with a strong bid, with a bid supported by the
President, and with their principal competition facing a national
emergency.
We appreciate your help, as always, and look forward to
working with the new Sports Czar of the Bush Administration. We
should know whether Buffalo has won by Saturday. We will let you
know.
Sincerely,
Dil
David U. Gogol
DUG:dm
1701 K Street, N.W. Suite 400, Washington, D.C. 20006 (202) 223-0964/FAX (202) 223-1393
pis
SEATTLE '90
David Gogol
Washington Office
(202) 223-0956
GAMES
ES
FAX: (202) 223-1393
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Uniting The World's Best
April 28, 1989
Honorable Andrew Card
Assistant to the President and
Deputy to the Chief of Staff
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Andy:
As always, it was good to see you on Monday. Thank you for
taking the time to see Bob Walsh and Bernie Russi while they were
in town. Your interest in and support of the Goodwill Games
becomes increasingly essential as we get closer to the event.
As you know, the federal perspective on the Games
encompasses a wide variety of sensitive and complicated issues.
With your guidance, our agenda is streamlined and, more
importantly, cohesive. We are very enthusiastic about the
possibility of the Task Force, and equally appreciative of your
efforts to have one appointed.
Also, Linda Gambatesa has been very helpful. She has been a
pleasure to work with -- friendly, informed, and able. Again,
thank you. Please do not hesitate to call any time we can be of
any help to you.
Sincerely
David D. Gogol
1701 K Street Northwest Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20006
3/22
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David Gogol
Washington Office
(202) 223-0956
GOODWILL
GAME
FAX: (202) 223-1393
Uniting The World's Best
February 24, 1989
Mr. Fred McClure
Assistant to the President
for Legislative Affairs
The White House
FEB 29 1989
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Fred:
Recently you wrote to Senator Gorton in response to his
letter to the President requesting the establishment of a White
House Task Force to coordinate the Federal Government's
involvement with the 1990 Goodwill Games. Your letter indicated
that the request was under consideration. Because I run the
Washington office of the Goodwill Games, I thought you might
appreciate a little history on the subject.
There is long precedent for the establishment of such a task
force. Moreover, the establishment of a task force is virtually
essential to solve and avoid the problems that are inevitable
with massive international sports events. The 1980 Winter Games
(Lake Placid), the 1984 Summer Olympics (Los Angeles), and the
1987 Pan American Games (Indianapolis) all had White House Task
Forces established to coordinate the 25-35 federal agencies that
are involved with these events. Mike Deaver staffed the LA Task
Force and Mitch Daniels staffed the Indianapolis Task Force. In
our case, we would love it if Andy Card could have the staff
responsibility.
I have attached more information than you will ever read
about the Goodwill Games. But briefly: these Games are organized
by a non-profit organization in Seattle; 2500 athletes from about
60 countries will participate; more Soviet athletes will be
competing than have ever been in the United States before; the
other competitors will be the world's best in 21 sports. The
Washington State delegation is extremely supportive of the
Goodwill Games and has helped ensure that more than $21 million
in federal security and other support will be available to assist
the Games. Just to add to the complexity, there is every
indication that Gorbachov is likely to attend (he opened the
Games in 1986 when the Games were held in Moscow).
A White House Task Force will not be a controversial or
particularly time-consuming staff function. There will be
occasional inter-agency dispute to referee. There will be policy
1701 K Street Northwest
Suite 400
Washington, D.C. 20006
Fred McClure
February 24, 1989
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decisions that are important only because of Soviet or other
foreign involvement in a very visible event. From a proactive
perspective, a White House focus will provide opportunities to
give the Vice-President or the President visibility in the
Northwest (and during the Games on a world-wide basis) and create
positive press through involvement with this major event.
In addition to taking this opportunity to give you a little
background on the Goodwill Games, let me also have the good sense
to wish an old friend my sincere best wishes for success in your
exciting new job. The President picked wisely and well.
If you have any questions, give me a call.
Incerely,
Sincerely,
David U. Gogol
DUG:dm
the closing ceremonies on July 20,
WTBS will make 129 hours of the com-
petition-involving 3,500 athletes from
60 countries in 18 sports-available to
70 million U.S. TV households via 10
communications satellites. And Cana-
da's cable sports network, TSN, will
have relayed WTBS's coverage to
-67
833,000 subscribers. Still, Turner will
lose between $10 million and $20 mil-
lion (U.S.). But for a man who claims
to be $2 billion (U.S.) in debt-mainly
because of the MGM purchase-with
daily interest payments of $1 million
(U.S.), the loss is relative. Said Turner:
"Jesus Christ didn't make money, nei-
ther did Martin Luther King."
One man who does is U.S. track star
Carl Lewis. The 24-year-old has turned
SHONE/SIPA. SPECIAL FEATURES
his four gold medals at the 1984 Olym-
pics into a personal fortune. But Lewis
became a pauper in his 100-m show-
down with Canada's Ben Johnson last
week. The 24-year-old Jamaican-born
Johnson won the gold medal in a time
Johnson winning the gold: record performances and thousands of empty seats
of 9.95 seconds-the second-fastest 100
SPORTS
m ever run-and claimed the title of
the fastest man in the world. Lewis
finished third. Said Johnson: "The last
The future of the games
time I beat Lewis he had some com-
plaints. I just wonder what he has to
say this time." Said Lewis: "I don't
care about being number 1 in the
L
ike the man who conceived them,
With the Wind. He also owns the At-
world as much as Ben does." Among
the Goodwill Games are ambi-
the other exciting performances was
lanta Hawks of the National Basket-
tious, grandiose and financial-
American Jackie Joyner's world-record
ball Association and the Atlanta
ly troubled. The 17-day made-for-TV
7,148 points in the women's seven-
Braves of baseball's National League.
event reached its midway point in
event heptathlon. American Edwin
And because he is given to lengthy
Moscow at week's end with its creator,
Moses won his 111th consecutive 400-m
pronouncements on everything from
47-year-old U.S. broadcasting maver-
high hurdles race since 1977 and Soviet
arms and population control to bet-
ick Ted Turner, confronting losses in
Sergei Bubka broke his world record
ter relations with the Soviet Union,
the tens of millions, TV sets tuned to
with a pole vault of 19 feet, 83/4 inches.
Turner has earned the nickname
other channels, and
Yet for all of Turner's 18 months of
Mouth of the South. He
thousands of empty
negotiating, planning and promoting,
was typically unabashed
seats at 18 Moscow ven-
the Games were ill-timed. Many of the
in promoting the first
ues. Despite a number
world's top athletes were busy compet-
multisport meeting of
of stirring perform-
ing in national meets and preparing
Soviet and U.S. athletes
ances, including world
for the Commonwealth Games in Ed-
since the 1976 Olympics:
records, the opening
inburgh July 24 to Aug. 2 and the
"This is the biggest
week of the first Good-
world swimming and diving champion-
joint effort between the
will Games fell well
ships Aug. 13 to 23 in Madrid. Still, the
Soviet Union and the
short of Turner's predic-
1986 Goodwill Games may prove to be
United States since the
tion that they would be
a pilot for a long-running TV series.
Second World War."
"bigger than the Olym-
Following the U.S. boycott of the 1980
Indeed, the enterprise
pics." And while Turner
Moscow Olympics, the Soviet boycott
is massive. The Games
reluctantly admitted
of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and
cost approximately $100
that "these Games are
growing concern over an Eastern Bloc
million (U.S.) to stage,
not going to solve all the
boycott of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the
of which the Soviets put
world's problems," they
Goodwill Games could possibly become
SYGMA
up $65 million. Turner
may eventually solve
a permanent summer replacement for
paid $7.5 million to the
some of his.
the troubled Olympics. In that case,
Turner: $2-billion debt
Soviet sport council, $5.4
Turner earned the
Turner's show would be worth mil-
million to the U.S. Ath-
nickname Captain Outrageous while
lions, helping to stabilize his turbulent
letics Congress to ensure a strong U.S.
piloting his 12-m yacht Courageous to
financial situation. By 1990, when the
contingent and $1.4 million to Soviet
victory in the 1977 America's Cup. His
second Goodwill Games are scheduled
radio and television for facilities. His
empire includes the first satellite TV
for Seattle, Wash., the Mouth of the
total expenditure is expected to ex-
superstation, WTBS in Atlanta, Ga., the
South may have added another epic for
ceed $35 million. While the Soviets
first all-news 24-hour cable-TV net-
his superstation.
will reap any propaganda value as
work, CNN, and MGM's film library,
hosts, Turner retained the broadcast-
which contains such epics as Gone
-HAL QUINN with KEITH CHARLES in
ing rights outside the Soviet bloc. By
Moscow
44
TO THE
Top
TED TURNER STAGES HIS
OWN OLYMPICS-AND TRIES
TO RESCUE THE PLANET
by Michelle Green
t's not as though Ted Turner has
nothing to do besides sit around and
think about nuclear war. At 47, he is
MOSCOW
into
the owner of a global cable network, a
domestic SuperStation, two sports
I
teams and a very expensive chunk of
MGM. This month he is staging the
largest private Olympiad in history-
the $100 million Goodwill Games
STATE
in Moscow-and he undoubtedly is
hatching a plan for yet another bold-
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stroke acquisition. At this moment,
however, he is less concerned with his
billion-dollar empire than with the no-
tion that he would be as dead as the
rest of us if the bomb were dropped.
Three o'clock on a Monday after-
noon, and Ted's mental tape loop is
NN
coming around again to his dead-of-
night fears. The setting is his aerie at
Turner Broadcasting's becolumned At-
lanta headquarters, a den that befits a
monied rakehell: silver sporting tro-
phies; stuffed mallards, mounted fish
and snakeskins; oils of great yachts; a
war bonnet casually draped on a coat
rack; and a velvet couch that converts
into a bed. On the massive desk are
significant bibelots: crystal dice from
Tiffany and a plaque that adjures,
"Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way."
Playing to an audience of one, the
dashing, mercurial Turner (in shirt-
sleeves and a CNN tie) is delivering a
manic soliloquy. "This is the most pow-
erful antinuclear statement you've
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
ever seen," he announces, brandish-
ing a video cassette. "It's so beautiful
STATE
TRADE
MARK
it'll blow your mind." Sliding it into one
,
of the VCRs stacked on the carpet,
he punches a button with his foot,
stands before the oversized TV screen
and sweeps his arms up in a let-there-
be-light gesture-introducing Trumpet
of Conscience, a treacly WTBS paean
to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and non-
violence. Scenes of dying soldiers,
steaming warships and goose-step-
ping Hitler Youth are interspersed with
SuperStation
shots of a multiracial children's choir
warbling a spiritual. Foxholes, bomb-
WTBS
ers, parachutes, jackboots, gunfire,
strafing. "It's begins his visitor.
"Don't talk, just watch," commands
Turner, who has settled into his chair.
Finally, a great blossoming mush-
room cloud, a firestorm and a hellish
post-bomb Nagasaki. "It goes on about
the civil rights movement and every-
thing," says Turner, leaping up to snap
CONTINUED
While Turner borrowed $1.6 billion to add
MGM to his empire (right), he says, "The debt
doesn't bother me as much as the arms race.
Braves
What's a few dollars one way or the other?"
Photograph by Mark Sennet/Visages
63
Water Weight Gain?
Top
sports and broadcasting agencies
agreed to organize and co-sponsor the
Monthly Bloat?
off the machine. He sighs briefly, then
games, contributing $70 million to
seizes a photograph from the book-
Turner's $35 million. The Games (which
Get prompt dependable
shelf. "See these Russians with their
will be broadcast on WTBS in the after-
DIUREX relief.
big smiles?" It is a photo of a recent
noons and evenings, and on other sta-
hunting party in the U.S.S.R. with Ted
tions nationally and overseas) were
Water weight gain can add
pounds and inches
and son Teddy IV, 23, among com-
scheduled to open at the revamped
leave you feeling
rades. "I mean, these people are peo-
Lenin Stadium on July 5.
bloated. Gentle, effec-
ple. The Russians are just human be-
While Turner flew to Moscow to pre-
tive DIUREX helps
temporarily increase
ings and nobody's taken the time to
side over his Games, it is unlikely that
the outflow of excess
KNOW 'em. So we've got different po-
the execution of his scheme will prove
body water to keep
you slim and comfort-
litical systems, so WHAT? That's just
as thrilling as the act of putting it in mo-
able all month long.
like saying all the Jews should be
tion. High on hubris, haunted by the no-
DIUREX contains
dead, you know, because they don't
tion that life is finite, he is "more ex-
potassium salicylate
to help relieve pain of
believe the way we do.
cited by the hunt than by the kill,"
cramps, spasms, low
"When you see mothers walking
according to Taylor Glover, his stock-
backache, headache,
breast tenderness,
down the streets in Russia pushing
broker and hunting companion. "MGM,
related fatigue, ten-
their children, you see it's the same
for example, is absolutely history with
sion and irritability.
over there, and then you think there
him," says Glover. "He's gone on to no
Try DIUREX today
The smart and easy
are 20,000 nuclear warheads pointing
telling what else now. I think he's in a
way to look and feel
at each other, then you wonder-why
hurry to get everything done. He says,
your best all month
do we need nuclear weapons?
'I'll rest when I die.'
long.
"A nuclear war is only gonna happen
The scope of his empire testifies to
Choose from
once. I'll tell you, just stand back from
Turner's voraciousness. Turner Broad-
3 formulas:
it and look at it dispassionately, like
casting (which includes WTBS, CNN
diurex® the sendi
DIUREX
Water Pills,
you were an extraterrestrial being that
and his sports teams) is valued at
DIUREX
was flying over this beautiful planet,
more than $1 billion. Having incurred a
with Iron or
and you'd say that we're mad. M-A-D."
$1.6 billion debt to purchase MGM/UA,
DIUREX
Turner already has agreed to sell most
Long-Acting
Ted Turner, you see, is thinking on a
of the MGM studio back to United Art-
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01985 Amcn Pharmacal Cos.. Inc. Chicago. IL 60631
global scale these days. Not content to
ists and its real estate to Lorimar for a
tend to his own aggressively capitalis-
total of $490 million. The only part of
Birds can't call
tic business, he is masterminding gran-
the studio Ted will keep is MGM's phe-
diose events on the order of the Good-
nomenal library of 3,650 films, from
for help
will Games-a 15-day exercise in
Gone With the Wind to The Wizard of
athletic diplomacy. Reasoning that a
Oz to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Annual
when the woods
nuclear exchange is less likely be-
income from the MGM library is ex-
tween countries whose jocks have met
pected to match the $100 million that
are on fire.
on the playing fields, he is making a
the cable networks will bring in this
major investment to bring Carl Lewis
year. "I've never seen a deal that was
and Debi Thomas together with ath-
too bold for him," says Mark Bedner,
letes from 60 other nations and beam
But you can help.
one of Ted's Atlanta bankers. "Every
the lovefest around the world. Never
time one of his ideas comes up it's on
Get the number of your
mind that he will probably lose money,
the edge of the financial envelope."
fire department.
or that most people doubt it will be-
As friends see it, Ted's impulse to
Then call if
come the quadrennial affair that he en-
chisel a place in history was fueled by
you need help.
visions. Ted reckons that you can't put
the early deaths of his father (who
a price on peace-or, for that matter,
committed suicide at 53, when Ted
Birds cant.
on a reputation as a man for whom no
was 24) and only sister (who had suc-
move is too audacious.
cumbed to lupus a few years earlier).
Robert Wussler, executive vice-
His passion for the classics was simi-
president of Turner Broadcasting and
larly important. At Brown he immersed
Ted's pinstriped aide-de-camp, shoul-
himself in Virgil and Homer and came
dered the task of actually mounting the
to see himself as a kind of latter-day
Games. During the 1984 Summer
Odysseus, whose life is being spun out
Olympics, says Wussler, "Ted walked
by the fates. "Ted really feels his
into my office and said, 'We've got to
life will end before its time-probably
do this better
The Russians should
by assassination," says Gerda
be there.' Four days later Wussler
Dymsza, his college sweetheart.
flew to Moscow to present the idea to
Turner is not one to discuss such
a Soviet broadcasting official. And
stuff. Armchair psychoanalysis makes
while the initial reaction was "nyet,
him peevish: "I don't want to look
nyet, nyet," Wussler gradually
back," he says. To Ted, death and
Ad
changed that to "da." The Soviet
CONTINUED
Top
The Braves trail Pittsburgh 6-0 in the
sixth, but Turner is shouting only token
doom fall into the broad category of
insults at his team. In his open-air en-
Bad News-something he abhors. One
clave at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadi-
of his heroes is the ever-optimistic Ji-
um, he is simultaneously enduring pho-
miny Cricket. Like Jiminy, Turner often
tographers, playing to a coterie of
bursts into snatches of upbeat song:
family and friends and delivering pro-
"You've got to ac-centuate the posi-
nouncements on the state of the plan-
tive, e-liminate the negative
and
et. He is not, however, too busy to
don't mess with Mr. In-Between."
keep watch on the bottom line: When a
foul ball plops into the stands nearby,
By all accounts, Turner's perpetual
he calls to a souvenir hunter, "Hey,
search for new conquests extends be-
give that back." (The man does.)
yond the boardroom. He has been wed
"My hobby? Peace and population
to second wife Janie Smith Turner for 22
control," he is saying. "I'm putting on
years, and "the marriage has seen more
the full-court press now-to stop
than its share of tests," says a friend.
the arms race, control the population,
Turner's sexual ambition is said to be
protect the environment. I want to be
boundless, and he takes little trouble to
successful with business so I can com-
conceal it. In 1983, for example, a Play-
municate with people. God, how can
boy interviewer was invited to accom-
that
fat
slob
pitch?
Hey, that's a
pany Ted and traveling companion Liz
joke.
Ted's father (with his only son in 1940) was a
Wickersham (a onetime model, now a
"It's true that everything I do is a
driven, demanding man who, says a close friend,
CNN anchor) on a flight to Las Vegas.
war. It's a war between the forces of
"was always pushing Ted to do more."
Turner doesn't deny the tales. But
good and evil, hatred and stupidity,
he won't confirm them, either. "That's
greed and materialism versus the
my private life," he explains.
forces of light."
the population and the environment
"We all make compromises, and I
Son Beau leans over to ask, "Hey,
and the water supplies. But we're the
think long ago Janie accepted Ted for
Dad, is that a hole in your shirt?"
same people who created the Winged
what he is," says Peter Dames, an At-
"It's an old shirt," says Turner. It can't
Victory of Samothrace, and if we can
lanta businessman who is Turner's
be a fresh burn: Ted claims to have giv-
make it through this crisis, we'll make it
best friend. "They both get something
en up smoking on a bet last fall.
through anything. I'd say our chances
out of the relationship. Ted needs that
A telephone is brought to the box;
of pulling out are 50-50. But that's bet-
place to go."
daughter Jennie and Beau want to call
ter than nothing."
Their lives together are peripatetic:
Hope Plantation. where pet bear Yogi
Turner takes a sip from a sweating
Turner owns a lake house in the At-
has just gone on a minor rampage. "Bill
plastic cup ("Atlanta's water, with
lanta suburb of Roswell, the 5,000-
it here," Ted commands.
chemicals and piss in it") and watches
acre Hope Plantation (a moss-hung
This leads to a soliloquy about farm-
as the Braves score their first run. In the
domain with a menagerie assembled
ing. "We raise our own rice. We eat ev-
bottom of the seventh, it is Braves 1,
by Ted) and an island, both in South
erything we kill on the farm. Waste not,
Pittsburgh 8. "Rally, rally, rally!" he
Carolina. Janie is most often found at
want not. Write that down."
yells, but the Jiminy Cricket boosterism
the family seat, the 8,000-acre Avalon
Which segues, inevitably, to the
is reflexive. The Braves may win or lose,
Plantation near Tallahassee, Fla. On
arms race: "If we don't stop the arms
but Citizen Turner is still playing
weekends, Ted also retreats to Ava-
race, you don't have to worry about
against time.
lon in his six-seater Merlin IIB air-
plane. Plantations and the private
plane aside, theirs is not an extrava-
gant existence. Turner-who pro-
claims, "I nearly got run over the oth-
ROGER ALLEN GRIGG
er day trying to pick up a dime in a
revolving door"-saves money by
having Janie cut his hair, banning air
conditioning in his houses and driving
a Toyota. He often wears unremark-
able clothing given to him by Hatha-
way and other manufacturers whose
goods he has promoted. In May he
signed a million-dollar-plus contract
with Simon and Schuster to dictate an
autobiography-partly, he says, be-
cause "I need the money."
"How can you raise five children and be a pes-
simist?" asks Ted (at a Braves game with wife
Janie, son Beau, 18, and daughter Jennie, 17).
BUSINESS
TARA AT 50 (PAGE 56)
JOB BOOM FOR TEENS (59)
HOME GYMS (64)
'That hot little biotech company you
spend so much time following-she
left her tennis dress in your laundry'
amgamilter
HAMILTON FOR USN&WR
BUSINESS BRIEFING
Ted Turner's
Sponsorships by PepsiCo, Stroh's
cast on cable via WTBS, Turner's At-
Brewery, Mars and Gillette for promo-
Goodwill Games
lanta superstation, and on 62 other TV
tional rights and commercial time re-
outlets, which have syndication rights.
-a high hurdle
portedly brought less than $10 mil-
The payoff could come at the 1990
lion-some of it refundable if the event
Goodwill Games in Seattle. If the event
doesn't attract enough viewers. More
captures public attention, profits could
Ted Turner, who bids on companies he
than 20 other companies agreed to
conceivably be enormous. But that pre-
can't afford to buy (CBS) and buys
advertise, most spending less than
supposes amiable East-West relations
companies he can't afford to keep
$500,000. Says one ad-agency execu-
that no one can foretell. Right now,
(MGM), has another idea-his own
tive: "I'm guessing they've booked no
having flubbed his bid for CBS in 1985
version of the Summer Olympics.
more than $15 million. They could lose
and sold most of Metro-Goldwyn-
Called the Goodwill Games, it will put
up to $25 million on this."
Mayer back to its previous owner in
American and Soviet athletes head to
Turner Broadcasting people insist
June, Ted Turner's own score won't
head for the first time since 1976. The
losses will be manageable. Jerry Hogan,
win medals.
July 5-20 event in Moscow will attract
who heads TV sales for TBS, still fore-
athletes from 50 nations, and may be
casts revenues of $30 million and
OPEC fiddles, Hunts burn
great for sports. But it doesn't look
claims Turner is more than half way
Oil wildcatter H. L. Hunt began a fam-
good for Turner Broadcasting System.
toward that goal. "Any new venture is
ily fortune that became as immense as
The extravaganza will cost anywhere
always rough," Hogan says. His staff
Texas-perhaps $10 billion at its peak.
from $35 million to $50 million. Turner
will sell spots right through the closing
He died in 1974, and today sons Bun-
hoped to bring in up to $100 million in
days of the games, which will be broad-
ker, Herbert and Lamar are trying to
revenues. But when TBS got rolling on
preserve what's left. In late June, as
the project last October, most advertis-
ers had made their 1985-86 buys. Then
Firms with employe
OPEC's ministers sought to reverse the
TV ad costs headed down. "If advertis-
stock-ownership plans
collapse of oil prices, the Hunts sued 23
banks, accusing them of trying to de-
ers can get superb buys from major
7,000
6,400
stroy the family by refusing to renegoti-
networks now, their few dollars will go
5,400
ate $1.5 billion in debt.
there-leaving Turner nickels and
4,800
The lawsuit may open to public scruti-
dimes," says Bill Croasdale, director of
network programing at ad agency
2,900
ny a Lone Star dynasty that has been
kept intensely private. Known already is
BBDO. The network chief at another
1,000
that the Hunts were hit by a triple wham-
big agency, afraid the games would not
my. Led by Bunker, the brothers
draw a large audience, declined to buy
1975
1977
1979
1981
1983
1985
amassed perhaps 80 million ounces of
any time. "Few agencies steered clients
USN&WR-Basic data: National Center for Employe Ownership
silver worth $4 billion in 1980. But silver
their way," he adds.
prices tumbled, and today that horde
U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, July 7, 1986
51
SPORTS
"amateurs," according to TBS executive
vice president Robert Wussler, but Turner
Turner's Goodwill Gamble
and the USOC have now reached a "mutu-
al understanding" about planning future
Goodwill Games, USOC president Robert
Helmick says. The games should become a
A TV man and the Soviets stage a mini-Olympics
U.S.-Soviet competition, he added, not an
alternative to the Olympics.
Turner also has reached a comradely un-
derstanding with the Soviet bureaucracy.
"When somebody says, 'Don't you think
he's crazy?' I say, 'No, I don't think he's
crazy'," says Henrikas Yushkiavitshus,
head of Soviet television operations for
the games. The Soviets built a huge studio
for the TBS visitors and had no complaints
when Turner posted a 24-hour watch
over his sophisticated special-effects com-
puters, which are prohibited for ex-
port to the Soviet Union. Turner has also
completed a deal swapping a subscrip-
tion to his Cable News Network for the
East-bloc Intervision service. His crews are
shooting a documentary, "A Portrait of the
Soviet Union," and Turner also hopes to
film a movie there.
Friendly atmosphere: To present Moscow's
best face and to limit local contacts with
foreign visitors, the city dou-
bled its police force to 1,138 mili-
tiamen and all but closed access
to Soviets living beyond its lim-
its. Street banners heralded the
PETER TURNLEY FOR NEWSWEEK
Anybody watching? A Moscow rehearsal
games' official theme: sports.
friendship and peace. "I can't
say that these games are politi-
o what if Ted Turner loses millions of
S
cal," says Yushkiavitshus. "but
dollars in Moscow this week. "Money
they are creating an atmos-
isn't everything, man," he says. "Je-
phere. Sports are important for
sus Christ didn't make money, neither did
relations between countries."
Martin Luther King." So what if most big
The 17 days of friendly atmos-
sponsors have steered clear of the TV
phere between July 4 and 20
maverick's latest extravaganza-after all,
will cost Turner an estimated
"nobody ever accused them of being the
$10 million or more in loss-
smartest people in the world." The fact is,
es. Although advertising sales
3,500 athletes from about 70 countries are
picked up as the Goodwill
chasing gold medals in a Soviet capital
ROBERT MAASS-PHOTOREPORTERS
decked out for Turner's first Goodwill
'Money isn't everything, man': Atlanta's high roller
Games neared, the buildup was
all but swamped by celebra-
Games. His superstation in Atlanta, along
tions of the Statue of Liberty.
with other outlets, is beaming 129 hours of
as other countries participated. Turner
People "will tune in if the competition is
events to about 70 million American TV
sank $35 million into the project and
good," says Richard Kostyra of the J. Wal-
households. Not that Turner is trying to
helped recruit the Western team. For one
ter Thompson advertising agency, "par-
top the Olympics, exactly, but because of
thing, he gave $6 million to The Athletics
ticularly if the Americans are winning."
the American boycott in 1980 and the So-
Congress, an organization of track-and-
That leaves Turner dependent on the for-
viet boycott in 1984, his Goodwill Games
field athletes, which in turn paid top
tunes of his special blue-chip recruits.
feature the first major U.S.-Soviet compe-
American stars $3,000 each to perform.
including such Olympic champions as
tition in 10 years, and as he says, "That's
Above all, Turner wanted to create a class
hurdler Edwin Moses, triple jumper Wil-
something, ain't it?"
act. "It's another one of those pipe dreams
lie Banks and sprinter Carl Lewis-and
Like most of Turner's projects, the
of Ted's." says a TBS insider. "We're still
hurt by the Pentagon's decision to bar 11
Goodwill Games started out half baked.
the blue-collar network, and we know
military members of the U.S. boxing team
His original idea was that the Turner
that. But if we pull this off, we have shown
from his "commercial" venture. Turner
Broadcasting System and the Soviets
Europe and the rest of the world that we
must look for real profits at the next Good-
would purchase television rights to the
are first rate."
will Games scheduled for Seattle in
1988 Olympics in Seoul, thus ensuring
Turner's strategy was to attract star
1990-if his grandiose elaboration on
against another Soviet boycott. But Mos-
athletes in 18 telegenic sports, including
Ping-Pong diplomacy can last that long.
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track. swimming, boxing, volleyball and
Soviet event, and early last year Turner
even July figure skating. He pointedly by-
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Mr. Andrew H. Card, Jr.
Assistant to the President and
Deputy to the Chief of Staff
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Andy:
I hope the summer has ended with you rested and ready for
the travails of the fall. As you know, the Goodwill Games Task
Force has not been officially announced although John Sununu
apparently told Senator Gorton that it was a "done deal". The
President will be in Spokane in September and Senator Gorton has
decided that his visit would be an opportune time to announce the
creation of the White House Task Force. You may anticipate an
inquiry from Senator Gorton in the next few days.
On a personal note, my firm has been acquired by Baker and
Daniels of Indianapolis, largely due to the urging of Mitch
Daniels (he is a partner in the law firm as well as President of
the Hudson Institute.) Although he will not be terribly active
on behalf of the non-Indiana clients, he will be helping from
time to time with Goodwill Games items.
Hope to see you soon.
Sincerely,
David U. Gogol
President
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May 3, 1989
MEMORANDUM FOR ANDREW H. CARD, JR.
ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND
DEPUTY TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF
FROM:
C. BOYDEN GRAY
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COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT
SUBJECT:
Formation of Interagency Task Force Headed
by White House for 1990 Goodwill Games
Pursuant to your request of April 19, 1989, Counsel's Office has
reviewed the above-referenced request for you to form an
Interagency Task Force for the 1990 Goodwill Games and to serve
on behalf of the White House as its coordinator. Unlike the
Olympics and Pan American Games, the Goodwill Games were
conceived and organized by Ted Turner at least in part to turn a
profit. In fact, as evidenced by the attached newspaper article,
concerns have been raised that Turner's Goodwill Games represent
the commercialization of amateur athletics.
As we understand it, however, the Task Force would coordinate the
efforts of the federal Departments and agencies that are already
(or will become) involved with these games in some manner. Given
the nature of this coordinating role, we can see no legal
objection or "commercialization" concern with either an
Interagency Task Force or a White House coordinator for that Task
Force. Of course, we defer to your judgment, and that of the
Chief of Staff and the concerned Departments and agencies, as to
the need for and advisability of either such an interagency group
or such a coordinating role for the White House.
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MEMORANDUM
DATE:
April 27, 1989
TO:
David Gogol
FROM:
Jim Lowe Jult
RE:
SOC Corporate Independence and Games Responsibilities
I.
SOC Organizational and Tax Attributes
a non-profit corporation, incorporated in May, 1986 under
Washington State law.
Board of Directors - all Washington State residents, none
appointed by or affiliated with Turner Broadcasting.
Federally tax-exempt status granted by Internal Revenue
Service in December, 1987 under Code Section 501 (C) (3).
Corporate purpose: to foster international understanding
by conducting international amateur sports competition,
in particular the 1990 Goodwill Games, and by sponsoring
international cultural activities (per SOC's application
for tax-exempt status).
II. Responsibilities for Producing and Staging 1990 Goodwill Games
The SOC will produce and stage the Games in 1990 in
Washington State.
The SOC is the entity responsible for (among other
things):
(1) providing general management personnel for Games;
(2) arranging and managing competition venues and other
facilities, including Athletes' village;
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(3) implementing Opening and Closing Ceremonies;
(4) providing security and accreditation services;
(5) managing necessary construction and public permits;
(6) relations with local governments, businesses, labor
and the general public;
(7) liaison with U.S. Government and agencies of foreign
governments;
(8) ticket systems/sales;
(9) protocol; and
(10) support services, such as transportation, press
operations, publications.
SOC is the final decision-maker in those areas of its
responsibility.
III. SOC/TBS Relationship
TBS started the Goodwill Games in 1986, owns certain
Goodwill Games trademarks, and has ongoing rights with
respect to future Goodwill Games.
For 1990 the Games and TBS relationship to the Games have
been completely restructured from 1986.
As holder of worldwide media rights, TBS pays the SOC a
fee of approximately $16.8 million.
Total costs of staging the Athletic events in Washington
State are approximately $101.5 million, of which TBS' fee
amounts to 16.7%.
The SOC's budget for staging the athletic events is
approximately $60 million, of which the TBS fee amounts
to 28%.
The SOC is producing the Goodwill Arts Festival and
Cultural Exchange Programs without TBS budgetary support;
TBS is providing some television promotional support to
the Arts Festival.
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Athletes are being selected and invited by the U.S.
National Governing Bodies for each sport in coordination
with the International Federation for each sport.
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Kathy Scanlan
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 18, 1989
MEMORANDUM FOR GOVERNOR JOHN SUNUNU
FROM:
ANDREW H. CARD, JR
Any
SUBJECT:
1990 Goodwill Games
I have been asked to facilitate a coordinated federal effort for
the 1990 Goodwill Games by forming an Interagency Task Force.
Toward that end, attached are a draft letter to Cabinet
Secretaries of departments and agencies that are or will be
playing a role asking them to designate a liaision to the Task
Force and a list of agencies involved.
The precedents for a White House coordinating role relating to
international sports events extend back to the Lake Placid Winter
Games in 1980 with Carter's involvement. In 1982, Mike Deaver
established a White House Task Force for the 1984 Olympics. In
1985, Max Friedersdorf and Mitch Daniels established the White
House Task Force on the 1987 Pan American Games.
The Goodwill Games will involve 60 countries, 2500 athletes,
thousands of press and hundreds of hours of television coverage.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 18, 1989
Dear Mr. Secretary:
As you may be aware, in July 1990, Seattle, Washington will host
the 1990 Goodwill Games. This event will be the largest inter-
national sports event held in the United States since the 1987
Pan American Games and the largest event scheduled to be held in
the United States in the 1990's.
There will be extensive international coverage of this event
which is comparable to Olympic finals in 21 sports with the best
teams and athletes from approximately 60 countries participating.
There is and will be a large federal role in security, logistics,
and other related support for the Games. Over 15 federal depart-
ments and agencies will spend in excess of $23 million in support
or involvement with the Games. This large federal role and
extensive international attention requires careful coordination
and high-level supervision from each of the agencies and depart-
ments that are or will be involved. To help ensure that this
coordination and planning occur, the President has asked that an
informal task force be established to supervise the federal
response to and involvement with the organizing committee of the
1990 Goodwill Games. To this end, we would appreciate the
appointment of a representative from your department to serve on
this task force and as a point of contact for issues relating to
your involvement with the Goodwill Games. We will assemble the
representatives shortly to establish the procedures and the
agenda for the task force.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
Andrew H. Card, Jr.
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
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Departments and Agencies with Responsibilities
Related to the Goodwill Games
DOD - providing security and other support with $20 million
authorization and appropriation for this purpose
State Department - visa, protocol, security, asylum, and policy
issues
United States Information Agency - supporting cultural and
exchange program with one million dollar grant
Department of Labor - extensive involvement with the Job Corps
which is providing labor for construction projects
General Services Administration - providing surplus office
space, furniture, and other assistance to the Games
Justice Department - has responsibility for determining security
threat facing the Games. FBI and INS are also involved in
security and entry issues
Treasury Department - Secret Service, Customs, BATF, and Office
of Asset Control are all involved with the Games.
National Endowment for the Arts - Providing funds for performing
arts festival
Department of Transportation - FAA, Coast Guard, and Overflight
Security Committee are involved in security and charter
issues
Postal Service - providing specialized postal service during the
games, assisting with mail security, ceremonial aspects
Department of Health and Human Services - Involved in drug,
medical and other certification issues. Bureau of Native
American Affairs will be involved in Indian programs
Interior Department - Bureau of Indian Affairs is assisting with
Indian programs related to the Games.
Commerce Department - US Travel and Tourism Administration should
be involved in promoting tourism related to the Games.
Federal Emergency Management Agency - involved in security and
disaster planning
Department of Agriculture - The Forest Service manages several
Job Corps centers that will be involved in construction and
other projects with the Games
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David- -
Thank you for your letter, meeting with me and
fn your understanding (It was a hecticday!)
9 am glad to help facilitate a mou
coordinated federal response to the Goodwi
Games. is seems appropriate that the white
House form an interagency task force on the
Goodwill Games. Time is of the essence, so I'll
move quickly.
keep in touch.
Andy
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Do you want me to do the
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Mr. Andrew Card
Office of the Chief of Staff
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Andy:
Thank you for devoting time to our very small matter on a
very hectic day. It was kind of you to focus on our request when
there are SO many competing issues.
The precedents for a White House coordinating role relating
to international sports events extend back at least as far as the
Lake Placid Winter Games in 1980. The Carter White House was
deeply involved in the planning of the Lake Placid Games (largely
because the White House was trying to counter the impression that
it was anti-Olympic following the reaction to Afghanistan).
Anne Wexler staffed the task force and supervised the expenditure
of the $110 million the federal government spent to support that
competition.
Mike Deaver established a White House Task Force for the
1984 Olympics in 1982. By 1983, he was holding monthly meetings
with agency representatives to keep track of issues and had
established a two-person office to staff the task force.
In 1985, Max Friedersdorf and Mitch Daniels established the
White House Task Force on the 1987 Pan American Games. After an
initial meeting with the agency representatives and organizing
committee officers (copy of my invitation attached), there was
only one later meeting. There were a few mailings done to
establish the status of issues and concerns. There were also
phone calls to agencies from time to time to nudge decisions
along or to help resolve interagency disputes. Mitch served the
President and Vice-President well by creating a number of very
positive press opportunities and avoiding several politically
sensitive incidents. He also used the task force to create
tremendous good will with a number of Members of Congress.
The past precedents apply directly to the Goodwill Games.
The Games involve 60 countries, 2500 athletes, thousands of
press, and hundreds of hours of television coverage. The
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participants will come from all the potentially controversial
countries, Cuba, USSR, China, Bulgaria, etc.
The federal government is already heavily involved with the
Games. The attached list provides a brief description of the
role the 15 departments and agencies are already playing. The
federal government will spend over $23 million on various
elements of the Games. The federal role was further legitimized
this winter when the Attorney General certified that there was a
security threat of sufficient scale to warrant federal
participation.
The Games have been re-formated to avoid the issues of 1986.
Turner Broadcasting has purchased the television rights to the
Games but the non-profit Seattle Organizing Committee is
organizing the Games. The USOC and the amateur sports groups of
the United States are participating in the planning and
organization of the event.
Unless issues develop that I have not yet identified, I do
not expect any great controversy to develop. There will be
several issues that deserve some consideration for their
political or international implications, but these should not be
tremendously difficult issues. There will, however, be a number
of ways in which the Administration can create international
goodwill and national attention through participation in Games
related activities.
I have enclosed a list of the agencies that should be asked
to appoint a Goodwill Games liaison or representative, a draft
letter to the agencies, and a briefing book that describes the
Games. I have also attached a copy of the letter Senator Gorton
sent to the President.
Thank you for your consideration. Call if you have any
questions.
Sincerely,
Dr
David U. Gogol
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SLADE GORTON
WASHINGTON
Hnited States Senate
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
January 24, 1989
The Honorable George Bush
The President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Re: Goodwill Games
Seattle, Washington
July 20 to August 5, 1990
My dear Mr. President:
The second quadrennial Goodwill Games will take place in
Seattle, Washington, from July 20 to August 5, 1990. The first
such games were played in Moscow in 1986. They are designed to
bring together the world's finest athletes in a wide range of
sports in the summer equidistant between Olympic years, and their
first appearance in the United States will be one of the major
events of Seattle's history.
Planning for the games has proceeded with a resounding
degree of success, but will obviously require the cooperation and
assistance of the Federal Government.
I earnestly request that you create a White House Task
Force, with a specific Chairman in the White House, to coordinate
federal involvement in preparation for the games. They have
already been recognized by the Congress and an appropriation for
security purposes in the current budget and all federal offices
have, to this point, been most cooperative. Nevertheless, be-
cause the games will be dealing with so many federal offices, a
White House coordinator will be vital to their success.
Thank you very much for your consideration of this request.
Sincerely
Slade Gorton
United States Senator
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 10, 1985
Dear Dave:
Please allow this letter to serve as your formal invitation to
the Interagency Task Force Meeting to coordinate the federal role
in the Pan American games. The first meeting of this Task Force
will be held on July 24th from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the
Roosevelt Room of the White House. Vice President Bush will open
the meeting promptly at 3:00 p.m.
Sincerely,
with
Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr.
Deputy Assistant to the President
and
Director of Intergovernmental Affairs
Mr. David Gogol
1015 - 15th Street, N.W.
Suite 1200
Washington, D.C. 20005