BLAIR O. ROGERS, M. D.

875 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK 21, N. Y.

LEHIGH 5-9277

September 9, 1960

Dear Professor Kissinger:

I have just finished reading "Protracted Conflict" in which you have played such a major role in the preparation. As a Lacy-Zaroubin lecturer in medicine in the U.S.S.R. in 1959, and a student of the U.S.S.R. since 1941, I have long realized, as this book so vividly emphasizes, that we are already, truly engaged in World War III in the struggle against Soviet Communism or Soviet Capitalism, whatever name suits it better.

Together with several international educators, international management experts, and psychologic warfare consultants, I have recently explored the possibility of drawing up a "Cold War Battle Plan" free of any government supervision, for obvious diplomatic reasons, in which business leaders, educators, labor union leaders, movie producers and distributors, advertising men, public relations consultants, psychologic warfare experts, etc., would get together to draw up cadres with an overall Commander-in-Chief and a General Staff, which would plan the strategy to attack the challenge of world communism on a concentrated, "war-time-like", logistic basis.

Such a "Battle Plan" would involve all types of conflict--namely, political, economic, psychologic, technologic, and educational--with the exception of military planning which does not lie in the scope of this endeavour. As a first step in this program, it has been recommended that a psychologic "Pearl Harbor" be created in order to abruptly wake up the complacent U.S. population to the grave economic and geopolitical peril which exists today vis a vis the penetration of an aggressive Soviet Capitalism. This psychologic effort would make use of a short, serious 3 or 4 minute cartoon which would be shown in every movie house and on every television network at least once daily, if possible, to demonstrate the geopolitical land gains made by the U.S.S.R. since 1938, e.g., Karelia (Finland), Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, East Prussia, Eastern Poland, Bessarabia, Carpatho-Ruthenia, Communist China, Tibet, Southern Sakhalin, North Korea, North Viet-Nam, and the satellization of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Roumania, Bulgaria, Albania, and the neutralization of Afghanistan, Burma, Laos, Indonesia, Iraq, United Arab Republic, Yemen, Guinea, Cuba, and possibly Ceylon, Ghana, the Congo, and even more remotely but possibly the Dominican Republic and the malnourished potential powder-keg, Haiti, its neighbor.

A second step of this "Battle Plan" would be to raise the money to send copies of the book "Protracted Conflict" as recommended, compulsory reading (with marginal notes and abbreviated guides and summaries, if necessary) to all the leading politicians, labor leaders, manufacturers, military men, professional men, scientists, etc., who shape our Free World destinies from day to day.

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A third step of this "Battle Plan" has been proposed in the enclosed photostatic copy of a letter I sent to the New York Times July 28, 1960, which described a new program in this war on world communism to combat Kruschchev's "People's Friendship University in Moscow" for students from Africa, Asia and South America. This letter recommended the establishment of a "Free University of the West" or a "Free University of Western Ideals" to be situated on Ellis Island or a similar metropolitan site, set up by the U.S. government through Congressional action under foreign aid program grants or by private funds, to be administered by local universities and Institutes, e.g., Foreign Policy Research Institute (University of Pennsylvania), Yale, Cornell, Columbia, Princeton, etc.

This "Free University of the West" would be open to underprivileged, uncommitted, deserving students chosen by their local governments or by other agencies, e.g., African Research Foundation, Inc., Near East Foundation, Inc. The Asian Foundation, Inc., Phelps-Stokes Fund, The African-American Institute, etc., from students in Africa, Asia and South America, together with a 10-20 percent U.S. scholarship student representation chosen from deserving U.S. students.

The concept of this "Free University of the West" has already received favorable comment and consideration by Congressman Lindsay (Repub., N.Y.), Congressman Bowles, Governor Stevenson, and Senator Symington.

The faculty of such a University, in addition to U.S. educators and leaders, might conceivably be drawn from intellectuals and leaders from our NATO and SEATO allies and from neutral friends devoted to Western ideals, serving on a "visiting lecturership" or temporary residency basis. It might include such thought-provoking and sometimes controversial leaders of the Western world as Arnold Toynbee, Carlos Romulo, George Kennan, Lin Yutang, Allen Dulles, Andre Malraux, Admiral Rickover, Hu Shih, Congressman Judd, Governor Stevenson, William Buckley, Jr., Max Lerner, Raymond Aron, Max Aocoli, Arthur Koestler, Madame Rama Rau, Charles Bohlen, yourself, etc.

I feel that your own ideas on this subject would be of inestimable value to our project, knowing full well that the gradual steps in its preparation will change for the better from day to day, the more expert the advice we obtain.

Thanking you at this time for your attention and courtesy,

I am,

BOR:pc

JUL 20 1967

91-A Bastogne Road
Ft. Lee, Virginia 23801

18 July 1967

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Professor Kissinger,

The vagueness of my letter was caused both by my ignorance of the type of work you might have available and by my uncertainty as to whether in fact I could help you in any way from such a distance.

What I had hoped for was part-time research work that I could do down here in my free time in the very general areas of defense policy or current international problems. Unfortunately, I am not well-versed in any specific field; I am most familiar, perhaps, with the problems of counter-insurgency and with United States foreign policy in Latin America and East Asia.

Since any research accomplished for you would be as much for my own satisfaction as for your benefit, I neither expect nor desire a paying position; I simply have about ten hours weekly to devote to any research to be done. If I can be of any aid to you, please let me know.

JUL - 5 1967

91-A Bastogne Rd.
Ft. Lee, Virginia

2 July 1967

Dear Professor Kissinger,

As your secretary probably told you, I was in Cambridge the last week in May and tried to get in touch with you. It seems that I missed you in between trips out of town.

The principal reason for my calling and for my writing now-- other than to thank you again for insuring that I obtained an interesting job during my tour of duty in the Army--is to inquire into the possibility of doing some research or other work either for you or for the Council on Foreign Relations. Having taught here for over a year now, I seem to have an excess of free time and would like to keep up to date somehow with defense policy and international politics. Barring changes in the Vietnamese "conflict" I will be released from active duty in February, 1968, and were I able to aid you in any way, I could continue helping you in my free time after that date.

I can't remember whether I related to you in the letter I wrote a year ago what I have done since you advised me in writing my senior thesis on Tojo and Yamashita in 1961-62. After graduation I went to Harvard Law School and managed to be elected to the Board of Student Advisers and the Law Review. My senior year schedule finally allowed me to take the Defense Policy Seminar, and I wrote on the tactics of counterinsurgency for my seminar paper and third-year thesis. After graduation I worked mainly on international corporate matters for a large Houston law firm prior to entering the service in February of 1966. Since then I have been teaching public contract law and general business law at the Quartermaster School.

I would appreciate any work you could send down my way; living as I am 120 miles south of Washington, there is a dearth of good libraries from which to base much primary research.

My office address is:

Procurement/Property Disposal Branch
Quartermaster School
Bldg. P-5000
Ft. Lee, Virginia 23801

Thanking you in advance, I am