To meet HAK 4/9/73

Type of Request & Date

Aavik(Sen. Hatfield) 16-17 Apr
(Last name and pending date)

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

Name: Mr. Edgar E. Aavik (writing from Australia)

Request: Sen. Hatfield's office called. Senator has letter from Mr. Aavik who will be in Washington 16-17 April and would like to meet Dr. Kissinger. Aavik mentioned that he had met Senator Hatfield a couple of years ago. Aavik said he formerly belonged to the Estonian Cabinet and used to live in Furth, Germany. As an artist and publisher he is concerned in the promotion of "rehabilitation art as well as to publish certain books." Jo Bryant in Sen. Hatfield's office said the Senator is not pushing this. Her number is 225-8309.

CSH's Recommendation:

HAK's Answer:

Date and Time:

Party Contacted: Jo Bryant - OBE - HAK schedule too heavy

Additional Information:

Resolution:

RECEIVED

APR 19 1973

CENTRAL FILES

CENTER FOR STRATEGIC

AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY • 810 18th STREET, N.W. • WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006

Telephone (202) 783-7950

OFFICERS

*Arleigh Burke
Chairman

*David M. Abshire
Executive Director

SENIOR STAFF

Alvin J. Cottrell

Norman A. Bailey

Sevinc Carlson

Gordon D. Gayle

Robert A. Kilmarx

James H. McBride

Michael A. Samuels

M. Jon Vondracek
Communications

WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE

Richard J. Whalen

RESEARCH COUNCIL

*Philip E. Mosely, Chairman
Columbia University

Kenneth E. BeLieu
Washington, D. C.

Karl H. Cerny
Georgetown University

Jules Davidis
Georgetown University

*Joseph S. Farland
Washington, D. C.

Bernard Lewis
University of London

Walter V. Laqueur
Institute of Contemporary
History (London)

Kurt L. London
George Washington University

Laurence W. Martin
University of London

Thomas C. Schelling
Harvard University

Joseph L. Tryon
Georgetown University

Charles W. Wagley
Columbia University

Richard L. Walker
University of South Carolina

Henry C. Wallich
Yale University

Robert E. Ward
University of Michigan

John C. Warner
Carnegie-Mellon University

ADVISORY BOARD

*Karl R. Bendetsen
Chairman

Robert B. Anderson

Isaac L. Auerbach

Frank R. Barnett

Kenneth E. BeLieu

Donald C. Burnham

Peter H. Dominick

*Joseph S. Farland

Gerald R. Ford

Fred C. Foy

*James B. Horigan, S.J.

Frank N. Ikard

*Arthur Krock

*Morris I. Leibman

Neil H. McElroy

Claiborne Pell

Arthur W. Radford

Richard M. Scaife

Frederick Seitz

Robert B. Semple

F. Ritter Shumway

*C. E. Straight
Matt S. Szymczak

*Arthur G. Trudeau
John C. Warner
Clement J. Zablocki

*Member, Executive Committee

January 31, 1969

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Special Assistant to the President
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20506

Dear Henry:

You will recall our invitation to you, just prior to your moving to the White House, to participate in the Center's forthcoming study trip to Western Europe. In light of your present position, we now want to alert you as to the status of the project.

As you will note from the attached schedule, the study mission will be in Western Europe from February 8 through the 22nd. The members of the mission are Livingston Merchant, Chairman; Professor Henry Wallich and Nicholas Campbell, Vice Chairmen; Frederick E. Nolting; Admiral Arleigh Burke; The Honorable Thomas Curtis; Ambassador Theodore Achilles; Adolph Schmidt, Governor, T. Mellon & Sons; Dr. Lawrence Krause, Brookings Institution; and Professors Harold Charles Deutsch, University of Minnesota and James Dougherty, Foreign Policy Research Institute.

We will release the panel policy report, with the findings, sometime in late March. We feel the value of this undertaking is in the creation of a dialogue at the non-governmental level on the subject of new approaches to the economic and military security of Western Europe for the 1970's, with political implications and alternatives for the United States.

THE CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Georgetown University

AMERICAN STUDY MISSION ON WEST EUROPE

February 8 - 22, 1969

* Honorable Livingston T. Merchant, Chairman
  Former Under Secretary of State
  Former Director, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

* Mr. Nicholas J. Campbell, Jr., Vice-Chairman
  President, Esso Europe, Inc.

* Dr. Henry C. Wallich, Vice-Chairman
  Professor of Economics, Yale University
  Former Member, President's Council of Economic Advisers
  Columnist Newsweek magazine
  Author: *Mainsprings of German Revival*

* **Admiral Arleigh Burke**
  Chairman, Center for Strategic and International Studies,
  Georgetown University
  Former U.S. Chief of Naval Operations and Member of the
  Joint Chiefs of Staff

**Dr. David M. Abshire**
Executive Director, Center for Strategic and International Studies,
Georgetown University
Co-editor: *National Security: Political, Military, and Economic
Strategies in the Decade Ahead* (1963)

* **Honorable Theodore C. Achilles**
  Vice Chairman, Executive Committee, The Atlantic Council of the
  United States
  Former Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative on the NATO Council

* **Mr. Isaac L. Auerbach**
  President, Auerbach Corporation
  Member, Advisory Board, C.S.I.S., Georgetown University

* **Mr. Frank R. Barnett**
  President, National Strategy Information Center, Inc.
  Member, Advisory Board, C.S.I.S., Georgetown University

* Panelists

Mr. Gene E. Bradley

Member, Board of Directors, Atlantic Council of the United States

Editor: *Building the American-European Market: Planning for the 1970's.*

Dr. Alvin J. Cottrell

Senior Staff, C.S.I.S., Georgetown University

Author: *The Politics of the Atlantic Alliance*

Co-author: *Cyprus between East and West*

* Honorable Thomas B. Curtis

Former Member, U.S. House of Representatives (1950-1968)

Former Member: Ways and Means Committee; Joint Economic Committee; and Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation

* Dr. Harold Charles Deutsch

Chairman, Department of History, University of Minnesota

Author: *The New Europe, the Common Market and the United States*

* Dr. James E. Dougherty

Executive Vice President, St. Joseph's College

Associate: Foreign Policy Research Institute

Co-author: *Politics and the Alliance*

Mr. Kenneth Gilmore

Associate, C.S.I.S., Georgetown University

Washington Editor, *Readers' Digest*

* Dr. Lawrence B. Krause

Senior Staff, The Brookings Institution

Editor: *The Common Market: Progress and Controversy*

* Mr. R. Daniel McMichael

Administrative Officer, Scaife Family .

* Honorable Frederick E. Nolting, Jr.*

Vice President, Morgan Guaranty Trust Company (Paris)

Former Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Delegation to NATO and
European Regional Organizations (USRO), U.S. Alternate Representative
on North Atlantic Council

* Mr. Adolph W. Schmidt

Vice President and Governor, T. Mellon and Sons

Mr. Richard J. Whalen

Writer-in-residence, C.S.I.S., Georgetown University

Former associate editor, *Fortune* magazine and of *Time* magazine

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Mr. John Bernard

Field Representative, Center for Strategic and International Studies,
Georgetown University

Former staff member, The National War College

Mrs. Christa D. Thompson

Fiscal Officer and secretary, C.S.I.S., Georgetown University

Dr. Andrew W. Green

Research Associate, C.S.I.S., Georgetown University

LONDON

LONDON

Sunday, February 9

1100/1145 **Orientation** (All panel and staff members. To be held in small conference room at London Hilton. Coffee and/or fruit juice will be available)

1230 **Luncheon** By subcommittee. (Each member of the group will be assigned to a "Committee", cover subjects of military (strategic), political and economic nature. A discussion of these issues will take place during luncheon. These luncheons will meet in three suites assigned to certain members of our group; or in small dining rooms within the Hilton.)

1500/1630 **Embassy Briefing**. By Embassy personnel at either the Embassy or Consulate. Transportation will be furnished.

1630 Return to London Hilton

1645/1850 OPEN

1900 **Dinner** at London Hilton, hosted by Professor Laurence Martin, with some outside British guests invited. Members of the Center's panel on the USSR in London and American Embassy personnel involved in earlier briefings are also invited.

LONDON

Monday, February 10

0730 **Breakfast** - Individual room service and/or hotel dining room
0930 **Depart** London Hilton. Transportation to be furnished.
0940 **Arrive** Royal United Service Institution
1000/1230 **SEMINAR:** "Future Soviet Behavior Toward Western Europe"

Professor Kurt London will open the program, which will consist of a discussion moderated by Professor Laurence Martin. Discussants will include Professor Malcolm Mackintosh, Professor Hugh Seton-Watson, Dr. Leonard B. Schapiro, and Sir William Hayter from England, and Dr. Paul Ello and Dr. Andrew Gyorgy from the United States. These discussants will be panelists for the Center's Anglo-European panel report on the USSR, chaired by Professor London, Director, Sino Soviet Institute, George Washington University.

1000 **Appointment for Admiral Burke** with First Sea Lord
1245 **Depart** Royal United Service Institution
1300 **Arrive** London Hilton Hotel

1315/1500 **Luncheon** - At London Hilton, with discussants from the morning seminar as guests.

1515 **Depart** London Hilton. Transportation will be furnished.
1545/1645 **Arrive** Defense Ministry for appointment with Defense Minister Healey and high level briefing.
1630 **Depart** Defense Ministry

1800 **Reception. Residence, Embassy or hotel.** Hosted by Mr. Philip Kaiser, Deputy Chief of Mission, American Embassy, London, in absence of American Ambassador. Invitees include diplomats, bankers, military, etc.

EVENING **Dinner OPEN.** No formal schedule planned.

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LONDON

Tuesday, February 11

0730 Breakfast. Individual room service and/or hotel dining room.

0930 Depart London Hilton. Transportation to be furnished.

0940 Arrive Royal United Service Institution.

1000/1230 SEMINAR: "Britain, NATO, and West European Security"

Chaired and arranged by Laurence Martin, Professor of War Studies, University of London, in conjunction with Christopher Tugendhat of the Financial Times, this seminar will include discussants with diverse viewpoints on what should be Britain's future course re NATO, EEC, and the US.

Discussants include Alastair Buchan, Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies; Terrence Higgins, M.P. (Conservative); David Howe, M.P. (Conservative); G.W. Reynolds, Minister outside the Cabinet for Defense; and Andrew Schoenfeld, Head, Chatham House

1245 Depart Royal United Service Institution. Transportation to be furnished.

1300 Arrive London Hilton

1315/1500 Luncheon. At London Hilton.

Guest speaker: Right Honorable Reginald Maudling, former Chancellor of the Exchequer; Deputy Leader, Conservative Party (Commonwealth, Colonies, Overseas Colonies); Executive Director, Kleinwort Benson, Ltd.

1500/1700 No formal schedule until 1700 Tea. Some panel members will be involved in individual appointments.

1700/1800 Plenary Session and Tea for entire panel group on subject: "Where Does the Panel Stand?", to be held in a hotel meeting room, to review findings of the London trip.

London

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LONDON

Tuesday, February 11

(continued)

1930/2130 Depart for Dinner
The group will divide into two dinner parties, with
select British and American guests.

2130 (approx) Depart from dinner parties and return to London Hilton.

Wednesday, February 12

SPECIAL NOTE: At this time our group, panelists and staff, will form three separate groups and disperse as follows: More detailed departure schedules will appear on following pages of this itinerary.

Group I (PARIS)
0930 Depart London International Airport (Heathrow)
BE 336
1045 Arrive Paris (Orly). Transport furnished to
Hotel Meurice.

Group II (BERLIN)
1120 Depart London International Airport (Heathrow)
BE 684
1345 Arrive Berlin (Templehof) Transport to Berlin Hil

Group III (ROME)
0930 Depart London International Airport (Heathrow)
AZ 633
1140 Arrive Rome Leonardo da Vinci Airport.
Transport to Hotel Excelsior

London

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PARIS

Thursday, February 13

Note for schedule of Drs. Wallich and Krause. Special appointments are being arranged with Bank of France, Treasury, and Finance Ministry, to include some of the following: Rene Larre, Finance Ministry; Andre de Lattre, Bank of France; Henri Koch, Director of Research, Bank of France; Ambassador Philip Trezise (OECD)

For other panelists, appointments are being requested with the Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry.

AM 1000 SEMINAR,
to include Jacques Vernand, General Beaufre, Pierre Uri,
Pierre Hassner, Curt Gasteyger, and others

PM 1300 Lunch, hosted by Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry Herve Alphand (former French Ambassador to the United States), at the Foreign Ministry. To include officials from the Foreign Office in addition to Messrs. Larre, de Lattre, and Koch.

1600 Some panelists will meet with Professor Guy de Carmoy, Institut European d'Administration des Affaires

1800 Meeting with Defense Minister Pierre Messmer at the Defense Ministry.

1930 Dinner with Raymond Aron at the Hotel Meurice

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Paris

PARIS

Friday, February 14

AM 0900 **Drs. Wallich and Krause, and Mr. Curtis:**
**Depart** for Orly Airport en route to Frankfurt
1035 Arrive Frankfurt for appointment with Dr. Abs
1100 **Dr. Abshire** for Cologne/Bonn for 1100 meeting with
Franz-Josef Strauss and Dr. Wolfgang Wagner

FOR OTHER PANELISTS

AM **Appointment with Maurice Schumann, Member of Cabinet**
for Scientific Research, and Atomic and Spatial
TIME TO Questions

BE **Appointment** with Professor Jean Le Roy

DETERMINED **Appointment** with Mr. Paul Burton, Head of AFL/CIO
Operations in Paris

**Appointment** at The Institute for Higher Defense
Studies

PM **Dinner. OPEN**

Saturday, February 15

AM 0930 **Depart** Orly Airport for Cologne/Bonn
1025 **Arrive** Cologne/Bonn Airport

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Paris

ROME

Wednesday, February 12

<table><tbody><tr><td>AM</td><td>0930</td><td><u>Depart</u> London (Al Italia Flight 633)<br>Breakfast served en route</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1140</td><td><u>Arrive</u> Rome (Leonardo da Vinci Airport)<br>Met by hotel limosines)</td></tr><tr><td>PM</td><td>1300</td><td><u>Arrive</u> Excelsior Hotel, Rome</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1400/<br>1530</td><td><u>Embassy briefing</u></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1540</td><td><u>Depart</u> for appointment with Father Pedro Arrupe, S.J.,<br>General of the Society of Jesus.</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1600/<br>1700</td><td><u>Appointment</u> with Father Arrupe</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1900</td><td><u>Cocktail Party</u>, hosted by Mr. Marcello Sacchetti,<br>of the Italian Christian Employers Organization,<br>at his residence, Via Guilia 66, Rome</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>2100</td><td><u>Dinner</u>, hosted by Mr. Spinelli, Director of the<br>Italian Institute of International Affairs.</td></tr></tbody></table>

ROME

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Rome

ROME

Thursday, February 13

<table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="5">AM</td><td>0730/0830</td><td><u>Breakfast</u>, hotel dining room or room service.</td></tr><tr><td>0840</td><td><u>Depart</u> hotel for Rome train station</td></tr><tr><td>0912</td><td><u>Depart</u> Rome, Rapido</td></tr><tr><td>1106</td><td><u>Arrive</u> Naples (Central Station)<br/>to be met by representatives of Commander-in-Chief<br/>Southern European Forces (CINCSOUTH)</td></tr><tr><td>1300</td><td><u>Luncheon</u>, hosted by Admiral Rivero, CINCSOUTH</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3">PM</td><td>1950</td><td><u>Depart</u> Naples (Mergellina Station)</td></tr><tr><td>2147</td><td><u>Arrive</u> Rome train station</td></tr><tr><td>2215</td><td><u>Arrive</u> Hotel Excelsior</td></tr></tbody></table>

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Rome

ROME

Friday, February 14

<table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="10">AM</td><td>0730/0830</td><td><u>Breakfast.</u> Hotel dining room or room service</td></tr><tr><td>1000/1300</td><td><u>Appointments</u> with members of Italian Government</td></tr><tr><td>1330/1530</td><td><u>Lunch</u>, possibly hosted by Italian Government</td></tr><tr><td>1600</td><td><u>Depart</u> for Airport</td></tr><tr><td>1810</td><td><u>Depart</u> Rome (LH 331)</td></tr><tr><td>1950</td><td><u>Arrive</u> Frankfurt</td></tr><tr><td>2115</td><td><u>Depart</u> Frankfurt (LH 094)</td></tr><tr><td>2150</td><td><u>Arrive</u> Cologne Airport</td></tr><tr><td>2200</td><td><u>Depart</u> Cologne Airport by motor</td></tr><tr><td>2300</td><td><u>Arrive</u> Bonn, Hotel Königshof</td></tr></tbody></table>

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Rome

BERLIN

Wednesday, February 12

<table><tr><td>AM</td><td>Arrive Berlin Airport<br/>Depart Berlin Airport for Berlin Hilton Hotel</td></tr><tr><td>PM</td><td>1300/<br/>1500 Major General R.G. Fergusson, U.S. Commander Berlin,<br/>has invited our group for lunch to be given by the<br/>City of Berlin for Colonel Borman and his family<br/><br/>1500 High level tour of city for Colonel Borman on which<br/>the panel study mission has been included, followed<br/>by a visit to the Hall of Congress where Colonel Borman<br/>will give a lecture.</td></tr></table>

BERLIN

Thursday, February 13

AM 0730/0830 Breakfast. Hotel dining room or room service.

REMAINDER OF DAY AS ARRANGED BY MR. AHLERS AND
U.S. BERLIN COMMANDER

PM 1730/1930 Reception, hosted by Major General R.G. Fergusson, U.S. Commander Berlin, at his quarters.

BERLIN

BONN

Friday, February 14

Dr. Abshire will meet with Franz Josef Strauss, Minister of Finance, at 11:00 a.m. for preliminary discussions

Dr. Abshire will also meet with Dr. Wolfgang Wagner for
preliminary discussions.

The Paris, Berlin, and Rome sub-groups will arrive in
Bonn late Friday evening.

BONN

BONN

Saturday, February 15

Berlin/Bonn

AM

0750

Depart Berlin for Cologne/Bonn Airport

Arrive Cologne/Bonn Airport

Motor to Bonn

PM

1230/

Lunch for study mission, to be followed by a plenary meeting, each group having its representative spokesman reporting on reactions and the pertinent developments gathered from each of the three individual sub-group visits.

AND/OR Guest Speaker: Major General Russell E. Dougherty, USAF, J-5, of U.S. European Command (representing General Burchinal), either during or immediately after lunch.

1430/

1600

Embassy Briefing

1800

Cocktails and dinner with Embassy officials

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Bonn

BONN

Sunday, February 16

AM FREE TIME

PM 1300 **Luncheon** at Restaurant am Tulpenfeld
Guest speaker: Kurt Birrenbach, President, Thyssen Corporation

1500 **SEMINAR** at Restaurant am Tulpenfeld, arranged by Dr. Wolfgang Wagner of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik

**Title:** "West Germany in Light of the Czech Crisis and the More Recent Monetary Crisis"

**Discussants:**

Conrad Ahlers, spokesman of the Federal Government

Wolf Graf Baudissin, General (Ret.), Hamburg

Kurt Birrenbach, M.P., President, Thyssen

Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, "Die Zeit", Hamburg

Otmar Emmlinger, Director, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfort

Walter Hallstein, Professor, former President of the European Commission

Boris Meissner, Professor, University Cologne

Uwe Nerlich, Director of Program, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Eggenberg

Ulrich Scheuner, Professor, University Bonn

Günther Schmölders, Professor University Cologne

Gebhardt von Walther, former ambassador, Acting President, DGAP

EVENING 1930 **Cocktails**
2000 Dinner at Hotel Königshof, to include seminar discussants. (Arrangements made by Dr. Wagner)

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Bonn

BONN

Monday, February 17

ENTIRE DAY Rosemontag

AM 0800
**Breakfast** at hotel. Impressions gained by Professors Kurt London and Paul Ello and by Col. Landis during their trip to Belgrade the previous week. (Christa arrange dining room)

0930/
1100
**Tentative Sub-committee meetings**

A delegation will meet with Mr. Franz Josef Strauss either in Munich or somewhere in Bavaria. (Christa will call Bonn on February 12 to determine exactly where delegation will meet with Strauss.)

PM WRITING STAFF WILL MEET ENTIRE AFTERNOON AND WORK ON DRAFTS

EVENING **Dinner** at hotel. Evening free to join in festivities

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Bonn

BONN

Tuesday, February 18

<table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2">AM</td><td>0730/0830</td><td>Breakfast in specified Hotel Konigshof dining room, or room service</td></tr><tr><td>1000</td><td>Meeting with Parliamentary State Secretary Jahn who is standing in for Foreign Minister Brandt, who is ill.</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1200</td><td>Meeting with State Secretary Carstens, for the Chancellor.</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1300</td><td>Lunch at Tulpenfeld Restaurant with members of Parliament, to include Helmut Schmidt, Chairman of the Bundestag Group (SPD); Professor Karl Schiller, Minister for Economics (SPD); and Dr. Rainer Barzel, First Deputy Chairman (CDU).</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1500</td><td>Meeting with State Secretary von Hase, Defense Ministry</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1600</td><td>High level briefing by Armed Forces Staff, Defense Ministry</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1730</td><td>Return to Hotel Konigshof</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>2000</td><td>Depart for Supper</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>2015</td><td>Informal Buffet Supper at residence of Russell Fessenden, Charge d'Affaires ad interim, including our group and a group of German officials.</td></tr></tbody></table>

BONN
Wednesday, February 19

<table><tr><td>AM</td><td>0900</td><td>Depart Bonn by motorcoach<br>(Allow time in schedule for Church attendance - ASH WEDNESDAY)</td></tr></table>

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Bonn

BRUSSELS

Wednesday, February 19

Bonn/Brussels

BONN

AM 0730/0830 Breakfast in specified Hotel Konigshof dining room, Bonn

0900 Depart Bonn for Brussels by motorcoach

BRUSSELS 1130 Arrive Brussels Hilton Hotel

PM Lunch. OPEN

1400/1600 Drafting Session on Germany trip

1600/1700 Rest and dress for evening.

1715 Depart hotel for Embassy

1730/1830 Briefing at American Embassy

1830/2030 Cocktails and Discussion, hosted by Ambassador Knight at his residence, for the panel study mission and a selected group of Belgians. Envisaged as primarily a working session to convey various shades of Belgian opinion on subjects of interest to the panel

EVENING OPEN

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Brussels

BRUSSELS

BRUSSELS

Thursday, February 20

AM

0830/ Breakfast. Hotel dining room or room service
0930

0945 Depart hotel for European Communities Headquarters

1000/ Meeting with Ambassador Schaetzel and
1100 Briefing by his staff

1200 Appointment with Foreign Minister Harmel, at Foreign Office. (author of Harmel Report on NATO)

1300 Lunch at Brussels Hilton Hotel.
Guest speaker: Mr. C.C. van den Heuvel (INTERDOC)

1500 Meeting with NATO Ambassador Cleveland and his staff

1700 Tentative meeting with Belgian officials

2000 Dinner, hosted by Ambassador Merchant at Brussels Hilton Hotel. Guest of Honor: Prince Guido Colonna di Paliano, Member, Commission of European Economic Community.

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Brussels

BRUSSELS

Friday, February 21

<table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="3">AM</td><td>0700/0800</td><td><u>Breakfast</u>. Hotel dining room or room service.</td></tr><tr><td>0830</td><td><u>Depart</u> for SHAPE Headquarters</td></tr><tr><td>1000/1200</td><td><u>Briefing</u> at SHAPE Headquarters</td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td><u>Lunch</u> at SHAPE Headquarters. Hopefully arrangements can be made to include senior Allied officers in small luncheon groups with panelists and staff (letter 1/14/69 from Admiral Burke to General Lemnitzer)</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2">PM</td><td>1600</td><td><u>Arrive</u> at Brussels Hilton Hotel<br/><u>OPEN</u><br/>Free until dinner</td></tr><tr><td>2000</td><td><u>Dinner</u>. Several small dinner parties. Ambassador Cleveland will host one at his residence.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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Brussels

KISSINGER, HENRY A. /A*

FEB 5 1971

Dear Dean:

Many thanks for your note from the Mill Reef
Club. I must admit, I do envy you the time to
really relax and the free choice of places to
relax in. I hope you are having a wonderful
rest.

The exposure of a plot to kidnap me created
more of a sensation in the press than a change
in my life. But I was interested to know that
you were behind it and am disappointed that it
did not work. Being held in the West Indies
no right-thinking man would do anything but
beg not to be ransomed.

I am looking forward to seeing you when you
return to this part of the world's.

Honorable Dean Acheson
Mill Reef Club Limited
Antigua, West Indies

jlp:2/4/71

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Washington, D.C. 20515

March 17, 1970

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger,
The Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20500

Dear Henry:

A few days ago I learned through the press that steps have been taken to close the American Consulate General in Salisbury, Rhodesia. As you are probably aware, 77 Members of the House of Representatives wrote to the President a joint letter disagreeing with this action. My information is that some 20 to 30 additional Members would have signed if there had been time to do so. Further than this, there are other Members, myself included, who agree with the sentiments expressed in the joint letter, but did not sign out of deference to the President.

I would now like to express my great concern over this action, which presumably was taken because the Republic of Rhodesia has a minority government. If we were not to maintain relations with minority governments of one form or another, we would have diplomatic relations with few countries indeed.

With the changes occurring in the world's balance of power, it is my conviction that we must be pragmatic and look to our own self interest as a nation. We must, for example, consider our security and the importance of strategic materials such as chrome ore. I think it is most unwise to have become dependent, as we have, upon the Soviet Union for so vital a commodity. It must be amusing to the Soviet leaders that we are paying the major price for ostracizing Rhodesia, while the U. S. S. R. becomes our principal supplier of chrome ore and profits by charging us exorbitant prices.

Dr. Kissinger

March 17, 1970
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In the long term, what is our strategy? What do we hope to accomplish by closing the consulate in Salisbury? Do we hope to force the Republic of Rhodesia to resume its former status as a part of the British Commonwealth? If so, we are completely unrealistic and inconsistent with our own history as a nation which obtained its independence from Great Britain and has supported other nations in their desire for independence. Do we hope to force the present government of Rhodesia to broaden its base? If so, we are discriminatory for we have not adopted such tactics against most other minority governments. If this is our objective, and if through it we hope to placate African extremists, we are guilty of wishful thinking. We have merely put gasoline on the fire.

With Kaunda reported to be mobilizing a "division"-on the Rhodesian border to prevent a "preemptive strike" by the Ian Smith Government, we have all the makings of a new Congo. In my view, our action may well contribute to the occurrence of such a disaster.

Finally, it should also be noted that our action may have a profound effect upon the upcoming election in Great Britain. By closing the consulate in Salisbury, we have precluded new approaches by the Conservative Party on the Rhodesian matter, which could possibly have taken us "off the hook." Polls show the Conservatives are expected to win the next election. Thus, we have alienated the British political party that ought to be able to work best with the Nixon Administration on resolving issues of mutual interest.

In view of the above points, I do hope that the decision to close the consulate in Salisbury is not irrevocable, and that prompt action will be taken to establish a working relationship with the Government of the Republic of Rhodesia.

ERA:n1.

cc: The Honorable William P. Rogers

15 State Street
Room 101
Boston, Mass. 02109

August 6, 1970

Mr. Henry Kissinger
The White House
Washington, D.C.

Dear Henry:

You may remember our luncheon four years ago at the Harvard Faculty Club when we discussed the danger to the reputation of Lyndon Johnson of the war in Indochina. Our predictions of its probably disastrous effect have turned out to be true.

One cannot always have equal success in one's prognostications. However, I have continued to follow the subject closely and was recently in Paris. The result of my observations I distilled into three articles which were printed last week in the Boston GLOBE. I think they may be of interest to you. I concieve that the real necessity for the present administration is to extricate itself from the Indochinese war. The avenue suggested by these articles could prove to be the best.

TBA:jb

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