RADIO FREE EUROPE

Division of the
FREE EUROPE COMMITTEE INC.
One English Garden · 8000 Munich 22 · Germany
Tel. 22 99 21

12 February 1965

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger
Harvard University
6 Divinity Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

Although we were very disappointed that your schedule did not permit you to visit Radio Free Europe during your recent trip to Munich, we are hopeful that it may be possible for you to work us into your schedule during your projected visit to this area next June, and to give a lecture to our key staff and editors.

On the day most convenient to you, we would like to plan to have you attend our morning policy meetings, inspect our facilities, and join a few key members of the RFE staff at luncheon. A lecture by you would be of the utmost interest to our political analysts and specialists. This could be scheduled for 3:00 PM. Details will be worked out to suit your requirements.

The general title of the two-day seminar you addressed in Munich last month, "Softening Tendencies in the East Bloc?" was very interesting to us, inasmuch as it was directly related to our target areas and to our overall mission. Faced as we are with the daily task of interpreting Western, and particularly United States strategy to some 80,000,000 people in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria, we also would be keenly interested in your comments on any aspects of the East-West confrontation, as well as in your views on current developments in Eastern Europe.

We shall look forward with great anticipation to the possibility of your paying us a visit and giving a lecture. We should be pleased to make hotel arrangements for you and will be able to give you an honorium for your lecture. We hope you will give us a favorable reply. Meanwhile we are sending you some of our printed material outlining the scope, techniques and goals of Radio Free Europe.

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