November 17, 1976

Dear President Coffee:

I apologize for the delay in responding to your letter of
October 27th.

Secretary Kissinger has only very recently been able to give even preliminary consideration to which speaking engagements he might accept once he leaves office. Actually, I doubt if he will make any commitments until mid-spring, after a well-earned vacation. Knowing your time requirements, I do not believe it would be wise for Eisenhower College to wait until then, as I cannot hold out much hope that he would be able to give the commencement address.

He does want to thank you, however, for sending the material on Eisenhower College. He learned a good deal from it and was impressed with the scope of your World Studies program. A college so young is to be congratulated on getting so far so fast!

With the Secretary's warm wishes for continued success,

Dr. Joseph D. Coffee, Jr.,
President,
Eisenhower College,
Seneca Falls, New York.

cc: Ms. Ann Whitman

November 17, 1976

Dear Ann:

I thought you would like to see a copy of a letter I sent
today to President Coffee on behalf of the Secretary.

While he didn't turn it down outright, he did say that he
didn't want to make any commitments until April at the earliest.
He really does want to take a good long rest first. I also doubt
if he will do much speaking at first. Therefore, I didn't feel it
would be fair to Eisenhower College to make them wait and hope,
and then possibly to learn too late to get another top figure that
he could not do it.

He was really very interested to learn more about the
College, though, and read all the material Dr. Coffee sent with
interest. And I'm sure he appreciated being considered.

Ms. Ann Whitman,
Room 5600,
30 Rockefeller Plaza,
New York, New York.

EISENHOWER COLLEGE

SENECA FALLS, NEW YORK 13148

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

TELEPHONE: AREA CODE 315
568-7311 - 568-7011

October 27, 1976

Mrs. Suzanne McFarlane
Office of The Honorable Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D.C. 20520

Dear Mrs. McFarlane,

Thank you for your call and chat with my secretary, Mrs. Taylor.

This is to assure you that I am realistic about the chances for Dr. Kissinger's affirmative decision in response to our invitation to be the Commencement Speaker at Eisenhower College on May 28. But, you do give us reason to hope.

I enclose pertinent material about the College, particularly as regards our distinctive World Studies Program. The enclosed clipping from yesterday's New York Times is good evidence that this College's adherence to a quality "general education" curriculum (our World Studies) was right and likely to be proven as a good model for some other institutions whose faculty are qualified. A list of Trustees is also included.

I spent twenty years in the administration of Columbia University concluding my tenure there as Assistant to the President prior to joining the founding group of Eisenhower College eleven years ago. Other summary details may be found in Who's Who in America.

Thank you for your interest.

JDCJr/bdt

Enclosures

Dedicated to the Character, Principles and Patriotism of Dwight David Eisenhower

cc: Mrs. Ann Whitman

EISENHOWER COLLEGE

SENECA FALLS. NEW YORK 13148

September 22, 1976

Mrs. Ann Whitman,
Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the U.S.
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Waterloo, NY 13165

Dear Mrs. Whitman,

In the hope that Mr. Coffee will be able to establish a convenient time for you to meet with the officers of the Class of 1977 during your visit to Eisenhower College this coming weekend, I thought it best to clarify our ideas to you in advance so that you might have time to consider them.

Although you are well aware of the objectives of Eisenhower College, I would like to quote one of them...

> It is the objective of Eisenhower College to assist each student in achieving a knowledge of the peoples of other cultures and nations to the end that provincialism and chauvinism will be replaced by a cosmopolitan understanding of, and a desire to live in amity with, mankind everywhere.

What conclusion to a liberal education could be more proper or appropriate than the selection of a commencement speaker whose own ideals and, more importantly, whose own actions better reflect this goal?

As the general objective of Eisenhower College, written by our founders and inscribed on the inside front cover of our current catalog, states, "It is the objective of Eisenhower College to assist students through a true liberal arts program to become sensitive to the world in every one of its aspects..."

So, we the officers of the Class of 1977, with the approval of the faculty and administration of Eisenhower College, have decided to seek as our commencement speaker the Honorable Henry A. Kissinger, Secretary of State.

Mr. Coffee informs me that you are friendly with Mr. Kissinger,

Mrs. Ann Whitman

availability in May is still quite possible, but if a request to
him to speak is postponed, it could severely limit the possibility
of acquiring his acceptance, hence our early plea to you.

I have every expectation that Mr. Kissinger would agree to speak
if our case was presented to him in the personal manner which you
can provide.

I look forward to meeting with you this weekend.

JAM/jed

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February 6, 1974

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D. C. 20500

Dear Mr. Secretary:

Thank you for your letter of January 6 (copy attached) regarding my book, THE NEGOTIATOR. Naturally, I am very proud of this and will retain with pride and proudly display.

I showed a copy of your letter to my publisher and they asked that I contact you to see if we could quote from your letter on the book's promotion, "timely and appropriate - Henry A. Kissinger."

Naturally, we do not want to do this unless you have no reservations whatsoever. For your information the following are comments that we have used in the book's promotion:

1) Ralph E. Lewis, Editor and Publisher, *Harvard Business Review*: THE NEGOTIATOR is an entertaining compendium of things everyone should know about negotiating."

2) Dr. Lawrence J. Peter, author of *THE PETER PRINCIPLE* and *THE PETER PRESCRIPTION*: "THE NEGOTIATOR communicates its message in a most effective way--through wit and humor."

3) Vance Packard, author of *THE STATUS SEEKERS*, *THE PYRAMID CLIMBERS* and other best sellers: "THE NEGOTIATOR, with amusing examples, makes some very perceptive points about dealing with people in business."

AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS

STEPHEN WISE CONGRESS HOUSE • 15 EAST 84TH STREET • NEW YORK, N. Y. 10028 • TR 9-4500

RICHARD COHEN
ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

April 28, 1976

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Department of State
Washington, D.C.

Dear Dr. Kissinger

I am the gentleman whose hand you are shaking in this
photograph taken at the convention of the American
Jewish Congress earlier this month. I like the
picture because it shows me shaking hands with you
and also because the back of my head looks like it
has a lot of hair on it.

I would be most grateful if you signed it for me as
a moment of an important day in my life and the life
of the American Jewish Congress.

RC:gh

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I would like to talk to you about what intelligence does
for peace. The revelations of the past few weeks have probably
led many of you to question what intelligence has to do with
peace. Those revelations reflect things past, things that a
new intelligence itself rooted out and corrected. We are now
engaged in developing a new role for intelligence, one that
reflects modern American precepts and values. We ask your
cooperation and support in articulating this new role.

Dr. Schlesinger once said that one of the primary social
services expected from government is security. This can be
gained, in the old Biblical phrase, by "a strong man armed in
his camp." I think we have developed other ways to achieve
security over the centuries, particularly in the past 28 years
during which American intelligence has matured and become the
best in the world.

Intelligence now enables us to anticipate as well as to
know. Anticipation allows us to arm ourselves, if such be
necessary, with the right weapon. We need not face the light
and accurate slingshot with an unwieldy broadsword. Anticipation
also allows us to deter aggressors, demonstrating by our
protective shield the futility of attacking us.

But anticipation these days also presents us with an
opportunity, beyond anything known in the past, to negotiate.
When we have knowledge of a foreign weapons system in the
research phase, we can then discuss a mutual agreement to
forgo its development and deployment. This can save millions
of dollars on both sides -- which can then be spent on
plowshares rather than on swords. Such, of course, was the
result of our negotiations with the Soviet Union about anti-
ballistic missile systems. Intelligence made a significant
contribution to the negotiating process, but its ability to
monitor actual compliance was crucial to concluding the
agreement. Vast sums, estimated between 50 and 100 billion
dollars, were saved because neither side had to build extensive
ABM systems.

The anticipation made possible by good intelligence
offers a greater contribution to peace than merely limiting
weapons expenditures. Anticipating future disputes can permit
their resolution while they are still only problems. Predicting
crises and confrontations can permit conciliation and compromise
before they occur. Suspicions and misunderstandings can be
replaced by accurate perceptions that there are real problems
on both sides. Men of good will can then work to resolve these
problems through international conferences, through joint studies
into the facts, or through recognition of mutual rights and
interests.

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I therefore believe it highly appropriate for intelli-
gence to be invited to a discussion of how we obtain peace
on earth. Intelligence has contributed to this end and will
contribute even more in the future.

The problems of the future can result in conflict or
cooperation. Consider:

-- overpopulation and underproduction;

-- nuclear proliferation;

-- extremism and terrorism;

-- the economic imbalances between rich and poor countries;

-- the exploitation of hitherto inaccessible riches in
the sea or in space;

-- the interdependence of economies and even cultures;

-- the acceleration of events by exponential improvements
in transportation and communication.

We must have systematic knowledge of these complex subjects,
full awareness of all our capabilities to deal with them, and
an understanding of the intentions of the actors on the scene.
Intelligence provides these. It is a tool to help America move
toward peace with our fellow partners on this globe.

There are those, however, who contend that our intelligence
has in the past and can in the future create the very problems
that limit our hopes for peace. To them I say that their concept

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of intelligence is outmoded. When it looks at open societies,
today's intelligence collects what is publicly available; uses
technology to gather and process information that can be seen,
heard, or sensed; and then carefully analyzes the bits and
pieces of the jigsaw puzzles to provide an answer to the problems
we face.

There are societies and political systems, however, that
cling tenaciously to secrecy as a basis for power. Against
these societies, which can threaten our peace, it is indeed
necessary to employ the older techniques of secret intelligence
developed for a world in which openness and free exchange were
unobtainable. It is the very thought processes and procedures
that create such secret plans that threaten our long-term
hopes for peace among nations and peoples in the new open world
we look toward.

We must avoid a repetition of our ingenuous belief in
the 1920's that the world had been made safe for democracy
and that gentlemen, in consequence, should not read other
gentlemen's mail. If we can indeed achieve a world of
gentlemen through the process of negotiation and resolution
of the passions and ambitions of the past, then truly we
can turn away also from the use of secret intelligence. But
until that day, we hazard peace if we blind ourselves to
realities, as the great democracies did during the 1930's.

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The capability of intelligence quietly to influence
foreign situations can -- and has -- contributed to peace.
I do not contest that many of these operations in our history
were more narrowly justified by their contribution to what
was then seen as America's interest.

But in a number of instances, some quiet assistance to
democratic and friendly elements enabled them to resist
hostile and authoritarian groups in an internal competition
over the future direction of their countries. Postwar
Western Europe resisted Communist political subversion and
Latin America rejected Cuban-stimulated insurgency. They
thereby thwarted at the local level challenges that could
have escalated to the international level.

That there can be debate as to the wisdom of any in-
dividual activity of this nature is agreed. That such a
potential must be available for use in situations truly
important to our country and the cause of peace is equally
obvious.

Many of our citizens would express agreement with what
I have said, but still express concern that there is an
inherent contradiction between the need of intelligence for
secrecy and our Constitutional structure of openness. They
reject a hypocrisy that allows intelligence to operate while
professing that it does not.

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It is true that the old concept of intelligence did
conflict with our ideal of openness. This contradiction was
dealt with by a cautious averting of responsible supervision
from what were viewed as the necessary unpleasantries of the
world of intelligence. The Members of Congress who said
they did not want to know of our activities, the careful
circumlocutions used in the directives developed for
intelligence -- these reflected a consensus that while
intelligence was needed to protect America, America was
unwilling to admit its use of intelligence.

As a result, intelligence made some mistakes and did some
misdeeds. That these were truly few and far between over
the years of its history is a credit to the patriotism and
integrity of the men and women of intelligence, rather than
to controls upon them. But that they did occur forced attention
to the need to articulate the proper role of intelligence in
America.

After Vietnam and Watergate, exposures of improper
intelligence activities aroused concern and launched the current
exhaustive investigations. Intelligence has cooperated with
these reviews because we in intelligence believe the future
of intelligence is important to our country. We also believe
that intelligence must find its fully understood and accepted
position in our constitutional structure.

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We Americans recognize the need for secrets when our institutions cannot operate without them, witness our ballot box, our grand jury proceedings, and our protection of commercial secrets. Intelligence needs secrets or its agents are exposed; patriotic Americans contributing to their country are pilloried as fronts; and chinks in an adversary's armor are rapidly closed when we obligingly make them public.

We -- all of us -- must develop out of our current investigations a new concept of responsible American intelligence. It will be a further innovation that America can bring to the intelligence profession. We will do it in essentially three steps.

-- We will articulate better guidelines for intelligence, spelling out what it properly can do and what it will not do. We will ensure that it is focused on foreign intelligence, and does not infringe the rights of our citizens.

-- We will develop better supervision of intelligence by the Executive, by the Congress, and even, where necessary, by the Judiciary. Better external supervision of intelligence will certainly generate intensive internal supervision, ensuring that American intelligence complies with America's constitutional concepts.

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-- And we will develop better secrecy for those aspects of intelligence that really need it, while at the same time ending the old tradition of total secrecy of everything about intelligence. The stream, even flood, of intelligence secrets that have been exposed this past year has brought home to every American the fact that we must have better protection for those secrets we need to keep.

The hostile groups exposing our intelligence personnel, the hasty headlining of important technical intelligence projects, or the arrogance of those revealing our country's proper and important secrets in the cause of a self-proclaimed "higher morality," all these have demonstrated the weakness of our current procedures for protecting our necessary secrets. We need no Official Secrets Act muzzling our press or frightening our citizens, and we in intelligence do not ask for one. We do need to be able to discipline those who freely assume the obligation of secrecy as members of our profession and then willfully repudiate it. We are sure that we can obtain the same recognition of our intelligence profession's need for confidentiality that we extend to our doctors, our lawyers, and our journalists.

Taking these three essential steps will not be easy. But I believe that we are now turning to a debate of the real issues that face American intelligence rather than agonizing

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over the missteps of the past. It is my sincere hope that
this debate will lead to the kind of changes that I have
outlined for American intelligence. It is vitally important
to America that our citizens regain their respect and trust
in our intelligence service. There must be a national consensus
that American intelligence serves America and honors the
Constitution. There must be a consensus that American
intelligence is properly guided, properly supervised, and
capable of protecting its own secrets so it can protect America.

I believe that a strong and free America is essential
if we are to move toward peace on earth. I believe that a
truly American intelligence service is equally essential to
keeping America strong, free, and in peace.

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

WASHINGTON,D.C. 20505

27 January 1976

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
The Secretary of State
Washington, D. C. 20520

Dear Henry:

Please let me thank you for appearing at the ceremony at which the President awarded me the National Security Medal. Your attendance did me honor, as did your attendance at my swearing-in.

Please let me also thank you for what has been a rewarding and valuable relationship over these past several years. You have not always agreed with me or some of my assessments, but you have been strong in your respect for and support of independent intelligence analysis. You have many times extended yourself to assist us in ways to procure better intelligence for our Government, for which we in the profession thank you. Most important of all, I believe, has been your clear conception of the substantial role intelligence should play in the formulation of national security policy. For all these, plus the fun of watching you handle the extraordinary challenges you have faced, both I and the institution thank you.

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October 21, 1974

Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Department of State
Washington, D.C. 20520

My dear Mr. Secretary:

As President of the National Republican Club of Capitol Hill it is a pleasure to extend a personal invitation to you to join us at the Club on Tuesday, November 5, 1974, ELECTION NITE.

The Republican National Committee, the Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Congressional Campaign Committee and the Governors Committee have joined with the Capitol Hill Club to provide a place for Republicans and their friends to await the returns.

The Club will open at 6:00 P.M. with a buffet and beverages, ample televisions to view the returns and will remain open until after midnight. We will have live T.V. coverage throughout the evening.

If you plan to be in the Nation's Capitol that evening, we invite you to join us at the National Republican Club of Capitol Hill. Please have your secretary telephone Fran Westner in the office of Congressman John McCollister at 225-4155.

I hope to see you Election Nite.

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February 3, 1976

The Honorable
Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
Washington, D.C. 20230

My dear Mr. Secretary:

It was an honor and a pleasure and certainly a privilege to be invited to your off-the-record and informal meeting yesterday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. It was an excellent and informative meeting which I will always remember.

Your candid and forthright comments were music to my ears and I have a greater awareness and appreciation of the formidable problems and difficulties presented by the Congress. Many of my Republican colleagues and I often wonder whom these people in Congress really represent! One gets the feeling that they have more self interest than national interest.

Secretary Kissinger, you have done and are doing a super-human job in your very exhausting and trying position. Your accomplishments are legion and they cannot be diminished by those few in Congress who constantly put obstacles and problems in your path. I hope and pray that God is good to you and continues to keep you strong, healthy and safe.

Again, Mr. Secretary, it was a privilege and pleasure to meet with you in person and please be assured of my continued support. If there is any way that I can be of help, please ask.

Do remember me to my long-time and good friend, Bob Ingersoll.

With every good wish and warm personal regards,

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Previously, as a senior executive officer of the International General Electric Company, Mr. Collier had responsibility for the overseas manufacturing and marketing of a broad range of industrial, communications, electronic and electrical equipment. Earlier he directed the international operations of the IIT Research Institute of Chicago and, as Project Manager, conducted techno/economic audits of entire nations in Latin America, Europe and the Far East to aid in their industrial development.

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Dear Henry:

I am very grateful for the interview you were kind enough to accord me in connection with our recent television broadcast devoted to your career. It was quite the best part of the broadcast. You are a model of what a person being interviewed should be-- lucid, articulate, persuasive and not at all afraid to deal with difficult, even unpleasant, questions.

I don't expect you to have agreed with all that was said, but I hope that you will agree that it was essentially even-handed--that was certainly my own intention. The preliminary comments in my mail would seem to reflect a kind of objectivity. They run about 40% who say we were unfair to you, about the same who say we were too kind and obviously stooges, and about 20% who generally approved or disapproved of the broadcast or who raised side-issues. Indicantly, that represents more polarization about the subject of the broadcast than is usually the case.

On a personal note, it was very thoughtful of you to send Louise your good wishes for a speedy recovery. She was very touched. I cannot say her recuperation is speedy, but she is coming along well, I think. And, still personally, it was a very great pleasure to see you again in Washington and I hope we may do so again.

The Honorable Henry Kissinger
The Secretary of State
The State Department
Washington, D.C. 20520

May 28, 1975

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January 9, 1975

The Honorable Secretary of State
and Mrs. Henry Kissinger
2201 C Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20520

Dear Mr. Secretary and Mrs. Kissinger:

My son Kevin and I sincerely appreciate your warm holiday greetings.

There is no time quite like the December holidays for remembering the friendships we cherish and for sending wishes that are old but ever new.

May good health and happiness be with you and yours throughout this new year.

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