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Hon. Henry A. Kissinger
1800 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20006

Re: Leonard Fox

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Because of the background experience and
linguistic capabilities of the above named individual whose
resume was brought to my attention, I thought you might be
interested in looking at it.

SJF/b

Enc.

Leonard Fox
318 West 100th Street
New York, N.Y. 10025

(212) 866-2894

CURRICULUM VITAE

Date of Birth: January 25, 1944

Educational background: Bronx High School of Science, academic diploma, 1960; New York University, B.A., 1964 (major in Ancient Greek, minors in Russian and linguistics); Columbia University, M.A., 1966 (major in Caucasian languages and literatures, minor in Iranian studies).

Academic honors: New York University Dean's List, 1962-1964; New York State Regents Fellow, 1960-1964; Woodrow Wilson Fellow (honorary), 1964-1965; National Defense Foreign Language Fellow, 1964-1966; Fulbright Fellow, 1966-1967.

Employment background: June, 1975 to present, Tolstoy Foundation, Inc., Assistant to the Executive Director. Duties include writing, designing and supervising the printing of fundraising and informational brochures; writing of fund-raising proposals for special projects; writing of internal reports; occasional interviewing in various languages and job placement or recently arrived refugees from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; purchasing agent; beekeeping at Tolstoy Foundation Center, Valley Cottage, New York.

July, 1973 - April, 1975, Radio Liberty Committee, Munich and New York. While in Munich (July, 1973 - June, 1974), duties included policy officer and program manager of the Georgian, Armenian and North Caucasian broadcasting services. Read news and feature scripts in Russian, Georgian, Adyghe, Armenian, Chechen, Avar and Ossetic for policy adherence and edited scripts as necessary. Wrote and broadcasted scripts in Georgian. Programmed scripts on Islamic themes for the North Caucasian service. Wrote weekly evaluations and summaries of all broadcasted scripts in the languages mentioned and occasionally translated full scripts for submission to U.S. State Department supervisory staff. Read daily press in various languages for programming purposes.

In New York was Assistant to the Director, U.S. Division, Radio Liberty Committee. Read all scripts produced by both news and feature writers in Russian at the New York office for policy adherence and edited scripts as necessary. Continued to edit scripts sent by pouch from Munich in Georgian, Armenian, Adyghe, Avar, Chechen and Ossetic. Wrote scripts in Georgian for broadcast from Munich. Recruited writers and other personnel for newly organized Estonian service.

1966-June, 1973, Orientalia, Inc. Catalogued, priced and purchased rare and second-hand books, as well as Arabic, Persian, Armenian and Ethiopian manuscripts. Responsible for production and printing of book catalogues. Wholesale and retail book purchasing and sales from and to countries around the world (including the establishment of the first business contacts made by an American firm with the Mongolian People's Republic). Appraised collections of books for donations and tax purposes. Developed an extensive mail order list worldwide for library, retail and wholesale sales. Formed a special acupuncture collection and was the first to import acupuncture equipment for physicians from the Far East.

[LC]

1964-1973, free-lance: advised on and prepared special bibliographical lists for book reprints in the fields of linguistics, Near and Middle East studies (particularly Islam, Sufiism and Zoroastrianism), comparative religion, American Indian studies and foreign-language literature for Frederick Ungar, Inc., AMS Press, Herder and Herder, and McGraw-Hill. Reader and foreign language editor of selected titles for Herder and Herder and McGraw-Hill. Recommended books for translation for these companies. Did free-lance translations from Greek, Russian, Georgian and other languages for several firms and individuals, including Radio Liberty Committee.

Teaching and consultancy: 1964-1965, New York University. Taught historical Indo-European and descriptive non-Indo-European linguistics (including the structure of some twelve languages).

1966-1970, New York University. Again taught Indo-European and non-Indo-European linguistics, as well as beginning and intermediate Sanskrit, and Provençal.

1970. Consultant for Columbia University seminar in Soviet Studies. Responsible for reading and reporting in writing on certain topics in the Georgian daily, weekly and monthly press.

Linguistic ability: speaking, reading and writing: Russian, French, German, Georgian; reading: Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Avestan, Sogdian, Parthian, Pahlavi, Ossetic, Adyghe, Avar, Chechen, Classical Armenian, Tatar, Provençal, Albanian, Romanian, Old Irish, Middle Welsh, some Classical Arabic, Classical Persian and Turkish; structural knowledge of Athabascan and Iroquoian.

Publications: 'Objective Conjugations in North and South Caucasian' in Festchrift for J. Alexander Kerns, The Hague, Mouton & Co., 1970. The Book of Wisdom and Lies by Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani (translation of a 17th century Georgian classic), being considered for publication by UNESCO. An Introduction to Caucasian Linguistics (descriptive chapters on South Caucasian, North-West Caucasian and North-East Caucasian, together with extensive grammatical sketches of Georgian, Adyghe, Chechen and Lezgian), being considered for publication by Mouton & Co., The Hague.

In progress: "An Elementary Grammar of Modern Georgian" (grammar, exercises, chrestomathy and vocabulary) to be published by Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. "Bektashiism and Islamic Mysticism" by Baba Rexhebi (translation of the original Albanian text by the current head of the Bektashi dervish order, who asked me to accomplish the translation).

Notary Public license, New York County.

FREEDOM & PROFIT—NEITHER WITHOUT THE OTHER

What follows are excerpts from the Winter Commencement address delivered by MSF at the American Graduate School of International Management in Arizona, which awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Law.

Probably the biggest problem that most American businesses and businessmen have is themselves, their attitude. Many have become accumulators of money. Today, many major and not so major private corporations have more money than most banks can put their hands on. Banks put money to work and that's what businesses are supposed to do. Today, too many companies are waiting for a collection of certainties that they never had when they were scratching to get where they are, and that they never will have. If they keep waiting they'll be gobbled up, their takeover financed largely by their own accumulated "security blanket" of unused cash.

As for Mr. Carter, he has shown an awareness of the vital sinews that successful businesses provide. Some businessmen complain the President has too many programs, others that he has none; others want him to make speeches "that will restore confidence"; still others complain that he can't enact any of his programs. Well, he's made a lot of speeches and they don't restore anything because he can't get too much from Congress. That should probably provide business with the greatest comfort—imagine if he'd been able to pass some of the things he first talked about or proposed.

As for the stock market, any fool knows that stocks are underpriced—except the people who keep selling them.

At commencements, the speaker's supposed to give advice and the first thing I'd suggest is that you learn to overcome whatever you may have learned about theories of management. Once you've mastered a theory, its real value is to know how to apply the exceptions because that's all you're going to run into. I recently served with a distinguished group asked to name for fame a half dozen outstanding entrepreneurs. The academicians present had us endlessly discussing what an entrepreneur is—I always thought I knew until this discussion got under way. As

host, I finally ended it by suggesting we go around the group and each name a person he thought belonged. In a relatively few minutes we were virtually unanimous about half a dozen notable entrepreneurs. The professors could work backwards and evolve all the theories they wanted from the specific selections. I guess you'd call it a case history in reverse.

The second piece of advice: Tackle whatever you are going to do with gusto and a sense of the ridiculous. If you cannot sometimes laugh about what you are doing or failing to do, you are going to be a hopeless case, either at work or to work for. Be a bit skeptical about the idealism you bring to business. Just have a sense of fairness. Remember, the only thing all the great religions have in common is the Golden Rule.

Rewards Get Results

Remember, too, it's cheaper to hire brains—and much less difficult—than to try to make something out of your own. Never be afraid to overpay. Then you will motivate the people you want, and you can afford to fire the dummies, hire smarties. The simple essence of good management is paying more than is necessary to get the people you want or to keep the ones worth keeping.

As future business executives, never forget that motivation comes from being able to keep something of what you earn. It isn't the money—money's only paper. But money is a means of achieving a form of fulfillment, of doing, of creating. Don't deplore profits. Defend the only system in the world under which anybody can earn some cash and get to keep some of it. Protect this system we have now until somebody develops a better one.

Instead of spending much of your life deploring the shortcomings of free enterprise, shore up the system. Help make it more profitable. Out of profitability comes the ability to soothe the social conscience you may have about the inequities of this world. Never forget that the greatest inequity of all is a lack of individual freedom, and you lose freedom when you don't have a viable, profitable free enterprise system.

TOO BAD CBS' SUPER BOWL

Eighty-six million of us watched the Super Bowl and only 10 million watched the first "Kissinger: On The Record" hour-and-a-half NBC News special. Henry's dazzling quarterbacking—his running, passing, blocking, field goals, receiving and Calls—was everything that Dallas and Denver champions were

TOPPED NBC'S SUPER BRAIN

supposed to be and were not (to put it mildly).

If you need to have a handle on what's going on or just want to understand what's happening, ask NBC for a copy of what K had to say on Communism, CIA, Mideast, peace, terrorism and Africa. He's the savviest gun in the West.

PERSPECTIVE ON THIS MIRACULOUS AGE OF THE COMPUTER

By any forecastable historical view, our Age will be known as the Age of the Computer, just as clearly branded as the period we term the Industrial Revolution. It's probably important, or at least satisfying, for laymen such as thee and me to have a perspective on this Ultimate Technology that Our Time will be known for, known as, known by. This little tale of the limits to the near-limitless horizons of the computer serves that purpose:

If you are asked which watch you'd keep—one that will not

run or one that loses seven seconds a day—even the most mindless of us would have a ready answer.

The computer, asked the same question, after a whiz of a whir, answered: Keep the watch that won't run, throw away the seven-second loser. Its calculation showed that the stopped watch is right twice a day, while the one that loses seven seconds would be right only once ever 2,000 years.

The human brain, with all its limitations, ain't imitable.

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FORBES, FEBRUARY 20, 1978

GERALD R. FORD

April 15, 1978

Dear Henry:

You will find enclosed a copy of the speech I made on April 9 before the National Council of Young Israel. I tried, as you will note, to follow a very balanced view between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

That was wonderful news as to the Saudi intentions for the Library and Museum. I am deeply grateful for your continuing help and assistance in this project.

Betty is doing very well, but it will probably take longer than we anticipated. She was in tough shape, but the treatment is progressing very well and we hope to have her home in ten days to two weeks. We are most appreciative of the concern of Nancy and yourself.

I have heard nothing but excellent reports of your participation at Richmond and New York when I had to cancel my commitments. Again, I am deeply indebted to you for your timely assistance.

Give our love to Nancy and the very, very best to you.

Warmest personal regards,

The Honorable Henry Kissinger
Suite 520
1800 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20006

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAEL

SPEECH BY HONORABLE GERALD R. FORD

APRIL 9, 1978

IT IS A HIGH HONOR AND RARE PRIVILEGE TO PARTICIPATE

IN THIS OUTSTANDING AFFAIR SPONSORED BY THE NATIONAL COUNCIL

OF YOUNG ISRAEL.

LAST SUNDAY, I WAS PLANNING TO ATTEND AN EVENT UNDER
AUSPICES OF THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA AND TO RECEIVE
AN HONORARY DEGREE FROM THAT OUTSTANDING INSTITUTION. UNFORTU-
NATELY, A CRISIS AROUSE IN OUR FAMILY. BETTY BECAME ACTIVELY
ILL WITH A FLARE-UP OF HER ARTHRITIS AND THE MEDICATION RELATED
TO HER TREATMENT.

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OUR CHILDREN AND I HURRIEDLY FLEW BACK TO CALIFORNIA. BETTY
HAS RESPONDED WELL TO THE TREATMENT AND SHE ASKED ME TO EXTEND
HER WARMEST GREETINGS TO ALL OF YOU AND ESPECIALLY TO OUR DEAR
FRIEND, MILTON HOFFMAN.

AS I LOOK AT THIS AUDIENCE, I SEE MANY FRIENDS FROM
MY YEARS IN THE CONGRESS, AS VICE-PRESIDENT AND AS PRESIDENT.
THEY KNOW FROM MY RECORD, MY FIRM DEDICATION TO A STRONG, SECURE
AND INDEPENDENT ISRAEL. THOSE FAMILIAR WITH FACTS OVER MY
28 PLUS YEARS IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT KNOW THAT ISRAEL HAD
A TRUE AND TRUSTWORTHY FRIEND IN JERRY FORD, ONE WHO CONSISTENTLY

(UNDERSTOOD AND SUPPORTED)

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UNDERSTOOD AND SUPPORTED THE ESSENTIAL MILITARY AND ECONOMIC
ASSISTANCE FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL.

DURING MY PRESIDENCY, ISRAEL AND EGYPT IN 1975,
NEGOTIATED THE SINAI II WITH THE MASTERFUL ASSISTANCE OF
SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER. THE SINAI II AGREEMENT WAS A
CONSTRUCTIVE AND MEANINGFUL STEP TO A COMPREHENSIVE SETTLEMENT
OF THE LONG STANDING CONFLICTS BETWEEN ISRAEL AND ITS ARAB
NEIGHBORS. THAT AGREEMENT IS, TODAY, A FOUNDATION FOR THE
NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN PRESIDENT SADAT AND PRIME MINISTER BEGIN,
AND IS A DIPLOMATIC PROCESS AVAILABLE FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF
FUTURE PROGRESS IN THAT TROUBLED AREA OF THE GLOBE.

THE LYNCH-PIN OF THAT SETTLEMENT WAS MY COMMITTMENT AS PRESIDENT TO THE ASSIGNMENT OF U.S. CIVILIAN TECHNICIANS AS GUARDIANS AGAINST A SURPRISE ATTACK. THAT BOUNDARY IN THE SINAI HAS BEEN AT PEACE FOR ALMOST 3 YEARS. IN THE FUTURE, IN ORDER TO ENHANCE THE PROSPECTS FOR A BOARDER PEACE, THE U.S. MUST DEMONSTRATE SIMILAR LEADERSHIP AND INITIATIVE.

TURNING FROM THE PAST TO THE PRESENT, LET ME MAKE SEVERAL BROAD OBSERVATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS.

NOTHING COULD BE MORE DESTRUCTIVE TO THE NEGOTIATING PROCESS THAN FOR THE UNITED STATES TO LEAVE THE IMPRESSION IN CAIRO, TEL AVIV, DAMASCUS, BERUIT OR ELSEWHERE, THAT THE UNITED STATES CAN DOGMATICALLY FORCE ISRAEL, EGYPT OR OTHER ARAB NATIONS TO MAKE CONCESSIONS.

IT IS ONLY THE PARTIES IN THE DISPUTE THEMSELVES WHO CAN NEGOTIATE THE PEACE. HISTORY SHOULD TEACH US THAT IN TIMES OF TENSION AND HOPE THAT THE BEST AMERICAN POLICY IS PUBLIC RESTRAINT.

ESCALATED PUBLIC RHETORIC DECREASES THE LATITUDE
NEEDED IN SUCH SWEEPING, SENSITIVE NEGOTIATIONS. THIS IS
SO DRAMATICALLY TRUE IF THE UNITED STATES IS TO HAVE AN EFFECTIVE
AND CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF A LASTING PEACE
IN THAT VOLATILE AREA OF THE WORLD. FOR THE UNITED STATES'
INFLUENCE TO BE RE-ESTABLISHED, THERE MUST BE MORE LISTENING
THAN SPEAKING. PRIVATE COOPERATION IS MORE HELPFUL THAN
PUBLIC CONDEMNATION.

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WHAT I AM SAYING IS NOT A SPECULATIVE, UNTRIED APPROACH.
QUIET DIPLOMACY, BUILT ON TRUST, WAS EXACTLY WHAT ALLOWED MY
ADMINISTRATION, THROUGH THE BRILLIANT EFFORTS OF HENRY KISSINGER,
TO FACILIATE THE SINAI II AGREEMENT BETWEEN PRESIDENT SADAT
AND THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT.

HAVING ADVOCATED THE NEED TO LESSEN PUBLIC RHETORIC,
I CANNOT CONTRADICT HERE OR ELSEWHERE, MY OWN RECOMMENDATION.

FURTHERMORE, HAVING CONFRONTED SUCH CHALLENGING
PROBLEMS IN THE OVAL OFFICE, I SHOULD NOT MAKE ANY STATEMENT
THAT TOTALLY ELEMINATES THE POSSIBILITY OF BI-PARTISAN SUPPORT
THAT MAY BE NECESSARY IN THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD.

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THE STAKES FOR A GENUINE PEACE ARE TOO HIGH FOR ME OR ANYONE
ELSE, TO BE POLITICALLY OPPORTUNISTIC.

OBVIOUSLY, I REMEMBER SOME OF THE CAMPAIGN STATEMENTS
MADE BY MY OPPONENT DURING THE HEAT OF THE CAMPAIGN IN OCTOBER
1976. I THOUGHT THEN, AS I DO NOW, THAT PERFORMANCE, NOT A
CAMPAIGN PROMISE, WAS THE TEST FOR THE PRESIDENCY. I WOULD
ONLY ADD THAT RESPONSIBILITY IS A GREAT TEACHER.

AS I SAID EARLIER, MY LONG-STANDING COMMITMENT TO A
STRONG AND SECURE ISRAEL IS ON THE RECORD AND CLEARLY DOCUMENTED.

CONSEQUENTLY, I WILL EXERCISE THE PRIVILEGE OF A FEW OBSERVATIONS WITHOUT RUNNING THE RISK OF HAVING MILTON HOFFMAN OR NORMAN BRAMAN CALLING ME A "MA-SU-GA-NA/LUC-EN-CUP".

SO NO SERMON--JUST OBSERVATIONS.

I REPEAT, IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT MEANINGFUL, PRIVATE NEGOTIATIONS AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS BE RESUMED PROMPTLY BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT AND SUBSEQUENTLY SIMILAR BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS MUST BE UNDERTAKEN BETWEEN ISRAEL AND ITS OTHER ARAB NEIGHBORS.

WE MUST RECOGNIZE THAT A TOTALLY SEPARATE PEACE AT THIS STAGE IN THE NEGOTIATING PROCESS may not be 16 NOT A REALIST OPTION

(AVAILABLE TO EGYPT.)

AVAILABLE TO EGYPT. THERE CAN BE A BILATERAL AGREEMENT NEGOTIATED BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT BUT IT MUST IN CONCEPT PROVIDE A FOUNDATION OR UMBRELLA OF GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR SUBSEQUENT NEGOTIATIONS AND AGREEMENTS BETWEEN ISRAEL AND JORDAN AND ISRAEL AND SYRIA. THIS PROCESS IN 1978 CAN LOGICALLY FOLLOW THE PROCEDURES AND PROGRESS OF SINAI II.

THE TRACK RECORD OF THE SOVIET UNION IN THE MIDDLE EAST HAS NOT BEEN CONSTRUCTIVE. THE RUSSIANS PREFER TURMOIL OR DOMINATION. UNFORTUNATELY, THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION MADE A SERIOUS MISTAKE BY BRINGING THE SOVIET UNION BACK INTO THE NEGOTIATING PROCESS.

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NO NATION SHOULD EVER BE IN THE POSITION OF TELLING ANOTHER NATION OR IT'S PEOPLE WHO THEIR LEADER SHOULD BE.

A RECENT EDITORIAL IN THE JERUSALEM POST MAKES SENSE.

IT SAID:

"THE TIME HAS COME TO RETHINK OUR POSITION RATHER THAN DIG IN DEFIANTLY."

THAT ADVISE SHOULD BE SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED NOT ONLY IN JERUSALEM BUT EQUALLY IN CAIRO AND WASHINGTON.

SEVERAL CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS: IF THE CURRENT MOMENTUM FOR THAT LONG SOUGHT PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS TERMINATED OR ABORTED, IT WILL ONLY PLEASE THE SOVIET UNION

(AND THE RADICAL ARABS.)

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AND THE RADICAL ARABS. I ASK THIS QUESTION SERIOUSLY--IS IT
IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST OF THE UNITED STATES OR ISRAEL TO PLEASE
OUR ADVERSARIES?

THE PEOPLE WHO WILL BE SORELY DISAPPOINTED, IF ISRAEL
AND EGYPT NOW AND ISRAEL AND IT'S OTHER ARAB NEIGHBORS LATER,
DO NOT NEGOTIATE AGREEMENTS, WILL BE FRIENDS OF ISRAEL IN THE
UNITED STATES AND MODERATE ARABS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

SO, THE BOTTOM LINE IS NOT DEFIANCE BUT FLEXIBILITY.

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IT WILL BE HARD BARGAINING BUT THE GOAL OF A SECURE, JUST AND
PERMANENT PEACE IN THAT WAR TORN AREA OF THE GLOBE IS WORTH EVERY
EFFORT OF OURSELVES AND OUR FRIENDS. TO MISS THIS UNIQUE
OPPORTUNITY, MAY BE THE LAST TO PREVENT A 5TH MIDDLE EAST WAR,
WOULD BE A TRAGIC ADMISSION OF A LACK OF LEADERSHIP. PEOPLE
OF GOOD-WILL THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, OF ALL FAITHS, ARE HOPING AND
PRAYING THAT THE LONG SOUGHT DREAM OF A TRUE PEACE IN THE
MIDDLE EAST WILL BE ACHIEVED. WE CANNOT LET THEM DOWN.

# # # #

JUN 19 1978

Dear Mr. President:

Thank you for your letter of June 5. I
will try to answer your questions.

The Harvard course which I invited you
to attend was the Defense Policy Seminar
(Government 259), a graduate seminar which
met every week for a two-hour session and
to which I frequently invited outside offi-
cials and experts. It was a postgraduate
course sponsored jointly by the Law School
and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

I am not sure of the dates when you attended.
I will check further and let you know.

Your recollection of the state of SALT in
November 1975 is correct. We were moving
toward an agreement, though the bargaining
was slow and the differences within the
Administration were still unresolved. The
two major issues outstanding at that time
were the cruise missile and the Backfire
bomber. Gromyko visited Washington and
New York in September 1975 and we explored
some possible compromises. At your request

The Honorable
Gerald R. Ford
Rancho Mirage
California 92270

The honorable
Gerald R. Ford
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Jim Schlesinger and I had worked out a scheme that combined sea-launched cruise missiles and medium bombers in a package: each side could have up to 300 sea-launched cruise missiles (SLCM's) and medium-range bombers (the FB-111 for us and the Backfire for the Soviets). Our reasoning was that the Soviets would, in effect, have to use all of their quota for the Backfire, while we could deploy about 225 sea-launched cruise missiles along with 75 FB-111's.

In addition we had proposed to Gromyko that the number of bombers with air-launched cruise missiles (ALCM's) of a range between 600-2500 kilometers be limited to 300 bombers; we, of course, were planning on both the B-1 and the B-52.

Although Gromyko did not accept our position, the result was that Brezhnev proposed to you that I go to Moscow in December to complete the negotiations. That trip was delayed because of Angola. I went in January 1976, and as you probably remember we came fairly close to agreement on some key issues:

- The Soviets agreed to count each heavy bomber with cruise missiles as equivalent to a MIRV within the 1320 ceiling. We agreed in turn to ban longer-range cruise missiles on submarines, but we left with Brezhnev a proposal for limiting the number of sea-launched cruise missiles to 25 ships.

- In addition we proposed lowering the Vladivostok ceiling from 2400 to 2300.

- Ground-launched cruise missiles (GLCM's) were left unresolved, but a range ceiling of 2500 kilometers was established.

The honorable
Gerald R. Ford
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Brüezhnev gave us some characteristics of
Backfire performance and an offer to
prohibit upgrading, and if all other
matters were settled, he agreed to reduce
the ceilings below 2300.

That was the status after my return from Moscow.
Subsequently, we put forward a new offer for an
interim agreement freezing Backfire production
rates and prohibiting deployment of seabased
and ground-launched cruise missiles until
January 1979. The Soviets in their reply
indicated they preferred to go back to the
January proposals, and matters did not change
during the remainder of 1976.

I hope this is helpful to you.

Nancy and I send our best wishes to you and
Betty and we hope to see you again soon.

Warm regards,

Henry A. Kissinger

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Henry V. Klauder

Warm regards,

Betty and we hope to see you again soon.
Nancy and I send our best wishes to you and
I hope this is helpful to you.

During the remainder of 1939,
to-day proposals, and matters did not change
indicated they preferred to do so back to the
to-day 1939. The Soviets in their reply
and ground-tapped cruise missiles until
rates and promptening deployment of assets
interim agreement freeing Backfire production
unambiguously, we but forward a new offer for an
that was the status after my return from Moscow.

the certificate below 5300.
matters were settled, he agreed to reduce
promptly after that, and it all other
Backfire performance and an offer to
agree to some characteristics of

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Gerald R. Ford
the honors

EAD

GERALD R. FORD

June 5, 1978

Dear Henry:

In my book I want to indicate when we first met. I
have a recollection it was during the late 1950's
or early 1960's.

As I recall, you were teaching a seminar for graduate
students and I was the senior Republican on the House
Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense.

I came to Boston once, maybe twice. Could you give
me the name of the course or courses and the dates
that I participated. Approximate dates would be
satisfactory.

Also, would you have any recollection of where we
stood in SALT II negotiations on the date that Governor
Reagan called me (November 12, 1975) indicating he
was to announce his candidacy. My recollection is
we were moving quite well with the negotiations at
that time.

Betty is doing great and everything else is moving
satisfactorily. We go to Vail about June 20 and
will return to Palm Springs shortly after Labor Day.
In our new home in Palm Springs we have excellent
guest accommodations and we want Nancy and you to
join us whenever you are out this way.

Warmest best wishes,

Henry Ford II
Chairman of the Board

Ford Motor Company
The American Road
Dearborn, Michigan 48121

April 11, 1978

Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Suite 520
1800 K Street N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20006

Dear Henry:

Next fall Ford's European Advisory Council will hold its first meeting in the United States. The Council is composed of a group of eminent Europeans, many of whom, I am sure, you know personally or by reputation.

We would be greatly honored if you would consent to have dinner with the Council and to speak informally to them on the evening of Wednesday, October 11. The Council will be guests that night at the home of my late parents in Grosse Pointe Shores.

I would, of course, provide a Ford plane to make the trip convenient and easy for you and it should be possible for you to return to Washington (or any city) that same evening. In addition, I hope you will allow me to pay the honorarium that you would normally receive for a regular speaking engagement.

I very much hope you can arrange your schedule to be with us that evening. Your presence here would be a most fitting and memorable climax to the meeting. Please let me hear from you at your earliest convenience.

Under separate cover, I am sending you a booklet containing biographical information about the membership of the European Advisory Council.

HENRY A. KISSINGER

April 20, 1978

Dear Henry:

In Stockholm I shall be chairing the meetings
of the Chase International Advisory Council
for the first time (a not too taxing enterprise).
With David's agreement it occurred to me that
we might use the occasion -- in addition to
forcing me to come on time -- to try out a
slightly different agenda.

Instead of brief interventions by each member
on a variety of topics, we shall try to organize
our discussions around two themes each to be
introduced by two of our members with the
others commenting as the spirit moves them.

The first topic is Structural Changes in World
Employment. Here I hope that we can cover the
political, technological, social and economic
causes of world employment, the phenomenon of
high unemployment and possible remedies. I
shall ask Messieurs Gyllenhammer and Merkle to
lead off this discussion. The other topic is
Changes in the Position of Europe and the
Effect on the World Economy. Here I thought

Mr. Henry Ford II
Chairman of the Board
Ford Motor Company
The American Road
Dearborn, Michigan 48124

Mr. Henry Ford II

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April 20, 1978

we might discuss the economic and political
trends in Western Europe and their implications
for the rest of the world. I hope that Mr.
Marjolin and Mr. Tata will agree to join me in
introducing the topic. I hope that you as all
the other members will be prepared to intervene
to share your experience and your insights.

I look forward to seeing you in Stockholm.

October 3, 1978

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
1800 K Street, N. W., Suite 320
Washington, D. C. 20006

Dear Henry:

I am delighted that you will be with us in Detroit on October 11. This is to confirm that our company aircraft will be at Page Airways (National Airport, Washington) at 4:30 p.m. to transport you to Detroit, arriving here at about 6:00 p.m. Our vice president - Washington Affairs, Wayne Smithey will accompany you on the flight.

You are most welcome to spend the night at 1100 Lake Shore Road and we will then provide you with a company aircraft to return to Washington on October 12.

There will be just over 60 members of the Ford European Advisory Council, Board of Directors and senior management in attendance at the dinner. Without presuming to suggest a topic for your remarks, I should bring to your attention the interest among the group in your perception of the current state of the art of geo-politics, especially as it relates to Europe, the Middle East and Southern Africa.

I look forward to seeing you on October 11 and am most grateful for your agreeing to participate.

HENRY A. KISSINGER

October 6, 1978

Dear Henry:

I am looking forward to seeing you again at the meeting of the Chase International Advisory Committee on October 29-31. All the participants seemed to agree that to focus the discussion on two major subjects was useful, and I propose to continue this approach.

The last time we met we just had begun the discussion of structural causes of unemployment and its remedies when our colleague Gyllenhammar took us off to one of his caloric lunches. Therefore, I propose to start the discussion where we left off. I hope that Messrs. Gyllenhammar, Merkle and Tata will sum up their views of last time and bring them up to date. I plan also to ask Sir Reay Geddes to join them.

The second subject I propose for discussion will be international monetary reform. This is of obvious concern, particularly in light of the situation of the dollar and developments in the EEC. A useful way to proceed would be to analyze the nature of the problem, the problems of the post Bretton Woods international monetary system, and the various remedies available. In this connection, the impact of the new European initiative on the United States and on the prospects

Mr. Henry Ford II

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October 6, 1978

for restructuring the international monetary
system would be especially interesting. All
this, of course, will have to be put into the
context of the world inflationary bind. I shall
ask Douglas Dillon, Ernesto Fernandez Hurtado and
Robert Marjolin to lead our discussion in these
areas.

We will also have two special guests, Bill Miller, the new Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and a former member of the Advisory Committee, and Peter Jay, the British Ambassador to Washington.

Enclosure:

Agenda

QUESTIONS FOR DR. KISSINGER:

1) Dr. Kissinger, how would you evaluate the present state of inter-American relations, specifically between the United States and Latin America?

2) Dr. Kissinger, within the context of the Carter administration's policy toward the southern cone of the hemisphere, what impression do you have of relations between the United States and Argentina?

3) What is your opinion of the Cuban intervention (presence) in Africa?

4) Do you not think that the Cuban presence in Africa constitutes a violation of the principle of non-intervention?

5) We have learned that you are planning to visit my country next month to see the World Soccer Cup matches. Would you be able to tell us your date of arrival, and tell us what you plan to do and see while you are there?

6) We know that you have contributed a great deal to the development of soccer in the United States, and understand that you are an expert on the subject. Which teams do you think have a chance to win the Cup?

7) There appear to be some differences of opinion within the State Department concerning the conceptual approach, and its practical application, of human rights policies. Could you tell us what those differences are? And, do you think Assistant Secretary Todman's resignation is a result of those differences?

If Dr. Kissinger wishes, he may, of course, substitute any of these questions, or keep his answers confidential.

PREGUNTAS PARA EL DR. KISSINGER:

1) Dr. Kissinger, como ve usted la relación USA-Latinoamérica?

2) Dr., dentro del contexto de la política de la Administración Carter con el cono sur, que impresión del estado actual de las relaciones USA-Argentina tiene usted?

3) No cree usted que la intervención cubana en Africa implica para usted una violación del principio de no-intervención?

4) De acuerdo a la información recogida por este diario usted asistirá al campeonato mundial de futbol que se realizará el próximo mes en mi país. Nos podría dar su fecha de llegada y su plan de actividades?

5) Sabemos que ud. ha contribuido mucho al desarrollo de este deporte en USA, por lo tanto entendemos que es usted un experto; cuales son los equipos que tienen para usted posibilidades de obtener el primer premio?

6) La renuncia de Todman es para usted consecuencia del resultado de diferencias conceptuales o de aplicación, de la política de derechos humanos en Latinoamérica dentro del Departamento de Estado. En ese caso, podría decirnos en que consisten esas diferencias?

Entre la pregunta 2 y 3:

Que opina el ex-Secretario de Estado de la intervención cubana en Africa?

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March 17, 1978

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Ford Library?

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
22 West 55th Street
New York, New York 10019

Dear Henry:

The President Gerald R. Ford Library/Museum campaign has been underway for several months now to build a Museum in Grand Rapids and a Library at The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor to honor President Ford. The campaign has now received pledges of $5 million. We hope the national response will greatly exceed the more than $7 million needed for these facilities.

A group of us "Ford Alumni" got together a few weeks ago and decided we would like to be part of this historic endeavor both by our own pledges and by providing a way other alumni might also do so.

So here it comes -- think about whatever you feel is your fair share, and send it along. We would like to conclude our segment of the project no later than March 31, 1978.

Enclosed you will find a pledge card for your use and material for your historic files which include brochures describing the Library and the Museum.

The people of the United States, including individuals, business and industry, and foundations, are stepping forward in large numbers to thank President Ford for his contribution to our country and to history. Let us stand with them. My letter to President Ford at the close of his administration said, in part:

"I am very proud to have served you. There is and will continue to be growing, richly deserved recognition and appreciation of your great accomplishments both with respect to the objectives actually achieved and with respect to courses charted. But what I shall also always so greatly respect is the way you have done these things--ways that mark you as a great man."

I know you agree.

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DIRECTOR GENERAL
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JOSEPH W. HARNED

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR GENERAL
MARTHA C. FINLEY

DIRECTORS

DAVID M. ABSHIRE
DAVID C. ACHESON
DONALD G. AGGER
WILLIS C. ARMSTRONG
GEORGE W. BALL
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ANDREW H. BERDING
JUSTIN BLACKWELDER
GENE E. BRADLEY
DAVID K. E. BRUCE
WILLIAM A. M. BURDEN
HOODING CARTER III
WILLIAM J. CASEY
SOL C. CHAIKIN
RICHARD N. COOPER
G. A. COSTANZO
FREDERICK L. DEMING
ROBERT L. DENNISON
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WALTER DOWLING
WILLIAM D. EBERLE
ROBERT ELLSWORTH
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MARY P. LORD
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JAMES S. MCDONNELL
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HARALD B. MALMREN
EDWIN M. MARTIN
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MALCOLM MUIR
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HONORARY DIRECTORS

FRANK ALTSCHUL
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January 10, 1978

Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
The Center for Strategic and
International Studies
1800 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006

Dear Henry:

The Council's Special Committee on Intergovernmental Organization and Reorganization, which published its interim report "Beyond Diplomacy" in 1975, has during the last two years produced a number of Policy Papers on particular transnational problems in the monetary, economic and security fields.

While a number of similar Papers on specific problems are in preparation, it is not too soon to begin work on a synthesis and summation of the whole project and an attempt to formulate practical recommendations for the better "management of interdependence." Suggestions to this end have been made by two of our Directors.

Adolph Schmidt has proposed that the Council concern itself with, in the words of its Policy Statement, "the development of free representative and democratic political institutions in which consultation is continuous, in order to enable the Atlantic Community to deal adequately with problems with which no existing nation state can cope successfully alone." He suggests that particular attention be given to means of strengthening the North Atlantic Council and the North Atlantic Assembly.

Helmut Sonnenfeldt puts the problem in terms of how the "several formal and informal groupings of the Western nations might be more effectively related." He cites the problems of divergent membership in various groups, of avoiding connotations of a "directoire", and of the frequent need for decisions at the highest political level, multinationally and bilaterally.

After a brief discussion at the Board of Directors meeting on December 14, -- and in line with what appeared to me to be the consensus of the Board -- I stated that we would establish a committee to consider the institutional possibilities

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of strengthening the various elements that integrate the Atlantic Community at the political level. I believe the Council's membership represents a unique collection of the experience and talent needed for such a study.

I would be grateful if you would serve as a member of this new Political Committee. It will hold its first meeting here at the Council offices at 10:30 on the morning of Monday, February 20, Washington's birthday. I hope you can make it. A brief outline of topics to be covered will be sent you shortly before the meeting.

Having retired as Chairman of the Atlantic Council I am not prepared to designate a permanent chairman of this important committee. That should be the function of the new chairman, to be designated shortly by the Officers and Nominating Committee, according to the directive given by the Board of the Council at its meeting on December 14. However, in order to expedite the work of this committee and get it under way I hope you will accept this invitation and join me at this initial meeting on February 20.

February 13, 1978

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
The Center for Strategic and
International Studies
1800 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20006

Dear Henry:

The 1978 session of the Atlantic Treaty
Association will be held in Hamburg next September
20-24. The subject will be "The Situation of the
Alliance in Central Europe."

The ATA Council meeting held in Brussels Feb-
ruary 2 expressed a strong hope that you could
attend and be a keynote speaker.

I have found these assemblies increasingly
effective in building public support in Europe for NATO
and its efforts to strengthen Western security. Three
of our recent Ambassadors to the Federal Republic -
George McGhee, Kenneth Rush, and Martin Hillenbrand -
will be members of our delegation at Hamburg.

If you find it possible to attend I am sure that
your presence and statements would have considerable
impact in Europe.

P.S. On my return from abroad I find your letter
of February 1 and am sorry you are unable to partici-
pate in our new Political Committee. We will miss you.

H.H.F.

DEUTSCHE ATLANTISCHE GESELLSCHAFT e.V.

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To
Professor Dr. Henry Kissinger
Washington D.C. 20006 / USA

Bonn, February 21, 1978

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

The Annual Congress of the Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA) 1978 will be organized by the Deutsche Atlantische Gesellschaft, the German branch of the ATA.

This event will take place in Hamburg, 20-23 September 1978

Theme: "The Atlantic Alliance and its situation in Central Europe"

At the last Council Meeting of the ATA in Brussels it was decided to invite you as the political speaker of the Plenary Session September 20th, 1978.

We would be very pleased if you could accept this invitation. In your speech you should feel free to treat military efforts for the defence of Central Europe.

The attention of all delegates, and at least as much of the media, will be guaranteed.

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