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January 30, 1974

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

Subject: **Disarmament**

Dear Mr. Secretary:

Do you honestly believe the Soviet Union will attack Western Europe, China, or ourselves, by conventional or nuclear forces?

The balance of terror resulting from mutual overkill capability presumably prevents such a move or an equivalent U.S. first strike, as undoubtedly countenanced by some of our most hard-nosed military leaders.

But, at what wasted cost of human talent and economics is this balance maintained? We and the Soviets spend approximately $100 billion a year to maintain military establishments which will hopefully never be used.

Has anyone considered the simple expedient of totally dismantling these major forces? Who or what do we or the Soviets fear? Are we so long in an adversary relationship that we cannot conceive of any other position?

These views are my own and private, but prompted by involvement for 17 years in foreign trade as well as 12 years of activity in defense electronics!

The world, not just individual states, is by the best consensus I read, facing, within the remaining lifetimes of many of us, possible exhaustion of some non-regenerating resources. Whether technology can develop, and in time enough, modi operandi to cope, is indistinct.

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Admittedly, total disarmament would have a recessive economic impact, certainly here. But, after the slump, the curve would be up, for all. The example of "super power" disarmament might also help achieve much that decades of U.N. debate have not.

You may say: "naive", "simplistic"! And I would agree with the Arab proverb that sometimes the quickest way across the square is by three sides.

But I cannot ignore my belief that people, as a result of the post-war communication explosion, are well enough informed about others that fear has disappeared. During a month in Europe in 1973, I heard utter distrust of Russia expressed only in Finland, and that I can understand, though deplore. Perhaps political and military leaders fear each other, not peoples.

Put the concept to Gromyko, he just might agree.

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But the concept to Gromyko, he just might agree.

peoples'.
Perhaps political and military leaders fear each other, not
only in Finland, and that I can understand, though deplore.
Europe in 1973, I heard utter diatribat of Russia expressed
about others that fear has disappeared. During a month in
boat-war communication explosion, are well enough informed
But I cannot ignore my pe粟 that people, as a result of the

advice is by three aides.
the Arab broker that sometimes the quickest way across the
You may say: "naive", "impliatic"! And I would agree with

saio help achieve much that decades of U.N. debate have not.
be up, for all. The example of "under power" disarmament might
impact, certainly here. But, after the slump, the curve would
Admittedly, total disarmament would have a recessive economic

January 30, 1974

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

WASHINGTON, D. C.

SAMUEL S. STRATTON
NEW YORK

June 10, 1974

Dear Mr. Secretary:

Let me add my congratulations and profound admiration for the incredibly tremendous job which you did in working out the disengagement agreement between Syria and Israel.

Having had the opportunity to see something of the
Middle East battleground last fall, I know what an extremely
complicated job you faced, and we are all amazed and proud
of your fortitude and remarkably ingenious leadership.

You have certainly done a remarkable service for this
Administration and for your country, and I look forward to
continuing to work with you to make sure that these accom-
plishments bear full fruit.

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

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United States Citizens' Congress
Washington, D.C.

November 7, 1975

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Department of State
2201 C Street
Washington, D.C. 20520

Dear Mr. Secretary:

We take great pleasure in extending to you and Mrs. Kissinger our cordial invitation to attend a reception and dinner on Sunday, December 14, 1975 at 6:00 P.M. at the Shoreham Americana Hotel, Washington, D.C..

The occasion, "A Salute To Leadership", will highlight leading men and women anchored in the great traditions of our nation, and will honor foreign dignitaries who have excelled in endeavors benefitting mankind.

This event is the first in a series, under the auspices of the United States Citizens' Congress, to mark our country's Bicentennial. We firmly believe, as you do, that the time has come to accentuate the virtues of this nation and of the leaders who have kept faith with our Founding Fathers. In doing so, we are affirming our belief in the values of our national legacy and are strengthening our objectives.

The enclosed reservation card and return envelope are for your convenience. An early reply would be appreciated.

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2—B***** Monday, April 19, 1976

Hurtful expedient

THE ISSUE: The attacks on Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

POLITICAL considerations stemming from his campaign for the presidency have undoubtedly already damaged President Ford's foreign policy — which is to say this country's foreign policy — and threaten to damage it a great deal more.

Those considerations revolve around Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as an increasingly politically controversial figure.

From the outside, attacks on Dr. Kissinger have come most notably from the President's opponent for the GOP nomination, Ronald Reagan. Those are the attacks which have had the most effect on Mr. Ford in what appears to be a backing off from full support of his secretary of State.

But attacks have come from within the administration, also. These, of course, have not been outright assaults on Dr. Dr. Kissinger. Rather, they have taken the form of implications and hints that the secretary of State is on his way out, even if Mr. Ford is elected in November.

These insider attacks have been launched most pointedly from the President's top advisers, including Melvin Laird and Rogers C. B. Morton. The latter in the most recent such instance offered the opinion that Dr. Kissinger would depart from the administration by the first of next year.

The President did contradict that opinion, declaring that Dr. Kissinger would remain as secretary of State if he wins the election. But, as

Joseph Kraft pointed out in a column in this newspaper, the President has been slow to defend his secretary of State and then his defense has lacked something in positiveness.

Presumably, in fact, he could have seen to it that his top advisers refrained from calling the future of Dr. Kissinger into question.

Perhaps Mr. Ford, in seeking to counter Mr. Reagan, is trying to allow the impression that Dr. Kissinger will be departing to prevail until after the election and then means to keep the secretary on. If that is so, the President is adopting a shallow and hurtful political expedient.

For the uncertainty about Dr. Kissinger's position created by these implications and hints reduces his stature and effectiveness in the eyes of the foreign governments with which he must deal. By the same token, it diminishes the stature and effectiveness of this nation's foreign policy.

Dr. Kissinger certainly has his faults and he has made mistakes. We have criticized him for some of those mistakes. Nevertheless, there is nobody on the scene, including the President, who has background knowledge, the stature in the eyes of foreign nations, the negotiating skill that the secretary of State possesses.

With the serious foreign policy problems facing us in southern Africa, the Middle East, with the Soviet Union, and elsewhere in the world, we urge full support by the President of his secretary of State.

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KTEXT) SALINGER INTERVIEW ON FOREIGN POLICY WITH CARTER
(4,000)
(CAMPAIGN ITEM NO. QYRL

PARIS, AUGUST 25 AA THE FRENCH WEEKLY NEWS MAGAZINE L'EXPRESS HAS GRANTED THE U.S. INFORMATION AGENCY ALL REPRODUCTION RIGHTS FOR PIERRE SALINGER'S INTERVIEW WITH DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE JIMMY CARTER. THE MAGAZINE WOULD APPRECIATE CREDIT IN ANY AGENCY USE.

THE INTERVIEW WAS HELD AUGUST 13 AT MR. CARTER'S HOME IN
PLAINS, GEORGIA, AND COVERED A WIDE RANGE OF FOREIGN POLICY
SUBJECTS, INCLUDING POLICY FORMULATION, AMERICA'S MOOD ON
ISOLATION, ANGOLA AND AFRICA POLICY IN GENERAL, EUROPEAN
POLITICAL UNITY, WEST EUROPEAN COMMUNISM, THE CONCORDE
SUPER SONIC TRANSPORT, THE SALE OF NUCLEAR PROCESSING
PLANTS AND U.S.-USSR RELATIONS.

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SALINGER: IT HAS BEEN WRITTEN AND SAID THAT IF YOU BECOME PRESIDENT THAT A CARTER FOREIGN POLICY WILL NOT BE MUCH DIFFERENT THAN A NIXON OR A FORD FOREIGN POLICY, THAT THE OPTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES ARE SO LIMITED. DO YOU AGREE WITH THIS?

CARTER: THE ONLY ONE I KNOW THAT SAID THIS WAS MR. KISSINGER. BUT I THINK THAT THERE WOULD BE SOME SUBSTANTIAL DIFFERENCES. I WOULD HAVE A MUCH MORE OPEN EVOLUTION OF OUR FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONS WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE CONGRESS BEING INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS AND NATURALLY INCLINED TO SUPPORT OUR POSITIONS MUCH MORE STRONGLY.

IN THE PAST QUITE OFTEN THE DECISIONS HAVE BEEN MADE IN A BACKROOM AND WHEN MR. KISSINGER OR NIXON OR FORD SPOKE IT WAS USUALLY WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OR SUPPORT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THEY WERE SPEAKING WITH A HOLLOW VOICE.

ALSO, I WOULD MUCH MORE HEAVILY EMPHASIZE PREDICTABLE AND CONTINUING RELATIONSHPPS WITH OUR NATURAL ALLIES AND FRIENDS IN EUROPE, AND JAPAN AND THIS HEMISPHERE, SO AS WE MADE MAJOR CHANGES IN FOREIGN POLICY -- WHICH ARE ENEVITABLE IN A FAST CHANGING WORLD -- THAT OUR NATURAL FRIENDS AND ALLIES WOULD BE CONVERSANT WITH THOSE CHANGES AND THERE WOULD

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BE MUCH CLOSER CONSULTATION.

I WOULD BE INCLINED TO DO WHAT I COULD TO HONOR THE INCLINATION OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TO SPZAK WITH A COMMON VOICE WHEN THEY CHOSE WITHOUT INTERFERING IN THAT RELATIONSHPP OR WITHOUT TRYING TO FORCE UNILATERAL EXPRESSIONS OF OPINION AMONG EUROPEAN NATIONS WHEN THEY CHOSE TO SPZAK AS A GROUP.

I THINK, I WOULD BE MUCH TOUGHER IN BARGAINING WITH THE SOVIET UNION, BUT EQUALLY COMMITTED TO SHWRING OF COMMUNICATIONS AND EXCHANGE OF STUDENTS AND TRADE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SOVIET UNION AND A SEARCHING OUT FOR A COMMON APPROACH TO THE RESOLUTION OF PROBLEMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, REDUCTION IN ARMS, INDEPENDENCE ON ARMS, OR REDUCTION IN THREAT WITH ATOMIC WEAPONS, ALLEVIATION OF A THREAT OF NORTH KOREA AGAINST SOUTH KOREA. THESE THINGS I WOULD SEE AS A GOOD RELATIONSHPP WITH THE SOVIET UNION.

I THINK THE LAST POINT I WOULD LPKE TO MAKE BRIEFLY IS THAT I THINK I WOULD HAVE A MUCH GREATER INCLINATION TO DEAL WITH THE DEVELOPING NATIONS OF THE WORLD AS INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES WITH MORE STRENGTH AND MUCH MORE PURPOSEFUL APPROACH, THE APPOINTMENT OF HPGHLY QQALIFIED DIPLOMATPC

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OFFICIALS. THESE WOULD ALL BE CHANGES IN THE POLICIES THAT HAVE BEEN INVOLVED UNDER FORD AND NIXON.

SALINGER: HOW OPEN CAN FOREIGN POLICY BE IN THE WORLD
WZ LIVE IN TODAY?

CARTER: WELL I FELT THAT OUR FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONS WERE QUITE OPEN UNDER TRUMAN, AND ROOSEVELT, EISENHOWER AND KENNEDY. TO TAKE ONE OF THOSE AS AN EXAMPLE, WHEN TRUMAN WAS PRESIDENT HE WAS AT FIRST NOT LOOKED ON AS A STRONG LEADER. WHEN HZ BECAME PRESIDENT HZ WAS NOT TIMID IN CHOOSING POWERFUL MEN TO BE SECRET WRIES OF STATE, ACHSON, MARSHWLL. HE NEVER FELT ANY THREAT TO HIS STATUS FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE. THEY MOVED AGGRESSIVELY AND SUCCESSFULLY TO ACHIEVE A CONTINUING BIPARTISAN SUPPORT WTHIN THE CONGRESS FOR THE MAJOR POLICIES THAT WERE INVOLVED.

I THINK WHEN TRUMAN MADE DECISIONS CONCERNING AID TO TURKEY AND GREECE, OR THE POINT FOUR PROGRAM OF THE SO-CALLED TRUMAN DOCTRINE OR THE NATO ALLPANCE OR THE FORMATION OF UNITED NATIONS OR THE RECOGNITION OF ISRAEL, THAT HPS REASONS FOR THOSE DECISIONS WERE MADE VERY CLEAR TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

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ROOSEVELT USED A MECHANISM THAT HE INTEND TO RESTORE,
THE FIRESIDE CHATS, SO THAT AS WZ EVOLVED POLICIES IN THE
INTERNATIONAL WORLD THAT THE ARGUMENTS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE
COMPLICATED QUESTION MIGHT BE DESCRIBED PUBLICLY. AND
SO I THINK THAT HERE CAN BE A GREAT DEAL OF OPENNESS.

OBVIOUSLY YOU'D HAVE TO RESPOND TO THE CONFIDENTIALITY
OF DISCUSSIONS WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES IF IT WAS
THEIR STRONG DESIRE TO SEE THAT CONFIDENTIALITY MAINTAINED.
AND WHEN DECISIONS WERE IN THE FORMATIVE STAGE TO EXPRESS TO
THE PUBLIC ALL THE DIFFERENT OPTIONS MIGHT SOMETIMES BE
COUNTERPRODUCTIVE IN MATTERS THAT HIGHLIGHTED TO NATIONAL
SECURITY OR THERE WOULD BE A MISTAKE. BUT THE MISLEADING OF
OUR PEOPLE DELiberately OR THE EXCLUSION OF THE CONGRESS
FROM A KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT OUR POLICIES ARE TOWARDS FOREIGN
COUNTRIES COLLECTively AND INDIVIDUALLY, I THINK CAN BE
CORRECTED.

SALPNER: LOOKING AT THE UNITED STATES FROM EUROPE MANY
EUROPEANS SEE WHAT THEY THINK TO BE A MOVE TOWARDS ISOLAT-
IONISM AND PROTECTIONISM IN AMERICA. YOU HAVE BEEN MOVING
AROUND THIS COUNTRY TALKING TO PZOPOLZ, DO YOU SENSE THAT
FEELing?

CARTZR: NO. THERE IS A COMPLICATPON, HOWZVER, THAT CAN'T BE DESCRIBED IN A ONE WORD ANSWER. MOST OF THE PZ PEOPLE, FOR INSTANCE, HERE IN GEORGIA, OR IN A MORE INLWND STATZ LIKE IOWA, NEBRASKA OR KANSAS, REAL PZE THAT ALMOST EVERY DECISION MADE IN THE INTERNATIONAL HCOUNCIL S AFFECT Y THEIR LIVES PERSONALLY. FREEDOM OF THE SEAS, INTERNATIONAL HTRADE POLICY, MONETWRY FUND DECISIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL HQUAL PTY, FOOD RESERVES, PRODUCTION OF ATOMIC WEAPONS AND MANY, MANY OTHERS.

THESE DECISIONS THAT HARE MADE AT INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL Y ARE OF INTENSE INTEREST TO OUR PEOPLE AND FOR US TO WITHDRAW FROM THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS WOULD OBVIOUSLY BE COUNTER PRODUCTIVE.

ON THE OTHER HWND, I THINK THERE IS A GREAT HRELZCTANCE ON THE PWRTHOF THE AMERICAN PZOPLZ, TO GET HM ILITARILY INVOLVED IN THE INTZRNAL AFFAIRS OF OTHER COUNTRIES, AS WE DID WITH SUCH DEVASTAT PNG RESULTS IN CAMBODIA AND VIETNAM, AS WE ALMOST DID IN THE CASE OF ANGOLA. SO, A PROPER BALANCING OF THESE TWO COMMITMENT ON THE PARTHOF THE AMERICAN PZOPLZ IS SOMETHING THAT REQUIRES SUBJECT PVE ANALYSIS ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS.

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BUT I WOULD NEVER AGAIN GETHMILITARILY INVOLVED IN THE
INTERNAL HAFFAIRS OF ANOTHER COUNTRY, UNLESS OUR OWN SECURITY
WWSDIRECTLY THREATENED, AND I WOULD PLWY A STRONG ROLE IN
THE UNITED NATIONS, IN THE NATO ALLIANCE, IN TRADE MECHANISMS
THAT HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHD AND HOPEFULLY WE WOULD APPOINT
DIPLOMATS OF SUPZR QUALIFICATIONS WHO'D CAREFULLY PREPARE FOR
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES. WE'D LZT OUR VOICE BE FELT STRONGLY
AS WE SHWPED OPINIONS OR POLICIES IN THE COMMUNITY OF NATPONS
AND I THINK THAT THIS WOULD BE NOT AN ISOLWTINIST ATTPTQDE
ATHALL, I DON'T THINK THAT THAT'S WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
WWNT.

SALPNGER: YOU MENTIONED ANGOLA, MANY PEOPLE IN EUROPE
FELT THAT THE FAILURE OF THE CONGRESS TO BACK UP SECRETWRY
KISSINGER IN SENDING SUPPLIES TO ANGOLA WAS A FAILURE TO STAND
UP TO THE SOVIET UNION, ALLOWED THEM TO MOVE INTO A VACUUM IN
ANGOLA. DO YOU FEEL THE SAME WAY ABOUT THAT?

CARTZR: NO. I THINK THAT AFTZR THE CIRCUMSTANCES EVOLVED,
THERE WAS NO OTHER PROPER ACTION FOR THE CONGRESS TO TAKE.

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THE VACUUM NO LONGER EXISTED. THE SOVIET UNION AND THE CUBANS HWD PRE-EMPTED OUR POSITION OF STRENGTH IN ANGOLA. WE HAD NOTHCAREFULLY PREPWRED OUR COUNTRY FOR THE WPTH-DRAWAL HOFTHE PORTQGUESE AND I THINK THAT WHEN PRESIDENT FORD AND KISSINGER'S POLICIES WZRE MADE KNOWN, I BELPEVE INADVERTZNTLY, TO THE PUBLIC THERE WAS AN ADVERSE REACTION THAT THE SITUATION HAD DETZRIORATZD SO GREATLY HIN THE ABSENCE OF PARTICIPATION BY THE AMERICAN PZOPLZ, OR THE CONGRESS OR THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT WAS GOING ON. I DON'T THINK OUR POLICY TOWARD ANGOLA WWS CONSISTENT, OR PZRMANENT, OR PREDICTABLE, OR LONG RANGE IN NATQE NOR PARTICULARLY DEDICATED TO WHAT WAS BEST FOR THE ANGOLAN PZOPLE OR OURSELVES. IT WAS AN AFTZR-THE-FACT REACTION TO A FAILURE WHICH HWD RESULTED IN A PRE-EMPTED POSITION OF THE SOVIETY AND CUBANS WITHIN ANGOLA.

SALPNER: WHAT WZ ARE ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT, WHAT SHOULD AMERICAN POLICY IN A CARTZR ADMINISTRATION BE WITH RESPECT TO THE DESIRE FOR THE MAJORITY RULZ IN RHODESIA AND SOUTH AFRICA?

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CARTER: WELL YOU ARE ASKING ME TO ANSWZR A
QUESTION THAT NO ONE ELYE HAS BEEN ABLE TO ANSWZR. OUR
NATPON IS IRREVOCAELY COMMITZD TO THE CONCEPT OF MAJORITY
RULE WHETHER IT APPLIES TO BLACK OR WHITE PZOPLE. I
WOULD ALSO RETAIN A COMMITMENT TO THE RESOLUTION OF
PROGRESS THROUGH PZWCEFUL MEANS. I WOULD DEFER TO THE OTHER
NATPONS, AS FAR AS ACTPVE INVOLVEMENT HIS CONCERNED, WHO HWVE
A DIRECT LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY. FOR INSTANCE, GREATHBRITAIN
THERE AS TO A CLAIM, I THINK DOMINION OVER RHODESIA. I WOULD
TRYHIO INCLQDE AS A PORTPON OF OUR OWN PZRSUASION THE BQSINESS
COMMUNITY IN A GREATZR DEGREE.

THZ SHWPING OF OUR POLICYHSHOULD BE COMPATIBLE WHEN
POSSIBLE WITH THE REGIONAL ORGANIZWTIONS, THE ORGANIZWTPON
OF AFRICAN STATZS, AND I THINK THAT HWZ HWOULD USE THE GOOD
SERVICES OF OTHER INDIVIDUAL NATPONS WHEN POSSIBLZ. FOR
INSTWNCE, THZ HCOQNTRIES THAT HARE LOCATZD IN THE SOUTHERN
PORTPON OF AFRICA HWVE A LEGITIMATZHRIGHT TO BE INVOLVED IN
EXPRESSING PUBLIC OPINION PZGHAPS IN TRADE RELATPONSHPPS,
DIPLOMATPC RELWT IONSHPPS, TRANSPOGTWT POMHRELWT PONSHPPY, AS
THZ HCHWNGZ YHTW KE PLWVE IN SOUTHAFRICA. I BELPEVE THWTHTHZ
FIRST HCR IT PCAL HVHWNGZYHWRE GOPNG TO BZHFACED IN RHOBESIA,

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Nancy Kissinger, Li Lien-chieh, Lu Yen and Ts'ui Ya-rui, Henry Kissinger.

## War and Peace

WASHINGTON — The night of his record (108-second) court appearance, Henry the K took Tall Nancy to the JFK Center to see the Wushu company from China, the warrior dancers. The peacemaker plowed through his massive security to the Golden Circle lounge for a "soft drink, please" and words of congratulation for the performers. "Do you think I could do this?" he asked 10-year-old Lu Yen; asked her reply, Henry told Eye: "I think she expressed severe doubt in her polite Chinese way." He was in a teasing mood, too, about his court appearance. "It was very short. We'll do it even faster the next time now that I've got the hang of it."

See EYE, page 8

# Execs tell Nixon: Business needs a better tax break

By RICHARD WIGHTMAN

WASHINGTON (FNS) — Top business executives Thursday warned President Nixon they need a far better tax break to step up production capacity and so battle inflation by boosting supplies.

In a no-holds-barred two-and-one-quarter-hour session at the White House, the business leaders stressed that stratospheric interest rates are preventing capital expansion in key areas of the economy.

And they urged tax relief to provide them with the necessary funds via such means as accelerated depreciation, enlarged investment tax credits and speedier write-offs for environment-related costs.

Increased production of vital commodities is one of the cherished goals of the administration in its efforts to combat skyrocketing prices. The White House, to date, has been reluctant to follow the business tax-incentive

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214 Dupont Street,
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Stronge,

Personal Assistant
Suzanne S. McFarlane

Sincerely,

the Secretary's.
President, too, might like to add his congratulations to
the White House of the occasion, with the thought that the
I have personally taken the liberty of informing

today celebrations.
Holmes and his very best wishes for the happiest of birth-
picture will express his affectionate memories of Mrs.
However, he hopes that the enclosed inscribed

duties is so extremely limited.
p birthday on January 2, 1976, as his time for these pleasant
mother, Bess Holmes, on the glorious occasion of her 100th
auspicious handwrite a note of congratulations to your Grand-
Unfortunately, the Secretary was not able to per-

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Stromae:

November 30, 1975

Roxbury, Conn.

October 1, 1975

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
U.S. Department of State
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Kissinger,

It was more than a pleasure to meet you at the Shrivers' reception for James Jones in Washington. I had no thought of engaging you in a discussion of human rights or Chile at that gathering, but, pushed into it by the irrepressible Eunice, I was gratified after all that the oppotunity had presented itself.

When we spoke, you evidenced curiosity about Charles Horman and Frank Terrugi, young Americans turned away by our embassy in Santiago when they requested sanctuary following the military coup. Horman and Terrugi were subsequently picked up, tortured, and killed by the junta's police. Our government issued no protest. I've come to know the senior Hormans and Terrugis (by chance Frank's father and I were in the same hotel in Santiago when he was seeking out officials -- U.S. and Chilean -- and his son's friends to determine what had actually happened months before; our State Department had been unable to provide the information) and I'm still concerned, not for the dead but for the living. I agree with you that "it is an absolute debasement of the function of government when its overwhelming power is used not for people's welfare but as an instrument of their suffering." Well said I worry about people still caught in the nets of such governments. I worry about U.S. foreign policy vis-a-vis human rights in such governments and about our image abroad. And I worry, selfishly, about the implication of non-protection for American citizens abroad if, at the time of a foreign emergency, these citizens appear not to agree philosophically with certain American Embassy personnel there. I realize that you cannot control every member of a foreign office from Washington, but perhaps more careful examination of the personnel, firm directives, and an extension of the personal eloquence that marked your recent speech to the UN would clarify future situations.

I promised I would send material on Americans harrassed in Chile. I enclose the entire *Amnesty International Report on Torture* because their stories are touched upon in its "Appendix on Chile" (which I wrote: I've considerably more data" you are interested in perusing it). The Appendix was done at the request of Farrar-Straus to appeal to the American book-buyer. An article I'd published in the *New York Review of Books* in June 1974 caught their eye - it was strictly a document on torture and the secret intelligence agency developing in Chile. They asked that it be changed and expanded to show torture in context, i.e., to consider Chile as a model or potential model of a society-in-turmoil which becomes a prey to terror under the pressure of tyranny.

The major portions of this book -- factual, dispassionately written, thoroughly researched by Amnesty International's skilled staff in London -- was updated from the original British edition of December 1973. My addition was composed with unashamed feeling, an American writer's private view of events as she tried to make sense of them in the fifteen months post-coup. Time has passed since

February (the deadline for a book to be published in August) and
new things are revealed almost daily in the press, so we are all
learning and revising our assumptions. I recognize that I made
rather strong comments or implications re Nixon Administration
policy toward Latin America. To the extent that they are erroneous
I'd be grateful to have you point it out. To that extent I'd be
happy, too, to make corrections for future and foreign language
editions. We as an organization are dedicated to determining the
truth and to pursuing justice, with dignity, for mankind.

In this context, I'd like to say again how heartening it was
to read the speech you delivered at the UN Monday-a-week-ago. I
wish I had been in the audience. In such a broad-ranging policy
speech your expressed concern for human rights and your intention
to focus on problems such as torture are applauded by all of us at
A.I. We welcome United States support for the Geneva declaration
and hope that the UN mission will lobby effectively for its adopt-
ion by the General Assembly. We appreciate tremendously your going
beyond support of the declaration to initiate the idea of a team
of experts to study the nature and extent of torture. Perhaps the
first several chapters in the enclosed book will be useful to
them. Will the mandate of this body include invitations to, and
acceptance of submissions from non-governmental organizations?
Will it investigate the machinery necessary for the implementation
of human rights documents?

I assume you've seen A.I.'s report on its mission to Spain,
released yesterday. The torture of Basque detainees is uppermost
in my mind. I understand, I think, some of the complexities of
dealing with Franco and his political supporters and opponents, and
I would hope that without breaking off relations you could make
an evocative plea for human rights in Spain, suggesting that they
are no longer an internal matter. If we express nothing stronger
than regret and take no active stand against such brutality, what
will our allies in democracy think of us? What will we think of
ourselves?

As for terrorism, the killing of policemen, we are all un-
alterably opposed to it. But we as Americans whose safety is
protected by the police must not transfer our sense of outrage
lightly: we must see that the Spanish police today are state-
sanctioned or state-ignored purveyors of repression and torture.
All our bicentennial programs emphasize a heritage of freedom and
moral leadership. If we are to believe that these are still our
guidelines for democracy, we want our diplomat-leaders to articu-
late them for us and for the world.

In the next two months Amnesty International is bringing out
comprehensive reports on human rights in Uruguay and the Soviet
Union. May we send them to you? And when you have fresh informa-
tion on the status of the Chilean refugee program, could someone
in the department send it to me? I'm disturbed that no one has
yet entered the U.S. through this program, and that lists are ar-
riving of Chileans whose lives are in danger in Argentina now.
The re-arrests in Chile of men like Pedro Felipe Ramirez -- neither
a Communist nor a MIR-man -- to stand trial with Corvalon et al
in Valparaiso, is ominous. Might we send an official observer
to that trial?

Again, thanks for your concern. Hope to see you again in the
spring if Kay Graham and Polly Fritchie make their fete an annual
one.

Best regards,