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THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON

January 28, 1974

Dear Leo:

Your letter of December 31 reached me
on my return to Washington. It was good to
hear from you.

President McGill of Columbia contacted us last October on the university's invitation to Professor Vitali Rubin to serve as visiting professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. I regret to report that Professor Rubin is still denied permission to depart from the Soviet Union, either as an emigrant to Israel or visitor to the United States. The Embassy will notify us promptly, and we will notify you, if the Soviet authorities reverse the decision to deny him permission to leave. Professor Rubin himself has indicated that he was not sanguine about a reversal.

We suggest that Professor Rubin reapply
for permission to accept Columbia's invitation
to visit the United States. Experience has
shown that those who are at first refused
permission to travel abroad sometimes receive
permission in response to a second or third
application. At the same time, Columbia officials
may wish to contact the International Research
and Exchanges Board (IREX), 110 East 59 Street,
New York, New York 10022, to see if they would
be willing to endorse Columbia's invitation.
Most academic exchanges with the Soviet Union,
except for those in the natural sciences,
are sponsored by IREX and their endorsement
of the invitation to Professor Rubin might
be helpful. Dr. Allen H. Kassof is Executive
Director of the Board.

Mr. Leo Hexter,
1781 Riverside Drive,
New York, New York.

LEO HEXTER

1781 RIVERSIDE DRIVE
NEW YORK, N.Y. 10034

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December 31, 1973

The Hon. Secretary of State
Dr. Henry Kissinger
Department of State
Washington, D.C.

Dear Henry,

Thank you very much for your kind letter of December 7 th
which was very much appreciated.

I took the liberty to call your secretary Ms Hill on Dec. 26 th to find out if I could possibly see you some time in the near future; it certainly would be a great privilege if after so many years I could meet with you again.

I hope you don't mind if I approach you today on behalf of a very close friend of mine, Mr. Alfred Schoen, who just returned from Russia. While in Moscow he met one of the outstanding scientist Prof. Vitali Rubin who is one of the Jewish scientist mentioned in the famous "Kissinger List" previously submitted to you. Prof. V. Rubin an orientalist ( expert on China ) was asked by Columbia University recently to join their faculty of philosophy as visiting professor. Professor Rubin and his wife however were denied exit visas and subsequently he lost his position at the Moscow University. Since he is now without any means of support he might be declared a parasite and it is of utmost importance to help him and his wife to obtain exit visas at the earliest possible time. Anything you can do for him will be very much appreciated.

It would be wonderful if after so many years I could see you again and hope to hear from your secretary soon. Thank you for your consideration.

Columbia University
in the City of New York

NEW YORK, N.Y. 10027

PRESIDENT'S ROOM

October 31, 1973

Dear Mr. Secretary:

I write to ask your help in a matter of great concern to
Columbia University.

Attached are copies of a letter which I wrote on June twenty-ninth to Secretary Brezhnev on behalf of Professor Vitali Rubin. Professor Rubin has a visiting appointment at Columbia for the current academic year but has been unable to secure permission to leave the Soviet Union.

Also attached is a copy of a resolution adapted unanimously by the Columbia University Senate on October 26, 1973 instructing me to take further steps on Professor Rubin's behalf. As the resolution states, my earlier letter to Secretary Brezhnev has gone unanswered and unknown. Accordingly, the possibility exists that it was never received.

I am seeking a favorable response from the Soviet Union to our request that Professor Rubin be allowed to leave the USSR in order to teach as a Visiting Professor at Columbia. In any event, a fresh inquiry on the status of Professor Rubin's sought-after exit visa would be very helpful to us in defining the problem. We seek to know whether we have failed to communicate, or whether Soviet authorities have understood our inquiry but refuse to let Professor Rubin leave.

The faculty and student body of the University would be very grateful for whatever you and your colleagues can do to help us with this effort and to clarify Professor Rubin's current status.

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D. C. 20515

June 29, 1973

Dear Mr. Brezhnev:

I am taking the liberty of writing to you because what I have gleaned from the newspapers, portraying the cordial atmosphere surrounding your recent visit to this country and your discussions with President Nixon, suggests that you may be able to help me in a matter of great concern to the faculty and students of Columbia University.

A problem has arisen in connection with the denial of an exit visa to Vitali Rubin, a Soviet citizen who is also an internationally recognized authority on ancient Chinese philosophy. Very briefly, Professor Rubin was invited in January 1973 by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures of Columbia University so that he might lecture here in his special field. He would hold the rank of Visiting Professor during the academic year commencing on July 1, 1973. All previous efforts on our part to secure approval of Professor Rubin's visit to Columbia University by Soviet authorities seem now to have failed.

Accordingly, I am addressing an appeal directly to you. It is not an effort to secure headlines or to embarrass you. I am afraid that all other avenues have been exhausted and that your intervention in the Rubin case is needed. It is a matter of urgent concern to all of us at Columbia.

The Honorable Leonid I. Brezhnev
First Secretary, Communist Party
of the U.S.S.R.
Central Committee
The Kremlin

Proposed: 10/26/73
Adopted: 10/26/73

RESOLUTION CONCERNING SUPPORT OF VITALI RUBIN

WHEREAS; On January 2, 1973, the Faculty of Philosophy of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences invited Vitali Rubin, a citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, to serve as a Visiting Lecturer on Chinese Philosophy, and

WHEREAS; Vitali Rubin did, on January 20, 1973, by telegram, agree to accept the post offered to him, and on that date applied to the Ministry of the Interior for an exit visa, and

WHEREAS; Vitali Rubin has been unable to secure an exit visa (for this purpose), and

WHEREAS; On April 27, 1973, the Senate of Columbia University in the City of New York requested William J. McGill, the President of Columbia University, to write to the Soviet Academy of Sciences on behalf of Vitali Rubin, and

WHEREAS; President McGill has written to Leonid Brezhnev, Chairman of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. on June 29, 1973 requesting his help in this matter, and has received no acknowledgement or response from any representative of the U.S.S.R.,

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED; That the Senate of Columbia University hereby reaffirms its resolution of April 27, 1973 in support of Vitali Rubin, and further,

BE IT RESOLVED; That the Senate requests President McGill to write on behalf of Vitali Rubin to the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and further,

BE IT RESOLVED; That President McGill be instructed to contact appropriate members of the U.S. government and inform them of this situation, in order to elicit their support, and further,

BE IT RESOLVED; That the Senate of Columbia University in the City of New York, by this and preceding actions, hereby reaffirms the principle of academic freedom for scholars to pursue their studies and teaching unrestricted by limitations on their movements and legitimate employment.

Proponents: Mr. Theodore DeBary

David S. Shapiro

William J. McGill, President
Columbia University
New York, N. Y. 10027

Dear President McGill:

I am replying to your letter of October 31, 1973, to Secretary Kissinger regarding Columbia's out-standing invitation to Professor Vitali Rubin.

I regret that there is very little we can do, either in Washington or through our Embassy in Moscow, to determine whether or not Secretary General Brezhnev received your letter of June 29. However we did ask our Embassy to attempt informally to ascertain whether Professor Rubin is actively seeking permission to visit the United States.

The Embassy replied that they have no information which would indicate a change in Professor Rubin's status and that he apparently remains among the group of Jewish intellectuals who have consistently been denied permission to depart from the Soviet Union, either as emigrants to Israel or as visitors to the United States. The Embassy also reported that Professor Rubin has not officially contacted the Embassy regarding a visa for possible travel to the United States and they feel it is unlikely he will do so until Soviet authorities act favorably on his request for an exit visa.

Subsequently Professor Rubin confirmed to an Embassy officer in late November that there has been no change in his situation and that he is not sanguine about a reversal of the decisions by Soviet authorities to deny his requests for exit visas for travel to Israel and the United States.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE
ACTION MEMORANDUM

S/Sgt.

JAN 19 1974

To: The Secretary

From: EUR - Arthur A. Hartman

Letter from Leo Hexter Regarding Soviet Professor
Vitali Rubin

Mr. Leo Hexter of New York City wrote you on December 31 (Tab B) asking your assistance on behalf of Professor Vitali Rubin, a noted Soviet orientalist who has been denied an exit visa for travel either to the US or to Israel. Professor Rubin would like to come to the US to accept an invitation from Columbia University to serve as Visiting Professor.

President McGill of Columbia wrote to you on this same subject last October (Tab C). Deputy Assistant Secretary Armitage replied, regretting that there was little we could do on behalf of Professor Rubin (Tab D).

Recommendation:

That you sign the attached letter (Tab A) to Mr. Hexter, which reviews the McGill-Armitage exchange and suggests that Professor Rubin re-apply for permission to come to the US and that Columbia consider channeling its invitation through the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) in New York.

Attachments:

Tab A - Suggested reply

Tab B - Mr. Hexter's letter, 12/31/73

Tab C - President McGill's letter

Tab D - Mr. Armitage's reply to President McGill

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JOHN DIEBOLD

April 25, 1974

Dear Henry:

Clearly one of the central problems of our society
is how to permit leaders to take initiatives with-
out the emasculation of institutional responses.
Yet this is the kind of process question which is
eclipsed by the specifics of day-to-day crises and
never gets proper attention.

Jim Perkins, Mac Bundy and I thought it would be
useful to talk through this issue in a group small
enough to fit around my dining room table. I hope
very much that you will be able to join us at
One East End Avenue on Wednesday evening, May 22,
when we are at least going to start on that process.

I look forward to seeing you then.

With every best personal wish,

Black Tie
7:00 p.m.
R.S.V.P.
PLaza 5-0400

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

1446 WOODACRE DRIVE
MC LEAN, VIRGINIA 22101

24 March, 1975

Dear Mr. Secretary,

Welcome home, and copious thanks for
your incredible efforts on the behalf of all of us.

I write this without the prompting
of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, though I agree with his
recent TODAY show comment that you, too, are human
and deserve to know that some of us "care."

Empathy comes easily for me at this
moment. I have just lost a round of negotiation with
Daniel Boorstin over an appropriate theme for scholars
to discuss during the Bicentennial.

Landrum Bolling will have even greater
appreciation of your efforts in the light of his earlier,
non-governmental shuttling to produce all those versions of
the Quakers' Middle East Report.

William Davidson, president of the
Institute for Psychiatry and Foreign Affairs, and I will
be doing a little field work on the Egyptian side of the
line in early May, just after his return from Peking
with the American medical mission which your physician
has so generously blessed.

The Hon. Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State

Kansas City, Missouri.
2220 Holmes Street,
at Dartmouth College, Inc.,
The Grenville Clark Fund
President,
Mrs. E. Grey Dimond,

Henry W. Klaasinger
Personal Assistant to
Suzanne S. McFarlane

Sincerely,

continued successive growth and development,
understand and accept his very best wishes for the Fund's a
approached, even as worthwhile a one as this. I hope you will
financial support to the many organizations by whom he has been
self outside of government he does not feel that he can give
Unfortunately, however, until he has established him-
Fund.

in considerably interested in the future development of the
asked to present the first prize to Jean Monnet in 1975, and he
Clark Fund and Prize. It was a great honor for him to have been
he appreciated your sending him the reports of the Grenville
Secretary Klaasinger has asked me to let you know that

Dear Mrs. Dimond:

January 2, 1977

Department of State

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PLEASE PASS FOLLOWING MESSAGE TO AMB DINITZ FROM THE
SECRETARY: QUOTE: DEAR MR. AMBASSADOR: I WAS SADDENED
TO HEAR OF THE DEATH OF YOUR FATHER AND I WOULD LIKE TO
EXPRESS MY DEEPEST SYMPathy TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. MAY
YOUR HAPPY MEMORIES OF HIM BE A SOURCE OF CONSOLATION TO
YOU IN YOUR GRIEF. WARM REGARDS, HENRY A. KISSINGER.
UNQUOTE. RUSH

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Dallas, Texas.
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E-System, Inc.
Chairman and President,
Mr. John W. Dixon,

Personal Assistant
Susanne S. McFarlane

Sincerely,

I know that he will exhibit them with great pride.
System in the States. They are on the desk now, and
ration of the formal opening of the early-warning
the set of bicentennial silver coins in commemo-
know how very much he appreciates your sending him
Secretary Kleasinger has asked me to let you

Dear Mr. Dixon:

July 27, 1976

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Embassy of the
Austroly F. Doprynn,
His Excellency

Personal Assistant
Suzanne B. McFarlane

Sincerely,

visit, and he thanks you for forwarding them to him.
They will be valued mementos of a very pleasant
taken during his trip to Moscow.
How much he appreciated your sending him the pictures
The Secretary has asked me to let you know

Dear Mr. Ambasador:

February 27, 1970

EMBASSY OF THE
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS

1125 - 16TH ST. N.W.
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20036

The Honorable
Henry A. Kissinger
The Secretary of State

February 17, 1976

Dear Henry,

I am sending you some pictures taken during your recent
trip to Moscow.

I hope you will enjoy them.

PRESS-RELEASE OF THE SOVIET EMBASSY

On May 13, 1976 The New York Times published an article by Mr. Gelb which prompted some other publications by the U.S. press on the same subject. Because the article is of a highly speculative and even provocative nature, it is incumbent upon us to offer a reply.

The USSR Embassy emphatically points out that it has not been interfering in U.S. domestic affairs or in the election campaign under way in this country. It would contradict the well-known principles and methods of Soviet foreign policy. The Embassy also declares with full responsibility that the Embassy staff members have not allowed themselves any inferences regarding the President of the United States. Insinuations to that effect contained in Mr. Gelb's article are preposterous and completely unfounded.

February 19, 1974

Dear Bill:

The Washington Energy Conference is now the standard of excellence against which I shall measure the quality of future staff work. The preparations and execution were marked by sound judgment and untiring attention to detail.

Your leadership throughout this historic undertaking deserves special recognition. You have my deepest personal thanks for a splendid performance.

But only part of our task lies behind us. I am relying on you to harness the momentum of our recent success as we face still greater challenges ahead.

The Honorable
William H. Donaldson,
Under Secretary of State
for Security Assistance.

S:DCG:ml

Chicago, Illinois.
One Montgomery Ward Plaza,
Montgomery Ward,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Mr. Edward 2. Donnell,

Personal Assistant
Suzanne 2. McFarlane

Sincerely,

and you can be sure he will exhibit it with pride.
appropriate observance of our Bicentennial Year,
sending him the flag set for his desk. It is a very
The Secretary very much appreciates your

Dear Mr. Donnell:

May 22, 1976

MONTGOMERY
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EDWARD S. DONNELL / CHAIRMAN
AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

May 21, 1976

The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
Washington, D.C. 20502

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

In honor of our nation's 200th anniversary, we are urging every American to fly the flag continuously from Flag Day on June 14 through Independence Day on July 4, a period when public interest in the Bicentennial will be at its peak. This "Bicentennial 21-Day Flag Salute" will be inaugurated with patriotic flag-raising ceremonies in local communities across the nation.

A one-day program last year resulted in more than 300 special Flag Day ceremonies in 38 states and prompted John Warner, Administrator of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, to state: "We have all benefited from the wave of enthusiasm which was developed by this unique Flag Day observance and the momentum it generated for advancement of the Bicentennial in literally hundreds of communities from border to border."

This year's 21-Day Flag Salute has been recognized as an "Official Bicentennial Event" by ARBA. Montgomery Ward store managers in 2,300 communities are offering to assist local Bicentennial Committees and other organizations in planning ceremonies for their local communities.

To extend the program even further, a Planning Guide has been prepared with step-by-step instructions which any organization may follow in staging local ceremonies. Copies have been provided to national service organizations and State Bicentennial commissions. National organizations such as the D.A.R., Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the Elks are actively promoting participation by their local chapters.

ONE MONTGOMERY WARD PLAZA/CHICAGO/ILLINOIS 60671/PHONE (312) 467-2835