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PMS HENRY KISSINGER
WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON DC

YOU ARE THE GREATEST AND WE SHOULD BE THANKFUL THAT YOUR PARENTS
IMMIGRATED YOU TO AMERICA LOVE AND ADMIRATION FROM YOUR FRIEND
ZSA ZSA GABOR

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26 MAR 1975 19

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Mr. Galbraith,

This is sent to you because perhaps you are in a position to get
the answers.

What is Henry Kissinger's connection with Watergate? It is known
he was behind closed doors with Mr. Nixon, before, during, after and
still. It seems he certainly must have known and knows now what is
going on as well as Mr. Nixon. He _is_ his Chief Advisor.

Is it possible that negotiations between Egypt and Israel now, that
with Mr. Nixon in trouble, this is his bid for the Presidency?

Also has Mr. K. ever had any affiliation with the Communist Party?
(There is still the old threat"to get us from within").

Is it possible the American people are asleep once more?!

Should Mr. Kissinger be investigated?

Anonymous

JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

7417352

August 30, 1974

Secretary Henry A. Kissinger
United States Department of State
Washington, D. C.

Dear Henry:

I am about to leave for some official lectures for the Government of Iran, a lecture or two in India and a few days in the Soviet Union under the auspices of the Institute for the Study of the United States. (My dates are: Iran, September 11-18; India, September 18-October 3 and Russia, October 4-9.) Back in the days when I was contending with the Vietnam policy there was the problem of embassies reacting to my arrival as to a leper. I don't need any particular help now but a word to the people in Iran and Moscow that I am not totally out of tune with the times might ease the tension. You will see here the truth of a lifetime of dissent. Many thanks.

JKG/adw

OFFICE OF
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON

September 27, 1974

Dear Ken:

By the time I got around to wishing you
bon voyage you were already back in the States.
I hope your minor setback will not impede a re-
sumption of your travel for too long. Please let
me know when you next go abroad. We, of course,
would like to be helpful in whatever way you would
permit.

In any event, I would enjoy hearing about
the Tehran visit and whatever else is on your
mind these days. Keep in touch; we should get
together when you are next in Washington.

The Honorable
John Kenneth Galbraith,
Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.

7417352

August 30, 1974

Dear Henry:

JKG/adw

April 11, 1975

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

Dear Henry:

I've been away these several months working on the BBC script and then went on to Moscow -- some lectures, a book publication.

I hope you don't find life discouraging. Your effort was great -- and I can't help thinking that a certain undercurrent of jealousy causes people to take satisfaction in any setback, however nasty the consequences. I've yet to hear of anyone who wants a Secretary like Rusk whose conception of the job required that he extensively sit on his ass, hold conversations where the conversation was an end in itself.

I had extensive discussions at various less than stratospheric levels in Moscow where I seem to be establishing a position roughly comparable to that of the late J. Reed. Your standing in that community has certainly not diminished -- and the regard for the President is also high. Less can be said for the Pentagon. I urged the importance of understanding our special problems, political and otherwise, in the Middle East and got a sympathetic response for my volunteer diplomacy. I'm very much persuaded on one point. No more than we, do they want the Middle East as an occasion for a quarrel with us. I think they honestly set far higher store by the U. S. than by the Arabs et al. There was no conversation, maybe no line (but I thought no interest) on Saigon and Cambodia.

Carry on. And my best to Nancy.

JKG/aab

JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS

June 15, 1976

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

Dear Henry:

I am sorry about the other day. I sat through the morning in the airplane, covering in my mind all of the points that I intended to raise with you. None, uniquely, was guidance on the conduct of foreign policy. One consequence is that I can summarize in a page or two what otherwise, though more pleasantly, would doubtless have taken a couple of hours.

Aubrey Singer of the BBC asked me to be in touch with you not as his agent but as a general source of information on the programs which I have been doing.

The BBC has made this kind of series into something approaching an art form. They are open to detailed exposition of the ideas; and they are willing to spend a great deal of time, energy, money and ingenuity in providing competent illustration, dramatization and setting. My own experience has been uniformly pleasant and instructive.

An important, indeed vital, feature of the enterprise is the interrelationship of the television program and the companion book. The first reaches a huge audience -- in the case of the Clark and Bronowski series, in excess of a hundred million. It also conveys to the audience the fact that there is a book based on the scripts to supplement the series. A considerable number of recent and major best sellers have been such volumes, including Clark, Bronowski and Alistair Cooke. I have every personal hope that this happy symbiosis of viewers and readers will continue in my case.

An important aspect of the enterprise, which should be firmly faced, is that it takes time. I would suppose that you and Nancy might face the prospect of living in England for several months while the series was in preparation and combining this with a fair amount of European travel. It would, however, give you an extraordinarily good breathing spell after leaving office and a chance to develop some topic other than your own memoirs. This would have the further advantage of not appearing to rush into that particular production -- of conserving it as an asset for later development. And

Kissinger

June 15, 1976

in dealing with such a topic as the history of diplomacy, which I
assume you have in mind, you would have ample opportunity for personal
observation and reflection on the recent or current scene.

While the BBC compensation is not especially exciting, the news
has got around to book publishers that the accompanying books have
major commercial prospects. In my own case this has been more than
ample; in yours the book revenues would be quite sufficient to reduce
the marginal utility of money to a negligible level if you recall that
notable concept.

This latter matter is one on which I could give you, if you were
so inclined, some informal but highly expert guidance. Do let me
suggest that you be cautious about putting yourself in the hands of an
agent; you would be safer in some respects in delegating the Cairo-
Tel Aviv-Damascus shuttle. An agent is excellent on the matter of
money of which the return will, as noted, be in any case more than
ample. He will be indifferent to or damaging on other matters of
greater importance including, in particular, the integrity of the
whole enterprise.

These are the main matters which I intended to cover. Obviously
there are a lot of subsidiary questions, including those growing out
of the financial arrangements, which I have just elided. I'm involved
in almost continuous travel until we meet in Newfane in July. Let us
have a further extended chat there.

My affectionate best to Nancy.

P.S. By the way, I need the name of someone on your staff with whom
the BBC can be in touch to arrange movement to and from Newfane,
Vermont and other small details.

J.K.G.

JKG/efd

P.S.2 I look forward to lunch on Saturday.

August 2, 1976

Dear Ken:

I want you to know how much I enjoyed
my visit to Newfane and how useful it was to
have this unique opportunity to discuss
matters of international concern with such
distinguished company. I was delighted to
contribute to the program and I hope that
the discussions -- which I found to be of the
highest quality -- were (and will be) as
stimulating for everyone else as they were
for me.

Please convey my thanks also to your
wife for the hospitality she so graciously
extended to all the participants.

Dr. John Kenneth Galbraith,
Galbraith Farm,
Newfane, Vermont.

Ken

Dear John:

I want you to know how much I enjoyed
my visit to Newfane and how useful it was to
have this unique opportunity to discuss
matters of international concern with such
distinguished company. I was delighted to
contribute to the program and I hope that
the discussions--which I found to be of the
highest quality--were (and will be) as
stimulating for everyone else as they were
for me.

August 16, 1976

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

Dear Henry:

I've been in England, as I gather you have been in
Deauville, so perhaps you will not have noticed the delay in
thanking you for making the trip up to Vermont. The discussion
Sunday morning I thought superb -- a marvelous combination of
good humor, much information and deep responsibility. This, I
might add, was very much the reaction of the others.

So, thanks again. Do tell Nancy what she missed and
persuade her to come with you the next time when it can be
purely for amusement and without the television cameras.

JKG/11s

P.S. A personal matter looking forward to the future: Do
you know Helen Sasson? She is a brilliant woman living in London
who arranges seminars from time to time in Europe, the most
notable of the past participants being Ralph Dahrendorf,
Edward Heath, Gianni Agnelli and, inevitably, Galbraith. They
are attended by exceptionally affluent participants, and the
resulting revenue, considering that it is legitimately earned,
is exceptionally high. When I mentioned our weekend, she responded
with a query as to whether you might like to participate on some
future and, as I can attest, wholly pleasant occasion.

J.K.G.

Yonkera, New York.
17 Clover Avenue,
Mr. Ron Galella,

Personal Assistant
Suzanne S. McFarlane

Sincerely,

the staff who annuck a peek before sending it in to him!
Thank you on his behalf -- and from the rest of

he will get a kick out of it.
Send the Secretary a copy of *Off-guard*, and I know that
results are top-drawer! It was very kind of you to
Your approach may be controversial! put the

Dear Mr. Galella:

July 9, 1976