OFFICIAL - 3/30 (Ids)
Type of Request & Date

LUCET, Amb. -- prior to 4/10
(Last name and pending date)
EXECUTIVE
C050
FEB-11-71
KISSINGER, HENRY A.
KISSINGER, HENRY A.

Name: Ambassador Lucet Charles

Request: Would like to pay final courtesy call on Mr. Kissinger before departing the United States the morning of Monday, April 10. [Has tentative Presidential appointment at 12:15 on Tuesday, April 4. Would be happy to have appointment before or after with Mr. Kissinger that day -- or any other day.]

RSVP: Ambassador's secretary -- AD 4-0990

CSH's Recommendation:

HAK's Answer: YES 4/5/72

Date and Time:

Party Contacted:

Additional Information:

Resolution:

RECEIVED
APR 1 2 1972
CENTRAL FILES

telephone

(Type of request)

5/21/70

(Date received)

dcm

(By)

LUCE

(Last name and pending date)

KISSINGER, HENRY A./L*

To:

From:

Name: Mrs. Henry (Clair Boothe) Luce, Sr.

Request: Will be here May 27 & 28 (attending a meeting at the WH at 2:30 on the 28th) and would like to see HAK for 5 mins during that time.

DRY's Recommendation:

HAK's Answer: yes 5/22

Date and Time: 5/22 5/28

Party Contacted: OK

Additional Information:

Resolution:

RECEIVED

JUN 3 1970

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COLLEGE OF
ARTS AND SCIENCES

CONFIDENTIAL

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
AT STONY BROOK
STONY BROOK, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK

Zip Code 11790

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

October 28, 1969

Mr. Henry Kissinger
The White House
Washington, D.C.

Dear Henry:

I am enclosing a copy of a letter to an ex-student of mine and asking him to find out exactly what the public attack on Artur has meant to his situation in Poland. When I was there I was quite aware of the embattled position Artur was in--not among the writers, of course,--with the Stalinistic crumbs who still are in control of the over-structures in Poland. Some day when we can get together casually, I will tell you a very very funny story of how we got rid of our old friend Stolarek (who, as we figured out, *is* in with the old hacks). The point was that had Stolarek turned up at a party Artur was giving for me, *nobody* else would have come.

My visit to Eastern Europe, as you may or may not know, was underwritten by Frank Platt and proved tremendously revealing. One incident will tell you more than pages of narrative. As I was leaving the Moscow Airport I saw a magpie take off from a landing field light. My unconscious reaction was, "Who gave him permission to do that?" Then I knew how I felt about it all.

When you are less involved than you obviously are now, I would like to get together and talk about all sorts of things--including new and rather miraculous variations on the theme of *Captain's Paradise*.

My warmest regards.

JL:ls
Enclosure

Dictated by Mr. Ludwig and signed in his absence.

CONFIDENTIAL

October 28, 1969

Mr. Donald F. Sheehan, Vice Consul
Press & Cultural Affairs
Consulate of the United States of America
WARSAW (Poznan)
c/o U.S. Consulate General, Frankfurt
APO New York, New York 09757

Dear Donald:

Delighted to hear from you and glad to know you are in the Foreign Service. As you may or may not know, I was in Poland in 1967 and spent almost a week with friends of mine who had been in the Harvard International Seminar during 1964 and 1965. Since that time my host, Artur Miedzyrcecki, who was the Vice President of the Polish Writers Union in 1967, was attacked by the party hacks in Trubuny Ludu. I am very anxious to know how he fared as a result of that attack. And I am trying to get him a job in this country so that his wife and daughter can get the hell out of whatever it is they are in presently. I am sending a copy of this letter to Henry Kissinger, who knew Artur in our Harvard International Seminar in 1965, so that Henry will know what we are trying to do. I have made tentative inquiries at the University of Iowa and in addition to trying to set something up here at Stony Brook, I will try to use the facilities of the Translation Center at the University of Texas.

I would appreciate very much hearing from you whatever you can find out about Miedzyrcecki's situation at the present moment because it will serve to guide me here.

As for the gentlemen you mentioned, Mr. Rotbaum and Mr. Fisiak, I will certainly do whatever I can for each one. I will tell Thomas Sebeok of Indiana University about Fisiak, who might be interested personally and professionally, and I am sure we can work things out for him in the Midwest as well as around here. Polish guys being party members doesn't tell you very much, as I discovered in Poland: it is a question of whose party member and what kind of party member, something you have undoubtedly discovered yourself, I am sure. You say that Rotbaum would be here in January. As you know, because of

the Christmas break and exams, etc., it is a lousy time for
us to do anything, but something could be arranged, say, in
the second or third week of January. I will let you and
Mrs. Lillian Rothbaum know as soon as something is settled.
I will also let you know about Fisiak.

I look forward to hearing from you and hope you can find
out exactly how things stand with Mr. Miedzyrcecki.

Best wishes.

JL:ls
cc: H. Kissinger

Dicated by Mr. Ingwird and signed in his presence.

cc: H. Kiehne
Jr.:Is

Jack Ingwird

Sincerely,

Best wishes.

out exactly how things stand with Mr. Miedzyuracki.

I will see to it you know about Mr. Kiehne.

Mrs. Kiehne Rothbaum know as soon as something is settled.
the second or third week of January. I will let you know
me to go anything, put something could be arranged, say, in
the Christmas break and exams, etc., it is a long time for

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MEMORANDUM

NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL

23625

ACTION

December 7, 1970

MEMORANDUM FOR MR. KISSINGER

FROM: Helmut Sonnenfeldt
SUBJECT: Letter from Jack Ludwig

Per your request, attached at Tab A is a revised reply to Jack Ludwig in response to his recent letter (Tab B) seeking your views as to whether he should do some writing about his two trips to Eastern Europe.

RECOMMENDATION

That you sign the letter to Ludwig at Tab A.

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

JACK + LUDWIG

35 THE SERPENTINE
ROSLYN ESTATES
NEW YORK 11576

November 14, 1970

Mr Henry A Kissinger
The White House
Washington, DC

Dear Henry:

While senior statesmen are departing this life, and
Fattie Kahn becomes an instant expert and noodnik about Japan,
serious matters abound. For one, Artus Miedzyrzecki is, as you
may know, in the country (with Engle in Iowa) and we're awaiting
news about his wife Julia and daughter Danielle. If they come he,
of course, stays. I will continue to keep you posted on this
thing as it develops.

You'll remember that I've never written anything
publicly about my two trips to Eastern Europe. I did not
want to be the kind of buddy who blows into the Soviet Union,
laments the difficulties people live with, then blows out, leaving
all his informants exposed. Yet, the story has to be told. It
has to be told for Solzhenitsyn, Siniavsky, Daniel and the young
people I met in Prague and Odessa and "Golden Sands" and Sofia--
not to mention Moscow, Leningrad and Warsaw and Bucharest.
My feeling is that time covers tracks, and the people who talked
to me in those cities would not be in danger now. That's
really a question I would value your tutored opinion about.
The other thing is I think printing an article about the
East European treatment of artists--and Jews--would do little
good unless it turned up in a publication read by the New Left.
The bullshit about bombing and LSD shouldn't make us think
these people aren't available to reportage. The Leary lunatics
don't have that much of a hold on their fans. In any event,
what I intend to do--if any of the left magazines will accept
it--is write a piece out of my extensive notes on the East
European nightmare. Any suggestions, old friend?

I know things are humming but I feel a little
news from your old buddies helps keep things in scale.

My very warmest wishes and hopes you thrive,

MEMORANDUM

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

ACTION

April 1, 1971

MEMORANDUM FOR HENRY A. KISSINGER

FROM: Peter W. Rodman
SUBJECT: Letter from Jack Ludwig

Jack Ludwig has written you (Tab B) to inform you that Artur Miedzyrzecki and his wife and daughter are now in Iowa City, and to ask you for help in procuring State Department or foundation funds to tide them over for six months.

A reply for your signature at Tab A expresses your regret that you have no solutions to offer.

RECOMMENDATION:

That you sign the reply to Jack Ludwig at Tab A.

Attachments

PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL

JACK LUDWIG
35 THE SERPENTINE
ROSLYN ESTATES NY 11576

March 15, 1971

Mr Henry A Kissinger
White House
Washington, DC

PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Henry,

From the enclosed card you'll understand how delighted I am that Artur's wife Julia and daughter Danielle were reunited with him here in Roslyn and are now all in Iowa City. Fortunately "thaws" have their even bigger side effects, and a few intellectuals, like Julia, were let out. I gather from her that things are not much different, and the Stalinists are only partially hidden in the wings. In any event, she's here.

We've decided to go very slowly, not make any grandstand declarations: when their visas run out they will want them renewed; when their passports run out they will try to have them extended. The practical problems are great: at a time when universities are cutting long-time associates it will be very difficult to get either or both M's jobs. The immediacy of their situation comes from Artur's Iowa stint officially ending this spring.

Are there State Department or other funds we could get to tide them over for, say, six months (starting July 1)? There's been some internal trouble at the University of Texas which may interfere with my plans to get them settled in at the translation center in Austin. Are there any foundations I might tap for the two of them: I'm sure, say, that $5,000 would carry them through the six months. They could stay in Iowa City and have at least a nominal connection with the International Writing Program. If Frank Platt were still in the Fairfield business we could have handled this in ten seconds--alas.

I hope you are well, and please resist temptation to become a kidnap victim unless prior arrangements are made for your captors to provide round-the-clock Marx Brothers films. A man's only vice demands indulgence.

My fondest personal regards,

JACK LUDWIG

April 12, 1973

Dear Henry:

I just got off the phone with Dick Poirier and we were saying nice things about you, reminding me I haven't written you in some time. First of all, you must know that I am a grandfather--Susie gave birth in November to a boy named Levi Misha Graham McLaughlin! She's still living in Toronto, having graduated, done her Mandarin Chinese in the East Asian Studies Program: her husband is a graduate of that program now switching into premedical studies.

About Artur: I've struggled and wheedled and finally got him another appointment here at Stony Brook for 1973-74. Terminal, I fear. I wish people knew how difficult it is these days to do something for Eastern Europeans. Every year is a Sisyphus push. Every year end sees the boulder at the bottom of the hill. I'm hoping to locate him and his family in some small college town, where their charm and warmth and brilliance will make a twentyfour hour contribution to the academic community.

I went back to the USSR in September, dug into the underground, appalled to find the "opposition" depressed and depleted. Had a great reunion with the chief of the Moscow NY Times bureau, Rick Smith, whom I had swerved out of the engineering life during my first teaching job at Williams. Most fascinating was Nadezhda Mandelstam, whom I found after some careful plodding, still full of fight at 73, though the commissars try to ignore her being back in Moscow. Salisbury will publish an op-ed piece I did about her. I also found the hunger strikers and carried out a detailed description of Soviet modes of interrogation. I still haven't published anything about my earlier trips to Eastern Europe since people still in the "zones" could be harmed. If Stalin died in 1953 someone forgot to tell the KGB.

Editors are after me to write something about you. I counter with Peacock's statement that nobody is under any obligation to write about a friend--or, some things are nobody's business.

Thrive, Henry!

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
419 Beacon Street
Boston, Massachusetts

Dear Henry:

Congratulations on your appointment by President Elect Nixon!!

It certainly is a thrill for me to see you carry your career to
such lofty heights. You certainly have worked hard to make the most of your
abilities and deserve all the benefits for your efforts.

In a less serious vein, since I knew you when you were some-
what less prominent, I must tell you that as a soldier you were a complete
and total disaster. You were by all odds, the soldier I would least likely
to be with in a fox-hole under combat conditions. A conservative estimate
of your life expectancy on the front lines would be about 5-seconds. Your
uniform at reveille was an original "Sad Sack". In addition, if we knew we
were dealing with such a potentially prominent figure, we would have been
more careful serving you your hard boiled eggs in the mornings that you failed
to make breakfast.

After we left Camp Claiborne in Louisiana, I was a First Scout
in our Rifle Company because of my diligent work. As a result thereof, I was
captured in Geilenkirchen and spent the rest of my days as a German P.O.W.
Most of our A.S.T.P. friends that I knew of overseas were really chopped up.
Our friend Drew Pearson and his article on A.S.T.P. was certainly responsible
for eliminating a lot of fine minds in this country. I might add that my be-
coming a prisoner was not all due to my fault but some of it due to our idiot
Colonel Roosma.

I became a C.P.A. in 1948 and joined the Internal Revenue
Service for about 8-years and am presently engaged in public accounting as
a Tax Advisor.

A few weeks ago I met a young tax attorney from Chicago,
named Bob Robin, who tells me he crosses your path every so often - I believe
he was responsible for some tax programs during President Elect Nixon's
campaign.