The Institute for Strategic Studies

President: The Rt. Hon. Lester Pearson
Chairman: Richard Goold-Adams

Hon. Treasurer: The Rt. Hon. Aubrey Jones
Director: The Hon. Alastair Buchan

18, Adam Street, London W.C.2.

Telephone: 01-930 3757. Cables: Strategy London W.C.2.

18th July, 1969

Mr Henry Kissinger,
The White House,
Washington D.C.20500, USA.

With all good wishes for your Asian and
Rumanian trip.

IMPERIAL DEFENCE COLLEGE
SEAFORD HOUSE, 37 BELGRAVE SQUARE

LONDON S.W.I
TELEPHONE BELGRAVIA 1091

COMMANDANT

PERSONAL

IDC DS 60/09

20 May 1970

I can imagine that you must have a great deal on your
plate at the moment and I hesitate to bother you. But I
understand that a request has already been made to your office
by the British Defence Staff or ISA that you should see the
Imperial Defence College party which will be visiting the United
States during the month of July, and specifically will be in
Washington on 12, 13 July and the morning of the 14th. There are
15 of them from five countries, Britain, Germany, Australia,
India and Pakistan, both military officers and diplomats, and
some of them are bound to go a long way in the service of their
country.

As you may imagine this is a difficult moment at which to
get a clear picture of the objectives of American foreign and
strategic policy across the width of the Atlantic, as well as
of the pressures and the counter pressures that are modifying
the Administration's stated goals. If you can spend a little
time with them you will not only be doing me a great personal
favour for which I should be most grateful, but you will be
talking to people, whose own views and impressions, as I say,
will become influential. I very much hope that they may have
the opportunity of seeing you.

I gather that the coordination of the party's arrangements
is in the hands of Wynne James in Warren Nutter's office.

I myself am going to spend the month of July in trying to
discover the problems of the Mediterranean at first hand. But
I expect to be in Washington in mid-October and shall look forward
to seeing you then.

Dr Henry Kissinger
Special Assistant to the President on
National Security Affairs
White House
Washington, DC,

COMMANDANT

11 November 1970

Thank you for your note of the 23rd. I too was very sorry to miss you, but in lives such as you and I lead, it is inevitable that some times schedules do not coincide.

I probably shall not be in Washington again for another year, but I shall hope to see you then.

I am glad that the skies are beginning to clear a little in Vietnam. There is, as you may imagine, considerable concern in Europe about whether Congress will back the President up in the statements he made about U.S. forces in Europe in Limerick. For my money it is as well that there is this concern, because it really is beginning to force European governments to consider ways in which they can act co-operatively in a way that nothing else would do.

With all good wishes.

Alastair Buchan

Dr Henry A Kissinger
The White House
Washington

from the
Montague Burton Professor
of International Relations

40 Wellington Square
Oxford
OX1 2JF
Oxford 53671

April 30, 1973

EXECUTIVE

ITSO

FC6-11-1 KISSINGER, HENRY A.

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

Dr. Henry Kissinger
The White House
Washington, D.C.
U.S.A.

It was nice seeing you on Friday and on the way back I gave some thought to the possibility of pulling together a small group to discuss alliance questions with you. One of the central points that needs discussion, I think, is whether its strategic concepts may not be becoming unnecessarily divisive, and also whether the whole cumbrous command structure of NATO could not be simplified without damaging the deterrent function of the alliance.

Candidly, I think it would be fruitless to try and think of assembling a group of Europeans in Washington to talk with you. But if you are going to be in Paris during May you might consider the possibility of setting aside three or four hours for a discussion with a few of us who are outside the bureaucracy. In addition to myself the names I would suggest are Francois M.Duchene, my successor at IISS which has been giving a lot a thought to this subject recently: Karl Kaiser from Germany: and among Frenchmen Marc Ullman of 1'Express. You probably know him and his value lies in that he is a sensible Gaullist who sees Pompidou and who is capable of distinguishing between the ideal and the possible. He would, I feel, also be prepared to respect the privacy of the occasion. A fifth name whom I would add if we could get him would be Ernst van der Beugel.

If you want to pursue this idea I think probably the telephone is the best instrument or else through your embassy using Bill Galloway, the head of the Political Section.