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CURRICULUM VITAE

CAUVIN Pierre Jean-Marie
né le 2.5.1942 à DRAGUIGNAN (Var)

de CAUVIN Antoine, Conservateur des Hypothèques à Nancy,
ancien directeur des Impôts

demeurant 6, rue Voltaire - 38 GRENOBLE

- Baccalauréat lère partie série A Juin 1958
  (Mention B)

- Baccalauréat 2ème partie série 4 Juin 1959
  (Mention B)

- De Septembre 1959 à Juin 1965, étudiant au Grand Séminaire des Pères Blancs

- Service Militaire accompli du 1.5.1963 au 1.9.1964
  à la B.A. 745 Aulnat. Inscrit durant l'année sco-
  laire 1963-1964 à la Faculté des Lettres de Cler-
  mont-Ferrand
  C.E.L.G. Lettres modernes obtenu en juin 1964 avec
  mention A.B.

- Inscrit à l'Université de Strasbourg en Septembre 1965 - Diplômes obtenus :

En Juin 1967, la licence de Sociologie avec les C.E.S.

• Sociologie générale - mention A.B.

• Géographie économique

• Psychologie sociale - mention B.

• Economie politique (en faculté de sciences éco.)

En Juin 1968, le Diplôme de l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques ;

A la première session 1968 également : le Diplôme d'Etudes Ju-
ridiques Générales, mention B (commencé en Septembre 1966) et
obtention de l'examen de fin de lère année de Doctorat de 3ème
Cycle en Sociologie.

Engagé à la Société Encyclopaedia Universalis le 26.
1.1969. Nommé chef de groupe à Mulhouse à Pâques 1969 et chef
de groupe régional à Grenoble le 1.9.1969.

KISSINGER, HENRY A./MS9-REC6/P*

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MY DEAR HENRY

FIRST MY SINCEREST CONGRATULATIONS ON THE MAGNIFICENT JOB
YOU HAVE DONE AND ARE DOING FOR OUR COUNTRY STOP I HAVE
OBEYED YOUR INSTRUCTIONS AND LEFT EVERYTHING IN YOUR ABLE

HANDS AND FOR MANY MONTHS HAVE NOT

CONTACTED YOU KNOWING OF THE

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HANDS AND FOR MANY MONTHS HAVE NOT
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YOU HAVE DONE AND ARE DOING FOR OUR COUNTRY STOP I HAVE
FIRST MY SINCEREST CONGRATULATIONS ON THE MAGNIFICENT JOB
MY DEAR HENRY

DOCTOR HENRY KISSINGER, THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D.C.
HONORABLE 1802 1951

ITING FEB 1952

NOW HOWEVER I WOULD LIKE TO AGAIN BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION
OUR DISCUSSION AT CLARE BOOTH LUCES HOME AND AT THE WHITE
HOUSE AS I FEEL THAT VERY SOON THE TIME MAY BE RIGHT TO
MOVE AHEAD AS WE DISCUSSED STOP
WHAT I NEED IS THE NECESSARY
VISA AND ENTRY AND INTRODUCTION TO RIGHT PERSON
OF PERSONS IN THE COUNTRY TO BE VISITED AND TO INITIATE
THE DISCUSSIONS STOP MY PROPOSALS REMAIN THE SAME AS WE
DISCUSSED IN PERSON AND AS I WROTE TO YOU NOTHING
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DISCUSSED IN PERSON AND AS I WROTE TO YOU NOTHING
THE DISCUSSIONS STOP MY PROPOSAL2 REMAIN THE SAME AS WE
OF PERSONS IN THE COUNTRY TO BE VISITED AND TO INITIATE
VISA AND ENTRY AND INTRODUCTION TO RIGHT PERSON
WHAT I NEED IS THE NECESSARY

HOUSE AS I FEEL THAT VERY SOON THE TIME MAY BE RIGHT TO
OUR DISCUSSION AT CLARE BOOTH LUCES HOME AND AT THE WHITE
NOW HOWEVER I WOULD LIKE TO AGAIN BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION

WENDELL PHILLIPS
WENDELL PHILLIPS HONOLULU

QUESTION STOP FOND ALOHAS FROM HAWAII
THE BENEFIT OF OUR GREAT COUNTRY AND THE COUNTRY IN
DO A UNIQUE JOB NO ONE ELSE CAN DO TO

DR. WOLFGANG POHLE

Persönlich haftender geschäftsführender Gesellschafter
der Friedrich Flick Kommanditgesellschaft
Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages

4 DÜSSELDORF-OBERKASSEL 30.1.69/gz
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Herrn
Prof. Dr. Henry Alfred Kissinger
White House
Washington D.C. 20007
USA

Sehr geehrter Herr Kissinger !

Im Anschluss an mehrere Gespräche, die wir in Deutschland vor Jahren geführt haben, habe ich zu meiner Freude gehört, dass Sie in der neuen Administration Nixon eine wichtige Rolle übernommen haben. Ich möchte Ihnen dazu meine Glückwünsche aussprechen und hoffen, dass ich Ihnen bei meinem nächsten Aufenthalt in Amerika in Washington etwa im April dieses Jahres meine Aufwartung machen kann, um verschiedene Fragen mit Ihnen zu besprechen.

Ich bin nicht nur nach wie vor in der deutschen Industrie tätig (persönlich haftender geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Friedrich Flick KG), sondern auch inzwischen einer der wirtschafts-, finanz- und währungspolitischen Sprecher meiner Fraktion (CDU/CSU), der auf engste mit dem Bundesfinanz- minister Strauss zusammenarbeitet.

Mit verbindlichen Grüssen
Ihr

Büro: 53 BONN • Langenbachstraße 19 • Telefon 220519

Mit verbindlichen Gründen
ich

Ministerium der Justiz und Rechtsanwalt

Fraktion (CDU\CDU), der auf engste mit dem Bundesministerium
wirtschafts-, Justiz- und Justizpolitik-Sprecher meiner
der Friedrich Fick-KG), außerdem auch insbesondere einer der
tätig (berechnlich mittlerer gesellschaftlicher Gesellschafter
ich bis nicht nur nach wie vor in der deutschen Industrie

Fragen mit Ihnen zu beabrechen.
dieses Jahres meine Auswartung machen kann, um verschiedene
nächsten Auffenthalt in Amerika in Washington etwa im April
winche ausprechen und holen, dass ich Ihnen bei meinem
Kolle übernehmen haben. Ich möchte Ihnen thus meine Glück-
dass Sie in der neuen Administration Nixon eine wichtige
vor Jahren geführt haben, habe ich zu meiner Freude gehört.
Im Anschluss an mehrere Gespräche, die wir in Deutschland

Sehr geehrter Herr Klaasinger !

U2A
Washington D.C. 20007
White House
Prof. Dr. Henry Alfred Klaasinger
Herrn

50.1.1975

DEC 6 1968

THE ADLAI STEVENSON INSTITUTE
OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

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CABLE ADDRESS ASIIA

December 4, 1968

Professor Henry Kissinger
Center for International
Studies
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Henry,

This is a short note to let you know how delighted I am that you will be the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs.

I have just returned from an extensive trip to the Middle East where I spent three and a half hours with Nasser, an hour and a half with the Shah of Iran, and about an hour with the President of Turkey and various other lesser lights. While this may be, in a sense, overlapping Governor Scranton's report, due to my long acquaintanceship with these men, I thought you might like to see the reports on my conversations with them. As quickly as they are typed up, I will ask my office to send them along to you.

A lengthy trip through Sub-Saharan Africa this summer leads me to believe that there are important ways in which we can both economize and considerably increase the prospects for insuring a "safe passage" in the next few years. It is obvious that much of the job that has been done in the past by foreign aid will have to be undertaken by private business in the years ahead. If this is to be successfully undertaken, there are various changes which are relatively minor but which will have a considerable and early impact on developments within Africa.

As I believe you know, many of the Fellows of the Adlai Stevenson Institute are working on aspects of these developments and I would, of course, be delighted to pass along to you any relevant parts of their work.

DEC 18 1968

1. DR. HUGO PORTISCH
1190 WIEN, KRAPFENWALDGASSE 61

December 13, 1968.

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger
Executive Director
Harvard University
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Mass., 02138
U.S.A.

Dear Mr. Kissinger :

Please accept my warmest congratulations for the important
and honorable appointment which president-elect Richard Nixon
called you to. This appointment, more than others, gives us
in Europe great hope for new American leadership in the
Western world.

I still remember our discussion about precisely this subject
with you here in Vienna and I am certain that many of your
views will reflect in the future policy of the United States.

At that time I was editor in chief of the "Kurier" in Vienna,
today I am the chief commentator of Austria's TV. As such
I covered the election campaign of Mr. Nixon extensively and
Austria's TV was the only TV-station in Europe which stayed
on the air for fourteen hours to report on Mr. Nixon's victory.
We considered that very important since Austria's TV and radio
cover also most of the territory of Czechoslovakia, Hungary
and Yugoslavia. It is here that millions of people in Eastern
Europe get their first hand knowledge of what is going on in
the West especially in America.

For this reason mainly I have already asked for an interview
(on camera) with the president-elect and I think Mr. Alfons
Dalma has also written to you whether an interview with you
would be possible.

We had an tremendous success with a thirty minutes interview
with Mr. Harriman, also a great success with a twentyfive
minutes interview with Mr. Eugene Rostow - both of them we
put on the air at prime time in original English as well as
an hour later in German translation. It was carried on two
TV-channels and on all three radio stations. 15 European and
overseas countries transmitted these interviews at the same
time on their national networks including France, Germany,
Italy, Britain, Spain, the Law-Countries, Scandinavia and even
Yugoslavia.

Of course we would do even better for you and/or president
Nixon.

If there is any chance that your time would permit such an
interview please let me know either via the Austrian Infor-
mation Service in New York (Mr. Zundritsch) or the Austrian
embassy in Washington or the American embassy or USIS in
Vienna.

I will be in Washington at any rate for the inauguration of
the new president and although this will be a very busy time
for you I will try to contact you.

Hoping to see you soon again, I remain with my very best
wishes

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL

Carol--

This forlorn French demoiselle pines for
HAK and the happiness which they shared together--
a happiness predetermined by a Providence which
she begs HAK to stop resisting--and return
to the welcoming arms of one who loved and loves
him. She will be discreet, should he deign to
return--no one will know. Pleading lachrymosely
for one last rendez-vous, she assures him that
she has not changed--her hair is still short, but
her physique has diminished by ten kilos (to say
nothing of the disasterous state her psyche
appears to be in): alone, betrayed, humiliated
and jealous--but yet she dares hope in the name
of the past which WAS ONCE THEIRS. A reassuring
note is proffered--she's not one to kiss and tell,
but comments ominously as to the waxing weary of
this reticence and begs him not to refuse her
"THE PEACE" which he could well afford her haunted
soul by giving in to fate and ... seeing her.
(with most distinguished sentiments, she is his,
etc.)

when lovely lady stops to folly
(even imaginary)

Jenn

KISSINGER, HENRY

January 30, 1969

Mr. J. Otto Pretsfelder
3725 Henry Hudson Parkway
Riverdale, New York 10462

Dear Otto:

Many thanks for your kind letter. It is
always good to hear from old friends and I
particularly enjoyed your letter. Your kind words
and thoughts were greatly appreciated.

I remember our old friendship with much
pleasure.

Again, thank you for your kindness and
please accept my best wishes and kind regards.

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RIVERDALE, NEW YORK 10463

December 26, 1968

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

Dear Henry:

First of all, let me take this opportunity to join the thousands who no doubt have already congratulated you upon your appointment to this most important position.

Needless to say, it gives me a great thrill to be able to write this letter to an old friend. I am delighted for you as well as for your proud parents.

I cannot help but reminisce occasionally about the days of our childhood, particularly the many Saturday mornings we spent at the Lions home. Yours, above all, has been a most successful road, and I am delighted for you.

Let me wish you the very best for the tremendous task you have undertaken. I am sure our country and our people will be the benefactors of these services.

With best wishes and kindest regards.

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# The Price of "Victory" in Vietnam

EDITOR'S NOTE: Harold Willens, author of the following guest editorial, is a Los Angeles businessman and a national co-chairman of Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace.

EVERY reasonable American wants peace in Vietnam. We have made an apparently sincere effort to take steps toward a cease-fire. If the Paris peace efforts should bog down or be terminated for any reason, an angry and belligerent reaction in this country is likely, and to a degree understandable.

Some say our military policy has been "too timid: too little, too late." They say, "Let's go in and win it and get it over with." Some add: "No matter what it takes. We have the power. Let's use it now." This has a reasonable sound about it, but let us examine and project what this really means.

Our power could, at great cost to us in men and material, probably reduce Hanoi, Haiphong, and the other populated centers of North Vietnam to rubble. This destruction would not be confined to North Vietnam; South Vietnam would suffer almost as much. For example, we have "captured" the historic city of Hue. What have we got? Rubble and refugees. With the Vietcong infiltrating Saigon, the same scene could happen there. It already has in part.

A war of "total victory" or extermination of the enemy would inevitably terminate a large proportion of the civilian population of Saigon and scores of smaller communities and villages in the South. This prediction is based on

what has already happened. It may be alarming but it is not fanciful. The "pacified" villages we have now are those destroyed (because they harbored Vietcong), with their survivors confined behind barbed-wire enclosures at gunpoint. In short, these people we have "saved" are in concentration camps.

Now picture this scene of victory: North and South Vietnam a shambles of destruction caused by the United States in the name of liberation. The "friendly" people confined in protective custody, the unfriendly still in hostile guerrilla bands. The will of the people of Vietnam to preserve their country against the white invader, as they see us, will not have been destroyed. Only, for a while, their ability to fight on a massive scale for their country will have been suppressed.

In this projection of "let's go in and win it" we are now the conquerors. What is the role of the conqueror? First, it is to occupy every accessible part of the conquered country and to suppress with whatever force is required any sign of insurrection. But let us say the United States is more enlightened than the Nazi conquerors. So we undertake, secondly, to rebuild physically and economically the devastated country we have conquered. And, thirdly, to supervise the political government of the conquered on democratic lines.

Let us examine the problems and costs involved in each of these:

1. Occupation. A force of perhaps a million American military and civilian

forces fully armed and equipped to suppress any uprising would cost possibly $40 billion a year. Loss of American lives through guerrilla action: possibly 10,000 men a year. Wounded: perhaps 50,000 a year.

2. Physical and economic rebuilding. It is estimated that to rebuild rundown ghettos in America's large cities (estimated ghetto population, 5,000,000) would cost $30 billion a year. To rebuild a whole country from a state of devastation (previous population, 16,000,000) should cost perhaps another $50 billion.

3. Political reformation. This task among a people who have seen their country destroyed by its "saviors" is in calculably difficult. The sad chances are that the result would be another puppet government dependent on U.S. support—financial and military.

Then where would we be? We would have an American police state in a land 10,000 miles from home at a cost literally unbearable in terms of personnel and money. Worse still, America would be cast in this unsavory role for the first time in history—a role we never wanted, cannot afford, with no tangible reward for us. "Victory" would be reduced to tragic absurdity.

This is not the least of our future troubles. There is the further possibility that by then the Chinese and the Russians would have intervened, triggering a nuclear holocaust. Even assuming that they both abstain, we would have a frontier face to face with 700 million Chinese, as close to our forces as you are to the neighbor across the street.

We might have to maintain a combat-ready force of millions to discourage such a horde of enemies sworn to the destruction of America. For how long? Twenty years? Fifty years? Such a deterrent force in one unimportant spot on the planet is obviously beyond the capabilities of our country, which has only 6 per cent of the world's population.

Finally, this quest for "complete victory" would have lost for us a fundamental saving entity for America: a buffer state against China. The Vietnamese have been resisting—indeed fighting—Chinese encroachment for nine hundred years. If we would permit it, they would still fulfill this role. We could retire to our own proper spheres of influence, begin repairing the massive troubles at home, set a good example to the world and let the Vietnamese continue their historic role against Chinese aggression.

This is still possible, but we are on the threshold of making it impossible. We are on the threshold of turning "victory" into irreparable national disaster for America.
—HAROLD WILLENS.

SR/July 20, 1968

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DEC 9 1968

CAIXA POSTAL. 8171
SÃO PAULO-BRASIL

ANDERSON, CLAYTON & CO., S.A.
INDÚSTRIA E COMÉRCIO

December 3, 1968

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger
471, Broadway
Harvard University
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. 02138

Dear Henry:

I was delighted to see this morning your picture with President-elect Nixon in Brazil's most important newspaper - and to read about your designation as the President's Special Assistant for Matters of National Security. This perhaps is not your exact new title as I have just translated it from the Portuguese version but I am fully aware of the exceptional role you will be playing in the new United States Administration.

I was sincerely pleased with this news as I often recall the days I spent at Harvard under your inspired guidance. Our last meeting occurred in Rio, several years ago, during your visit here, at a dinner given at the Embassy Residence, by Prof. Lincoln Gordon, then the United States Ambassador to Brazil.

With best wishes to you and the family for Christmas and the New Year, I am,

TPN:yrp

P.S. - I am attaching the newspaper clipping.

EMBASSY
OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Djakarta, Indonesia

December 5, 1968

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
The White House
Washington, D.C.

Dear Henry,

I want you to know how delighted I am with your
new White House assignment. For a less brilliant
mind and more tender ego, I would heap praises and
offer effusive congratulations; with you, I will
only wish you all the good luck possible to
accompany the expertise and good sense you will
bring to this impossible job.

We are happy digging into what unquestionably is
today the most fascinating country in Asia. Hope
you can get out this way or at least give the
problems some thought.

All the best,

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

EMBASSY OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Manila, Philippines

August 27, 1973

Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
The White House
Washington, D.C.

Dear Henry:

I wish to add my congratulations on your new
appointment and to express my sincere delight. I
feel certain you can do much to bring State back to
life and that it will respond with loyalty and
efficiency.

I wish you all the best, and let me know if I
can be otherwise helpful.

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