Dear Henry,

How kind of you and what an excitement in the family, getting
a letter with the White House Heading. I do appreciate your
taking the time, because I fully realize how busy you must be
now, how many things on your mind and while I imagine there are
moments when you enjoy all this, you must also be often tired.
So thank you very much. I shall be very grateful for any
suggestion you might make and I have myself been running around
making contacts. It seems to me that this is really more difficult
in Germany, than anywhere else, as there is a great deal of compart-
mentalization. Nor do I insist on staying in Germany, I just have
to until April next year, since by that time I should have German
papers. The only other possibility which comes to my mind would
be continuing to interpret free lance for some time with a view
to making the contacts for a possible later permanent post with
one of the international organisations. I have done all I can do
now, i.e. writing letters to the UN Specialized Agencies, but
wonder, since you have been so kind anyway, whether you could
perhaps suggest somebody in the EEC, OECE or Council of Europe
I might also write to. There seems to be so much going on there,
although I suppose they all have their permanent teams already.

I think things will work out somehow sooner or later, at least
I hope so. Snejdarek has also left, as you will probably know,
which is a sad indication of the state of affairs at our end, as
I do not think he would have done this, unless he really felt there
was no other choice.

Finally, Henry, I should like to wish you all the things you
would want yourself for the coming year and the coming decade
perhaps too. I think that I do not have to wish you success,
but perhaps enough time and relaxation to enjoy it. I will
be very glad to hear from you and will be glad if you say hello
to Elizabeth from me, if she still remembers earlier greetings,

All the best,

Mrs Zuzana Libich
München 60
Marsopstrasse 36

Dear Henry,

Forgive this rather peculiar P.S. to the letter I mailed yesterday, but I wonder whether this NATO Committee might not be a chance, especially as they seem to want to maintain contacts with the East. It is a subject matter I am very familiar with, precisely in the East-West context as I have done quite a lot of work for the Czech team of philosophers, sociologists, urbanists etc., who were dealing with the problem of the technical and technological revolution and actually interpreted for their last big seminar on "Civilisation at the Crossroads" which was an international one. The US was represented by Dr Maesthene from Harvard, who is in charge of a similar team and would I think, even say a few good words on my behalf, as I interpreted his conversations with the Russians. I do not, of course, know whether the Committee has any permanent staff, whether they are setting up a documentation and evaluation system of their own, etc., whether security might be a problem, though the Germans have checked me pretty thoroughly and I would have a German passport by the time something might be happening, but if it were possible it would be wonderful, I think, since I could do some useful work. The West German representative isder Parlament. Staatssekretär im Bundesausseministerium, Dahrendorf, but as I have come to know the situation here a letter from me to him just like that would probably be considered one of the lunatic letters that all of you get from time to time. Henry, if you could do something here, perhaps ask Moynihan whether there would be any chance at all, I would be so very grateful.

Zuzana Libich
Munchen 60
Marsopstrasse 36

# Kampf gegen die Umweltverschmutzung

## Gemeinsamer Aktionsplan auf erster Sitzung des neuen NATO-Ausschusses gefordert

### Brüssel (AP)

Bis zum Jahr 2000 wird sich nach Ansicht besorgter Wissenschaftler der Kohlendioxydgehalt in der Erdatmosphäre um 25 Prozent erhöhen und unter Umständen zu einer Aufheizung des Klimas um sieben Grad, zu einem Abschmelzen der polaren Eiskappen und dadurch zu einem Ansteigen des Meeresniveaus um rund drei Meter führen. Diese Zahlen wurden auf der ersten Sitzung des neugebildeten NATO-Ausschusses für Probleme der modernen Gesellschaft in Brüssel vom Berater des amerikanischen Präsidenten für Städtefragen, Daniel Moynihan, genannt. Moynihan wies jedoch darauf hin, daß sich die Wissenschaft noch nicht darin einig sei, ob der zunehmende Kohlendioxydgehalt in der Atmosphäre tatsächlich zu einer Erwärmung oder aber einer Abkühlung und damit zu einer neuen „Eiszeit“ führen werde.

Der amerikanische Fachmann schlug im Namen seiner Regierung die Ausarbeitung eines Aktionsplanes der Bündnisgemeinschaft zum Kampf gegen die wachsenden Gefahren von Luftverschmutzung, Verkehrsunfällen und von Katastrophen wie die Verseuchung des Meeres durch Öl vor. Der parlamentarische Staatssekretär im Bundesaußenministerium, Dahrendorf, verlieh der Hoffnung Ausdruck, daß die Arbeit des neugegründeten NATO-Ausschusses auch zu verbesserten Kontakten mit dem Osten beitrage. Er erklärte die Bereitschaft der Bundesrepublik,

sich als Versuchsland für die erforderlichen Studien zu dem empfohlenen Aktionsplan zur Verfügung zu stellen.

Das Unterfangen der NATO, ihren militärischen Verteidigungsaufgaben den Kampf gegen die wachsenden Umweltsprobleme hinzuzufügen, geht auf einen Vorschlag zurück, den Präsident Nixon bei seinem Europabesuch im Februar gemacht hatte. Es ist die Absicht der Bündnispartner, das Ziel einer Verbesserung der Umweltbedingungen in Zusammenarbeit mit der Sowjetunion und anderen kommunistischen Ländern zu erreichen.

Offenbar in Erwartung einer solchen Ost-West-Zusammenarbeit war erstmals der Korrespondent der sowjetischen Nachrichtenagentur TASS in das „Sicherheitsgebiet“ des NATO-Hauptquartiers in Brüssel eingelassen worden, damit er gemeinsam mit anderen Pressevertretern an der Eröffnungssitzung des NATO-Ausschusses teilnehmen konnte.

Großbritannien sicherte dem Ausschuß durch einen wissenschaftlichen Berater seiner Regierung seine Unterstützung zu. Die Türkei erklärte sich bereit, an den Untersuchungen über die Luftverschmutzung teilzunehmen, und Kanada will zur Bewältigung des Problems der Verschmutzung von Binnengewässern beitragen. Italien wies auf seine tragischen Erfahrungen mit Katastrophen vieler Art im eigenen Land hin und bot seine aktive Mitarbeit an den geplanten Gemeinschaftsprojekten an.

EMBASSY OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bonn, Germany

Bonn-Bad Godesberg

December 15, 1969

William A.K. Lake, Esquire
Special Assistant to
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
The White House
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Lake:

Thank you for your letter of November 25, 1969, inquiring about employment possibilities for a multi-lingual interpreter in Germany.

In Germany, official government labor offices recruit personnel for all official and private employers. We have contacted the labor offices in the Bonn-Bad Godesberg area, but have been unable to find an appropriate vacancy. In addition, we have called Internationes and learned that they neither have a vacancy nor expect any requirements for a full time interpreter.

The best way to learn about employment possibilities would be through the Central Labor Exchange in Frankfurt. This agency collects information about specialized labor needs in Germany and has an office dealing with the placement of foreign applicants in Germany.

I would suggest that Dr. Kissinger's friend complete the attached application forms listing his qualifications, experience, and wishes for employment and send three copies to:

Zentralstelle für Arbeitsvermittlung
6 Frankfurt/Main 1
Feuerbachstr. 42
Germany.

If he

NOV 26 1969

Dear Zuzana:

Since receiving your letter, we have been asking various
interpreting offices here in Washington for possible names
and institutions you could write in seeking a job. They
have generally come up with ideas which you have already
explored.

I have asked our Embassy in Bonn to give me its suggestions,
however, and hope that I will have some word for you soon.

One possibility mentioned here which you may not have
explored is the School of Interpreters in Rome. If I can be
helpful to you in writing them, please let me know.

I will let you know as soon as I get word from our Embassy
in Bonn.

Miss Zuzana Libich
München 60
Marsopstrasse 36
Germany

HAK:TL:ids:11/25/69

Munich, October 26, 1969

Dear Henry,

This letter will probably be a surprise to you after the last one. Before I tell you my news I would like to say that I have been following your doings and perhaps sometimes very indirectly your saying, by taking a greater interest in American policy than I would under the circumstances, where bread and butter, or rather earning it for the family seem my main concern. I am sure you are as busy as you never were, but I just hope that you enjoy it a little bit, I am sure it isn't easy anyway. But here I am saying or rather writing trite assessments of something pretty important, I guess it is just an attempt at making contact. The last letter I wrote you had been written from Geneva and at the time I had the intention of going home. The course of events, personal developments and I do not know what else, perhaps mostly a feeling of great fear, made me change my mind. We then discovered, or rather my mother suddenly upended a briefcase she had had with her all the time, from which it follows that my father and my mother, who were both born in the Sudetenland were "zuständig nach Zittau in Sachsen" until 1931, when my father asked to be released from German citizenship in view of developments in Germany, and that therefore we were entitled to apply for Aussiedlung und Einbürgerung" in the Federal Republic. In many ways this seems completely crazy to me, but facing Husak's reality, there seemed no other way than this one. I discussed it with Dr Kaplan in Geneva who also said that under the circumstances that was the most sensible thing to do and suggested I might write to you and let you know. We have spent 5 days in a camp for "Aussiedler" and this will some day be a funny story, but at the time it was not, we have filed

the application and it seems that things should work out fairly
unless something very untoward happens which I hope and
trust will not. This would mean that my mother would also
get a pension, since there is a reciprocity treaty in this
respect between Czechoslovakia and Germany and I could then
go on interpreting in Geneva, if I can find enough work
there and working for other UN and governmental and non-
governmental organisations, or try and get a permanent job
somewhere, which is what I would in some ways prefer in view
of being the family's only bread-beader etc. And here I
come with another request, please don't be angry Henry,
but I have been running from Pontius to Pilate for the last
3 weeks here in Munich, at the University, in the Süddeutsche
Zeitung, language schools and so on and the conclusion is
that I made a bad choice trying to settle in Munich, at
least for a beginning. Though Munich is the major cultural
center of Germany, the competition here is fierce, everybody
seems to know English, they do not need teachers and autumn
and winter are a very bad time for conferences. I am not
so worried about the next 4-5 months, although things are not
easy and there are moments day and night when I bitterly
regret my decision, not as to the principle of it, there I
am sure I am right, but as to feasibility. My training,
except for the interpreting ( I successfully passed a UN
test this summer) is not specialized enough and contacts
and knowing someone seems more important than some ability
and readiness to work hard. I do not want to work for Free
Europe for a number of reasons, what I had hoped for was
perhaps some job in an information or documentation service
where knowing several languages, both East and West, might
prove useful. This is not so in Munich, but might be in
Bonn, Köln or perhaps some other university city. So what
I wanted to ask you Henry, although I know you have very
little time, whether you could not suggest somebody's name
anywhere in the Federal Republic, where what I know and
be
can do might be useful - interpreting, translating,
teaching as a Lektor ( but this might prove difficult, except
at the Heidelberg Interpreters' School, where I again know
no one, in Prague I taught at our Intepreters' Institute,
which was a University 4-year course, for the last 7 years),

or documentation and translation in some research institute.
(Here again Professor Raupach of the Ost-Europa Institute
in Munich told me that all his people knew the languages they
needed and work in this type of Institute seems to be more
compartmentalized than was the case at the Academy in Prague,
Czech made the difference I suppose, so that knowing both
English and Russian is not much good, the more so since my
German, while it is fluent and correct, is not as good as the
English) I would gladly take some course (extension for instance)

if that were required, the main things is I would give much
to have some prospect of a job that would a) enable to earn
enough to feed and clothe the family and allow for small

luxuries (cinema, records, books) and b) allow me to do work that
I was able to and find at least a degree of integration with

some intellectual community. Geneva remains an open possibility,
I have now that I can assume I will have a passport and will be
able to travel written to the Chief Intepreters of a number of
Organisations and will also write to FAO again and will make up
my mind what to do when I get some answers. I would have to
stay in Munich for the next 6 months anyway, because of the
Einbürgerung Verfahren and Catherine's school ( there I have been
very lucky, a marvelous teacher and although she is still very
homesick, as we all are, she likes it very much), but some

temporary work now and this I will try and get in Munich myself

and some prospect of something more permanent and better, even
if in another town, would make for a much more cheerful family.
So Henry forgive this long and unpunctuated letter, but you
must be getting used to it from me by now, and if there is
anything you can do, I would be infinitely grateful. By

springtime I should have German nationality, which makes things
easier as far as some jobs are concerned, although I do not want
anything specifically political of the type as radio Liberty, etc.
as indicated, I also think that my security check is O.K., or
at least would assume so from the tenor of the conversation I
had with them in the camp. Please write obly a few words as to
whether you are well and relatively happy ( I think there is no
other state of happiness than that),

Best wishes,

Zuzana

Toulon, August 6, 1969

Dear Henry,

I dreamed of you last night and the dream was such a vivid one that although I had not intended writing to you, I think you are much too busy now for extraneous correspondence, I am doing it after all, as you see on a rather old, bust up type-writer, which makes me make more mistakes than usual. In my dream you were looking very well, very thin / I remember commenting on it/ and smiling quite happily. The dream is of course due to the photograph in the French Press and French TV that I saw as almost my first impression on leaving Prague. The frontiers at our end are still open as they have declared an amnesty for those who wish to come back, although they have already asked for asylum and cannot crack down on travelling until September 15th when the amnesty time-limit comes into effect. So I am here for a few days only to leave Catherine with my mother and aunt, who are staying here with old friends / Poles who emigrated to France before the war/ and am going on to Geneva a/ to take an informal UN interpreting test and b/ to do a conference for the World Health Organisation. I am still trying for the UN job, have got as far as having been asked to send a brief life story to the Chief of the Interpretation Section at UN Headquarters in New York, but am not very hopeful, things move very slowly in the international organisations and very quickly in Eastern Europe, or at least in Czechoslovakia. I was probably wrong last year, things are getting lousier and lousier / sorry, but I cannot think of any more elegant expression/, much worse than under Novotny verbally, for the time being, but I think words are always followed by action, otherwise they haven't effect and our Russian friends know this very well, this is where even the present Czech leadership was never very effective.

I gave up last Christmas is still here - me responsible for Catherine and two old ladies, whom I cannot in any case leave on the other end of the dividing line; I do for the first time understand why so many Jews did not leave in time to escape the camps, they must have felt just as I and many others do. Of course lack of personal courage is no excuse and that is what it boils down to by now, because any political illusions as to a people being able to resist and that might and power are not everything in human history are gone, for me and many others. Today's papers say that you told NATO what the US attitude to the Communist countries would be etc., I wish I had you here for two minutes for a private prophecy! Still, I wish I had you here for two minutes for a private prophecy! Still, weshall see what we shall see, although for the first time in my life I am really scared, many people in Prague believe that if the Russians do not get what they want, they will simply annex at the request of "a group of faithful comrades", and there has been some talk to this effect among the most extreme conservatives and these guys are such a bunch of political idiots that they never even think an idea unless they know somebody in big brother's country has already had it.

Henry this is only to say hello, that I hope you are well, although I am sure you are overburdened and overworked, but at least that the job you are doing gives you satisfaction. If an miracle happens or if I make any change in plans I shall write before I leave Geneva, but I would only do that if some hope of a job comes up, I have written to a number of people, including a recently discovered cousin in the US, to a number of people, including a recently discovered cousin in the US. If not, then I will write whenever that will be possible again, although I think they will shut the frontiers very soon, too many young people have left and are leaving still; so it may take quite a while. Think of me for one second next time you smile at Dobrynin, if you ever do, of this only a silly joke/ and above all stay well and forgive me, as usual, for this incoherent epistle.

Best wishes,
Suzana

My address in Geneva until August 30th, if you want to send anyone a message: Libichova Z, c/o ROTH, Grand Saconnex, 17 Chemin Pre Cabreux
Geneva.