United States Department of State

Washington, D.C. 20520

July 17, 1987

JUL 2 1 1987

Dr. Henry Kissinger
350 Park Avenue
26th Floor
New York, New York 10022

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Our office has been asked to forward to you the enclosed
letter from a Soviet refusenik, Yacov Al'pert.

JUL 2 1 1987

March 26, 1987

Dear Dr. Henry Kissinger,

With a great pleasure we are sending to you
the enclosed photos. One of them, please, give to
Cyrus Vance. The photos will remind you our very
short meeting in Moscow on the 3-d February and
about your promise to phone to me.

I waited for your call for two days and hoped
to have a chance to speak with you about some as-
pects of the stirring events of the contemporary
World. Certainly, your schedule was very hard and
you "were waiting impatiently" for the "new ideas"
which Mr. Gromyko will tell you. Nevertheless, I
thought that may be to hear some ideas of an old
ordinary man of good will, who spent in USSR 76
years, would be interesting for you too.

I would like to tell you in this short letter
only the following. The events, have been happening
in our country for the last months, are not trivial
and in a sense incomprehensible, discrepant phe-
nomena. Certainly, we are witnesses of many, pro-
gressive, for our country, events. However, talks,
hopes and wishes of many people prevail over the
reality very much. There are no reasons to applaud
yet, as it is doing, for example, in the West. We
do not know if this process becomes irreversible

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and if it is in progress indeed. So we have to be patient, to wait and to see what will happen in fact. We have to be very careful in doing conclusions.

Waiting for an acknowledgement of the receipt of this letter, I remain

Professor Yacov L. Al'pert
(Space Plasma Physics, Ionosphere, E.M.Wave Propagation)

2-nd Mosfilmovsky per. 2I,
apt.198. Moscow 119285, USSR

Telephone: 147-55-07

P.S. Let me tell you about my private situation. Two weeks ago I and my wife Svetlana applied for emigration to Israel for the 21st time since 1975. In 1980 a special commission, organized by the President of the Academy of Sciences of USSR, decided that "because of secrecy there are no reasons for the refusal". This decision was accepted by the President of the Academy. I am working there for about 54 years. Nevertheless, in 1981 it was told me officially that "secrecy" is the reason of our refusal. After that this reason was repeated again 8 times. Now we are waiting for an answer on our last appeal.