CURRICULUM VITAE of NGUYEN THAI

FAMILY

Born in Hue, Central Vietnam, January 30, 1930.

Married 1954 Nguyen Tuyet Mai; children: 2 girls, 2 boys.

EDUCATION

French Baccalaureate, 1948.

Master of Arts, Cornell University, 1954.

Nieman Fellow in Journalism, Harvard University, 1962-63.

AFFILIATIONS WITH CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS

Founder and Board Member of Vietnamese American Association.

Founder and Past President of Popular Cultural Association.

Member of Lions International.

Senator of Junior Chamber of Commerce International.

PUBLICATIONS

Founder and first Publisher of *The Times of Vietnam*, 1956-57.

Author of book, "Is South Vietnam Viable?" 1962.

Articles on Vietnam in *New Republic*, *Asian Survey*, among others.

ACTIVITIES

Special Assistant at Vietnam President's Office and Information
Department, 1954-56.

Director General of Vietnam Press National news agency 1957-61.

Assistant Minister of Information, then Special Advisor to
Deputy Premier for Cultural and Social Affairs, 1964-65.

Founder and Vice-President of International Business Associates,
Ltd. (IBA) 1965; General Manager and President, 1966.
(IBA is a limited company which, among other things, is
the first agent in Vietnam of Honda Motor Company which
introduced 150,000 Hondas into South Vietnam in 1966-67.)

President of Vietnam Business Associates (VBA) 1966. (VBA
is an import-export company with a declared capital of
15,000,000 piasters.)

Founding member of Vietnam Health Project for Self Development, 1967.

In late May 1967 Nguyen Thai was injured by a Viet Cong terrorist attack in his hometown of Hue. As a result, he lost his left leg and had to spend a few months in the U.S.A. for medical treatment. During his stay in America he developed extensive contacts with American businessmen interested in helping the Vietnamese people through the Vietnam Health Project for Self Development. This project aims at developing in South Vietnam the fields of nutrition, health education through mass media, planned parenthood and rehabilitation of the handicapped through the free enterprise approach.

DEC 24 1968

The Rockefeller Foundation

111 WEST 50th STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. 10020

OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT

CABLE: ROCKFOUND, NEW YORK
TELEPHONE: COLUMBUS 5-8100

December 16, 1968

Dear Professor Kissinger:

Many thanks for your Christmas greeting. It was very pleasant to hear from you. I hope there will be an opportunity to see you before too long.

May I take this opportunity to wish you success in the important work you have undertaken, and to send warm greetings for Christmas and best wishes for the New Year.

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
419 Beacon Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02115

KWT:glw

DEC 4 1968

The New York Times
Times Square

December 2, 1968

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International
Affairs
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Henry:

Please accept my congratulations
and best wishes on your appointment in the
new Administration.

cb

DEC 9 1968

December 5, 1968

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Executive Director
Harvard University Inter-
national Seminar
471 Broadway
Cambridge
Massachusetts 02138
U. S. A.

Dear Sir:

I am very pleased to congratulate you on your ap-
pointment as assistant to the president-elect, Mr. R.
Nixon, for national security affairs.

It would be an act of indiscretion for me to try
to make any comment on the personnel administration of
the highest order in your country. Let me simply ex-
press my sincere delight to have as one of the top
policy-makers of America the eminent scholar, for whom
I entertain great respect and deep admiration based on
personal contact.

Subject of whatever kind may cease to be discuss-
ed openly and peacefully in our country, once infringe-
ment on the constitution is called into question by
social and intellectual leaders, most of whom seem to
be ready to detect menacing elements to our consti-
tution in everything that may more or less be related
to the U. S. Our national defense is the most vulner-
able one, because it is not only un-constitutional but
also is inevitably involved in the global strategy of
your country.

I sincerely hope that your advice should enable
the new Administration to prepare a workable program
for collective defense of the democratic countries in
Asia, in which Japan may be incorporated as active
and willing member without any internal or external
conflict.

Wishing you every success in your new duty and
with my best personal regards, I remain

DEC 23 1968 [LC]

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
RUSSIAN RESEARCH CENTER

1737 CAMBRIDGE, STREET
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02138

December 20, 1968

Dear Henry:

Many belated congratu-
lations. Really they should go to
Mr. Nixon for his good sense. Now
try to save the Republic.

ABU/mt

LLC

DEC 5 1968

3 December 1968

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Professor of Government
Harvard University
Center for International
Affairs
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Dear Henry:

I just read the press release announcing
your appointment as Main Advisor for National
Security Council Policy. Needless to say, I am
delighted. It will be good to get a fresh view-
point at the policy-making level. I know your
sound thinking will help a great deal to un-
scramble some of our knotty problems, worldwide.

Kathy sends her congratulations and best
wishes.

JOHN A. VOLPE
GOVERNOR

THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
STATE HOUSE, BOSTON

December 17, 1968

The Honorable Henry Kissinger
International Affairs Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Professor Kissinger:

It is a great pleasure for me to express my heartiest congratulations on your appointment by President-elect Nixon as National Security Advisor.

It is a privilege for me to have been selected to serve as a member of the Cabinet, and it will be a pleasure to work with you on matters of mutual concern throughout the coming years. I believe that, with creativity and perseverance, each of us can contribute significantly to the welfare of this Nation.

I join you in the confidence that the Nixon Administration will be one of great accomplishment, and wish you every measure of good fortune and fulfillment in this new post throughout the days ahead.

DEC 20 1968

DEC 11 1968

Forwarding address :

A-6072, Lans, Tyrol, Austria.

Dear Dr Kissinger,

these lines are written to congratulate you for your appointment !

I hope that you remember me from Confluence-Days. Ever since 1956-7 I
have been circling the Globe annually or have made the Big Loop(Europe-
California-South America-West-Africa-Europe). Thus I have been to Peru 5
times, to Vietnam 4 times, to Rhodesia twice, to India 6 times etc. Once(1963)
I spent a summer in the USSR and since I speak Russian I got a great kick
out of it...many depressing but also some very encouraging experiences.

If there is anything I can do for you, please contact me at the above
address. I am just leaving the USA for Santo Domingo, Bogota and Lima where
I will spend Christmas and New Year with the American Consul V.T. Blacque.
(I continue to Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Senegal, Spanish Sahara and
Western Europe.)

I have not published much in English for some time, but a lot in other
languages. I am still connected with the National Review and lectured last
year in the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara.
It was great fun, as you easily can imagine.

Since I am lecturing annually in the United States I do hope to see you
sometimes in October or November. Perhaps I can provide you with one or the
other information, useful or otherwise....

Yours ever sincerely

DER BOTSCHAFTER
DER BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND

DEC 13 1968

[c]

P.O. Box 48

Tehran, December 5th, 1968

Professor Henry Kissinger
Harvard University
Cambridge / Mass.
U.S.A.

Dear Professor Kissinger,

It was with great pleasure and satisfaction that I read about your appointment as a Special Advisor to the President in yesterday's Herald Tribune. I had always hoped that one day you may be coming to Washington on a more permanent basis and I derive great comfort from the knowledge that your experience and good judgement will be at the new President's direct disposal - especially in the difficult times ahead. I am sure, a great many people in Europe - especially in my country - feel the same way.

I had hoped to come to Cambridge to say good-bye to my many friends there, but unfortunately there was not enough time left, when I was last in Washington in October. Some day, I hope, I will be back in the United States again.

With a great many thanks for all the cooperation and kindness always shown to me during my stay in Washington and with all very best wishes, also for the coming holidays and especially for your new appointment, I remain,

very sincerely yours.

DEC 12 1968

[LC]

Federal Republic of Germany

The Permanent Observer
to the United Nations

Dr. Edgar von Schmidt-Pauli
Minister Plenipotentiary

405 Lexington Avenue
New York, N. Y. 10017
Murray Hill 7-6882

December 9, 1968

Professor Henry Kissinger
c/o Center of International Affairs
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Henry:

Let Monika and me be among the many friends who want
to express their congratulations and their delight
about the decision the President-elect has made on
your behalf. Please accept our warmest wishes for
success and satisfaction in your new important assign-
ment.

You will be burdened by mail by now and you shouldn't
bother about an answer. But, maybe, against all odds,
we still hope to remain in contact with you, looking
back to so many interesting and pleasant meetings
during our happy years in Boston. If you ever have
a moment please give us a call or drop a line. Our
home address is 5261 Independence Avenue, Riverdale,
N.Y. 10471, Tel. No. TU 4-0377.

The U.N. is quite fascinating and we are satisfied at
the time with both work and home. But I do miss oc-
casionally the direct involvement in American affairs.