CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | 1316 36th STREET, N.W. | WASHINGTON 7, D.C.

TELEPHONE: 965-1777

ARLEIGH BURKE
DIRECTOR

January 10, 1963

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

Dear Doctor Kissinger:

Enclosed is the final Conference prospectus. Please carefully read it and the attached memorandum.

Since some of the panel discussions may run somewhat longer than others, you will note that we have not specifically designated the hours of each one. For the most part, however, morning panels will run no longer than one hour into the afternoon, and afternoon panels will run no longer than one hour into the following morning session.

As we originally outlined, we hope that prior to the Conference everyone will read the advance papers which have been sent out since no papers will be delivered orally at the Conference.

All panels will sit together during the Conference. When your panel is not actually on the stage, we have a system whereby you may give your reactions and questions regarding the discussions in progress. This means that, in effect, you are participating actively throughout the three days. Furthermore, the luncheon sessions are arranged to enable you to mix with the select guests from the Congress, the Executive Branch, and the research and university communities.

Papers which are submitted to us so late that they are unavailable in advance will be given to you upon your arrival at the International Inn the night before the Conference.

AB: jm

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NATIONAL SECURITY: THE DEMANDS OF STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS

Conference at the Center for Strategic Studies,

Georgetown University, January 23-25, 1963

The conference on NATIONAL SECURITY: THE DEMANDS OF STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS has as its purpose the bringing together of noted American strategists, political scientists, and economists to discuss issues of overriding importance not only to these groups but to the nation as a whole.

At a time when the Free World is confronted with the most significant challenge in its history there appears to be an even greater need for discussions of the interrelationship of strategy, political science, and economics. The Center for Strategic Studies, therefore, decided, in the summer of 1962, that a conference between specialists in the fields of strategy, international politics, and economics would yield fruitful results by fully developing the possibilities and alternatives.

The conference will be held in Washington, D. C., on January 23-25, 1963. Participating directly will be some twenty-seven specialists in five separate panels. In addition, selected guests from key congressional committees, government agencies and academic research centers will be in attendance. In order to provide an opportunity for informal discussions among the participants and guests, luncheon will be served on each of the three days.

## PROCEDURE FOR THE CONFERENCE

Each participant will write a paper on his topic. While there is no limit on the length of the paper, it is suggested that it be kept to twenty to forty pages. In addition, each participant is asked to prepare a two or three page summary of his paper. Both the paper and the summary will be used before and during the conference.

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No papers will be delivered orally at the conference. It is, therefore, requested that all papers be returned to this office by November 1. The papers will then be reproduced, and each participant will receive a complete set in sufficient time to have read them prior to the conference dates.

Participants are asked to forward to the Center by January 15 an outline of questions and issues raised by the reading of the papers. These unresolved issues will be put on the agenda of the conference as starting points for discussion, and the first portion of each panel discussion will be devoted to further discussion of these issues. The second portion of each panel will be a working session in which the panel prepares its estimate of conclusions, options, and considerations which would be specifically related to the work of the subsequent panels.

The organization and procedure of the conference will be as follows:

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1963

8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. -- Arleigh Burke: Opening of conference and introductory remarks.

8:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. -- **PANEL 1 DISCUSSION: Sino-Soviet Strategy**

11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. -- Lunch.

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. -- Preparation of Panel 1 report; Break.

2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. -- Panel 1 Report

2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. -- **PANEL 2 DISCUSSION: Political Requirements of National Strategies**

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. -- Preparation of Panel 2 Report

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1963

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. -- Panel 2 Report.

9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. -- **PANEL 3 DISCUSSION: Military and Para-military Strategies**

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. -- Lunch.

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. -- Preparation of Panel 3 Report; Break.

2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. -- Panel 3 Report.

2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. -- **PANEL 4 DISCUSSION: Economic Strategies**

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## THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1963 (Continued)

5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. -- Panel 4 secretariat meeting with author of Paper 1, Panel 5.

7:30 p.m. -- Dinner for participants and guests. Guest speakers.

## FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1963

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. -- Panel 4 secretariat report.

9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. -- PANEL 5 DISCUSSION: Meeting Strategy Requirements in the Free Economy

12:30 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. -- Lunch.

2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. -- Plenary session, and general questions from the floor.

5:00 p.m. -- Arleigh Burke: Closing remarks.

## PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDINGS

Papers and transcribed discussion will be published in late spring and early summer, 1963.

## ACCOMMODATIONS

Accommodations will be arranged for all out-of-town guests. Details will be forwarded later.

## TRAVEL

All participants are requested to indicate the mode of transportation to and from Washington to be used.

CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES

TELEPHONE: 965-1777

ARLEIGH BURKE
DIRECTOR

7 February 1963

Dear Henry:

Due to the great demand from public policy makers, commentators, and researchers, the Center now plans immediate offset reproduction of about 1000 copies of the Conference study papers and the transcribed panel discussions, in two-volume sets.

Could you help us by sending in any revisions in your study paper by February 18th. Should you wish to extend the remarks in your paper as a result of the Conference discussions, we suggest the use of content footnotes.

In order for this pre-publication reproduction to be of value, it must be done very quickly. If you cannot give us the revisions by February 18th, we would very much like to have permission to use your original paper for this advance reproduction.

We are now in conversation with book publishers and will soon write you about the book publication plans which will include a digest of panel discussions and study papers.

I would like to thank you for the very great part you played in the success of this first conference of the Center for Strategic Studies both by your paper-- and even more importantly--your thoughtful contributions to the discussions.

Sincerely yours,

ARLEIGH BURKE

February 12, 1963

Admiral Arleigh Burke
Suite 413
1025 Connecticut Avenue
Washington 6, D. C.

Dear Admiral Burke:

Since I was obliged to leave immediately
after the Conference I did not have a chance
to tell you then how much I enjoyed being
there. It was a beautifully run conference,
and the idea of basing the discussion on cer-
tain quotations struck me as very original
and successful.

I will not be making any revisions in
my study paper, but am happy to give my per-
mission to use the original paper. I have
enclosed a reprint of the Foreign Affairs ar-
ticle as well as tearsheets of the Reporter
piece, since my paper was actually a combin-
ation of the two.

It was as always a particular joy to see
you. I hope we will have another opportunity
to meet before too long.

With kind regards.

CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES

TELEPHONE: 965-1777

ARLEIGH BURKE
DIRECTOR

March 1, 1963

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

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Due to many requests for immediate publication of a hardback book containing the full-length study papers, we have changed our original plan for a limited offset reproduction and have decided to publish in May the hardback book with all study papers. Later, we intend to make available another book in digest form; we will let you know about this as our plans become more definite.

I want to inform all participants immediately so that if any of you wish to make further revisions you will do so immediately, thus enabling us to put the manuscript into galleys in mid-March. We will send you a copy of galley proofs, but want to limit changes at that stage.

You had mentioned to us the possibility of combining your *Foreign Affairs* article with your *Reporter* magazine article. If your time permits, I really think that the best solution will be for you or your assistant to make the combination, in addition to any up-dating in view of current developments. If you find you cannot do this, we would be glad to try, and to send you a copy of the draft. However, I do believe the first selection might be best.

DMA/sz

CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES

TELEPHONE: 965-1777

ARLEIGH BURKE
DIRECTOR

April 22, 1963

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

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

As you have probably already determined, we are moving ahead rapidly with the publishing process of the Conference book. If there are no major hitches, we hope to have the volume ready by the end of May. It will be marketed by Frederick A. Praeger, and the title will be *National Security: Political, Military and Economic Strategies in the Decade Ahead*, and is now being listed in the Praeger catalogue.

Plans for reprints of individual papers are now being made. Our printer has advised us that great savings can be made if orders for reprints are made before the printing run is made. The Center regrets very much its inability to assume the additional costs of reprints for each participant, but the demands on our budget for this project, which is being accomplished with great speed, are now exceptionally great. Consequently, we are enclosing an order form on which you can order fifty reprints at a cost of 40 cents each. Should you desire more than fifty, special arrangements will have to be made.

Please notify us by return mail if you intend to order reprints.

RVA: jm

Enclosure

CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES

TELEPHONE: 965-1777

ARLEIGH BURKE
DIRECTOR

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

Dear Henry:

On behalf of the Center for Strategic Studies, I should like to invite you to participate in a conference on NATO to be held on May 7 and 8, 1964 at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The conference on NATO will be the second major conference sponsored by the Center for Strategic Studies, and will be a major event in the 175th Anniversary Celebration of the founding of Georgetown University.

As you know, the first conference of our Center was entitled *National Security: The Demands of Strategy and Economics in the Decade Ahead* and was held in January of this year. The proceedings of that conference in which you participated, are contained in *National Security: Political, Military, and Economic Strategies in the Decade Ahead*, a copy of which has already reached you.

The conference on NATO will be designed to bring together, from Europe and the United States, experts to write advance papers and to discuss and debate the political, military, and economic issues pertaining to the NATO Alliance. It is believed that a positive contribution can be made to the NATO Alliance through such a discussion by participants whose viewpoints and solutions to issues will frequently differ. Increased efforts will also be made to involve distinguished guests in the discussion and to insure broad and balanced representation of the public and private sector in that guest list. Attendance at the conference will serve in an additional way, in many respects even more important than through a formal publication, of communicating with experts, with public policy officials, with individual leaders in the Washington area, throughout the nation, and in Europe.

The design of the forthcoming NATO conference will be centered on an examination of three major issues and their interrelationship: (1) Political Sovereignty, Leadership, and Cooperation; (2) Nuclear Policy; and (3) Inter-Alliance Economic Policy. Each of our invited participants is asked to write an advance study paper (approximately 20 pages in length) focusing particularly on one of these three issues, but freely exploring the interrelationship of his issue with the other two. At the conference, these advance study papers will not be formally read to the audience; the initial purpose is to form the basis of panel discussion. Professional staff members of the Center for Strategic Studies will choose relevant quotations from the advance papers with the aim of presenting different points of view and will ask panel participants and guests to comment upon them. Well in advance of the conference, panel participants and guests will receive copies of all advance study papers and a list of the quotations that are to form the basis of panel discussions. At the conference, participants will be divided into three panels, each panel of experts focusing discussion once again on one of the three basic issues of the conference. However, as with the advance study papers, all participants will be given the greatest freedom to join in the discussion of all issues. After the conference, participants will be given an opportunity to revise their advance study papers. And these revised papers, along with the conference proceedings, will then be published in a single volume.

Enclosed you will find a complete list of the participants from Europe and the United States who are being invited to the NATO conference. This list has been compiled with a view towards confronting as many varied and divergent standpoints as possible. The travel expenses for each participant, as well as hotel accommodations for the nights of May 6 through 8, will be paid by the Center for Strategic Studies. In addition, an honorarium of $500 will be provided for the writing of advance study papers and subsequent revision.

Within the framework of the conference as I have just described it to you, I sincerely hope that you will be able to accept our invitation to participate. I am inviting you to focus on the issue of Nuclear Policy, to write an advance study paper developing your views on this issue and its interrelationship with the other issues of our conference, and to be prepared to discuss it on the relevant panel of our conference. It would be most helpful, moreover, if in your letter of acceptance, you could outline briefly the manner in which you propose to develop the subject matter of your paper. Finally, given the tasks of reproducing and

distributing advance study papers among all our participants as
well as of properly organizing the panel discussions, I hope you
will understand the necessity of receiving your advance study paper
by February 15, 1964. A paper received after this deadline
would greatly handicap us. I realize, of course, that changing
developments may well necessitate revisions of your paper before
the conference. If this should prove to be the case, we shall
certainly give you every opportunity to revise or extend your
original remarks. In addition, you will continue to have the
opportunity of revising your paper after the conference and
before final publication.

I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.
It will be a distinct honor for us if you are able to join our
group of distinguished participants. Rest assured, moreover,
that upon receipt of your letter of acceptance, I shall keep you
in touch with developments in the planning of what promises to
be a most challenging and rewarding conference. We do indeed
hope you will honor us by your acceptance of this invitation.

Henry A. Kieferger

Sincerely yours,

With warm regards.

to talk.

It has been much too long since we have had a chance

your conference.

Copyright question as last time. It will be happy to attend
longer than February 12th, and if we could handle the
magazine as I did last time. If you will give me somewhat
to retain the option of publishing the paper in some
The chief difficulty is the deadline. Also, I would like
In principle, I am happy to accept and to do a paper.

I consider it the best run conference I have ever attended.
conference with the greatest warmth. As I told you then,
Studies on NATO from May 13th to 15th. I remember the last
barterbates in the Conference of the Center for Strategic
Thank you for your nice letter inviting me to

My dear Arleigh:

Washington, D.C.
1210 36th Street, N.W.
Center for Strategic Studies
Director
Admiral Arleigh Burke

November 6, 1963

CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES

TELEPHONE: 965-1777

ARLEIGH BURKE
DIRECTOR

November 22, 1963

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

This is just a note to let you know that, as Executive Secretary of the Center for Strategic Studies, I will have the responsibility for coordination of matters for our NATO Conference to be held on May 7 and 8 in which you have graciously consented to participate.

As soon as we have received the scope of the respective papers from all participants, I will send you a resume of the proposed papers and other pertinent information about conference plans.

Admiral Burke is delighted that you can attend.

DMA/dy

CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES

TELEPHONE: 965-1777

ARLEIGH BURKE
DIRECTOR

11 December 1963

Dear Henry:

Thanks for your note of 4 December.

On the morning of Wednesday, 18 December I am meeting in New York in Rockefeller Center with the members of the Critical Issues Council sponsored by the Republican Citizens Committee. This is supposed to last through lunch, but I will leave in time to catch the Eastern shuttle leaving New York at 1 P.M., which should arrive in Boston about 2 P.M. It would be nice if somebody could meet me. I plan to come directly to your office at the Center.

Since I have a meeting in New York early Thursday morning, I will have to return to New York immediately after the seminar.

I am looking forward with great anticipation to that meeting.

CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES

TELEPHONE: 965-1777

ARLEIGH BURKE
DIRECTOR

15 April 1964

Dear Henry:

As plans progress for the Center's conference on NATO—PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS we are looking forward to your visit, and I particularly hope that the events will be as interesting and stimulating for you as my two trips to your part of the country were for me.

By now, seven of the study papers have been sent to you, and another seven are in process of duplication and will be distributed to all the participants as they are ready.

Since the advance study papers are being edited prior to the conference we will be able to have the book on the conference in print very shortly after the conference. We are particularly anxious to accomplish this prior to other publication of any of the papers.

In view of the fact that the conference is less than a month away, we would certainly appreciate receiving your paper in the next week. Should it be reprinted in any journal before publication of the book, we would request that a note appear indicating that the paper was prepared for the conference on NATO—PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS, and that it will be part of a book to be published in early summer.

I hope we will have a chance for at least a brief chat while you are here, for I am sure that you would enlighten me about what is going on in the world.

some even you would not know - 'why'

With warmest personal regards,

Henry A. Klaasinger

Sincerely yours,

Best regards.

that will be discussed?
send me copies of the other papers
have numbers 3, 4 and 5. Could you
Conference on May 7th and 8th. I
of the advance study papers for the
My secretary has misplaced some

Dear Mr. Aabhouse:

Washington J. D. C.
1316 36th Street, N.W.
Georgetown University
Center for Strategic Studies
Mr. David M. Aabhouse

April 22, 1964

CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES

TELEPHONE: 965-1777

ARLEIGH BURKE
DIRECTOR

24 April 1964

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

This is a follow-up to our telephone conversation.

To stimulate discussion and debate on several issues relevant to NATO, we would like to have your comments on:

1) The role of NATO in foreign policy questions dealing with areas beyond the boundaries of the North Atlantic nations;

2) The implications of the Cyprus crisis for NATO;

3) Possible effects of U.S. arms control policies on NATO.

For the theme of your paper, we invite your attention particularly to the issue of U.S. arms control policy and its influence on the alliance. This subject has been inadequately covered in the study papers, and in view of the U.S. unilateral approach in negotiating the test ban agreement, and indications of forthcoming disarmament proposals, we believe it would be unfortunate to have this subject neglected in the debate and in the book published after the conference.

We would appreciate having your comments on the three issues mentioned above as soon as possible so that we will have quotes from you for the viewgraph screens used at the conference. We would hope to have your paper by June 1.

We will indeed look forward to seeing you again, and having the benefit of your contributions to the conference discussions.

Dr. Henry Kissinger
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge 38, Mass.

By Henry A. Kissinger

Quotes for Abshire

5/5/64

A

The real problem is not that the Europeans fail to understand
our quest for multiple options. Their opposition derives from their
rejection of it for their particular situation. When the issue is
Asia or Latin America, Europeans favor an even more flexible response
than we do. With respect to the defense of Europe, the European
attitude is more rigid. As long as the United States retains ultimate
control over nuclear weapons, the European incentive is bound to be
exactly the opposite of ours. Rather than permit a "pause" for
"appreciating the wider risks involved," Europeans prefer to make
our response as automatic as possible.

our reasons as automatic as possible.
"appreciating the wider risks involved," Europeans prefer to make
exactly the opposite of ours. Rather than permit a "benevolence"
control over nuclear weapons, the European incentive is bound to be
attitude is more right. As long as the United States retains ultimate
than we do. With respect to the defense of Europe, the European
Vats or Latin America, Europeans favor an even more flexible rationale
rejection of it for their particular situation. When the issue is
our quest for multiple options. Their opposition derives from their
The real problem is not that the Europeans fail to understand

A

By Henry V. Kissinger

2/2/04

*Quotes for Appear*

Quotes for Abshire

5/5/64

B

The problem can then be summed up as follows: Central United
States control of nuclear strategy is politically and psychologically
incompatible with a strategy of multiple choices. European refusal
to assign a meaningful military mission to conventional forces in
Europe is incompatible with the indefinite retention of large United
States forces on the Continent. If the United States prizes a
conventional response sufficiently, it will have to concede Europe
autonomy in nuclear control. If the Europeans want to insist on
an automatic nuclear response, a reconsideration of our conventional
deployment on the Continent will become inevitable. Refusal to face
these facts will guarantee a perpetuation of present disputes and
increasing disarray within NATO.

Increasing disarray within NATO.

These facts will guarantee a perpetuation of present drapes and
deployment on the Continent will become inevitable. Refusal to face
an automatic nuclear response, a reconsideration of our conventional
autonomy in nuclear control. If the Europeans want to instate on
conventional response sufficiently, it will have to concede Europe
States forces on the Continent. If the United States brings a
Europe is incompatible with the indefinite retention of large United
to assign a meaningful military mission to conventional forces in
incompatible with a strategy of multiple choices. European refusal
States control of nuclear strategy is politically and economically
The problem can then be summed up as follows: Central United

B

21/2/64

Quotes for Apartheid

Quotes for Abshire

5/5/64

C

Europe <ins>has</ins> gained in strength over the past decade and a half. It can and should play an increasingly responsible role. But for the foreseeable future we are likely to be far the stronger partner.

It is crucial to be clear about this because it imposes unusual requirements for tact on us. Actions accepted from an ally whose role is less crucial can produce a crisis of confidence if carried out by a partner occupying a dominant position. Many of our allies have been guilty of unilateral actions far more flagrant than those of the United States. But when the United States acts unilaterally, disarray in the Alliance is almost inevitable. Drastic changes in United States strategic doctrine or deployment without adequate consultation--such as the removal of IRBMs from Italy and Turkey or the withdrawal of troops from Germany--create either a sense of impotence or pressures for more autonomy. Bilateral U.S. dealings with the Soviets from which our Allies are excluded or about which they are informed only at the last moment are bound to magnify Third Force tendencies.

combatives.

informed only at the last moment are permitted to signify Third Force
Soviets from which our Villes are excluded or about which they are
orbreasts for more autonomy. Bilateral U.S. dealings with the
withdrawal of Troops from Germany--create either a sense of impotence
autocracy--such as the removal of IEME from Italy and Turkey or the
United States strategic doctrine or deployment without adequate con-
tinuity in the Alliance is almost inevitable. drastic changes in
of the United States. But when the United States acts unilaterally,
have been utility of unilateral actions far more flagrant than those
out by a belligerentcombating a dominant position. Many of our Villes
role if less crucial can produce a crisis of confidence it carried
requirements for tact on us. Actions accepted from an ally whose
It is crucial to be clear about this because it imposes unusual
the foreseeable future we are likely to be by far the stronger belligerent.
It can and should play an increasingly responsible role. But for
Europe has gained in strength over the past decade and a belt.

C

2/2/64

Quotes for Vspiri

Quotes for Abshire

5/5/64

D

The insistence on a unitary strategic system for the Alliance has reversed the proper priorities. Joint targeting is a symbol, not a cause of the difficulties. The real challenge to the process of consultation is less in the field of strategy than in diplomacy. The vitality of the Alliance depends less on common war plans for the contingency of general war than common policies in the face of a whole spectrum of eventualities. These include: a. ordinary, that is day-to-day, diplomacy; b. crisis diplomacy such as the Berlin crisis; c. diplomacy designed to define the *casus belli*; d. the actual conduct of a war; e. intra-war deterrence, that is the decision about the level and the extent of conflict; and f. termination of a war.

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CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES

TELEPHONE: 965-1777

ARLEIGH BURKE
DIRECTOR

8 June 1964

MEMORANDUM

To : NATO Conference Participants

From : David M. Abshire

Subject: Transcript of Conference Proceedings

We had hoped to have the transcript of the conference proceedings in your hands by this time but have found that it will be more expeditious (both for the editors and the participants) to do some preliminary editing prior to distributing the transcript to the participants for substantive editing.

When you receive the transcript, please feel free to make any additions or deletions in your part of the dialogue.

We have not changed the plans in regard to the revised and updated study papers, and still plan to send the papers to the publisher on June 16.

AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

DURING SATURDAY, JUNE 27

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**PLACE:** Main campus, Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. All sessions will be held in the air-conditioned auditorium of the new Reiss Science Center.

**LODGING:** For those who desire on-campus lodging, the charge is $3.00 per day for non-air-conditioned room, or $4.00 per day for an air-conditioned room. The available rooms will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.

**MEALS:** Meals may be purchased at the University dining hall, New South Dormitory Building.

**FEE:** $20.00. A non-refundable registration fee of $5.00 is applicable toward total fee.

APPLICATION. Please fill in and return to Dean, The Summer School, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20007, with $5.00 registration fee.

Name:

Address:

Institution or agency

Campus Housing: Yes ☐ No ☑

POST

July 3, 1964

Mr. David Abshire
Center for Strategic Studies
Georgetown University
1316 36th Street, N.W.
Washington 7, D. C.

Dear Mr. Abshire:

A combination of personal and professional problems have prevented me from doing the article that I had promised. I am far behind in all my other writing commitments and I do not see any possible way to do a quick piece for you now.

I think the best solution would be for me to return a portion of the honorarium that you gave me for participating in the conference. I would suggest that I return $300 to you. Does this seem fair?

I might be able to do the article by the end of the summer but I am sure this is too late for you.

Kind regards.

CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES

TELEPHONE: 965-1777

ARLEIGH BURKE
DIRECTOR

30 July 1964

MEMORANDUM TO NATO CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

From : David M. Abshire, Executive Secretary

Re : Transcript of Conference Dialogue

Enclosed herewith is the partially edited text of
the dialogue at the NATO Conference in which you participated
7-8 May 1964.

Please indicate on the attached sheet whether you wish
to modify your portion of the dialogue in any way. Should
you wish to make changes, we would ask that you note such
changes on the enclosed copy and return it to The Center
for Strategic Studies by 15 August 1964.

The dialogue will be published soon after we receive
the approved or corrected copies from each of the participants.

The editors are planning to publish the revised and
updated study papers shortly after publication of the dialogue.
For this reason, it is still possible for those participants
who have not yet sent revisions or modifications of their
study papers to do so if they wish. After the papers are
in type, it will not be possible to incorporate any further
revisions.

We believe that the contributions of the participants
in the NATO conference have made possible a useful exchange
of ideas, and that early publication of the dialogue will
add "timeliness" to these contributions.

ARLEIGH BURKE
DIRECTOR

CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES

TELEPHONE: 965-1777

21 August 1964

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

We are in the final stages of preparation of the manuscript of the NATO conference. Should there be changes desired by you in the transcript of the dialogue, we want to be sure that they are incorporated in the final copy. If you could let us know of your approval, or of any desired changes, within the next few days we would appreciate it.

With all good wishes,

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

Henry V. Klaasen

My warmest regards to the Admiral.

any rate, I have no changes.
I cannot believe I was so coherent. At
the manuscript of the NATO conference.
You did a superb job in editing

out of town a great deal.
answering your letter but I have been
Sorry to have been so late in

Dear Mr. Ashbire:

Washington, D. C.
1310 36th Street, N.W.
Georgetown University
Center for Strategic Studies
Executive Secretary
Mr. David Ashbire

September 2, 1964

THE CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY • 810 18th STREET, N.W. • WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006

Telephone (202) 783-7950

OFFICERS

* Arleigh Burke
  Director of the Center

* David M. Abshire
  Executive Secretary

SENIOR STAFF

Alvin J. Cottrell

Norman A. Bailey

Sevinc Carlson

Gordon D. Gayle

Robert A. Kilmarx

James H. McBride

Michael A. Samuels

M. Jon Vondracek
Communications

WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE

Richard J. Whalen

RESEARCH COUNCIL

* Philip E. Mosely, Chairman
  Columbia University

* Kenneth E. BeLieu
  Washington, D.C.

* Karl H. Cerny
  Georgetown University

* Jules Davids
  Georgetown University

* Joseph S. Farland
  Washington, D.C.

* Walter V. Laqueur
  Institute of Contemporary
  History (London)

* Kurt L. London
  George Washington University

* Laurence W. Martin
  University of London

* Thomas C. Schelling
  Harvard University

* Joseph L. Tryon
  Georgetown University

* Charles W. Wagley
  Columbia University

* Richard L. Walker
  University of South Carolina

* Henry C. Wallich
  Yale University

* Robert E. Ward
  University of Michigan

* John C. Warner
  Carnegie-Mellon University

ADVISORY BOARD

* Karl R. Bendetsen
  Chairman

Robert B. Anderson

Isaac L. Auerbach

Frank R. Barnett

Kenneth E. BeLieu

Donald C. Burnham

Peter H. Dominick

* Joseph S. Farland
  Gerald R. Ford

* James B. Horigan, S.J.
  Frank N. Ikard

* Arthur Krock

* Morris I. Leibman

Neil H. McElroy

Claiborne Pell

Arthur W. Radford

Frederick Seitz

Robert B. Semple

* C. E. Straight
  Matt S. Szymczak

* Arthur G. Trudeau
  John C. Warner
  Clement J. Zablocki

November 29, 1968

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

Dear Professor Kissinger:

Admiral Burke has asked me to write to you about our proposed trip to Western Europe by a panel of American experts to review political, military, and economic trends in the wake of the Czech crisis and the current monetary crisis. One of the distinguishing marks of this study, in contrast to some others, is that it will include bankers and corporate executives as well as professors.

The observations and conclusions of the panelists, and the background paper, will be published in our Special Report Series in the same format as our most recent report on U.S.-Japanese Political Relations, which is being sent under separate cover. With a release date early in the Spring, the report not only could be helpful to the new Administration but will also produce a better public understanding of the critical issues facing us in West Europe.

Enclosed is our tentative itinerary and a list of prospective panelists, as well as a descriptive statement of each of the papers to be prepared. An advance staff group has made this trip and established the proper liaison for it to be effective. To assure its maximum effectiveness, we are hopeful that you will be able to participate in this study trip. The trip will be made first class throughout, and the professors involved will receive honoraria of $1,000.

*Member, Executive Board

THOSE BEING INVITED TO BE PANELISTS
FOR THE MISSION TO WESTERN EUROPE

CONFIDENTIAL: For internal discussion purposes only. Some
of the proposed members have not yet been approached.

A new chairman will be selected, in view of the fact
that Robert Murphy now will be unable to so serve.

Isaac L. Auerbach, President
Auerbach Corporation

Mr. Frank R. Barnett, President
National Strategy Information Center, Inc.

Hon. Karl R. Bendetsen, Chairman
U.S. Plywood - Champion Papers Inc.

Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
Columbia University

Admiral Arleigh Burke, Director
Center for Strategic Studies

Mr. N. Campbell, President
Esso Europe

Dr. James Dougherty, Vice President
St. Joseph's College

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Harvard University

Dr. Lawrence Krause
The Brookings Institution

Hon. Livingston Merchant

Hon. Frank Nolting, Vice President
Morgan Guaranty Trust Company

Mr. Adolph Schmidt, Vice President and Governor
T. Mellon and Sons

Dr. Henry Wallich
Yale University

October 24, 1968

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE (Third Draft) -- WESTERN EUROPE PANEL TRIP -- February 8-22, 1969

All previous drafts of this schedule are now obsolete.

Friday (Eve)

February 7
(This day pertains to the Washington, D.C. contingent only.)
Depart Washington, D.C. area for JFKennedy. Our group will be billeted in the International Hotel (at Kennedy). This will then obviate the dangers involved with a very early morning Dulles flight and usual stack-up over Kennedy. The group would be there and ready to go. In the event any of our New York participants also desire to stay at Kennedy during this evening, necessary arrangements will be made. (A small amount of British currency should be obtained.)

Saturday (AM)

February 8
0845 Depart International Hotel (by limo or bus)
0900 Arrive TWA International Terminal (w/baggage)
0905 Each participant will check in at the TWA "Special Counter" set aside for our group. All airline tickets will have been prepared in advance. "Distinctive" baggage tags will be issued to each passenger for each piece of baggage. FROM THIS POINT ON THE PASSENGER WILL NOT BE REQUIRED (hopefully) TO HANDLE HIS BAGGAGE AT THE AIRPORTS ET AL.
After baggage check-in each passenger will be required to present his valid passport and immunization (shot) record. As of this writing only the Small Pox vaccination is required of U.S. citizens. However, it is recommended that Typhoid and/or Tetanus shots be taken. Necessary U.S. Customs forms will be issued.
Group will then be taken to a special lounging area
0940 Board Aircraft. The entire First-class section is to be reserved for our group.
1000 Depart JFK aboard TWA Flight 702

(EVE)

2240 Arrive London (Heathrow) International Airport. Passport and Customs Control will be accomplished at a "special" section.
2250 Depart London Airport in Limozines for London Hilton. The baggage will follow in another vehicle and will be delivered to your hotel room within moments after your arrival.
2310 Arrive London Hilton. Each participant will have been pre-registered and will have filled out necessary "landing cards." Immediately upon arrival at the Hotel you will be escorted directly to your room by a member of the Hotel staff, either a receptionist or assistant manager. Coffee, tea, buckets of ice etc. will be immediately available and/or already in your own room.
SPECIAL NOTE: A staff member of the Center for Strategic Studies will be on the scene at least 24-hours in advance of the group's arrival. He will meet the group at the airport in London and our other intermediate stopovers.

Sunday (AM)
LONDON

February 9

FREE

(PM)

1300 Luncheon

SUNDAY (PM)
February 9
LONDON

(c17)

1500 GENERAL ORIENTATION --

Group will meet for a detailed briefing covering the major points to be covered by the Panel. (At London Hilton Hotel)

1800 RECEPTION --

All persons with whom members of our study group will be meeting (in the London area) are to be invited to attend the reception. Other guests will include key members of the Embassy of the United States, British government, industry, finance, media, U. S. banking interests, U. S. Chamber of Commerce et al who might not be met by members of our group at any other time during our short stay, but who would contribute substantially just by their presence at this reception. (In Crystal Palace Suite--London Hilton)

(SPECIAL NOTE -- At each subsequent stopover by our group, a similar reception will be held, and will usually constitute the initial contact with our host government and local U.S. personnel.)

2000 DINNER --

Prominent Britishers to host small dinner parties for two or three panelists -- their counterparts in Great Britain. (Transportation will be furnished.)

MONDAY (AM)
February 10
LONDON

0730/
0830 BREAKFAST --

Individual room service (in your hotel room) and/or service in a Hotel dining room to be selected.

0900 DEPART (from London Hilton) --

Limo zines and/or a luxury motor coach will depart promptly at 0900 and proceed to the Royal United Services Institute.

0915 ARRIVE (Royal United Services Institute)

0930/
1200 SEMINAR --

This seminar is to be jointly chaired by Professor Laurence Martin of the University of London, and Mr. Christopher Tugenhat of The Financial Times (London).

(NOTE: Biographical sketches on each seminarist and discussant for all of our stopovers will be furnished to each of you at the earliest possible date.)

Possible Seminarists and discussants at this Seminar:

Enoch Powell, George Brown, Michael Shanks (author of "The Stagnant Society"), Andrew Schoenfeld (Royal Institute of International Affairs), Professor Tony Merrett (economics

MONDAY (AM)
February 10
LONDON
(Continued)

0930/
1200

consultant who heads Merrett-Cyryas), Brigadier Thompson
(defense editor for "The Daily Telegraph") and others.

(NOTE: Coffee and/or tea breaks will be scheduled during every seminar throughout our entire visit to Europe as time and circumstance will allow.)

(PM)

1210 DEPART (Royal United Services Institute) (via Limo or motor coach)
1225 ARRIVE (London Hilton Hotel)

1300 LUNCHEON -- (at London Hilton)

Suggested speakers: Sir Donald Stokes (Chairman of British Leland), or Sir Val Duncan (Head of R. T. Z.)

1500 Small groups of our panelists to meet with select key officials from Parliament and/or other parts of British & U. S. government.

(EVE)

1700 RETURN TO LONDON-HILTON

1730/
2000

(At Hotel) FREE TIME
and/or

PANEL COMMITTEE MEETINGS ---

Each panel member will be assigned to a "Committee" --
Military, Political, Economic --- and can meet in one of
the three "superior suites" assigned to us in the London
Hilton.

2000 OPEN
or

DINNERS -- (Transportation to be furnished) --

Depart Hotel in groups composed of two, three, four or five panelists plus one Center staff member. Prominent British and/or Americans to host these dinners in their private homes.

Both Britons and "local" Americans should also be in attendance together with members of our group. This will afford the necessary "mix" and should produce really meaningful confrontations concerning major points of interest (for the final panel report) that might not ordinarily be discussed with the entire group en masse.

Suggested British hosts: (as well as those who might also be guests)

Lord Melchett, Lord Cowdry, Lord Pool, Sir Eric Ellerman, Monroe Spaght, Harold MacMillan, Major General Clutterbuck and others.

2200 RETURN to Hotel (London Hilton)

SPECIAL NOTE: These "counterpart dinners" will take place at each subsequent stopover.

TUESDAY (AM)
London

February 11

0730/
0830

BREAKFAST --

Individual room service (in your Hotel room) and/or
service in a Hotel dining room to be selected.

0900

SEMINAR (our entire group) (at the Hotel) --

Issue: "Future Soviet Behavior/Western Europe"

Seminarists may include:

Kurt London -- Chairman (U.S.A.)

Geoffrey E. Wheeler, Member (U.K.)

and/or

David Morrison, Member (U.K.)

Leonard Shapiro, Member (U. K.)

Raymond Aron, Member (France)

Professor Boris Meissner, Member (Germany)

Professor Claus Mehnert, Member (Germany)

(PM)

1300

Luncheon (Open)

(OPEN SCHEDULE FOR REMAINDER OF AFTERNOON)

(EVE)

(OPEN)

WEDNESDAY
February 12

SPECIAL NOTE:

(AM)

At this time our group -- panelists and staff members --
will form three separate groups, as follows:

GROUP I --

Jet to PARIS

GROUP II --

Jet to BERLIN

GROUP III --

Jet to ROME

ADDITIONAL NOTE: Group assignments will be made at our initial
General Orientation at the London Hilton on
Sunday, February 10.

Distinctive (colored) baggage tags will be
issued to each participant for each piece of
luggage, RED for Group I, WHITE for Group II
and BLUE for Group. This will facilitate
baggage handling and will assure that nothing
goes astray.

Group I -- PARIS

WEDNESDAY (AM) 0815 Depart London Hilton Hotel (by Limozines)
February 12
LONDON/PARIS

0845 Arrive London Airport (Ticket, baggage, customs, etc., check-in -- special handling)

0930 Depart London Airport --

BEA (British European Airways) Flight 336

PARIS 1025 Arrive Paris (Orly Airport) (Ticket, baggage, customs, etc., check-in -- special handling. In this regard, it is hoped that the "special handling" will prevail at each of our stopovers. Accordingly, this entry will not be repeated.)

1045 Depart Orly Airport (by Limozines)

1115 Arrive Meurice Hotel (Instant check-in et al)

NOTE: As mentioned earlier in this document, all arrivals and departures will be very tightly scheduled, and because of the really short time span, your baggage handling and all other administrative and logistical details will be handled by an assigned staff member.

PARIS (PM) 1300 LUNCHEON (Open)

1430 Briefings by United States Embassy --

Detailed plans for these briefings will be issued to each participant as soon as they become available.

These briefings, as well as all other U. S. Embassies and/or Consulates and Missions will constitute an important segment of each stopover. They will normally be held at the Embassy, Consulate and/or Mission involved.

1730 Return to Hotel Meurice

1830 Reception at the Hotel Meurice

2030 OPEN

THURSDAY (AM) 0730/ Breakfast --
February 13
PARIS 0830 Room service and/or Hotel dining room

Group II -- BERLIN

WEDNESDAY (AM) 0945 Depart London Hilton Hotel
February 12
LONDON/BERLIN (by Limosine)

1020 Arrive London Airport
(Ticket, baggage, customs, etc., check-in -- special handling)

1115 Depart London Airport

British European Airways -- BEA Flight 336

BERLIN (PM) 1345 Arrive Berlin Airport
(Ticket, baggage, customs, etc., check-in -- special handling.
In this regard, it is hoped that the "special handling" will
prevail at each of our stopovers. Accordingly, this entry
will not be repeated.)

1415 *Depart Berlin Airport for Berlin-Hilton Hotel.

*SPECIAL NOTE* -- The entire Berlin visit will be arranged by Conrad Ahlers. This will include a meeting with the Mayor of the City of Berlin and other members of his government as well as members of the Berlin press (mass media) corps.

ADDITIONALLY: -- A reception to be hosted by the U. S. Berlin Commander will be programmed through the appropriate U. S. Channels. Representatives of the British and French Commands and U. S. representatives of our U. S. military group located in Potsdam (East Germany) will also be present.

(EVE) OPEN --

According to plans laid on by Mr. Ahlers

THURSDAY (AM) 0730/ Breakfast
February 13
BERLIN 0830 Room service and/or Hotel dining room.

REMAINDER OF DAY AS ARRANGED BY MR. AHLERS. (Details on
these arrangements will be made available to you as soon
as possible.

FRIDAY (AM) Depart Berlin Hilton Hotel for Frankfurt.

February 14

BERLIN/FRANKFURT

NOTE: Departure time and/or mode of transportation is not definite as this point. These details will be made known to you as soon as possible.

(AM) or (PM) Arrive Frankfurt -- Frankfurter-Intercontinental Hotel.

FRANKFURT

NOTE: Place of arrival will be one of two places in Frankfurt -- the main train station or the Airport -- depending on our mode of transportation as noted above

Group III --- ROME

WEDNESDAY (AM) 0815 Depart London Hilton Hotel (by Limosine)
LONDON/ROME

0930 Depart London Airport
El Italia Airlines Flight 633

ROME (AM) 1140 Arrive Rome Airport (Ticket, baggage, customs, etc., check-in -- special handling. In this regard, it is hoped that the "special handling" will prevail at each of our stopovers. Accordingly, this entry will not be repeated.)

WEDNESDAY (PM) 1200 Depart Rome Airport for Rome Hilton Hotel (or other deluxe hotel to be selected.)

1300 Arrive Rome Hilton (or other deluxe hotel)
Instant check-in et al.

NOTE: As mentioned earlier in this document, all arrivals and departures will be very tightly scheduled, and because of the really short time-span, your baggage handling and all other administrative and logistical details will be handled by an assigned staff member.

ROME (PM) **OPEN/or Meetings on political and economic climate of Italy.

(EVE) 1830 RECEPTION --

Hosted by the U. S. Ambassador. The additional invited guests will be determined at a later date.

2030 **OPEN

**NOTE: The Rome plans will be firmed up at a later date.

THURSDAY
February 13
ROME/NAPLES (ENTIRE DAY)
NAPLES/ROME

PLANS TENTATIVELY CALL FOR A DAY TIME FLIGHT FROM ROME TO NAPLES IN ORDER TO MEET WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF CINCSOUTH, NATO'S SOUTHERN FLANK HEADQUARTERS. THESE DETAILS WILL ALSO BE FURNISHED TO YOU WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE. WE WILL RETURN TO ROME AND OUR HOTEL ON THIS EVENING.

FRIDAY (AM) Depart Rome for Bonn via commercial jet aircraft
February 14
ROME/BONN

Arrive Bonn

NOTE: Groups I, II and III will converge on Bonn and will meet at the Hotel Königshof.

SATURDAY
February 15
BONN

(AM) ALL GROUPS -- GROUP I, II, and III TRAVEL TO BONN
AS PREVIOUSLY OUTLINED IN THIS DOCUMENT.

(PM) 1300 Luncheon for all members of our group (panelists and staff)
1400or to be followed by a plenary meeting, each group having its
representative spokesman reporting on reactions and the
pertinent developments gathered from each of the three
individual Group visits.

1830 Reception --

NOTE: Ideally, this function would be hosted by the U. S.
Ambassador at his Residence.

However, in the event that this is not possible,
it could be held at the Hotel Konigshof or at a
restaurant located within a new complex of German
Federal buildings.

SUNDAY
February 16
BONN

(AM) FREE TIME

(PM) 1300 Luncheon (at Hotel Konigshof or Restaurant am Tulpenfeld).

1500 SEMINAR --

Arranged by Dr. Wolfgang Wagner of the Deutsche Gesellschaft
fuer Auswaertige Politic.

Disscusants: To include non-governmental (German) personnel.
This group would be composed of German profes-
sors and key media personnel such as Dr. Theo
Sommer (Die Zeit), Mr. Weinstein (Frankfurter
Allemeine Zeitung), General von Baudissin, Dr.
Claus Ritter, Countess Donhoff, and others, as
well as Conrad Ahlers who, although indeed a
very high German government official, is a man
with great independence.

(EVE) 2000 Counterpart dinners. or FREE

MONDAY (ENTIRE DAY)

February 17
BONN/DUESSELDORF

Motor to Duesseldorf for day planned and hosted by Dr. Kurt
Birrenbach (President, Theissen Corporation).

Mr. Birrenbach hopes to include Dr. Helmut Wagner, Head of
the Federation of German Industries, and other key persons
from the Duesseldorf area.

DUESSELDORF/BONN (EVE) Return to Bonn.

Activities during this evening are open to future planning.
In the event counterpart dinners are not held on Sunday
evening, they will be held on Monday evening following your
return from Duesseldorf.

TUESDAY
February 18
BONN

(AM)

0730/
0830

Breakfast in specified Hotel Konigshof dining room.

0930 Entire group departs Hotel for meeting with the Chancellor and or the Foreign Minister. (This will be arranged by Mr. Ahlers.)

1100 Individual panelists (or small groups) will have small meetings throughout the remainder of this morning.

Possible Discussants: Mr. Bartzell, Helmut Schmide, Mr. von Hase, Jonathan Dean, Henry Cabot Lodge and others.

1300

Luncheon

Guest of Honor: Willi Brandt (possibly)

The panelists would join members of the Parliament of The Federal Republic of Germany -- tables for six or eight -- for informal exchanges.

1500

Briefings --

For entire group.

Mr. Schroeder and other members of the German Defense Ministry would make this presentation.

(EVE)

OPEN

WEDNESDAY
February 19
BONN/BRUSSELS

(AM)

0730/
0830

0900

Briefing --

This would include an address by General Burchinal, USAF, Deputy SHAPE.

Additional briefings might also be expected in this area. Details will be covered in a later document which will be furnished to each of you.

BONN

(PM)
OR
(EVE)

Depart Hotel Konigshof for train station in Bonn.

Arrive train station in Bonn.

WEDNESDAY (PM)

February 19 OR

BONN/BRUSSELS (EVE)

(Continued)

Depart Bonn via Trans-European Express for Brussels.

BRUSSELS (All times
to be determined
at a later date.)

Arrive Brussels train station.

Depart Brussels train station for Brussels Hilton

Arrive Brussels Hilton Hotel

(Check-in arrangements will be similar to those experienced
on your previous stopovers.)

(EVE) 1830 Reception at Hilton Hotel.

2030 OPEN

THURSDAY
February 20
BRUSSELS

(AM) 0730/

0830 Breakfast at Hotel

0900 Depart Hotel for U. S. Embassy for a briefing on BENELUX.

1100 Seminars and/or briefings to include issues regarding the Nordic Council, BENELUX and the attitude on NATO and the Common Market, European integration and the Soviets. (The meeting place for this session has not been chosen as yet.)
Possible discussants: Mr. Brugmans (College of Europe, Bruges), Mr. van den Hoevl (Interdoc--Holland), members of the press, etc.

1300 Luncheon to include discussants.

1500 Executive Plenary Session at which groups report on the trip and conclusions reached to date. Work will also be devoted to drafting of the report plus the phrasing of the final all-important questions for General Lemnitzer and SHAPE.

(EVE) Counterpart dinners.

NOTE: Friday, February 21 and Saturday 22 could be U. S.
National holidays (Washington's birthday). We are
checking.

FRIDAY
February 21

BRUSSELS

(AM) 0730/

0830 Breakfast at Hotel

0900 Briefing re "Communities" by J. Robert Schaetzel et al
(To be presented at the Hotel or in Mr. Schaetzel's
headquarters)

1100 Briefing re NATO by Ambassador Harlan Cleveland et al.
(To be presented at the Hotel or in Mr. Cleveland's
headquarters.)

PANEL STUDY ON THE FUTURE
OF THE NATO ALLIANCE

The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia has had a most profound impact on European thinking with regard to the United States, NATO and relations with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Thus it seems appropriate at this time to obtain an estimate of the situation in Europe against the background of the events in Czechoslovakia.

The Center plans to do a panel study on NATO against the background of Czechoslovakia. It is planned that a group of approximately 12 panelists, which would include outstanding representatives from the academic, corporate, military and diplomatic communities, would visit the capitals of England, France, Belgium, Italy and West Germany and possibly one or two other cities of these countries in February of 1969 to meet with political, military, academic and corporate leaders and obtain their views on the policies of the United States as it relates to NATO, the Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe.

The panelists would be supported by approximately 6 to 8 Center staff members who would supply the requisite logistic and substantive support for the study group. The trip is planned to be of a duration of approximately two weeks.

Extensive preparatory arrangements will be made to facilitate
the planned contacts. In this respect several members of the
Center have already held extensive talks with high-ranking
American and foreign officials, corporate officers, and poli-
tical and academic leaders in London, France, Belgium and
West Germany during the first week in October. A background
paper of a descriptive and analytical nature depicting devel-
opments in NATO in a chronological fashion over the last
three or four years has been suggested. The paper should not
have a bias but should discuss such matters as the changes in
NATO which have taken place (e.g., the French withdraw, the
shift in NATO towards a more political alliance as envisaged
in the Harmel Report, changes in Soviet posture and also the
question of the continued presence of U. S. ground forces in
West Germany and the question of costs, i.e., the offset nego-
tiations). Our own diplomatic and military officials have al-
ready agreed to cooperate in the inquiry and West Germany has
been very receptive to the idea of helping to see the impor-
tant leaders in West German political, economic and military
circles.

It is intended that the conclusions and recommendations
of the NATO study group be completed at the termination of
the trip in Europe.

Eastern Europe/USSR

In conjunction with the study of the United States and NATO the Center also plans a special report dealing with the USSR and its relationships with the Eastern European countries in the wake of the Czech crisis. In our exploratory talks during October in West Europe, it was felt that the study should concentrate more on the developing situation in the Soviet Union since it is clear that the future of Eastern Europe is now much more dependent on developments within the Soviet system than was anticipated prior to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Hence it was thought that a thorough study of the Soviet system should be the focus of a study dealing with the possible future evolution of Eastern Europe.

As regards methodology, it is planned that 2 panel meetings be held during the course of the European trip, perhaps in London and Bonn, which would discuss with experts on communism the developments in the Soviet Union following Czechoslovakia. The West European panel group would attend a three hour discussion group in the capacity of observers. The discussion could focus on Soviet changes from 1964 to the Czech crisis. A similar discussion might be held in Bonn and the two sets of observations could be merged into one set of con-

clusions and findings. As an example of some of the expertise we could bring to the discussions Malcolm Mackintosh, Walter Laqueur, Leonard Schapiro, Boris Meissner, Raymond Aron, and Klaus Mehnert as possibilities.

Again a background paper would be prepared prior to the trip and made available to the discussants well in advance of the panel meetings in February. Further panel meetings on this phase of the study would be held in the United States upon the return from the visit in Western Europe. It is planned that the chairman of this phase of the study European trip would be a well-established specialist in communist affairs and would accompany the NATO panel study group to Europe.

DEC 20 1968

CONTAC

CONFERENCE ON THE ATLANTIC COMMUNITY

BOX 1592
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20007

9 December 1968

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

The Conference on the Atlantic Community (CONTAC), an international student conference organized by the students of Georgetown University, will be held at the Foreign Service School, March 14-19, 1969. Students from Eastern and Western Europe, Canada, and the United States will participate in five days of seminar discussions and addresses by experts on issues concerning the Atlantic Community.

CONTAC would be honored if you would present the keynote address to the Conference participants and members of the Georgetown community on the Ideological Dynamics of the Atlantic Community or a related topic preferable to you.

The first CONTAC, held in November, 1965, set a high standard for us to meet. One hundred representative students attended this conference. Hans Kohn, Louis Fischer and Nicholas Wahl, among others, addressed them. Other participants included officers from the Department of State Bureau of European Affairs and AID, Atlantic nation diplomats, and professors from area universities.

In November, 1967, the second CONTAC met on the Georgetown campus. The seventy-five students discussed such topics as Economic Integration, Ideological Dynamics, Underdeveloped Countries, International Monetary Problems, and Policy Planning Twenty Years Hence. Among major addresses were "International Money Market and the Effect of the Recent Rio Conference", by Robert Triffin, "Historical and Intellectual Meaning of the Atlantic Community", by Hans Morgenthau, and a panel discussion of "European Economic Community and Further European Integration", with Counselors of British, French and German embassies.

9 December 1968

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger

Miss Marcia J. Boyd

For the coming Conference students are being selected from
most European countries with a projected 75-100 actual
participants. In view of recent developments in Warsaw Pact
nations, the choice of Eastern Europeans will demand special
attention to ensure success. We consider the student aspect
most important to permit CONTAC to serve as an opportunity
for discussion exchange of views among student leaders.

The other speakers will contribute to a comprehensive
development of the seminar discussions. A panel of journalists
will discuss the concept of social and intellectual unrest
in sectors of the Atlantic Community nations. Senator Claiborne
Pell will address the Conference on the role of Eastern Europe.
Among our other choices for speakers are Zbigniew Brzezinski,
Marshall Shulman, Robert McNamara and Pierre-Paul Schweitzer.

CONTAC is a special and unique undertaking for us; we hope
you will consider adding the benefit of your experience and
understanding to the Conference. Any assistance you could
offer would be most appreciated.

Enclosure:
MJB/cw