JAMES M. GAVIN
25 ACORN PARK
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02140

February 18, 1971

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

Dear Henry:

I have just learned from our Washington office that we finally
may be able to get together on March 5. This will be an important meeting
for us, so I hope that we will be able to go ahead with it.

Since I last wrote to you, I have spent three days in Moscow and
the Steering Committee of the Dartmouth Group met within the past few days
in New York. Our agenda now consists of the following subjects.

1. East-West trade

2. Man and the Global Environment

3. Strengthening the United Nations

4. Current Political Questions.

When I was in Moscow the Russians made a specific reference to
inviting a Senator or two to join our group. We wanted to discuss this
with you briefly.

Frank Murphy, who is on the President's Strategic Intelligence
Committee, has attended our Dartmouth meetings in the past. We would like
very much to have him join us at the next meeting, July 9-18 in Moscow. I
believe that he may have already talked to you about this, but both he and
I wanted to be sure that his participation will cause you no problem.

Norman Cousins, a long time member of the Dartmouth Group, and
Robert Chollar, President of The Kettering Foundation, will be joining me
when we meet with you.

I have been very impressed with the quality of the Soviet represen-
tation at the Dartmouth Group and we have an outstanding group of Americans
planning to attend this coming meeting. The Dartmouth concept is a very good
one and I hope that in time we could broaden the impact of meetings such as
this. All three of us look forward to having an opportunity to talk to you
about our plans for the forthcoming meeting and we will be most appreciative
of what time you can give us out of your very busy schedule.

MEMORANDUM

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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL

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URGENT INFORMATION

March 5, 1971

MEMORANDUM FOR MR. KISSINGER

FROM: Helmut Sonnenfeldt
SUBJECT: Dartmouth Meeting, March 5 at 5 p.m.

You have agreed to meet with General <u>Gavin</u>, Norman <u>Cousins</u> and Robert G. <u>Chollar</u> (President of the Kettering Foundation) to discuss their plans for the sixth Dartmouth Group meeting to be held in Moscow July 9-18. Gavin and Chollar met with their Soviet counterparts in Moscow in mid-January.

There are four items now scheduled for the July <u>agenda</u>, and which the Gavin party will probably wish to discuss with you:

-- East-West Trade: In mid-January, the US team gave their Soviet counterparts a paper prepared by Chase Manhattan which reached the conclusion that there were no real prospects for expanded US-Soviet trade (in a separate meeting, Harriman took strong exception to this conclusion). You will wish to keep in mind the President's recent decision that the Administration will <u>not</u> conduct any initiatives in the near future on MFN or Ex-Im Bank credits although opposition to Congressional initiatives will be low kay.

-- <u>Man and the Global Environment</u>. You may wish to point to the President's interest in this subject as evidenced in his UN speech last fall and in the Foreign Policy Report (refer them to p. 209 ff). The US is very active in the planning for the 1972 Stockholm Conference on Environment (Christian Herter has this well in hand).

-- <u>Strengthening the UN</u>. You might point out that we have not yet received the report of the President's Commission of the Observance of the 25th Anniversary of the UN (Cabot Lodge in the forefront, but that we are looking to it to provide some very realistic methods of enhancing the effectiveness of the UN.

-- <u>Current Political Questions</u>. Presumably this will refer to US-Soviet relations generally and Indochina/Middle East.

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Per <u>NSC Email</u> 4/25/2012

By <u>LTC</u> L.C. Date 4/25/2012

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General Gavin will probably raise two questions relating to the <u>US participation</u>
<u>in the Dartmouth meeting:</u>

-- Gavin and others want Frank Murphy (who is on the President's Strategic Intelligence Committee) to join the meeting in Moscow, but they want to be sure you have no objection.

-- The Soviets apparently have suggested to General Gavin that a Senator (or two) be included in the US delegation; he will wish your views. On balance this should be alright, _provided_ the right Senators go.

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