HENRY A. KISSINGER

January 5, 2000

Dear Malcolm:

I met today with the Yugoslav Ambassador to the United Nations, Vladislav Jovanović to plead the case you brought to my attention. He told me - as you probably know - that a pardon has been granted to Branko Jelen. This is a great tribute to you. Congratulations.

The Right Honorable
Malcolm Fraser
Special Envoy to Yugoslavia
ANZ Tower, 44th Floor
55 Collins Street
Melbourne, Victoria 3000

TWENTY-SIXTH FLOOR • 350 PARK AVENUE • NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10022 • (212) 759-7919

Chronology/Background of Clemency Matter

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      <td>8/9/99</td>
      <td>
        <ul>
          <li>HAK wrote President Milosevic asking clemency for two Australians plus a Yugoslav citizen</li>
          <li>Yugoslav citizen is Serb National and is also employed by CARE Australia</li>
        </ul>
      </td>
    </tr>
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      <td>9/16/99</td>
      <td>
        <ul>
          <li>Fraser wrote letter of thanks to you for help in securing the release of the two Australians; stated concern for the remaining prisoner</li>
          <li>Fraser appealed for your help in influencing international community with humanitarian aid.</li>
        </ul>
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>9/27/99</td>
      <td>
        <ul>
          <li>HAK responded "leave alone" - to Jody's question on how to respond to Fraser's letter.</li>
        </ul>
      </td>
    </tr>
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      <td>12/17/99</td>
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        <ul>
          <li>Fraser wrote, asking HAK's intercession with Milosevic to help secure release of Serb national;</li>
          <li>Fraser stated that he met with Milosevic and FM Jovanovic;</li>
          <li>Fraser's impression following the meetings was that Milosevic "was not ill-disposed to the release: of the prisoner; however, Fraser said he was advised to go through some formal procedures and call for reports from different Ministries and services in Yugoslavia;</li>
          <li>Fraser followed up with FM Jovanovic; FM advised that chances of clemency which is within the power of the President was remote.</li>
          <li>Fraser further explained that a number of international relief agencies have provided humanitarian aid in Serbia and ongoing aid after the first of the year is in jeopardy if the prisoner is not released.</li>
        </ul>
      </td>
    </tr>
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      <td>12/23/99</td>
      <td>
        <ul>
          <li>Fraser wrote further appeal for HAK help and wrote update on health of Serb national; there is concern as he has lost will to "even sustain himself".</li>
        </ul>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MALCOLM FRASER, A.C., C.H.

5th January 2000

44TH FLOOR
ANZ TOWER
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MELBOURNE, VICTORIA 3000
TELEPHONE: 61-3-9654 1822
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You will have heard that President Milosevic exercised an act of clemency and Branko Jelen was released last Friday at 12 o'clock, Belgrade time. He and his wife Nadia and two children were taken by Australian Embassy and CARE officials to Budapest. We have arranged for preliminary medical checks but our plans are that he will come in two stages and reach Australia on Monday morning.

I have spoken to Branko since he was released. He is very obviously a new man and I believe will recover quickly now that he knows the future of himself and his family is secure.

I wanted to thank you very much indeed for your help and support since the beginning of this crisis for CARE Australia. It has meant a great deal to all of us to know that we have had your support and that we have been able to call on you at critical times.

My best wishes to you for the New Year.

Dr Henry Kissinger
Kissinger Associates, Inc.
350 Park Avenue
NEW YORK NY 10022
FAX: 212 759 0042

FROM :RT HON MALCOLM FRASER

TO :

212 759 0041

1999,12-21

15:34

#155 P.02/04

17th December 1999

Thank you for your past assistance in helping to secure the release of two Australian humanitarian workers imprisoned in Yugoslavia. The third prisoner, a Serb national, Branko Jelen, remains in jail. I am now asking if you would be prepared to intercede with President Milosevic to help secure his release.

Ten days ago I returned from Yugoslavia. I had well over an hour with President Milosevic and in all, in two meetings over two hours with Foreign Minister Jovanovic. As a result of these meetings, my impression was that President Milosevic was not ill-disposed to the release of Branko Jelen. It was necessary, I was advised, to go through some formal procedures and call for reports from different Ministries and services in Yugoslavia.

I had an arrangement with the Foreign Minister to follow up with him. I spoke to him last night for the best part of an hour. He advised that the reports were negative and that the chances of an act of clemency, which is within the power of the President to exercise at any point, was remote.

Since the release of the two Australians, our own inclination, supported by advice from UNHCR, from ECHO, from OCHA, from the Red Cross, was that CARE Australia would have a greater chance of securing Branko Jelen's release if we showed some good faith in responding to the most severe humanitarian needs in Serbia itself. This we have done. We have five ex-patriate personnel, around 60 national staff. The programmes are expanding, funded largely by UNHCR and ECHO. Funds from the Australian Government will start to flow very shortly in the course of humanitarian assistance to Yugoslavia as a whole.

It is my strong belief that CARE, especially CARE Australia, will be under intense pressure to suspend operations in Serbia once again if by the New Year Branko Jelen is not released. I happen to believe that that policy would be mistaken and that such a suspension would not only be a betrayal of our humanitarian mission but would also condemn Branko to serving his full sentence, which psychologically he may well not survive.

FROM :RT HON MALCOLM FRASER

TO :

212 759 0041

1999,12-21

15:34

#155 P.03/04

2.

I am enclosing a briefing note with this letter which goes into some broader issues.

I am appealing to you again to exercise what influence you can with President Milosevic. If Branko Jelen is not released, it will clearly be harder to obtain the resources needed to sustain life of dispossessed refugees within Serbia itself. I know already that there is great suffering because there is a shortage of electricity and heating oil. Central European winters, as you would know, can be extremely harsh and warmth is as important to life as food.

I feel personally responsible for Branko Jelen because he is employed by CARE Australia, acting on behalf of CARE International.

I would be very grateful if you could take this up with President Milosevic as a matter of urgency. It is my strongest belief that it will not only be in the interests of Branko Jelen as an individual but in the interests of Yugoslavia and of Serbia in particular. An act of clemency and generosity would strengthen those who would like to see some better balance in Western policy towards the Balkans.

That would be hard enough to achieve but those who would like to argue in that direction will find it much more difficult if Serbia does not do what Serbia can do, to help herself and to give some credibility to those who would wish to see a better balance in international perceptions.

Dr Henry Kissinger
Suite 1021
1800 K Street, NW
WASHINGTON DC 20006
U.S.A.
FAX: 212 759 0041

FROM :RT HON MALCOLM FRASER

TO :

212 759 0041

1999.12-21

15:34

#155 P.04/04

# BRIEFING NOTE on BRANKO JELEN

On 1 September 1999, two Australian employees of the non-government aid agency CARE Australia, were released from jail in Yugoslavia after 5 months imprisonment. A Yugoslav Military Court had convicted the two, together with a third CARE employee, of carrying out "intelligence assignments for the needs of CARE Australia and NATO member countries pertaining to the general political situation in Yugoslavia with special emphasis on Kosovo".

The third CARE employee, Serbian national Branko Jelen, remains in prison.

The Military Court decision states: "beyond any doubt, that the information specified in the decision ... is information which truly serves the purposes of a humanitarian organisation, on which the defendants insisted, but they are at the same time classified military information".

While it is considered to be counterproductive to dispute the findings of the Military Court, the Australian Government and CARE have at all times remained resolute in statements that the three are totally innocent of acting in any way contrary to the interests of the people or Government of Yugoslavia.

Former Australian Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Malcolm Fraser, AC CH, has travelled five times to Yugoslavia to achieve the release of the two Australians and to continue the campaign for the release of Branko Jelen. Mr Fraser met President Milosevic and Yugoslav Foreign Minister Jovanovic again on 24 November 1999. Mr Fraser was encouraged by President Milosevic expressing his openness to a consideration of clemency.

In a phone conversation with Foreign Minister Jovanovic of 16 December 1999, Mr Fraser was informed that, while the prospect of a release in the short term was complicated, the case is currently "under consideration". Immediate communications in support of the release are therefore urgent.

The release of the two Australians was supported by appeals from a range of internationally recognised individuals and organisations directly to President Milosevic, who responded by granting clemency. The President can grant clemency to the third CARE worker at any time.

Branko Jelen has a wife and two young children. He has worked with CARE International in Yugoslavia since 1994. His work involved supporting Serbian refugees from earlier conflicts in Bosnia and Croatia. His work particularly focussed on Kosovo. He was originally arrested on approximately 7 April 1999 for refusing to hand over CARE vehicles with UNHCR plates to Yugoslav military authorities. He was subsequently connected with the two Australians, tried and convicted. He was sentenced to 6 years jail, reduced on appeal to 4 years. He deserves to be reunited with his loved ones immediately.

DEC-22-1999 11:25

KAI DC

212 753 7248

16th September 1999

SEP 27 1999

Dear Dr Kissinger

I would like to thank you very much indeed for your efforts in helping to secure the release of Steve Pratt and Peter Wallace. I have received letters from Steve and Peter which have asked me to pass on their thanks to you. They are now at home with their families and friends. We are very grateful to you for adding your weight and support in achieving that objective.

We are all still very concerned about Branko Jelen, who remains in jail. If there is an opportunity to exercise any influence with President Milosevic to apply an act of clemency also to Branko Jelen, that would be very much appreciated by everyone at CARE and by everyone in Australia.

With the release of the two Australians, CARE is now beginning to rebuild its programmes in Yugoslavia where there is massive humanitarian need. There are half a million refugees from earlier conflicts, expelled from Croatia, 200,000 from Kosovo because KFOR was unable to protect them, in addition to those who were bombed out of their homes during the raids.

I am very concerned at the shortage of electricity and running water for the coming winter. Without electricity for heating in many parts of Serbia it will create a new and enlarged humanitarian disaster. There is now a need for urgent action in this regard, which so far is being ignored by most of the international community. We will have the support of UNHCR and ECHO and other donors, however, the

To: HAK

From: SSM

Re: Jacket blurb for Christoph Frei's biography of Morgenthau's early life (to 1947) for the US edition, which Louisiana Univ. Press will publish.

DRAFT

Hans Morgenthau was my teacher, my mentor and a substantive influence on my intellectual development, yet he rarely spoke of his early years to me or to his colleagues. Christoph Frei's scholarly investigation of Morgenthau's formative years in Germany has illuminated the foundations of Morgenthau's intellectual philosophy, wrongly dismissed as irrelevant by his famously reticent subject. But Morgenthau's world view was shaped by his roots in the Europe of the 1920s and 30s, and by his early disappointments and self-perceived failures. Thus any study of the man who became a major influence on postwar America's geo-political strategy has up to now been incomplete. Frei has made a valuable contribution to rounding out our understanding of a seminal figure in US foreign policy.

AMERICA-CHINA SOCIETY

June 15, 2000

Mr. Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.
Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc.
225 Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606-1228

Dear Cy:

I am pleased to advise America-China Fellows that we have been invited to Beijing to meet with Chinese leadership during the period December 14-17, 2000 for discussions of Sino-U.S. relations. Such a visit, to occur after the election and before the inauguration of the new U.S. President, was suggested in our America-China meeting in January, and has met with positive response by the Chinese.

I will lead our delegation and hope that your schedule will permit you to join us. Definitive plans for the visit, including accommodations and meeting times, will be announced as soon as possible.

It would be helpful to the planners to know whether you may be interested in participating in this meeting and wish to receive further details as they become available.

Please communicate your interest to Herb Hansell (202/879-3986) or John Holden (212/645-9677).

I look forward to being with you in Beijing.

HENRY A. KISSINGER

June 13, 2000

Mr. Thomas E. Freston
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
MTV Networks
1515 Broadway
New York, New York 10019

Dear Mr. Freston:

Following up on an earlier phone conversation you had with Bob Batscha, I am writing to formally invite you to attend and participate as a panelist in the next meeting of The Museum of Television & Radio's International Council which will be held in London, October 15 to 17, 2000. As a trustee of The Museum of Television & Radio, I am very involved in the activities of the International Council, and chair the panel discussions.

The topic I am requesting your participation on is tentatively titled "Content: Television Production and Programming- Where Are We Going to Get Programming, and How Much is it Going to Cost?" Already confirmed panelists on this topic include Howard Stringer (Sony) and Mark Schneider (UPC). I am also inviting David Stern (NBA), Thomas Haffa, (EM.TV), and Rob Glaser, RealNetworks.

The Council is comprised of the Board of Trustees of the Museum and key members of the global media community. You will find I enclosed the member lists of both the Museum's Trustees and the International Council. The most recent meeting was in October 1999, in Paris, and was hosted by Canal +. It brought together an exceptional group of media leaders, not duplicated elsewhere. Indeed, *L'Express* called it the "Davos of the communications industry".

The meeting takes place over two and a half days and has two fundamental objectives. One is to provide these key members of the global media community an opportunity to focus on critical issues in moderated panel discussions; and the second is to have the opportunity to get together in a more relaxed way through various social activities. To date there have been four meetings. The first was in 1995 in Rome, hosted by President of the Republic Oscar Scalfaro, President of the Council of Ministers, Lamberto Dini, and President of the Senate Carlo Scognamiglio. The second meeting, held in 1996 in Berlin and Bonn, was hosted by Helmut Thoma at RTL, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and Prof. Dr. Roman Herzog, President of the Federal Republic of Germany. The third meeting took place in Madrid in 1998 under the auspices of the King, His Majesty Juan Carlos I. The most recent (1999) Paris meeting involved both President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin as hosts.