GENERAL

F-96-11-1/KISSINGER, HENRY A.
KISSINGER, HENRY A./P*

JAN 26 1972

Dear Mr. Pok:

Thank you for your letter of January 5. I appreciated your informing me of Mr. Hsu's interest in seeing me and, under ordinary circumstances, I would be pleased to set an appointment with him.

As I am sure you are aware, the past several weeks have been extraordinarily busy and the near future shows no signs of being any easier. I have been forced to make no commitments except pressing officially and regret therefore that I will not be able to see Mr. Hsu.

I appreciate your understanding.

Mr. Shau-Fu Pok
Publisher and Managing Director
Newsdom
Room 903 Yat Fat Building
No. 44 Des Vosux Road C.
Hong Kong

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January 5, 1972

Mr. Henry Kissinger
National Security Council
Department of State
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

The Newsdom is a weekly news magazine of similar nature
as the Time and Newsweek, published in Chinese in Hong
Kong. This magazine has an uninterrupted history of
publication of over 27 years. Its readership consists
of Overseas Chinese all over the world, and it is
accepted as one of the leading Chinese magazines in
the field of international news coverage.

As you will be accompanying your President to visit
Peking, I have assigned our Washington correspondent
Mr. Benedict S. Hsu to seek an interview with you.

Mr. Hsu has been a distinguished journalist for more
than 15 years. More recently he has received an
assignment to cover the United Nations. His reports
filed with the Newsdom have been recently collated and
published under the title: "Struggle In The United
Nations".

The address and telephone number of Mr. Hsu is as
follows: 12233, Dalwood Drive, Wheaton, Md. 20906;
Tel: (301)949-6246.

I should be grateful if you would let Mr. Hsu, our
correspondent, know of the time and date when it will
be convenient for you to give him a short interview.

May I wish you a happy and successful New Year.

cc: Mr. Benedict S. Hsu

JAN 15 1969

THE ADLAI STEVENSON INSTITUTE
OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

ROBIE HOUSE 5757 SOUTH WOODLAWN AVENUE
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60637
312-684-3200

WILLIAM R. POLK
DIRECTOR

CABLE ADDRESS ASIIA

January 13, 1969

The Hon. Henry Kissinger
Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
c/o The Office of the President-elect
The Pierre Hotel
Fifth Avenue and 61st Street
New York, New York

Dear Henry,

As I promised, I am herewith sending you some
suggestions of people who could participate in a
meeting for the President-elect on the Middle Eastern
situation. As you know well, the Middle Eastern field
is locked into gear on a number of issues. Since it
is a relatively small field in the American academic
community, people in it tend to have known one another
for many years and have developed, on a small scale,
all of the enmities and psychosis which typify the
Middle East itself. In the following list, I have
endeavored to stake out various positions but to get
together people who have something significant to say
in an articulate fashion. For your convenience, I
have segregated five categories of people and have
offered you alternative selections within each.

1) White, Protestant, American students of
Arab affairs:

Richard Nolte (Director of the Institute
for Current World Affairs in New York and former
Ambassador-designate to Egypt)

Malcolm Kerr (Chairman of the Political
Science Department, UCLA)

These are two of the generally accepted scholars
on modern Arab affairs. They are both able and arti-
culate but put forth a position somewhat similar to
one another.

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2) American Jewish students of Arab-Israeli affairs:

Leonard Binder (former Chairman of the Political Science Department, University of Chicago, and former soldier in the Haganah)

Morroe Berger (Professor of Sociology at Princeton University)

Both of these men are able and articulate scholars and both have made a determined intellectual effort to appreciate the many dimensions of Arab-Israeli affairs. They are both good friends of mine and either can do an able job in the briefing.

3) American scholars on Turkish affairs:

George Harris (Central Intelligence Agency and Ph.D. from Harvard)

Richard Robinson (former member of the American University's field staff and Ph.D. from MIT and staff member of Harvard and MIT's program on Middle Eastern studies)

Harris has an extraordinary inside knowledge as well as historical perspective on Turkish affairs and Robinson is a considerable authority on Middle Eastern business development. Either could do a very good job on American-Turkish relations.

4) American scholars on Iran and Afghanistan:

William Miller (foreign affairs assistant to Senator John Sherman Cooper, former foreign service officer with six years of experience in Iran)

Marvin Zonis (Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago)

Manfred Halpern (Professor of Politics at Princeton University)

All three of these men are able and articulate.
Halpern tends to be a bit more theoretical than the
other two but any one of the three could give the
President a great deal of insight into conditions
and developments in Iran.

5) Economic development:

John Simmons (former Director of the Harvard
program in North Africa and now in the Development
Studies Program at Harvard)

Charles Issawi (Professor of Economics at
Columbia and author of many books on the Middle East)

Donald Mead (author of a very sound economic
study on Egypt and formerly with the Yale Center for
Economic Growth)

In addition to these men, I would like to draw
your attention to Walter Levy, who is unquestionably
the foremost authority on Middle Eastern oil devel-
opments and a man of great flexibility and subtlety
of thought.

If you wish, I would be delighted to help you
arrange this affair and to take any part in it which
might be helpful to you.

72040
Garland, Texas
1120 West Avenue A
Mrs. Elsie Pool

Henry V. Kissinger
Personal Secretary to
Julienne R. Piness

Sincerely,

Thank you for writing.

One hears it pronounced in many ways. "Kiss-in-jer." I understand your confusion. Pronounces his name with a soft "S" -- In answer to your question, Mr. Kissinger

me from writing back to you more promptly. associated with Mr. Kissinger's travels kept me apologize that the heavy load of work as- response to your postcard dated October 21. Mr. Kissinger asked me to write to you in

Dear Mrs. Pool:

December 2, 1975

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

MEMORANDUM

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

EXECUTIVE
ND 18/CO 165-
KISSINGER, HENRY A.

INFORMATION

March 4, 1970

MEMORANDUM FOR DR. KISSINGER

FROM: John Holdridge
SUBJECT: Your Meeting with Dr. Ithiel de Sola Pool

You are scheduled to meet on Thursday, March 5, at 5:30 p.m., with Dr. Ithiel Pool of MIT.

Dr. Pool returned from a trip to Vietnam late last year. In January he sent you a letter suggesting a meeting with you and also a copy of a memorandum he wrote for Ambassador Bunker and others in the Saigon mission.

Dr. Pool's memo notes many positive points about the situation in Vietnam, including increased Vietnamese local forces and more territorial security; a booming economy; progress in village government and a renewed sense of purpose throughout the Vietnamese bureaucracy; and more effective cooperation between Vietnamese and Americans.

The memorandum also discusses three problems--the village-province relationship, the Phoenix program, and the U. S. force structure as withdrawals continue. Dr. Pool finds the provincial administration too authoritarian and too distant in its relations with the villages; he suggests the election of provincial councils by single member constitutions rather than at large, and more information programs from the provinces to the villages. He feels that the Phoenix program is too heavy-handed and recommends greater sensitivity to the Vietnamese view of guilt and innocence. As U. S. withdrawals continue, Dr. Pool believes that CORDS personnel strength should be maintained as is for at least a year but that there are many support troops that could be cut without damaging the U. S. effort.

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In his January letter to you, Dr. Pool mentioned that there were one or two other sensitive items on Vietnam that he would like to discuss with you.

## Dr. Pool's Position

Dr. Pool will probably want to do the following:

- Touch upon some of the examples of progress he noted.

- Go into more detail on the potential problem areas he outlined.

- Bring up the "sensitive" items he referred to in his letter.

## Your Position

I recommend that you express your appreciation of Dr. Pool's ideas and point out that we are sensitive to the issues he has raised. Specifically, you may want to point out:

- That President Thieu had asked the National Assembly to have the upcoming Provincial Council elections based on a single-member constituency system, but the National Assembly over-ruled him.

- That we are trying to make the Phoenix program less heavy-handed.

MEMORANDUM

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

6428

ACTION

January 16, 1970

MEMORANDUM FOR DR. KISSINGER

FROM: John Holdridge
SUBJECT: Attached Letter

Ithiel Pool of MIT has written to give you his impressions of his re-
cent trip to Vietnam. He wishes to come to Washington at your con-
venience to discuss the Vietnam picture a little further and suggests a
dinner engagement. (Tab C)

Pool's impressions are contained in a memorandum he wrote for
Bunker and others in the Saigon Mission. He reports:

--That there have been great gains in the expansion of security
during the past year, largely because of the improvement in
territorial forces. The economy is also booming in the Delta,
and this has helped the popular attitude toward our side.

--He is worried somewhat by the future of the village-province
relationship. He thinks the provincial administration is still
too authoritarian in dealings with the villages and suggests
more representative election of the provincial councils by con-
stituencies rather than at large. He calls also for greater
stress at the province level on Government information pro-
grams directed to the villages.

--He is also concerned about the Phoenix program, which he
finds too heavy handed in its operation and too little concerned
with the follow-up on VCI apprehended as a part of the program.
He suggests some changes in the follow-up treatment and some
greater sensitivity to the Vietnamese view on real guilt and
innocence.

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--On U. S. troop withdrawals, he calls for a thinning out of support elements primarily, leaving the bulk of the combat troops for the time being. He also thinks it would be very unwise to reduce the CORDS personnel at this point.

**Comment:** Most of Pool's suggestions have also been heard from other quarters. On the whole they are valid, and the CORDS people in SVN are working in the directions suggested as is realistically possible. Some, of course, would take legal and constitutional changes and are long-range possibilities.

Since copies of Pool's memorandum are already in the hands of the key people in Saigon, I think no further distribution of his memo is necessary.

In view of your busy schedule, I have prepared two replies to Pool. One (Tab A) indicates that you will see him, the other (Tab B) indicates that I will meet with him in your place.

RECOMMENDATION:

That you sign the reply to Pool at Tab B.

Attachment

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Type of Request & Date

POTTER EXECUTIVE

(Last name and pending date)

FGG-11/1 / KISSINGER, HENRY A.

Name: Phil Potter, Bureau Chief, Baltimore Sun

KISSINGER, HENRY A. / P*

Request: Would like to see Mr Kissinger for a general talk on foreign policy. He was promised an appointment by Mr Kissinger before the foreign travel this fall and would like to take him up on it. There is no specific deadline he needs this appointment for.

Contact at 347-8250.

DRY's Recommendation:

HAK's Answer: YES - 12/8

Date and Time:

Party Contacted: Done

Additional Information:

Resolution:

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EVENING

SUNDAY

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WASHINGTON, D. C. 20004

June 28, 1971

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger

Special Assistant for National Security Affairs

The White House

Washington, D. C.

Dear Henry:

I am passing the enclosed material on to you as
a matter of possible interest.

Patrick J. Killen is well known to me as an
honest and highly responsible journalist, with whom I
worked closely in India during the Sino-Indian conflict
and in Washington, where he was temporarily assigned
to the State Department beat. Our last contact was in
Hongkong on my recent two-month tour of East Asia.

I spent a week in India, interviewing
Mrs. Gandhi and old friends in the foreign ministry, the
substance of which I wrote for the Sun.

I think Mrs. Gandhi is worried about the possibility
that the Bengali troubles will lead to communal and other
difficulties in India that could be exploited by the
Naxalites and other Maoists in West Bengal.

I also sensed possibilities that the refugee
problem will draw India and Pakistan into war again.

P. S. I have no idea who Mr. Killen's friend is.

United Press International

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June 22, 1971

Mr. Philip Potter
Chief of Bureau
Baltimore Sun
National Press Building
Washington, D.C.

Dear Phil,

I hope your trip to the sub-continent was rewarding. I never did hear whether you got into Pakistan. We finally were allowed to send Joe Galloway, our Djakarta man, into East Pakistan on a guided tour. He reported, accurately I think, attr cities on both sides.

Last Sunday I had a long session with a friend from the India-Pakistan-Ceylon region. He made me promise not to reveal his name.

He wanted me to help sell a policy to the Nixon administration and asked me to write to the most influential people I know in Washington. You and Stew Hensley top my list.

Basically, the policy calls for a halt to all military and economic aid to Pakistan until the government arrives at a "peaceful and democratic accommodation" with the elected representatives of East Pakistan.

The idea, of course, is not a new one. My friend contends such a policy would undercut Soviet and Chinese influence on the sub-continent and force a settlement. He argues that if the United States is firm on the aid issue, then other nations will follow.

I told him I did not know if the State Department and more specifically the U.S. Embassy in Rawalpindi would agree. I also made no promises other than to pass along his ideas. They are attached and include a draft statement of intentions.

I must say I am in agreement with most of his contentions, particularly that the United States should not resume full scale aid to Pakistan.

I would appreciate it if you could forward these ideas to the White House in what ever manner you think best--that is, of course, if you feel they have merit.

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PRIVATE: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

This is one of the greatest opportunities for the United States of America to build a permanent relationship of a profoundly genuine and fraternal nature with the countries of Asia, both India and Pakistan. It is also perhaps the last change for the United States of America to prevent the expansion of the international Communist Empire.

If President Nixon will take this crucial step and if peace is restored, many historic achievements will ensue, namely;

i) The possibility of the current minor border friction between Pakistan and India escalating into a dangerous conflagration will be eliminated.

ii) The grave peril to regional security as result of the filling of the vacuum caused by the suppression of the moderate democratic elements led by Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, Nazr-ul Islam, Taj-Ud-Din Ahmed, Abu Sayeed, etc.; and the emergence of a potentially powerful Communist State of 75 million people, with a gravitational attraction to the adjoining West Bengal State of India with about 40 million people, will be eliminated.

iii) A well-balanced democratic Government based on compromise and mutual accommodation will come into existence in Pakistan in which not only persons like Sheikh Mujibur Rehman

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(democratic-constitutionalist), Z.A. Bhutto (pro-Peking) but also respected and moderate personalities like ex-Chief Justice Murshid, Abdul Wali Khan, G.M. Syed, etc. will share in the leadership. Such a Government in Pakistan will genuinely, and by its own intrinsic nature, be pro-democratic and pro-Western. It will be pro-Western and pro-democratic not because of temporary political exigencies as in the case of a Military regime; but by virtue of its own intrinsic composition and character.

iv) President $N_1$xon will emerge in history as the man who helped to save the lives of six million people, helped to save Asia from the menace of irruption of another powerful Communist satellite State, as the man who helped to save democracy in Asia, as a friend of both Pakistan and India.

v) If after such a historic denouncement, President Nixon will pay a State visit to India and Pakistan, he will be welcomed as a hero and as a saviour not only in India and in East Pakistan, but also in the $N_0$rth West Frontier Province, in Baluchistan, and even in Sind the home-province of the Peking-flirting Z.A. Bhutto.

This is an appeal in the name of reason, in the name of enlightened self-interest of the United States of America, in the name of humanity, in the name of God, and in the name of six million dying people.

PRIMATE: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

My Administration has been sharing the deep concern of the people all over the world, over the terrible and unprecedented sufferings of the people of East Pakistan. My Administration has noted the fervent appeals of U.N. Secretary-General U Thant and His Holiness the Pope. According to reports reaching from the field, over six million people in East Pakistan belonging to every religion-Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, etc. - and belonging to every social class from Judges and Legislators to workers and peasants have been obliged due to military action of the Government of Pakistan to seek sanctuary in the neighbouring States of India. My Administration is engaged in providing much-needed relief both bilaterally and through the U.N. Agencies.

Apart from the humanitarian consideration which need no elaboration, my Administration is also deeply concerned over the potential implications for World Security and the possibility of a threat to democracy and the Free World. For reasons of internal politics into which I shall not enter, the military action of the Central Government of Pakistan which is based in West Pakistan has fallen most heavily on the moderate democratic groups of Bengali Muslims, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, Nazr-ul Islam, Taj-ud-Din Ahmed, Abu Sayeed, and others. As a result of the military approach adopted by the Government of Pakistan to this problem, some of these moderate democratic leaders have been killed, some like Sheikh-Mujibur Rehman have been imprisoned, and many others have fled their

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country taking asylum in this country, in the United Kingdom, and in
India.

This systematic decimation of the moderate elements committed to
democracy and constitutionalism, has inevitably left a vacuum among the
masses of East Pakistan. According to reports reaching this Administration,
there is every likelihood of well-organized, well-disciplined and perhaps
well-armed cadre of subversive Communist elements filling this vacuum
and taking over the popular leadership, in due course, at a time of its
own choosing, in concert with world Communist subversive conspiracy.
Evidently such an eventuality holds grave and perilous implications
for the Free World.

This Administration has been consistently friendly with the
successive Governments of Pakistan both civilian and military. This
Administration still maintains an attitude of friendship for the
Government and the people of Pakistan. Nevertheless, this Administration
cannot view with equanimity the grave threat to regional security and to
the Free World of democracy, resulting from the systematic suppression of
the moderate elements committed to democracy and to constitutionalism,
who in the recent General Elections, based on universal adult franchise
and held under the close supervision of the Government of Pakistan, won
an overwhelming mandate from the people.

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This Administration is gravely concerned at the possible
consequences of this suppression of the normal democratic and constitutional
processes; as it might lead to the eventual emergence in strength of a
subversive Communist movement. East Pakistan which has a population of
75 million people, with a highly volatile intelligentsia, with considerable
natural resources like jute, tea, fishing, and naval facilities etc.
might fall into the orbit of international Communism. This Administration
is also aware of a closely related danger, namely that in the adjoining
State of West Bengal in India, there already exists a small but militant
Communist subversive movement called the Naxalites. Although they have
been defeated electorally, yet they are carrying on clandestine
subversive activities, and constitute a threat to democracy and peace.
If East Pakistan with its 75 million people falls under the orbit of
international Communism as it well may, as a result of the stifling of
the democratic constitutionalist elements, this might eventually lead
to a link-up between the subversive Communist forces in both the
Bengals. Hypothetically, a State with a population of 125 million, with
an active intelligentsia, substantial natural resources and many
important industrial establishment might pass under the power of
international Communism.

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My Administration has always been deeply committed to World
Peace in general, and to _peace in Asia_, which for various historical
reasons has long been tormented by internal dissensions, in particular.
This Administration has also been constantly vigilant over the danger
of the expansion of international Communist subversion. Having regard
to all these factors, and not least of all, the tragic plight of six
million refugees who are homeless and are facing starvation and
disease, this Administration has with the utmost reluctance and regret
decided to suspend all economic and military aid to the Government of
Pakistan until such time as that Government arrives at a peaceful
and democratic accommodation with the duly elected representatives
of its people.

In arriving at this decision my Administration has taken full account
of the best security interests of the United States of America, of the
Free World, of World Peace, and of the people of Pakistan, for their
future evolution in a democratic and constitutional manner.

Hudolf Potzner
72 Tuttlingen
Esslingerstraße 6
Baden Württemberg

Herrn

Prof. Henry Kissinger
Sonderberater der amerikanischen Regierung
im Weissen Haus /Washington.

Tuttlingen, d. 6. August 1969

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

Sehr geehrter Herr Prof. Kissinger !

Da Sie ja aus Deutschland stammen, möchte ich Ihnen die heutigen Verhältnisse hier in Baden Württemberg mitteilen. Es ist bekannt, daß die Schwaben zu den gemeinsten Menschen in Europa gehören. Sie können Lügen und mit Heuchelei die Menschen in aller Welt irre führen, um die tatsächlichen Verhältnisse zu verschleiern. Da zur Zeit der Bundeskanzler in Amerika ist der selbst Schwabe ist, empört jeder Grundlage wenn er vor amerikanischen Politikern von Freiheit, Demokratie, Menschenwürde, Menschenrechte und Hilfe spricht. Dies sind Unterstellungen und Verdrehungen, wir haben nicht einmal eine freie Meinung wär etwas sagt was andern nicht paßt, wird ein Schauprozeß wegen Beleidigung inszeniert um die Menschen Mundtod zu machen.

Man sollte doch einmal an die Worte denken, die der populäre Schriftsteller Heirich Böll am Io.I.69 in der Zeitung schreiben lies. Der katholische Schriftsteller Böll sagt: seine Mutter habe ihn darin bestärkt, die verfluchten Nazis zu hassen, besonders jene von der Sorte, zu der Herr Kissinger gehört: die gepflegten bürgerlichen Nazis, die weder die Finger noch die Weste beschmutzen und MIM die nun nach 1945 weiterhin schamlos durch die Lande ziehen, die sogar vom Zentralkomitee deutscher Katholiken eingeladen werden, Reden zu halten. Diese Zeilen schrieb der Schriftsteller Böll. Dieser Mann mit dieser Vergangenheit ist diese Woche hoher Gast bei der amerikanischen Regierung. Präsident Nixon sollte sich diesen Mann genauer betrachten und unter die Lupe nehmen. Daß Kiesinger mit dieser Vergangenheit belastet ist, kann er nicht verleugnen. Es ist auch eine Realität daß er die neue faschistische Partei NPD duldet und unterstützt.

Was die Faschisten im dritten Reich getan haben, kann die Welt nicht vergessen. Kein Volk auf dieser Welt hat solche Verbrechen begangen. Der Vater meiner Mutter war auch Jud. Ich stamme aus der CSR Sudetenland hatte dort eine eigene Landwirtschaft. Heute hier habe ich mit meiner Familie nichts. Wir leben in Not. Es stört niemanden wie es KXEMEN uns hier geht. Vor zwei Jahren wurde uns das Haus enteignet und haben dabei ein Vermögen von MX000 60.000 Mark verloren, also auch faschistische Methoden. Das sollte die Welt auch erfahren. Statt uns zu helfen, werden wir weiter terrorisiert und der Lohn gepfändet, so daß wir in bitterer Not leben. Unter den Tschechen haben wir früher besser gelebt, sie haben uns geholfen, hier hilft niemand. Gerichts-, Gerichtsvollzieher und Rechtsanwälte freuen sich, wenn man ganze Familien auf feine Art vernichtet die Substanz raubt, und dann vor aller Welt heuchelt und von Hilfe spricht. Man sollte nicht so naiv sein, denn wer die Deutschen kennen gelernt hat weis. Es sind hier unerträgliche Zustände ein Leben ohne Freude und ohne Zukunft. Die grossen Völker sind bereit überall die Not zu beseitigen, hier ist man bereit, sie zu vergrössern. Nicht einmal bei den Kommunisten gibt es heute solche unerträglichen Zustände. Die DDR bemüht sich heute auch den Vertriebenen ein erträgliches Leben zu gestalten und hier sind Elemente, die gern die armen Eeimatvertriebenen und Juden erneut vernichten möchten.

Mit vorzüglicher Hochachtung