AMERICAN ASSEMBLY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R003100200016-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: January 1, 2000
• Content Type: MF

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Executive Registry
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Walter N. Elder
Assistant to the Director
SUBJECT: American Assembly
1. The following information on the American Assembly was given
to me by Robert Packard, Office of the Special Assistant for Atomic
Energy and Outer Space, Department of State. The American Assembly
is composed of a group of private citizens who are especially interested
in contemporary problems. The group is headed by Dr. Wriston, formerly
President of Brown University. Apparently, the organization was origi-
nally of interest to Averell Harriman and has sponsored meetings at
Arden House, formerly the Harriman estate.
2. American Assembly has a small permanent staff headquartered in
New York City, which is principally concerned with organizing meetings and
seminars bringing together well-known Americans. The organization's
program for this year is concerned with the "implications of outer space. "
Meetings have been held at Arden House and other places in the United
States.
3. The Assembly has organized a meeting to be held at Brighton,
England, the co-sponsor of which is to be a British organization. That
meeting will be known as the European -American Assembly. The meeting
will be an invitation-only affair. About thirty to forty Americans have
been invited, including John McCloy, John Johnson, General Counsel of
NASA, and Herman Phleger, an international lawyer from California,
formerly with the Department of State. Other participants from Europe
will represent the academic, scientific, industrial, and governmental
fields. Mr. Packard did not know whether representatives from Eastern
Europe would be present.
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4. Mr. Packard said he would give me the name of the Executive
Secretary with whom we would correspond for further information.
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