LETTER TO MR. LEO CHERNE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R004100010086-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2002
• Sequence Number: 86
• Publication Date: March 31, 1960
• Content Type: LETTER

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1 MAR 1960
Mr. 1&0 Cherr Executive Director
The Research Institute of America, L=.
5a9 F tth Aveze
Nov Fort 1 7,, N. T.
I an awry for the del in piyiug to yam: Letter
of January 12 but I have be attempting to auk
schedule that I m i g h t t a k e sdvautNp or your kind
invitation to att*ad the dinner a: Jresentation of the
'Living Rim of" the Critical T:-,: 1935)-960."
to y 1Z letter of December 19,
1 the county- the latter
A i1. tb torbmately, r an. =able to rearrange
co t but I can Join yvu at, the Waldorf an April 27th
much as I voulA lifer to do so. t-bitle I regret that I will
unable to be pretest, I eer%MUL3.y vet t` take thia
o p p o r t u n i t y to wiah y o u every ae : c* in a it program.
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SIGNED
Allen W. "-- es
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DIRECT REPLY I _ PREPARE REPLY
DISPATCH I RECOMMENDATION
The Director wonders if you know of
any others who are attending this dinner
besides those named in Mr. Cherne's latest
letter.
Also, the DCI has still not quite
decided whether or not he should accept an
invitation to what appears to be a function
designed to enhance the public relations and
business of the hosts. What do you think?
FOLD HERE TO RETURN TO SENDER
FORM NO. Replaces Form 30-4
I APR 55 237 which may be used.
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
OFFICIAL ROUTING SLIP
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
21 March 1960
The following have declined invitations to attend Mr. Cherne's
affair:
The President of the U.S.
The Secretary of State
Walter Lippman
Jack McCloy
Governor Nelson Rockefeller
No replies have yet been received from the following:
Benjamin Fairless
General Alfred Gruenther
William Faulkner
Thomas E. Dewey
Representative Joseph Martin
Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
Speaker Sam Rayburn
Dr. Edward Teller (and a number of others)
Acceptances have been received from an impressive list which includes
the following:
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Luce
Arthur Hays Sulzburger
Lowell Thomas
Senator Stuart Symington
Dr. Wernher Von Braun
Charles E. Wilson (both of them)
Paul G. Hoffman
Averell Harriman
General Mark W. Clark
General Lucius Clay
Bernard M. Baruch
Francis Biddle
Sherman Adams
(et al) -- List is attached.
Chet Huntley will be the narrator with interspersed comments by
Allan Nevins, with a dramatic introduction of each of the distinguished
guests.
Recommend: That the DCI attend.
(Attach)
ua ey J. Gro n
Assistant to the Director
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"THE LIVING HISTORY OF THE CRITICAL YEARS: 1935-1960"
ACCEPTANCES - RESEARCH INSTITUTE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY DINNER - APRIL 27
The Honorable Sherman Adams
The Honorable Thurman Arnold
The Honorable Bernard M. Baruch
The Honorable Francis Biddle
The Honorable Charles F. Brannan
The Honorable Ralph J. Bunche
Admiral Arleigh A. Burke
The Honorable Harry F. Byrd
General Mark W. Clark
General Lucius Clay
The Honorable James B. Conant
Mr. Harlow H. Curtioe
General James H. Doolittle
General William H. Draper, Jr.
The Honorable James A. Farley
Mr. Robert Frost
Mr. G. Keith Funston
The Honorable W. Averell Harriman
The Honorable Leon Henderson
General Lewis B. Hershey
The Honorable Oveta Culp Hobby
The Honorable Paul G. Hoffman
Mr. H. V. Kaltenborn
The Honorable Estes Kefauver
The Honorable'William,F. Knowland
The Honorable David E. Lilienthal
The Honorable Henry Cabot Lodge
The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce
Mr. Henry R. Luce
The Honorable Thurgood Marshall
General Anthony C. McAuliffe
Mr. David J. McDonald
Mr. George Meany
The Honorable Raymond Moley
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
The Honorable Frank Pace, Jr.
The Honorable William S. Paley
The Honorable Frances Perkins
Admiral Arthur W. Radford
Mr. Walter P. Reuther
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Honorable Samuel I. Rosenman
Mr. Beardsley Ruml
General David Sarnoff
Mr. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
General Carl Spaatz
The Honorable Harold E. Stassen
The Honorable Lewis L. Strauss
Mr. Arthur Hays Sulzberger
The Honorable Stuart Symington
Mr. Lowell Thomas
Mr. Norman Thomas
The Honorable Rexford Guy Tugwell
General James A. Van Fleet
Dr. Wernher Von Braun
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The Honorable Charles E. Wilson
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"Living History of the Critical Years: 1935 - 1969,
The Honorable Dean G. Acheson
The Honorable Sherman Adams
The Honorable Bernard M. Baruch
The Honorable Eugene R. Black
General Omar N. Bradley
The Honorable Ralph J. Bunche
The Honorable Harry F. Byrd
General Lucius Clay
The Honorable James B. Conant
Mr. Harlow H. Curtice
L,--The Honorable Thomas E. Dewey
L ,-General James H. Doolittle -"
General William H. Draper, Jr.
The Honorable Alen W. Dulles
V-President Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Honorable James A. Farley
Mr. William Faulkner
Mr. Henry Ford, II
Justice Felix Frankfurter
Mr. Robert Frost
The Honorable J. W. Fulbright
Mr. G. Keith Funston
Dr. George H. Gallup
,/General Alfred M. Gruenther
The Honorable W. Averell Harriman
Mr. Ernest Hemingway
The Honorable Leon Henderson
General Lewis B. Hershey
I/Fhe Honorable Christian A. Herter
VThe Honorable Paul G. Hoffman '
The Honorable J. Edgar Hoover
President Herbert Hoover
The Honorable George M. Humphrey
Mr. H. V. Kaltenborn
The Honorable Estes Kefauver
The Honorable John F. Kennedy
The Honorable William F. Knowland
The Honorable Alfred M. Landon
General Curtis E. LeMay
Mr. John L. Lewis
The Honorable David Lilienthal
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh
i/Mr. Walter Lippmann
The Honorable Henry Cabot Lodge
he Honorable Clare Boothe Luce
General Douglas MacArthur
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The Honorable John J. MaCloy
The Honorable Neil H. McElroy
,--,Mr. George Meany
The Honorable James P. Kitchell
The Honorable Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
Mr. Edward R. Murrow
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
t,-The Honorable Richard M. Nixon
Professor J. Robert Oppenheimer
t-The Honorable Frank Pace, Jr.
The Honorable William S. Paley
The Honorable Clarence B. Randall
Mr. Walter P. Reuther
Mr. Edward V. Rickenbacker
Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
General Matthew B. Ridgway
The Honorable Nelson A. Rockefeller
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mr. Beardsley Ruml
Dr. Jonas E. Salk
Mr. Carl Sandburg
General David Sarnoff
Mr. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
General Walter Bedell Smith
General Carl Spaatz
The Honorable Harold Stassen
The Honorable Adlai E. Stevenson
iAhe Honorable Lewis L. Strauss
The Honorable Stuart Symington
Dr. Edward Teller
Mr. Norman Thomas
Mr. Juan T. Trippe
president Harry Truman
General Nathan F. Twining
General James A. Van Fleet
Dr. Wernher Von Braun
The Honorable Henry A. Wallace
The Honorable Earl Warren
Mr. Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
Mr. Joseph N. Welch
The Honorable Charles E. Wilson
The Honorable Charles E. Wilson
General Robert E. Wood
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21 January 1960
T,IMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR:
1. This memorandum recommends action in paragraph 8.
2. The Research Institute of America, is a private, commercial
organization established to serve business for a fee. It furnishes advice
on economics, legislation, management, taxation, and industrial and human
relations. It tries to help business firms increase sales, cut costs, reduce
taxes, and increase profits. It prepares periodic and special reports aimed
to serve business executives, salesmen, and tax specialists. It has been in
operation at least since 1935. It sells its services.
3. Mr. Leo Cherne, Executive Director, is a lawyer who was formerly
with Tax Research Institute of America. Before World War II, he did some
lecturing at Army War College and U. S. Military Academy. He was adviser on
taxation to General MacArthur in 1946. He is a director of Freedom House.
4. Ir. Carl Hovgard, President of the Research Institute since 1935,
is also engaged in oil exploration and production, headquarters, Abilene,
Texas, and tungsten mining in Arizona. He is prominent in yacht clubs.
5. The Research Institute of America has four classes of membership:
a. Executive membership for which it charged 1?180. a year,
included weekly mailings of staff studies and regular
reports on economic trends.
b. Sales membership for which it charged a company 415. a
month, plus :h9. per month per person supervising salesmen,
plus ;i~2.50 per month per salesman, included materials
designed to help build sales volume.
c. Associate membership for plant executives from foreman
to company president, for which it charged a company
"1'32. for two years, plus X216. for key executives for
two years, included bi-weekly mailings on management
problems plus reports as prepared.
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d. Tax service membership, for which it charged $231.
for the Tax Control Coordinator, and lesser amounts
for lesser services, included materials on preventive
tax planning.
6. Publications by the Institute include such topics as Making
the Most of Contracts, Report to Management, Communist New Economic
Challenge, and Ousting Communist Unions.
7. The idea of listing 100 Americans of differing backgrounds --politic al.l,.--,
socially, culturally, financially--in a ballroom attended by 3,000 leading
businessmen, educators, etc. with TV and Radio and other Press coverage is a
magnificent public relations achievement. It gives the customers who will be
at the banquet a spectacle worthy of their patrona-e and it honors such diverse
personalities as Sherman Adams and oenator Kennedy, eneral MacArthur and
former President "ruman, ~,ew s L. Strauss and J. i,Robert C)ppenheimer, General
Robert E. :4ood and Paul G. :`--Ioffman, Richard H. Nixon and James A. Farley, etc. etc.
8. There is no good reason why the Director should not attend with these
other honorable people such as Alfred 7:. Landon and Dorman Thomas. its presence
and theirs will add to the prestige of this valuable and honorable Research
Institute and at the same time will -,ive some oublic recof-nition to the honored
guests. It is a function, however, that the Director should not attend if he
has something more important to do that night.
J. xROGAI
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