LETTER TO HONORABLE RICHARD HELMS FROM FRANK R. BARNETT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300710007-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 19, 1966
• Content Type: LETTER

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19 November 1966
Honorable Richard Helms
Director
CIA
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Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. Helms:
We hope you will attend our Forum on national security
priorities at The Plaza in New York City on Decembe' bth.
Dr. Henry Kissinger, General Alfred Gruenther and Admiral
Arleigh Burke are among the participants.
Although some quarters assume a detente, many experts
feel that (a) Soviet military-technological capabilities
are increasing and (b) there is little solid evidence that
Moscow's intentions or strategies have changed. Moreover,
given Red China's guerrilla warfare doctrine and nuclear
know-how, we can scarcely relax our posture of readiness.
As our conference room will only accommodate 300, we must
limit our invitations and would appreciate -- as early as
possible -- your response. Full details about the program
and registration are in the enclosed brochure.
With best. regards, I am
Faithfully,
FRB : n frank R. Barnett
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R.S.V.P. (by phone) -- Mr. Omer Pace, [phone]
or by enclosed registration form.
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Dear ?`r. Harnett:
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vitation to attend your 'o_yun on December 6
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not to be with you.
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 What is NSIC?
The National Strategy Information Center (NSIC), organized in 1962,
assists professional societies, associations and the general public to study
the relation of military power, geopolitics and communications theory to
national goals. It has organized forums on comparative ideology, eco-
nornic warfare, and propaganda analysis for such groups as the Young
Presidents Organization, the Steel Service Center Institute and the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce. For four years, it has worked with a Standing
Committee of the American Bar Association to support some 20 university
summer institutes for high school teachers on "Democracy vs. Com-
munism."
NSIC's first major book, a symposium of twenty-six authorities, is
entitled PEACE AND WAR IN THE MODERN AGE; Frank R. Barnett,
William C. Mott and John C. Neff (editors); Doubleday; 1965. Contributors
include Dean Acheson, Arleigh Burke, Allen Dulles, Dwight Eisenhower,
Dean Rusk and scholars who lecture to the War Colleges and write for
the military and foreign policy quarterlies.
In 1964, the Center distributed to high school debate teams in 30
states 7,000 gift copies of an analysis of the semantics and security
implications of "peaceful coexistence" as used in Communist journals
and Party memoranda. The 126-page abstract and commentary was pre-
pared for the American Bar Association by scholars at The Center for
Strategic Studies at Georgetown University. In 1965, NSIC distributed
5,000 copies of a panel discussion on "Detente and the National Security"
conducted before the joint student body of The Industrial College of the
Armed Forces and The National War College, and published in THE
GENERAL ELECTRIC FORUM. Other contributors to this issue of the
journal included foreign correspondent Roscoe Drummond, Under Sec-
retary of State George W. Ball and General Earle G. Wheeler, Chairman,
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Since 1962 the New York Committee, National Strategy Seminars has
called upon NSIC to suggest topics and provide speakers for its annual
series of 12 lectures. These seminars, held each year since 1958 at Town
Hall in New York City, are organized by New York alumni of field courses
conducted by The Industrial College of the Armed Forces, under the
chairmanship of Frank A. Vanderlip, Jr. Because of the high quality and
intrinsic educational value of this program, the Department of Defense
has officially sponsored and certified it for reserve point credit for all
services.
Currently, NSIC is organizing national security briefings for mass
media personnel co-sponsored by universities.
NSIC is supported by grants and gifts from foundations, corporations,
individuals and associations. All grants are tax-deductible to the donor.
Officers and Directors of NSIC
FRANK R. BARNETT FRANK N. TRAGER
President Director of Studies
JOHN C. NEFF
Vice President & Treasurer WILLIAM J. CASEY
GENE E. BRADLEY
Washington Vice President ARTHUR E. KLAUSER
ROBERT G. BURKE
Secretary & Counsel MORRIS I. LEIBMAN