4'0P SECRE'P UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON D C 20535 May 11 1970 The President The White House Washington D c Dear Mr President Previous communications furnished information obtained from extremely sensitive sources concerning conta c ts made by members of the White House staff and other Governme nt officials The same sources have furnished the follow i ng additional information Mrs Henry Brandon the wife of Henry Brandon of the London Sunday Times recently mentioned the l e t t e r of Secretary of Interior Hickel which received considera bl e pµblicity due to its anti-Administration stand She said that Mr Hickel had only been able to see the Pre side nt t wic e in the past fifteen months She also said that Henry Ki ss inge r of the Whit e House s ta f f i s going to be told by Harva rd Uni ve r s ity pe rsonne l tlrn t he i s not we lcome ba ck a t t heir University During a subse quent talk with Richard Newstnd t a member of the Harvard faculty Newstadt mentione d ho ld i ng a meeting with Mr Kissinger on Ma y 8 1970 He said t hat Kissinger did not defend himself but told the group a ppare nt ly from Harvard University that they would feel better nex t year Morton H Halperin a former member of the Whi t e House staff who is now emp loyed by the Br ookings Ins ti t ut i on during a conversation with an individual employe d by t he Mass achusetts Institute of Technology mentioned tha t he had resigned as a consultant to the White House This was apparently in opposition to the present United States a c tion in Vietnam and Cambodia He said he was not going to make a press release concerning his resignation but was go i ng t o quietly tell people so that if anyone wanted to write a bout it they could He also told this individual that he could 'fOP SECRET DECLASSIFIED E 0 13526 Section 3 5 It yl1Uf-# 14' By ' LN 1l··5MlfDO NARA Date i 2 bl1 lil l Group 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification 'I 'POP S SGRE'P Tb e President feel free to mention the fact he was resigning to anyone in the press Halperin said he was becoming a '' revol utio nary o r at least a radical He defined radicalism as telling the truth in simple langua ge He also stated that the res ult of the Cambodian invasion would be the killing of a l arge number of Cambodian civilians who will be labeled Vi et Cog Averell Harriman contac ted Ambas s ador Bill Sullivan o f the State Department Harriman asked what the situc ti n in Cambodia look ed like Sullivan s ta te d that he thou ght the communists would fall back to the northe a st sections of Cambodia which they will u se as main bases Harriman then inquired whether or not Sullivan was one o f the 250 individuals of State Department who signed a protest of Unit ed States action Sullivan said he was not Ha r rima n then asked whether Ambassador Bunke r was go ing to resi gn Sullivan sa id he wanted to but that the President would not let him Harriman also commented tha t the President has los t the country Sullivan said that his main effort is to try to get a cease fire Harriman commented that the troubl e i s Kissinger will not ne gotiate Harriman said that the State Department employ ees who signed the protest plan to meet at his house Ma y 17 197 0 and invited Sullivan to join them Sullivan agreed to att end Sincerely yours 0 -d-- - SP· 'fOP SECRE'f 2 'I