Kissinger Giving Papers To Library of Congress By Don Oberdorfer Washington Post Staff Writer The Washington Post 1974- Dec 21 1976 ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Washington Post pg A1 Kissinger Giving Papers To Library of Congress nrc the s_ecrelarial · notes or his tclc• 'phone conversations which Kis ingcr Secretary or Stal Hem y A Kis• has claim cL as personal under an opinion he obtained in January from singer has found a 1 crmabm1t home Department legal adviser in the Librar ' of Congress for most of · the Slatesaid the Justice Department his records of his years in high office Officials has also Issued an opinion granting and has begun to assem blc a staff to Kissinger personal 1·ights to the leJe he pJ1im vorl on them alter Jan 20 phone data Kissingct·'s donation of his papers l awrence S Eaglcburger Kissing lo the libt'ary announced yesterday · executive assistant said we er's guarantees him or someone designated haven't faced the question of whcic by him control 01•e1· scholarly access lo the telephone records will Ile kept the papers for 25 years or rive • though he said they will not be in the years after his death whichever is Lilli'a1 y of Cong1·ess N ithcr F aglc later The announcement came six or other sources could csti• days after the bulk of his papers-17 burger mate the volume of the phone rec• four-drawer file cabincts-Wt re re•· orcls moved from the Slate Department Pete ' Hodman of the National Sccu and taken under guard lo the Library rit Council staff a l'Csearrh assisl ant of Congress accol'din lo officials Ince Among documents tltal will ·not be and spccchwritct for Kissinger See KISSINGER AG Col 1 going lo the Capitol Hill repository · Ry Don Obcrdorfcl' Washln1ton Post t df Wri cr Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission KISSINGER Fro111 Al 1969 and before that a student of his at Harvard University said he has agreed to be a fuJl-lime member of a Kissinger office to be established here after the Tan 20 inaugural Hosemary Niehuss a National Sccurit v Council staff member who has worked on Midcllc East affairs has been approached as a potential employee but no final decision has been confirmed The made Rodman Kissinger office may be quite small -perhaps only two or three people to aid Kissinger in writing his memoirs and other activities yet to be determined according to Rodman Tlle State Department announcement said Kissinger had donated a collection of papers relating to his years in government service and to earlier periods of his life as a gift to the nation No tax deduction is involved spokesman Robert L Funseth said The collection is in ·two partspc1·sonal papers Kissinger wishes to include and copies of government papers be worked on or reviewed during · his service Six Stale Department record-keepers worked for about a week making sw·c that a record copy is retained in the department's central file of all government documents Kissinger sent last week to the Library of Congress This is necessary to ·ensure the continuity of foreign poi cy information for the Cartel· administration Tl ccent Secretaries of State have left their office file at tile State Department where they could refer to it later under special arrangements But 27 earlier Secretaries of State the last o le being Cordell Hull 1033-1944 do• natci l their papers to the Library of Congress Librarian of Congress Daniel J Boorstin called the Kissinger papers a great resource and said 'they are _probably the most important collcc• t10n 0£- papers concerning American foreign policy that exist in this century '' Boo1·sti11 said he had initiated the proposal that Kissinger deposit his papers at the library and it didn't take much persuasion Boorstin said the libral'y would make available space to Kissinger and a research assistant to use the documents presumably for memoir writing Until the Kissinger papers arE opened to the public 25 years 01· more from now access will require an ap- · propriate ecul'ity clearance and the permission of Kissinger as· well as permission from the U S department or agency that originated the papc1- the State Department announcement said These restrictions are consistent with those imposed by several past Secretaries of State library officials said I Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission