LETTER TO FRANK R. BARNETT FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R000400520005-0
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2002
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 3, 1958
• Content Type: LETTER

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NATIONAL MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE
INDUSTRY ? GOVERNMENT ? EDUCATION
GENERAL CHAIRMAN
Lenox R. Lohr, President
Museum of Science & Industry
Program Committee
CHAIRMAN Mr. Allen W. Dulles, Dir,
Robert E. Wood
Retired Chairman of the Board Central Intelligence Agency
Sears. Roebuck & Co.
ASSOCIATE CHAIRMEN
Lucius D. Clay, Chairman of the Board
Exem~v? Rego
HEADQUARTERS
140 S. Dearborn St.
Chicago 3, Illinois
Tel: STate 2.2826
Continental Can Company, Inc. Dear Mr. Dulles:
Charles F. Kettering, President
Thomas Alva Edison Foundation, Inc.
Harry A. Sullis, Chairman of the Board Will you please regard this letter as a formal invitation to be in
General Mills, Inc.
John L. Collyer, Chairman of the Board Chicago next month for a Conference to reassess American strategy
The B. F. Goodrich Company
M. H.Trytten, Director in the age of missiles, Soviet economic warfare and massive propaganda?
office of Scientific oPersonnel On the agenda are:
National Academy of Sciences
National Research Council
Frank R. Barnett
Director of Research
The Richardson Foundation, Inc.
Cooperating Agencies
Aircraft Industries Association of America, Inc.
National Security Council
American Ordnance Association
National Industrial Advertisers'
Association
National Safety Council
American Society for Industrial Security
Associated General Contractors
of America Inc.
Illinois Manufacturers' Association
Illinois State Chamber of Commerce
The Chicago Association of
Commerce & Industry
Office of Defense Mobilization
Department of Defense
Office of Assistant
Secretary of Defense
(Supply & Logistics)
(Manpower, Personnel & Reserve)
Corps of Engineers, U.S.A.
Civil Engineer Corps, U.S.N.
(Bureau of Yards & Docks)
U. S. Air Force (Installations)
Office of Naval Research, U.S.N.
Chemical Corps, U.S.A.
U. S. Coast Guard
Industrial College
of the Armed Forces
Department of Labor
Department of Commerce
(Coast & Geodetic Survey)
Federal Civil Defense Administration
State of Illinois Civil Defense Agency
Chicago Civil Defense Corps
Scientific Manpower Commission
National Engineers Committee of
Engineers Joint Council
Armed Forces Chemical Association,
Midwest Chapter
Western Society of Engineers
Society American Military Engineers
January 15, 1958
International Economic Strategy
Science and the Shape of the Future
Strategy for the Research Laboratory and Classroom
Management's Role in Non-Military Defense
Investment, Markets and Allies
U.S. Psychological Objectives -- The War of Ideas
Weaponry, Space and Survival
Civilian-Military Partnership in Defense
The enclosed Program* lists speakers, including: the Under Secretary
of Commerce; the Army's Chief-of-Staff; the nation's number one Rocket
Expert; the President of the International Finance Corporation; and
scientists, educators, businessmen and government officials of similar
stature.
I earnestly hope you and some of your associates will be able to take
part in this Conference. Recent events suggest we may be moving through
the 11th hour; and America needs the best thinking of civic, professional
and business leadership -- as well as government -- about the priority
issues of national security.
Harvard University
Defense Studies Program
Foreign Policy Research Institute.
University of Pennsylvania
Illinois Institute of Technology
Armour Research Foundation of 1IT
National Science Teachers Association * Please use the Advance
Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Northwestern University Registration Card to facilitate
University of Notre Dame 'final Conference arrangements
University of Illinois
Foundation for Religious Action in the
Social and Civil Order
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
AMVETS
Sincerely,
Frank R. Barnett
Associate Program Chairman
(Director of Research
The Richardson Foundation
122 East 42nd Street
New York 17, New York)
The Role of Commerce and Industry in U. S. National Strategy-Including Factors
Outside the U. S. Which Affect American Industry.
1958 CONFERENCE FEBRUARY 17-18-19
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