MEMORANDUM FOR: HONORABLE HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM VERNON A. WALTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R002000060071-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2002
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: November 1, 1973
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
This is a time of trouble for the NATO Alliance and
for our relations with Japan. All are affected by the
energy problem. It is a challenge to our brains, initiative
and energies.
Is this not the time to call for the best brains in the
Free World (NATO, U.S., Japan) to apply themselves to
finding new sources of energy that will give us t=rue
independence within the next ten years? Should we not,
as a project, to give new life to the NATO and U. S. -
Japanese Alliance, propose to our allies a massive joint
search -- as great as the Man-on-the-Moon Program or
the Marshall Plan -- to find a solution to the energy
problem?
Churchill once said, "Make no small plans. They
have no magic to stir the souls of men." Would not such
a program (which would be in everyone's interest) give
new life and purpose to the Alliances and give them an
attractive and imaginative common goal?
7s/ Vernon A Walter.;
Vernon A. Walters
Lieutenant General, USA
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