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JOHN J, McCLoy
ONE CHASE MANHATTAN PLAZA

NEW YORE, N. Y. 10005

September 19’, 1980

Dear Mr. Lederberg:

Thank you very much for your note of September 16th.

I have heard at various times that Allen Dulles
felt that his reports on the German Resistance were not
given the attention that they deserved, and I note there
were some in the Department who were disposed to discount
the motives of some of the participants. I spent a good bit
of time seeking out the survivors and I gained a very high
opinion of both their courage and their motivation. Some
of the women were quite as outstanding as the men.

My son wrote a thesis on the subject of the German
Resistance and von Schlabrendorff wrote a preface to it. I
do not have a copy at hand at the moment.

I am just back from a quick trip abroad and I have
a rather heavy immediate schedule but I shall take the
advantage of your suggestion to have lunch with you, as I
shall be very happy indeed to exchange some thoughts at this
rather transistional period of our history.

Thank you for writing me.

Sincerely,

Syl,

Mr. Joshua Lederberg, President
The Rockefeller University

1230 York Avenue

New York, New York 10021

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