mm the open Illus DECLASSIFIED ol'lhc Nixon l'lusidcnhul Materials 81an ED 12958 Sect 35 I DatoMY TELCON President K13 singer 3 40 pm 11 9 70 K Iwanted to call about 2 things The Soviets are releasing the two generals about now Dobrynin came in and gave me advance warning As you know he came in On Thurs The NVN responded very weakly to our postponement of the meeting In fact the pre-empted us They said they were never clear on the date We said we had given the 9th but suggested the 16th instead So they came back and said - the 16th is okay They have something to tell us but we don't know if it's good or bad Lots of communication traffic and plane traffic We told Bruce to knock off the public meeting but he feels against it He feels we shouldn't let our selfresx look peevish The casualties this week are 31 P They are really holding down Is the Laird plan going forward When does that come off K 2151 - 25th P I thought so It's worth a try Iwant to look at it again in terms of the mickey mouse way they were talking It's like football if you fake you have to have the bait You have to hang them K We asked that the plans be sent over P Unless you really make the fake look real it won't work Regardless of what happens it's what to do It won't deter them or the negotiation Their pattern hasn't changed K Any decision they have made is in term 5 of weakness They had an election at in Germany which saved the Brandt coalition The Social Democrats were told to vote for That would be worked out all together The other vote went up which is an odd coincidence The Christian Democrats gained P him sit there awhile Come down after his Anything new on Chile 1 I K We have put out diredtives on Friday Their propaganda is stepping up against us but mg nothing overt P After making the statement he did it's as cold as that Helms has to get 11b to these people Get out of it now K We have made that clear P Re-scheduling of debts comes up when K Early next year We have put itx in the instructions at the NSC meeting into ol' Nixon l'xcsidcntinl licluuxlucul l'wm llu' DECLASSIHED I Manama 5 0 12958 Sect 3 6 - 1 President Kissinger -- - - - - 3 40 pm 11 9 70 -2- K cont the directive I am holding a meeting on Chile in the Sr Review Group every 3 weeks P I feel strongly this line is important regarding its effect on the people of the world If he can prove he can set up a Marxist anti-American policy others will do the same thing K It will have effect even in Europe Not only Latin American P On the foreign policy world we are doing well Casualties down Soviets playing games on Cuba thing and Jordan cannot be mentioned We are doing wedl K All the newspaper comment on the foreign side is good P Rogers Morton made a good point yesterday Someone said didn't this campaign He said on the contrary it united the country Tunney and Kennedy riding around on police cars and wearing police badges K Good comment P They all jumpted on the band wagon on that The unity thing we have moved around The other party is hi bringing up the economic policy K They are trying to get on the foreign policy band wagon Reston said foreign countries should not underestimate our unity P I think you will find a hell of a lot not voting against Defense K We are in good shape I will see you the middle of the week P Fine This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu Read related article Allende and Chile 'Bring Him Down' 2020-11-03