No Objec ion To Declassification 2009 09 30 LOC-HAK-284-11 s- ••••••• OPC OE 0 141718 S i _ C R E T ' ·····••S 7 F Ll t '7¢ J COPY 25X1 #0223 04517Z1 zv FEB 74 PM SANTIAGO TO TME WHITE HOUSE 25X1 SECRET 14l557Z F B 74 - - - - - - - TO DR HENRY A KISSINGER • lsANT 1 AGO 223 I I I SAW GENERAL PINOCHET ALONE AT Hf OFFICE ll--4 'H E oEFE_Nse MtNtS'fi1w I I HE Ato HE WAS DELIGHTED TO ste M E_A_G_A_l N- --H-E_W_A_S_RE_L_A_X_E_O_A_N_O MOST CORDIAL PERSONAi I ANO RECALLED OUR LUNC TOGfTHER IN QUllO IN 1959 l CONVEYED GREETINGS FROM THE PRESIOENT ANO SECRETARY A WELL AS OUR FRIENOSHIP ANO SUPPn T TOGETHER WITH OUR UNOERSTANntNG OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SUCCFSS OF s EFFORT TO ENSURE CHlti •s RECOVERv 25X1 25X1 25X1 I EXPRESSEO OUR o slRE TO BF OF ASSISTANCE WITHIN THE l fMITS OF THE CONSTRAINTS PLAC O UPON US RY CONGRESS ANO OUR WISH TO PE HELPFUL IN A DISCREET WAY dE ERAL PINOCHET SAID F WAS VERY HAPPY TO HEAR THIS AlllO TO HEAR iT FROM'AN OLO FRIEND HE HAO A VERY DIFFtCULT TASK AHEAD AND NEEOEQ ASSISTANCE TO JN URE THE ECONOMIC ANn POLITICAL ' RECOVERY OF CHILE AND ITS otFENse ''I NOTED THAT WE HAO NO CURRFNT PLANS TO CHANGE OUR POLtrY TOWARDS CUBA HE EXP £ SSEr GREAT SATIS'F ACTJON ON HEARING n 1s HF SAID THAT CASTRO WAS STILL ORKING HARO AT EXPORTING THF RFVOLUTJON THE CHILEANS HAO FOUND evloENCF HERE THAT ARM OR I GI NALLY S Hlf PEO TO Cl- tl LS FROM CUBA HAO BFEN TRANS SH I PP En TO EXTREMIST GROUPS IN ARGE NTtNA AND OTHER NEl lti80RING COUNTRJF-S MORI GDF TODAY LARGE OUANTlllfS OF c OVIET ARMS WERE REING SHIPPED Tn C05137927 PFRU ANO THIS WAS A t USE nF SERlbUS CONCERN TO CHILE IT wOULD BF ntFFJCULT TO SUSTAIN 80TH ECONOMIC RECOVERY AND ARMS RA CHILE DID NOT WANT THi LATTER THEY ONLY WANTED SECU ITV «GENERAL PINOCHET JAIO HE WOULO TELL ME TWO THINGS HE HA NOT Tnln ANY FOREIGNER ' HE WAS GOING SHORTLY Tn 81UZIL AN0 WOUtO SPE o SEVERAL DAYS THeie BRAZIL HAO BEEN ANO WAS BEING VFPV HELPFUL TO HIM I SAIQ tHAT we WOULO WORK-WITH THE BRAZILIANS IN ON-FILE NSC TRVlNG TO BE OF ASSISTANCE TO HJM SECONDLY HE SAID THAT RELEASE PRIOR TO THE 11 MDVEMENTH·QF 11 SEPT HE HAO HAD SOME·OOUBTS INSTRUCTIONS APPLY J ROUT THE FIRR E OF TkE CHILEAN SOLDIER SINCE CHILE HAO NOT BEEN AT WAR FOR NEARLY A CFNTURv THE CONOUCT OF THE CHILE N ARMED FORCES DURING ALLENDe•S OVERTHROW HAO CMPLETELV REAS$1l EO 1 1 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •wHSR COMMENT•• •••••••••••• HAK SCOWCROFT MCfARLANE ROnMAN No Objection To Decl ssification 2009 09 30 LOC-HAK-284-11-5-9 No Objection To Declassification 2009 09 30 LOC-HAK-284-11-5-9 ••••••• SECRET •••••• S COpv HtM AS TO THEIR FIBRE ANO oISCIPLJNE ''l SAID THAT AT THE MEXtCO CtTV CONFERENCE WE WOULO HAVi NO GREAT SURPRISES ANO WOULD NOT ENGAGE IN CON RONTATIQN WITH ilNYONE • GENERAL PINOCHET EXPRESSED AO IRATION FOR THE WAY IN WHTCH T E PRESIDENT HAO HANOLfO nUR RELATIONS WJTH THE USSR ANO PPC WJTHnUT MAKING COSTLY CONC SSION TO EITHER aNn FOR THE SKILLFUL WAY IN WHICH WE HAO LEFT VtETNAM WITHOUT LO ING IT HE EXP ESSEO UNDERSTANOING FOR THE PRESJOENT•S INTERNAL PROBLEMS SAVING THAT A GREAT MAN WAS ALWAY _BITTERLY OPPOSED I ASSURED HIM THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS TOUGH ANO NOTED THAT I HAO BEFN WITH HIM IN VrRV OANGFROUS SITUATIONS ON SEVERAL OCCASlbNS AND HAO SEEN THE vIND OF c6URAGE HE 01S LAVEO WHEN UNDER PRES URE OR IN OANGER GENFRAL PINOCHET SAID HE WAS DELIGHTED TO KNOW THAT TH LFAOERSHIP OF THE UNITED STATES 010 NOT SHARE THE VIEWS ON rHJLE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES ANO THE WASHINGTON POST HE KNEW THAT He UST RFCONCILE tHJLEANS IN ORDER TO RESTORE THE COUNTRY ANO TD 00 THJS ME WOULD use THE BFST CIVILIAN BRAINS IN THF COUNTRY HE CITED s ez LENIZ ANO THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE HE KNEW THAT THERE WERE SOr-tE TOUGH Tlfit'ES AHFAO ANO HE WOULn HAVF TO TAKE SOME UNPOPULAR ECONOMIC MEASURFS TO MOVE THE COUNTRY TOWARDS RECOVERY CHILF HAD GOOD PEOPLE ANO ADEQUATE RESOURCES HE INT NOEO TO use THEM TO BEST ADVANTAGE 1 NOTED THE THE U S WAS SENDING HIM AN OUTSTANDING AMBASSADOR WHO WAS A GOOD FRIEND OF ANO HAO GOOD ACCESS TO THF SECRETARY OF STATE GENERt L PINOCHET SAID HE APPRECIATED ruts VFRY MUCH AHO LOOKEO FORWARD TO MEETING THE AMBASSADOR SOON 11 pJNOCHET SAID HE WAS SFtTING UP A NEW NATIONAL tNTELllr cNCE SFRVICE ANO THAT HIS KEY MAN IN THIS WAS A rOLONEL CONTRERa ANOTHER WOULD BE THE TITULAR HEAD BUT CONTRERAS WAS HIS HAN HF OULn MUCf-t APPRECIATE OUR HELP IN THE FORMATIVE PERIOD A ID I TOLD HIM WE WOULD 8 GLAO 10 HAVE CONTRERAS OR ANYONE Els CnME UP TO SEE us TO SEE W AT WE cOULQ 00 To BE OF ASStSTANrF TO THEM 11 PlNOCHET EXPRESSED AOHtRATION FOR OR KISSINGER'S TIRE1 ss ouEST FOR PEACE AND HOPED rj ie SECRETARY WOULD COME TO LATfN AMERICA I SAID I BELIEVED HE WOULD AS HE UNOERSTO • o THE IMPORTANCE OF THli PART OF THE WORLD GENERAL rlNOCHET LOnvEO FORWARD TO MEETING HIM WF SHOULn KNOW THAT THE CHILEANS wrULO NOT CREATE ANY P OBLEMS FO US AS 1WE KNEW THEY HAO STAGEn THEIR RFVOLUTJON av THEMSELVES ANO HAO oONE IT WITHOUT ANY OUTSlnr HELP BUT THEY 010 NEED ASSISTANCE TO REBUILO THEI ECONOMY Hf AGAIN EXPRESSEO CONCERN ABOUT THE INTRODUCTION INTO PERU OF SOVIET ARMS TECHNICIANS ANO DEPENDENT FaMILJES HE STRONGLY FELT T A T THE USSr-1 ANO CUBA INTENDED TO USE PERU AS A PLATFORM TO OPERATE IN THE CONTl ENT CHILE HAO NO AGGRESSIVE INTENTtONS AND ONLV WANTED DEFENSIVE WEAPONS G NERAL PINOCHET SAID HE FELT THAT PERON WAS MOVING IN A MODERATE OtRFCTION IN 0 cu 0 11 · · No Objection T-9 Declassificc 1tion 2009 09 30 _ _ LOC-HAK-284-11-5-9 No Objection To Declassification 2009 09 30 LOC-HAK-284-11-5-9 •••••••• S E C R E T ••••• •S COPY 11 GENERAL PINOCHET 'ASKED ME TO THANK THE PRES IOENT ANO OR KJSSJNGFR FOR TME KARK OF toN 1nENCE THEY HAO GlYEN HIM IN SFNOJNG ME Ta SEE HIM A O 16 CONVFY TO THEM HIS ADMIRATION Nn GRATJTUnE ANO BEST Wl'SHES JN THf 'OBLE STRUGGLE THEY WERE W GJNG ON BEHALF OF HUMAN FREEOOM HE HnPED THAT r WOUlO COME TO EE HfM AGAIN 11 HE LOOKED WELL At IO CQNi JOENT THOUGH RECoGNIZ ING THAT Hi HAS A TnUGH ROAO AHEAD ANO MANv ENEMIES AT HOME AND ABROAD HF WAS aqv10USLY EXTREMELY lEASEn AT THf VISIT ANn THE INTERfST TT INDICATED' HE SHOULD NOT E A SOURCE OF PROBLEMS FOR US l J THE INTER-AMERICAN FRAMEWORK WILL DISCUSS ON MY RETURN 11 THERE we-e A FEW OTHE ITEM I No Objection To Declassification 2009 09 30 LOC-HAK-284-11-5-9