DR. KISSINGER'S URGENT REQUEST FOR HIS PAPER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000700080017-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: August 4, 1972
• Content Type: MF

SECRET' SENSITIVE
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4 August 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR
SUBJECT: Dr. Kissinger's Urgent Request for His Paper
1. Attached is a note (written last night:) on the current status of
the paper Dr. Kissinger wants. I respectfully request that you take the
six-odd minutes required to read it since we will then be working from a,
common base.
2. The problem sketched in that note was sharpened this morning
when called me at 0850 to relay the message that Kissinger
wanted his paper by noon. It was further sharpened when, on your
instructions, I bearded Kissinger at the WSAG. He says he understands
the situation, but adamantly insists he absolutely has to have a. paver ---
coordinated or not -- this afternoon.
3. For reasons explained in the attached note, I (obviously) have
no problems with the appended, clean-typed draft. If you like it, it can
be sent privately to Kissinger, though it should not be labeled an agreed
Agency product -- which it definitely is not. (Despite the objections of
some of my colleagues, I think Kissinger would learn things he does not
now know or understand if he read it.) We could then forge ahead as
outlined in my note and try to produce an agreed version by the middle of
next week for WSAG distribution.
4. I am. not pushing the appended paper and certainly not trying
to short-circuit my dissenting colleagues. You may well prefer to send
Henry nothing until we can get together an agreed package. That, of
course, is your decision to make -- which is why I have done nothing
further until your return.
George A. Carver, Jr.
Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs
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