CONVERSATION WITH GENERAL GRAHAM ON 17 SEPTEMBER 1975

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2004
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: September 17, 1975
• Content Type: MFR

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17 September 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Conversation with General Graham on
17 September 1975
As I indicated, in my earlier memorandum, an arrangement
to see General Graham was underway and I actually saw him
on 17 September with John Sen present. We covered the fol-
lowing points:
1. Estimates. I told him that we had basically two
kinds of estimates to make on China.
a. First, those estimates which the Intel-
ligence Community believed had to be done whether
the policy makers wanted them or not. In this
category I placed our current estimates on the
Taiwan Straits and the South China Sea and a
proposed piece on a possible Soviet lean in the
Chinese leadership. The compulsion to maintain
the image of a beautiful China relationship made
this type of estimate unpopular to those people
who had manufactured this relationship. Neverthe-
less, as professional intelligence officers we
were obliged to deal with these questions.
General Graham agreed and offered his full support
b. On the other hand, we required policy
direction in the preparation of other estimates
on China and we should not initiate action on
estimates of marginal interest. I was very much
against this kind of estimate. I said on the
China problem it was difficult to relate to policy
makers but we would work at bringing them out of
their dark cave.
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4. General Graham enthusiastically supported my idea of
a monthly report on Sino-Soviet relations which would include
factual data covering the following general topics: trade,
troop dispositions, exchanges, polemics (quantified), border
and navigation and negotiations, clashes, etc. We agreed
that broad speculative comment on the status or relationship
between these two countries was not needed. Although realizing
the limitations of this kind of study, we nevertheless felt
it should be done regularly.
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