CABLE TO THE WHITE HOUSE FROM PARIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-110-9-12-6
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: March 2, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

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FM PARIS
TO THE WHITE HOUSE
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S 211747Z. MAR 72
FM AMBASSADOR WATSON PARIS 614
1972 LIAR
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TO THE WHITE HOUSE EYES ONLY FOR DR. KISSINGER
I HAD VERY GOOD MEETING WITH PRESIDENT POMPIDOU THIS AFTERNOON
AND PASSED ALONG TO HIM THE VIEWS AS EXPRESSED IN YOUR TELEGRAM
NO. 2108 5. HE LISTENED TO THE POINTS OF THE'TELEGRAM AND SAID
HE COULD UNDERSTAND WHY IT WAS A PROBLEM WITH US. HE SAID NO MORE
A ND .I !MERELY, TOLD HIM THAT IT WAS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT THAT HE
UNDERSTAND OUR VIEWPOINT BECAUSE: OF OUR STAGE IN THE DHINESE
INTERCHANGE.
HE ALSO SAID THAT HE HAD BEEN AL ERTED THAT HE WOU LD BE RECEIVING
A LETTER FROM-THE-PRESIDENT ON "HIS CHINA VISIT, AND IT HAS NOT YET
HE REEMPHASIZED HIS STATEMENTS IN HIS PRESS CONFERENCEOF LAST
WEEK ON HIS POSITION ON THE DOLLAR. HE SAID OBVIOUSLY TO HI M THE
AMERICAN POLICY IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AND HE UNDERSTOOD OUR
PROBLEMS. AT THE SAME TIME HE MENTIONED THAT THE EUROPEAN POLICY
IS ALSO IMPORTANT, BUT THE LAST THING HE WANTED TO SEE WAS A DOLLAR
WAR.
WE ALSO DISCUSSED BRIEFLY THE NARCOTICS SITUATION,-AND I CONGRATULATED
? HIM IN THE NAME OF THE PRESIDENT FOR THE FINE DEIZURE OF A LAB LAST
WEEK 'IN MARSEILLE. THIS SEIZURE, OF COUR SE, HAS BEEN REPORTED
THROUGH REGULAR CHANNELS.
WATSON
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