CONTACT WITH THE CHINESE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-512-1-2-9
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: May 26, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 14, 1970
• Content Type: MEMO

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/05/26: LOC-HAK-512-1-2-9
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM: Henry A. Kissinger '?~ ; .
SUBJECT: Contact with the Chinese
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
In response to an item on Communist Chinese activity in the
September 9 Daily Brief, you asked whether we should not try
again through our channel in Paris to contact the Chinese.
As suggested in your note, we do have an offer outstanding to the
Chinese. Attached is a copy of a message that we gave General
Walters on June 16, but which he has not yet delivered. (You,
of course, approved this message but we left it purposely
unsigned. Walters would not hand over the text, but rather would
read from it literally.) Several weeks. ago he found an opportunity
to tell his Chinese contact that he had an important message from
our government to their government. The man said that he, would
inform his government that we had a message, but Walters
received no response. This past Monday, September 7, Walters
again told his contact, at a Pakistani reception, that he had a
message. The man again said that he would tell his government.
We have also been trying since the beginning of the year to open
a channel through the Dutch, but I believe if we are to have any
success it will be through Paris.
I agree that it would be useful to establish contact with the Chinese
at this time. However, we have made clear signals, and I think
we have no choice but to wait and see if they are willing to respond.
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