INFORMATION ITEMS

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LOC-HAK-548-10-2-0
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RIFLIM
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T
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2
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January 11, 2017
Document Release Date: 
November 28, 2011
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2
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Publication Date: 
October 5, 1973
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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2011/11/28: LOC-HAK-548-10-2-0 ? Ir SENSITIVE PAGE 50 SITUATION(S) MESSAGE(S) LISTING SITUATION; HAKUN SUBJECT CATAGORY: TDHAK MESSAGE / ANNOTATIONI MESSAGE: IMMEDIATE 0 051045Z OCT 73 FM THE SITUATION ROOM TOHAK14 ON-FILE NSC RELEASE INSTRUCTIONS APPLY TO DICK CAMPBELL FOR SECRETARY KISSINGER DATE 10/09/73//282 MORI/CDF C03346411 VIA SWINGER CONTAINS CODEWORD WH32463 OCTOBER 5, 1973 MEMORANDUM FOR: THE PRESIDENT FROM: HENRY A, KISSINGER SUBJECT; INFORMATION ITEMS cHIL N DEVELOPMENTS: CHILEAN FOREIGN MINISTER ADMIRAL ISMAEL HIJERTA FLEW TO NEW YORK YESTERDAY TO REPORT TO THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY WHY THE ARMED FORCES SEIZED POWER ON SEPTEMBER 11. HUERTA 15 SCHEDULED TO ADDRESS THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON OCTO- 3ER A. HE TOLD JOURNALISTS IN SANTIAGO WEDNESDAY NIGHT THAT HE KNEW THERE WAS AN UNFAVORABLE ATTITUDE IN THE UN TOWARD THE JUJNTA, HE MENTIONED CHARGES BY SOVIET UN DELEGATE MALIK CLAIM- ING THAT CHILEAN COMMUNIST PARTY SECRETARY GENERAL CORVALAN WAS TO RE SHOT ON WEDNESDAY, HUERTA SAID THAT CORVALAN -- WHO WAS ARRESTED LAST FRIDAY -- WAS IN GOOD HEALTH AND ENJOYING EX- CELLENT TREATMENT. THE CHILEAN COMMUNIST LEADER IS UNDER IN- VESTIGATION ON CHARGES OF HIGH TREASON AND WILL BE TRIED BY A MILITARY TRIBUNAL. MEANWHILE THE CHILEAN MINISTER OF INTERIOR SAID WEDNESDAY THAT THE C0 NOT STOP THOSE WHO WANTED TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY AND THAT, UNLESS A SPECIAL CASE CAME UP, SAFE CONDUCTS WOULD BE PROVIDED TO ALL THOSE WHO TOOK ASYLUM IN FOREIGN EM- BASSIFS, THE JUNTA PRESS SECRETARY ADVISED AMBASSADOR DAVIS THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD INVITED SENATOR KENNEDY TO COME To CHILE TO INVESTIGATE CONDITIONS THERE -- WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO REFUGEES, THE CHILEAN EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED TO CONVEY A SIMILAR INVITATION TO SENATOR HUMPHREY ANND/OR HIS SISTER. THE CHILEAN LEGAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE REPORTED OFFICIALLY ON OCTOBER 3 THAT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO DIED FROM BULLET WOUNDS ******* WHSR COMMENTS ***** * PSN 1047501 DTG;051045 SENSITIVE TOR;2781048 No Objection to Declassification in Full 2011/11/28: LOC-HAK-548-10-2-0 No Objection to Declassification in Full 2011/11/28: LOC-HAK-548-10-2-0 ? qw PAGE 51 SITUATION(S) MESSAGE(S) LISTING DATE 10/09/73//282 SITUATION: HAKUN SUBJECT CATAGORY: TOHAK MESSAGE / ANNOTAT I ON $ BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 11 AND OCTOBER 2 WAS 476v OF WHOM 462 WERE CIVILIANS AND 14 WERE MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND POLICE, THE JUNTA ALSO ISSUED A DECREE ON WEDNESDAY APPOINTING MILI- TARY OFFICERS To HEAD CHILE'S MAJOR UNIVERSITIES, FORMER AIR FORCE COMMANDER IN CHIEF GENERAL RUIZ WAS NAMED RECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHILE IN SANTIAGO AND PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF RECTORS, TOP SECRET-SENSITIVE CONTAINS CODEWORD TOP SECRET-SENSITIVE CENTAINS CODEWORD -2^^ S T Jj h jN INDDCHLNA_; MILITARY ACTIVITY ALONG PHNOM PENH'S SOUTHERN FRONT WAS LIGHT YESTERDAY. OUTPOSTS NEAR THE PREK HO BRIDGE WERE TARGETS FOR INSURGENT SHELLINGS,- BUT THERE WERE NO GROUND ACTIONS, GOVERNMENT OFFICERS ARE COMMANDEERING SAMPANS TO MOVE THEIR TROOPS INTO THE FLOODED AREA NORTH OF ROUTES 2 AND 201 IN ORDER TO TRY TO REGAIN HIGH GROUND ALONG THESE ROADS. TWENTY MILES SOUTHWEST OF PHNOM PENN, GOVERNMENT TROOPS AT THE ISOLATED TOWNS OF TRAM KHNAR AND SRANG ARE UNDER INCREASING COM- MUNIST PRESSURE, ELSEWHERE, GOVERNMENT UNITS AT KDMPONG CHAM HAVE BROKFN THE COMMUNISTS! MONTH-LONG ENCIRCLEMENT OF THE AIR- FIELD JUST NORTHWEST OF THE CITY AND CONTINUE TO EXPAND THEIR AREA OF CONTROL AGAINST LIGHT RESISTANCE. FIGHTING WAS MODERATE TO HEAVY THROUGHOUT SOUTH VIETNAM YESTERDAY, IN MILITARY REGION 10 FIGHTING WAS MODERATE, DESPITE RECENT RE- PORTS THAT THERE WOULD BE A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN ATTACKS IN QUANG NAM PROVINCE. IN THE HIGHLANDS, COMMUNIST SHELLING ACTIV- ITY CONTINUED TO CENTER IN NORTHERN BINH OINH PROVINCE. FIGHTING WAS LIGHT IN MILITARY REGION 3, WHILE THE DELTA WAS MODERATELY ACTIVE. GOVERNMENT GUNNERS IN CHAU DOC PROVINCE REPORTEDLY CAUGHT A NORTH VIETNAMESE BATTALION IN THE OPEN ALONG THE CAM" BODIA.N BORDER, KILLING AT LEAST 80 SOLDIERS WHILE SUSTAINING ONLY ONE WOUNDED, 600 No Objection to Declassification in Full 2011/11/28: LOC-HAK-548-10-2-0