MEMO TO HENRY KISSINGER FROM AL HAIG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-492-10-15-8
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: March 4, 2011
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: May 15, 1970
• Content Type: MEMO

AMORANDUM
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2011/03/04: LOC-HAK-492-10-15-8
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
TOP SECRET/SENSITIVE/EXCLUSIVELY EYES ONLY
MEMORANDUM FOR DR. KISSINGER
FROM: Al Haig
There follows the text of a letter received today from General Kirshman's host:
"While delivering the message to my friend, he was extremely cordial
and though I had delivered the message he insisted that I remain there
for tea which he had ordered. He asked me insistently whether I had not
been to the U. S. since I last saw him and I said I had not. For some
reason he almost invariably asks me this question. The conversation
then got around to Japan. He said Japan was an example for the whole
East of what Eastern people could do but that the Japanese were powerful
and it was to be hoped that their economic achievements did not take an
expansionist form. I commented that the Japanese were only one hundred
million and while this might seem like a lot in Europe, it was not in Asia.
He at no time made any mention of the Chinese satellite. He shook hands
cordially on my arrival as on my departure. He was completely non-
committal as to the message saying he would deliver it to the minister. ...
I saw him at the location where I usually see him."
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2011/03/04: LOC-HAK-492-10-15-8