ALLEGED DAMAGE DONE TO CHINESE SHIPS BY U.S. FORCES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-461-3-2-4
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: March 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 9, 1972
• Content Type: MEMO

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M Q11JUM FOIX THE RECORD
May 9, 1972
SUBS Ts. Alleged Damage Done to Chinese Ships by U.S.. ' rcess
Acting** far. Kissinger, s instructions, I called Mrs. Sldh Y n-hua
at the tae 'UN Mission in New York, at 2`t PM today. I was
told that wed beavailable at 3:00 PM or after.
d qp"n at 315 PM and gave her the following.. es sages;
My boss asked me to call her get.a message to her boss
e would apprec:iate his transmitting to his Govern.
ant conci* ing the Peking. announ ement that damage had
besn done to Chinese ships. The United,States was making
an thv esti tion of these incidents and would give the P i,C
a foul ro ponse througb our embassy in Pa c`ts when the
hWe otion was completed. the meantime, we wanted
tlWw,to $wow that if there was damage caused to Chinese
04s by U. S.. f62ces, we would -of course apologize and
we old pay compensation.
I then ran over this message again to make sure that she fully under-
stood. We then said goodbye and hung up.
TOP S Cur /SENSIUVE
EXCLWSI ftY )YES ONLY
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P RC P ETON OUTSTAY PROTESTS Uw>,S w ATT,AC.KS. ON CHINESE SHIP
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4IS Y OFT AEI A ' 'AI 'OF THE PEOPLE'S REP'tELI C OF CHINA*
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MAY 6s, I AND S, 1972 WARSHIPS A41) A11MRAPT
OF THE N DI STATES t R ZENC.Y NI D REPEATEDLY AflACKED
W. . 62- AND "t NG I"
TWO CHINESE, $ 40` N T SHI PS , "H ONG'
NO. 160"t WHICH E ANCHORED ,QFF TO E SERE
OF. )ON t+ U i1_101 i3F 0014E AN PROVINCE i E DEMOCRATIC
REP LSL I C OF: I , ' ~, W NCI NO CHI RES.E ~. 1 AND
V 'ET,N .ES.E $ AN S W-0 WERE ON .SOARD AT THE TT W AND
S IOU ?Y DAMMING THE DIES OF TN SHIPS 0, TH I S
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THE i VR,H Mai T Mil ST I I ATL, STOP ITS
ACTS QP V t;D OF ATTACKING CKI ERC NT SHIPS
AND PREVENT T RE IRRENCE OF SU IILA IN x N+C 7S. OT1iERW'T SE,,
IT HST BEAR FILL RESPON SIHI LI TT FOR ALL T E GRAVE
C SEaUEHCE9AR10106 1HE EFRO& THE CHINESE COVEN NT
RESERVES TAE LAW. LL RI GH?T TO DEMAND COPIP N SAT I OO FOR,
IT S LASS.
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