CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM AL HAIG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-504-7-4-0
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2011
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 14, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

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Ate qV~ 7 KENT PREC S"LY ON SCHEDULE AND EXACTLY AS YOU
W~ HAVE NAA EXCITING 24 HOURS. WITH
ANNOUNCING IP4 ISRAEL THAT YOU HAD TOLD R"TM TEAT AN AuR!1NMNT HI
BEEN WORKED OUT IN MOSCOW AT THE TIME OF THE SUMMIT WHICH WOULD
PROVIDE FOR 35r00a SOVIET JEWS TO EMIGRATE EACH YEAR. 'WITHOUT THE
BENEFIT OF TALKING TO THE GOVERNOR: I PULLi.D BACK GENTLY F01 THAT
POSITION AND GAVE 4IEGGLER TIKE,. FOLLOWING 3UIDANCE1 (1) THE 66b e
?O$ITIOA ON THE RIGHT OF EMIGRATION IS OLEARI ANO (2) UP TO JUU4: OF
THIS YEAR# THERE HAVE BEEN OVER 15.000 JE.W5 WHO EMIGRATED. AT HIS
RATE. THEREHEILL BE BETWEEN 3f rP~+ ~t - (~D~ by THr END OF THE YEAR*
WE HAVE NOTHINti MORE TO ADD OTHE t THAN TO COt4FIRtU IN A '%IUTo TIO A?4Zi
ANSWER THAT THE SUBJECT WAS 015CUSSED IN MOSCOai.
I IMMEDIATELY CALLED NANCY AND TOLD t;Ert WE IE'RE ,NOT lsOINc_, A'O PULL
THE AUG OUT FROM UNDER THE GOVER'N40h. BUT WE JOULE HAVE TO
CIRCUMSPECt. I SPOKE WITH. THE GOVERNOR AFTER HIS ARRIVAL. H4 CON-
CURRENTLY PULLED SACK AT THE AIR?OHT THIS MORNINOP STATING THAT
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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2011/02/04: LOC-HAK-504-7-4-0
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2011/02/04: LOC-HAK-504-7-4-0
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"AQ VRONtt WORD SVT THAT THERE SEEMS TO at SOME
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"AOV*RNOE. 11 041' YIT'l WITH THE POSITION WE TOOK ',WHI Orf DID NOT, EKP
HZM- 1 UT AT THE SAME TIME. WE DID NOT 10 OUT ON A LIMB WITH THE
=.3OV!ETS A144 CONFIRM SOMETHING WAS NOT 30 AND WHICH COULD BE VERY
TRO t3 0O$ t t
3'UOK HIM ON FROM K AM THIS MORNING AND WASr
HIMSE P pIITEQ WWEN HE WAS ALLEQLD TO HAVE SAID THAT IF ANYONE
LET ANY S DR tP. IT HAD TO ES ; YNDON JOHNSON. HL NEVER SAID THAT
AND ,CALLED M AS SOON AS HE READ THE MISQUOTE ON TO WIRE. I CALLED
HAYNDOONA THAT ROGERS DO T'HE SAME* JOHNSON IS
LPP ffi:T mM MISQAND UOTE ISE1EINC CORRECTED.
DAY YESTERDAY AND_ 1..S? NIGHT PREPARING THE FACTS ON THE
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SHRI I R SJ QADCAST. COLSON HAS SEEN PUSHING FOR A STATE DEPARTMENT
WHITS. PAPER. MY OWN VIb;W IS THAT ROGERS' STATEMENT TODAY WILL BE'
04 G ~ III ANY EVENT. WE ARE WORKING, WITH STATE TO PR[PARE ONE. $UT
I H ,W 'N IST D THAT NO DECISION BE MADS, TO RELEASE IT UNLESS WE
ARE..A f Qt,,4TI LY CONVINCED IT WON'T JUST SERVE. AS ANOTHER PLATFORM FOR
'U`RDHER 'ATTACKS. AS OF NOW, COLSON AND COMPANY ARE FULLY AWARE AND
AIR D 1ITH T1'(E PACT THAT WE WILL SHUT UP ON VIETNAM STARTING
TO$ORROW UNDER THE MANTLE Or SENSITIVE NEGOTIATIONS CURRENTLY UND c
WAY?
YGU ARE SET ON CAMP DAVID FOR SATURDAY. A PAT AND I 4ILL pia `ITH
vn rf ~wiri.
O,N HQIS IN NEW YORK DELIVERING MESSAGE, AND I A ! EXECUTING .--. j`
OF' SCCNARIG WITH RESPECT To OOSRYNIN, JNA AND -o,.a~l
THE S#IS.
HOPE VERYTHINt 1S SATISFACTORY IN SWITZERLAND.
REGARDS...
WARM
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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2011/02/04: LOC-HAK-504-7-4-0