CABLE TO HENRY KISSINGER FROM GRAHAM MARTIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-165-5-15-7
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: October 9, 1971
• Content Type: CABLE

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TO THE WHITE HOUSE
SECRET EXCLUSIVE
FOR DR. KISSINGER
FROM AMBASSADOR MARTIN, ROME 1494
1. THESE OBSERVATIONS MAY BE OF SOME USE TO THE PRESIDENT
IN DETERMINING WHAT HE MIGHT WISH TO STRESS IN HIS CONVERS-
ATION WITH FOREIGN MINISTER MORO ON MONDAY.
2. AIDED BY A SKILLFUL USE OF IUNENDO AND R IN OR , A
THORCfUGH KNOWLEDGE OF TEE PECULIAR PSYCHOLOGY OF THE ITALIAN
"CLASSE POLITICA' IN ROME, AND AN ASSIDUOUS WOOING OF THE
pRESS BY HIS FOLLOWERS,_ MORO EMERGED FROM THE NATIONAL
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC COUNCIL LAST WEEK WITH AN ?ENHANCED IMAGE
AS A POLITICAL TACTICIAN. THE REALITY IS SCME1,41HAT
DIFFERENT. MUCH MORE THAN HE WOULD HAVE LIKED, HIS
PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION WITH THE LEFT IS MUCH GREATER NOW
THAN IT WAS TWO WEEKS AGO. HIS CHANCES IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ,
SWEEPSTAKES HAVE BEEN. DIMINISHED, ALTHOUGH HE CANNOT BE
WHOLLY COUNTED our. THE FACT REMAINS THAT MANY MORE OF
THOSE WHO WILL VOTE WILL.NOW OPPOSE HIM TO THE BITTER END.
AT THE SAME TINE, HE CAN TAKE COMFORT FROM THE FACT THAT THE
RESULTS OF THE COUNCIL WERE AND HAVE. BEEN MADE TO APPEAR
EVEN MORE SO, A PART IAL DEFEAT FOR FANFANI, WHOSE CHANCES
IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE 'ARE ALSO NOW SOMEWHAT LESS THAN
THEY WERE TWO WEEKS AGO. INCREASINGLY, ONE HEARS TALK OF
TURNING TO RLIIOR OR LEONI AS CANDIDATES MORE OR LESS
ACCEPTABLE TO THE MAJORITY OF THE CHRIST IAN DEMOCRATS AND
WHO WILL HAVE A BROADER APPEAL TItRoucHour THE WHOLE POLITICAL -
SPECTRLP THAN EITHER MORO OR FANFANI. SARAGAT IS WAITING
IN THE WINGS READY, IF AN IMPASSE DEVELOPS, TO BE THE
CANDIDATE TO WHOM ALL MAY RALLY. A?,1DREOTTI IS A RATHER DARK
HORSE POSSIBILITY AS IS LA MALFA OF THE REPUBLICANS. I DO NOT
RFT NOT CONSIDER DE MARTINO A SERIOUS POSSIB-ILITY, ALTHOUGH
PERT IN I , THE SOCIAL IST PRESIDENT OF THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES,
IS AN ourstoz POSSIBILITY.
3. MORO HAS ACCEPTED SOME OBLIGATIONS TO THE SOCIALISTS,
AMONG THEM TO OPPOSE US ON THE CHIREP ISSUE. MORO MADE A
TACTICAL ERROR IN HIS CONVER SAT ION WITH THE SECRETARY BY
STRONGLY INFERRING THAT ITALIAN INTRANSIGENCE ON THIS ISSUE
IS WHOLLY DUE TO THE SOCIALISTS AND, IN PARTICULAR TO
THE ADAMANT OPPOSITION OF NENN I. NEITHER DE MART INO, THE
SOCIALIST VICE PREMIER NOR NENNI srn...L THE NOMINAL
LEADER OF THE AUTONCM isrs, WILL WISH TO ACCEPT, SUCH TOTAL
RESPE/NSIBIL rr Y, CERTAINLY NOT PUBLICLY. ONLY THIS MORNING
NENNI PUBLICLY D ISACMCIATED HIMSELF FROM SOCIALIST
PARTY SECRETARY MANCINI' S CALL FOR "NEW AND ADVANCED
EQUILIBR 5".
4. IN AN -ELECTION WHICH WILL.BE DECIDED BY THE SLIGHTLY
MORE THAN 1000 VOTES OF THE MEMBERS OF BOTH HOUSES OF THE
ASSEIBLY, PLUS 50 ODD VOTES FROM THE REGIONS, WHERE
THE EA.LLOTTING IS SECRET, NO ONE CAN BE SURE THAT ANY
COEPIIIrT.ZPIENT WILL BE 1EPT EVEN THOSE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR.
? WE WILL L?Ei A CLEAR IDEA OF OE RELATIVE STRENGTHS ONLY
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BE SERVED BY PERMITTING US TO APPEAR TO FAVOR ANY PARTICULAR.
CANDIDATE AT THIS STAGE, PARTICULARLY SO SINCE WE HAVE
HAT---- WE- CAN 'REA SONAELY WORK WELL WITH ANY OF THOSE
WHO SEEM 10 HAVE ANY REAL CHANCE.
5. IN M Y COWER SAi IO WITH NURO -N 2 OCTOBER I REITERATED
THE. AMERICAN POSIT ION TFLI WHILE I HAD MADE IT CRYSTAL
ct,Eni-- TO ALL THAT WE CONSIDERED HE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC
P:TY TO BE THE CORE OF' OUR INTERESi S IN ITALY AND WOULD
CON IN UE TO DO W HAt WE COULD T 0 HELP T HE PARTY PREPARE
TO ENTER THE MAL 197,3 ELECT IONS AS A UNIFIED AND HARD-
HITTING PARTY, WE D ID NOT AS OF NOW INE ND 10 SUPPORT HIM
CR ANY OT HER CANDIDATE AS A PREFERRED CHOICE IN THE DECEMBER
PRESIDENT IAL ELECTIONS.
6. MORO FULLY INTENDS TO USE THE APPOINTMENT WITH THE
PRESIDENT INs EVERY POSSIBLE WAY z.O FURTHER HIS OWN CANDIDACY.
THE AGREEMENT NOT TO ANNOUNCE THE APPOINTMENT UNTIL FRIDAY
WAS, OF COURSE, BROKEN. STORIES APPEARED IN THE ITALIAN PRESS
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS BEFORE THE RELEASE DATE.
7. CONSEQUENTLY, I HAVE QUIETLY INFXrIED PRESIDENT
-?SARAGAT,- PRIME MINISTER COLCMBO, AND tiosr OF T HE GD
FACT ION :LEADERS THAI: THE, APPOINTMENT WAS AT Mr.-1.RO' S REQUEST;
THAT I-HAD RECTIMENDED THE APPOINTMENT BECAUSE I WAS CERTAIN
THAT THE 'PRESIDENT WOULD WISH TO REEMPHASIZE HIS HIGH REGARD._
FOR ITALY. BY RECEIVING ITALY'S FOREIGN MINISTER AS HE HAD
THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF OTHER IMPORTANT NATIONS; THAT I AM
SURE THE. PRESIDENT THOUGHT IT APPROPRIATE, ON THE VERY FIRST
CELEBRATION .OF COLCMBUS DAY AS A NEWLY ENACTED OFFICIAL
HOLIDAY, ,TO RECEIVE THE .HIGHEST RANKING MEMBER OF THE -
.rrALLAN. GOVERNMENT THEN IN THE UNITED STATES; AND I THOUGHT
THE PRESIDENT MIGHT ,WISH.TO REITERATE THE REPRESENTATIONS
MADE BY ME IN ROME AND BY SECRETARY ROGERS IN NEW YORK
REGARD INC THE COMPLETE SER IgUSNE SS OF THE EFFORTS OF THE
UNITED STATES TO INSURE THE CONTINUING REPRESENTATION OF
THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA IN THE UN AND THE FULL EXPECTATION THAT
WE WOULD RECEIVE COMPLETE ITALIAN SUPPORT ON THE PROCEDURAL
MOT ION AND ON THE IQ RE SOL UT ION.
8. I HOPE, THEREFORE, THAT THE PRESIDENT MAY POINT
OUT TO MORO THAT WE DO, ,INDEED, EXPECT FULL ITALIAN SUPPORT ON
BOTH VOTES, AND THAT, UNDER flE CHANGED CIRCLMSTANCES NOW
MEV AL ING , WE SIMPLY WOULD NOT UNDERSTAND THE LACK OF
SUCH SUPPORT.
9. IF MORO AGAIN ALLUDES TO, "DIFFICULTIES WITHIN THE
COAL IT ION" T HE PRESIDENT MIGHT WISH TO OBSERVE THAT IT
SEEMED TO HIM THAT THESE DIFFICULT IES HAD BEEN RATHER
EASILY SURMOUNTED BY MORO LAST -YEAR THAT HE BEL TEVES
THAT M ORO WOULD HAVE A EVEN EASIER TIME THIS YEAR AND THAT
IS HAS INSTRUCTED AMBASSADOR MARTIN IN ROME TO GIVE HIM
EVERY ASSISTANCE IN THIS TASK.
10. MORO'S VERSION OF WHAT WAS SAID WILL BE QUICIEY CIR-
CULATED IN ROME. THERE WOULD APPEAR TO BE AN OBVIOUS
ADVANTAGE IN INFORMING ME PROMPTLY OF WHAT DID ACTUALLY
TRANSPIRE, SO THAT I MAY QUIETLY AND INFORMALLY SET THE
RECORD STRAIGHT IN CERTAIN RESTRICTED Bur HIGHLY IMPORTANT
CIRCLES IN ROME. WARM REGARDS..
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