CABLE TO AL HAIG FROM GRAHAM MARTIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-165-5-20-1
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: February 28, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

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IMMEDIATE,';, TO: GENERAL AL HAIG gi THE WHITE HOUSE
FROM: AMBASSADOR GRAHAM MARTIN, ROME 495
REFERENCE: , WH 20959, 25 FEB 1971,
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
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1. UP UNTIL: THE LAST MOMENT-, THERE WAS' A BIT OF UNCERTAINTY
Wi-ETHI-..1? THE GENERALLY AGREED SCRIPT, ENDING IN AN UNPRECEDENTED
DISSOLUTION AND EARLY ELECTIONS, WOULD BE FOLLOWED TO THE END. "
LEONE SIGNED THE DISSOLUTION DECREE THIS MORNING AT 10:07 AND
WE ARE NOW, FACED WITH,ELECTIONS ON 7 MAY. __LAM, JHEREFORE, NOW
ABLE TO RESPOND WITH, na ERFS.L5-intLiCL-Y0 tiR MESSAGE OF 25 _FEBRUARY.
2-- THE TEMPER OF THE COUNTRY DEFINITELY IS SWINGING TO THE RIGHT.
ALMIRANTE- WILL GAIN MOST FROM THIS TREND UNLESS THE CHRISTIAN
DEMOCRATS' MAKE AN ALL-OUT EFFORT WHICH I BELIEVE THEY ARE INCLINED
TO DO. THEY WILL, NEED.. HELP..
3, THEICVMITIST PCI, , STILL SMARTING FROM THE SEVERE PSYCHOLOGICAL
SHOCK OF THE' PUBLIC HUMILIATION OF THEIR MISCALCULATION IN THE .
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, WILL GO ALL OUT AND WILL RECEIVE CONSIDER-
ABLE. SUPPORT FROM THE SOVIET UNION. THEY ARE DEEPLY WORRIED ABOUT
THE THREAT FF?0M THEIR LEFT AND ARE DESPERATELY TRYING _ TO PREVENT THE
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7, I HAVE NOT YET SEEN,FORLANI BUT EXPECT TO DO SO IN THE COMING WEEK.
F_Avl INDICATED IN PREVIOUS CONVERSATIONS THAT WE WOULD BE INCLINED
TO BE HELPFUL IF THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY SHOWED MORE COHESION
AND CO1PACTNESS THAN HAD BEEN EVIDENT I N RECENT YEARS. HE BELIEVES
THAT THEIR SUCCESS IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, AND THE
SU33EQUENT COHESION THAT 'BRINGS US NOW TO EARLY ELECTIONS, HAS MET
THAT PRE-CONDiTION, I AGREE.
S. WE HAVE REVIEWED THE SITUATION THIS MORNING AND HAVE ARRIVED AT
THE FOLLOWING PRIORITIES AND GENERAL ORDER OF MAGNITUDE OF -
S10,000,000 FOR A VASTLY EXPANDED POLITICAL ACTION PROGRAM OVER THE
PERIOD .BETWEEN NOW AND. MAY 7:
A. FOR THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND FLANKING ORGANIZs--
TIONS!, SUCH AS CIVIC :COMMITTEES, COLTIVATORI DIRETTI,_MOCLI-.
LIBERI ACLI, ETC.,, $5,750,000.
B. FOR-:OTHER_OENTRISTAND CENTRIST. INFLUENCE FORCES (SELECTED
TARGETS:WITHIR.PSDIPLIT
C. -' DISRUPTION-ANa.HARRASSMENT ACTIVITIES AIMED -AT. REDUCING :,PCI
VOTE,. 1,250, $1;250;000. -
9. UNDER-.-EXISTINGAUTHORITY. HAVE TODAY COMMITTED $1,700,000,
TO THE CIVIC COMMITTEES TO'GET;THE PRELIMINARY-ORGANIZATIONAL
ACTIVITIESANDER.WAY:-::THIS LEAVES US WITH ONLY A-LITTLE MORE
THAN ONE MILLION DOLLARS LEFT FROM THE. $:-3015,000.00- AUTHORIZED
BY THE 1974 MARCH- 10 DECISION OF THE 40 COMMITTEE.. I WOULD PREFER
TO KEEP THIS--SEPARATE,AS 'A RESERVE RATHER THAN BLANKET IT INTO
THE NEW AUTHORIZATION I-HAVE:REQUESTED IN PARA S ABOVE. IF
MORE IS NEEDED AS 'TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY' PRESENT THEMSELVES- .
-DURING THE-ELECTIONS,YI-SHALLL NOT HESITATE TO ASK.
10. I DO NOT KNOW WHETHER YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO HAVE A MEETING OF
THE 40 COMMITTEE BEFORE GOING AHEAD WITH THE ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZ-
'ATION,-BUTOBVIOUSLY'TIME.PRESSURES WILL BE VERY GREAT. I' ANTICIPATE
NO DIFFICULTIES EXCEPT-PERHAPS WITH MY INFLEXIBLE AND CONTINUING .
PI-CONDITION- THAT THE AUTHORITY FOR THE MIX AND IMPLEMENTATION
BE LEFT ENTIRELY UNDER MY AUTHORITY. I JUST DON'T INTEND TO
HAVE ANOTHER CHILE. HERE. -
1,1. OUR FRIEND MENTIONED IN-YOUR LAST PARAGRAPH IS CELEBRATING HIS
. BIRTHDAY IN SWITZERLAND.' HE IS HAPPY AS A CLAM SINCE' WE HAVE.
HELPED HIM UNTANGLE. SOME OF HIS PERSONAL PROBLEMS HERE. HE HAS
ACC7PTID THE FACT THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
PRES'IDENT' HERE.
41 WOULD BE QUITE 'HAPPY WITH THE ABOVE PROGRAM IF HE. WERE TO
MOW ABOUT IT ALTHOUGH HE HAS NEVER LEARNED FROM ME_THAT'SUCH' A
PPOGRAM EXISTS AND I DO NOT INTEND TO DISOUSS ANY DETAILS WITH HI,
NOW TNAT'ELECTIONS ARE UPON US; HE WILL BE QUITE RELAXED., ,
WARM REGARDS.
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