CABLE TO HENRY KISSINGER FROM GRAHAM MARTIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-165-5-9-4
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 2, 1971
• Content Type: CABLE

SENT TO SAN CLE:TIEN1-4
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/12/20: LOC-HAK-165-5-9-4
1971 APR 2 12 51
FERSUNAL FOR
State Dept. review
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PERSONAL FOR DR KISSINGER, THE WHITE HOUSE
? FROM AMBASSADOR MART IN ROME .1405
1. IN OT HER MESSAGES T HROUG H NORMAL CHANNELS, THE EMBASSY- HAS
REPORTED THE PUBLIC REACT ION TO La BORGHESE AFFAIR THE
REVELATION SOME FOUR MONTHS AFTER." TILE FACT OF THE ACTIVITIES OF
THE NIGHT OF LAST DECEMBER 715.. THE PRESENT PUBLIC ATTITUDE IS ,
ONE OF AMUSED DISBELIEF THAT SUCH A CHILD ISH OPERATION PRESENTED :A
? REAL T }MEAT TO THE STATE. THIS WAS CERTAINLY A DISAPPO INTMENT TO
THE COMMUNISTS, BOTH IN T HE FACT THAT THEIR CR IES OF ALARM WERE
NOT CREDIBLE,.AND ALSO IN ENCOURAGING GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATION
? OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE. PARA. MILITARY LEFT.
2. THE, BORG HESE AFFAIR HAS HAD ANOTHER BY- PRODUCT. TWO OF
THE FIVE IND IVIDUALS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY HAD BEEN IN -TOUCH WITH
tOME SENIOR MILITARY OFFICERS WHO ARE UNCERTAIN WHETHER-TNE EXT NT
NVOL VEMENT IN A
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HAVE RECEIVED A MEMORANDUM GIVING THE ESSENTIAL ?ANIS UP irti PLAN.
EXCE PT FOR THE.PREFATORY PARAGRAPHS WHICH ARE SUMMARIZED, THE
FULL TEXT IS TRANSMITTED IN THE IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING TELEGRAM.
ITS DISSEMINATION IN WASHING TON I LEAVE TO YOUR JUDGEMENT.
HAVE HELD IT VERY CLOSELY- IN ROME.
. IT IS A RATHER FASCINATING DOCUMENT, MORE IN WHAT IT OMITS
RATHER THAN IN WHAT IS INCLUDED, ALTHOUGH ITS CONTENT FILLS IN
QUITE A FEW G APS IN OUR JIG.. SAW PUZZLE. FROM OTHER BITS AND PIECES
WE HAVE ENOUGH CORROBORATING EVIDENCE TO PERMIT ME TO CONCLUDE
THAT THE. PLAN DOES EXIST.
5 I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS PLAN CAN SUCCEED. THE ESTIMATES OF .
70 PERCENT CHANCES OF SUCCESS ARE COND WERABLY INFLATED. NO SUCH PLAN
CAN POSSIBLY SUCCEED WITHOUT OVERWHELMING SUPPORT FROM BOTH THE
ARMY AND THE CARABINIERL. WITHOUT GENERAL MARCHES It CHIEF" OF
DEFENSE STAFF, NEITHER WILL BE AVAILABLE. AND, AND FOR THE TIME BEING,
AT LEAST, MARCHES! SEEMS COMMITTED TO WORK ON GETTING SOME UNITY
IN THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS FOR AN ORDERLY EVOLUTION. MARCHESI
REALIZES THAT NO SUCH PLAN COULD -REALLY SUCCEED UNLESS THE
NECESSITY FOR SUCH ACTION WAS CRYSTAL CLEAR TO THE PUBLIC AND
HAD T HE BACKING OF AT LEAST SOME PR INC IPAL POLITICAL FIG URE TO
PRO VIDE AN AURA OF LEGITIMACY. WITHOUT THIS, AND NEITHER PRE-CONDItIC1
EXISTS NOV. MARCHES! KNOWS MUCH BLOOD" WOULD BE LIKELY- TO FLOW.,
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/12/20: LOC-HAK-165-5-9-4
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b, No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/12/20: LOCJHAK-165:579-4-F THIS
? :FLAN, GENERAL MARCHE= SPOKE AT GAETA YESTERDAY, OSTENSiBLY
TO WELCOME RETURN OF ( EET FROM WINTER TRAINING PeERCISE.
IN PRESENCE OF DEFENVit, MINISTER TANASSI AND CHIE) S OF ARMY,
NAVY AND AIR FORCE, MARCHISI SAID THAT CHIEF OF STATE,
PARLIAMENT, THE G OVERNMENT AND THE ITALIAN PEOPLE CAN BE SURE
THAT THE ARMED FORCES WILL NEVER BE "CORRUPTED BY ANY ANTI?DEMOCRATIC
CURRENT, OPEN OR OCCULT, -WHICH MAY INTEND TO DIVERT THEM FROM
THE IR INSTITUTIONAL DUTIES, OR BY DESTRUCTIVE FORCES OF WHATEVER
NATURE WHICH MAY AIM, HAVING RECOURSE TO VIOLENCE, TO SUBVERT
THE ESTABLISHED ORDER."
7. IN ? ANY EVENT, THE POL IT ICAL_EVOLUT ION WE HAVE HELPED SET
iJQLON IS MOVI1P?AiI7C THE REITERATION BY THE PRESIDENT AND
THE VICE-. PRESENT OF THE NECESSITY TO ACHIEVE SOME UNITY WITHIN THE
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS IS SINKING IN. I AN LUNCHING SEPARATELY
NEXT WEEK W ITH COLOMBO AND WITH DC SECRETARY GENERAL FORLANI.
MORD HAS ALSO SAID THAT HE WI SHES TO SEE ME PRIVATELY. I INTEND
TO QUIETLY INCREASE THE PRESSURE. - ?
I CONCLUDE, . THEREFORE, THAT. UNDER_ II J.UE CIRCUMSTANCESt_
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IN ITS TIMING LARGELY BT THE FACT THAT GENERAL FANALI IS FACING
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DI FICULTY IN CONVEYING, QUIETLY AND INDIRECTLY,
BUT va r CLEARLY, THAT I THINK ANY SUCH ATTEMPT AT THE PRESENT
TIME WOULD BE UNDESIRABLE AND WE WOULD NOT SUPPORT IT.
9. I AN HAVING DINNER TONIGHT W IT H ADMIRAL ROSELL 1.?.LORENZIN I
AS A COURTESY BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE ON HIS VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES..
YOU WILL:NOTE FROM THE MEMORANDUM QUOTED ABOVE HE ALLEGEDLY IS
GO ING TO INFORM ADMIRAL MOORER AND ADMIRAL ZUMWALT THAT THEY ARE
GOING AHEAD. I WILL REPORT AFTER THE DINNER IF ANYTHING SIGNIFICANT
COMES UP AND WILL INDICATE THE LINE I WOULD WANT ADMIRAL MOORER TO TAKE
I AM ALSO HAVING LUNCH WITH GENERAL FANALI NEXT WEEK AT HIS REQUEST.
10. SINCE THIS IS SUCH A A LONG MESSAGE, I MIGHT ADD ONE MORE
OBSERVATION. I WAS ONCE REGARDED AS ONE OF OUR BETTER INTELLIGENCE
TYPES, SO MUCH SO THAT GENERAL *BEETLE" SMITH AND GENERAL LUCIAN
TR USCOT ASKED ME TWO DECADES AGO TO TAKE 0 VER CONTROL OF ALL U.S.
INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES IN BERLIN WHERE WE HAD SOME 27 DIFFERENT
U. S. INTELLIGENCE ORGANS GETTING IN EACH OTHER' S WAY. I REFUSED
THE OFFER BECAUSE I ENJOYED SO MUCH WORKING WITH DAVID BRUCE IN PARIS..
I MENT ION THIS ONLY TO UNDERSCORE THE POINT THAT I AM A REASONABLY
PATIENT INDIVIDUAL AND I ALMOST ALWAYS FIND OUT WHAT I WANT TO KNOW.
AL HAIG I AD ICATED AWARENESS OF AIR FORCE AND NAVY RESTIVENESS
WHEN I LAST- TALKED WITH HIM AND SID CHIEF GENERAL MICELI HAS MADE
VEILED REFERENCES TO WHITE HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES. THE PRESIDENT
TOLD ME NOT TO LET IWTH COUNTRY DRIFT FURTHER TO THE LEFT.-
I DON' T INTEND TO, BUT IT JUST MUG HT MAKE THE JOB A BIT EASIER
IF SOME BETTER WAY COULD BE DEVISED TO KEEP ME PERSONALLY INFORMED
OF THE BITS AND PIECES WHICH COME TO YOUR ATTENTION THERE.
BEST REGARDS.
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/12/20 : LOC-HAK-165-5-9-4