CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-176-5-3-8
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 14, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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NERAL PINOCHET ALONE AT HIS OFFICE
HE WAS DELIGHTED TO SEE ME AGAIN. HE RELAXEU'ANU DST CORDIAL
AND RECALLED OUR LUNCH TOGETHER IN QUITO IN 1959.
'"I CONVEYED GREETINGS FROM THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY AS WELL
AS OUR FRIENDSHIP AND SUPPORT, TOGETHER WITH OUR UNDERSTANDING OF
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SUCCESS OF HIS EFFORTS TO ENSURE CHILF'S
RECOVERY.
"1 EXPRESSED OUR DESIRE TO BE OF ASSISTANCE WITHIN THE LIMITS OF
THE CONST'RA'INTS PLACED UPON US BY CONGRESS, AND OUR WISH TO RE HELPFUL 25X1
IN A DISCREET WAY. GENERAL PINOCHET SAID HE WAS VERY HAPPY TO HEAR
THIS AND TO HEAR IT FROM AN OLD FRIEND. HE HAD A VERY DIFFICULT
TASK AHEAD AND NEEDED ASSISTANCE-TO INSURE THE ECONOMIC ANp POLITICAL
RECOVERY OF CHILE AND ITS DEFENSE.
oil NOTED THAT WE HAD NO CURRENT PLANS TO,.CHANGE OUR POLICY
,TOWARDS CUBA. HE EXPRESSED GREAT SATISFACTION ON HEARING THIS.
HE SAID THAT CASTRO WAS STILL WORKING HARD AT EXPORTING THE
REVOLUTION. THE CHILEANS HAD FOUND EVIDENCE HERE THAT ARMS
ORIGINALLY SHIPPED TO CHILE FROM CUBA HAD BEEN TRANSSHIPPED TO
EXTREMIST GROUPS IN ARGENTINA AND OTHER NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES.
TODAY LARGE QUANTITIES OF SOVIET ARMS WERE.R'EING SHIPPED TO
PERU AND THIS.WAS A CAUSE OF SERIOUS CONCERN TO CHILE. IT WOULD
BE DIFFICULT TO SUSTAIN BOTH ECONOMIC RECOVERY AND ARMS RACE.
CHILE DID NOT WANT THE LATTER. THEY ONLY WANTED SECURITY.
"GENERAL PINOCHET.SAID HE WOULD TELL ME-TWO THINGS HE HAn NOT
TOLD ANY FOREIGNER. HE WAS GOING SHORTLY To BRAZIL AND WOULD
SPEND SEVERAL DAYS THERE. BRAZIL HAD BEEN AND WAS BEING VERY
HELPFUL TO HIM. I SAID THAT WE WOULD WORK WITH THE BRAZILIANS IN
TRYING TO BE OF ASSISTANCE TO, HIM; SECONDLY, HE SAID THAT
PRIOR TO THE ""MOV04ENT-' OF 11 SEPT HE HAD HAD SOME DOUBTS
ABOUTTHE'FIBRE OF THE CHILEAN SOLDIER, SINCE CHILE HAD NOT,
BEEN AT WAR FOR NEARLYA CENTURY. THE CONDUCT. OF THE CHILEAN
ARMED FORCES DURING ALLENDE'S OVERTHROW HAD CMPLETELY REASSURED
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HIM'AS TO THEIR FIBRE AND DISCIPLINE.
"I SAID THAT'AT THE MEXICO CITY CONFERENCE WE WOULD HAVE NO
GREAT SURPRISES AND WOULD NOT ENGAGE IN CONFRONTATION WITH
ANYONE.
""GENERAL,PINOCHET EXPRESSED ADMIRATION FOR THE WAY IN WHICH
THE PRESIDENT HAD HANDLED OUR RELATIONS WITH THE USSR AND PPC
WITHOUT MAKING COSTLY CONCESSION TO EITHER AND FOR THE SKILLFUL
WAY IN WHICH WE HAD LEFT VIETNAM WITHOUT LOSING IT. HE EXPRESSED
UNDERSTANDING FOR THE PRESIDENT'S INTERNAL PROBLEMS SAYING THAT A
GREAT MAN WAS. ALWAYS BITTERLY OPPOSED. I ASSURED HIM THAT THE
PRESIDENT WAS TOUGH AND NOTED THAT I-HAD BEEN WITH HIM IN VERY
DANGEROUS SITUATIONS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS AND HAD SEEN THE KIND
Of COURAGE HE DISPLAYED WHEN UNDER PRESSURE OR IN DANGER.
"GENERAL PINOCHET'SAID HE WAS DELIGHTED TO KNOW THAT THE
LEADERSHIP OF THE'UNITED STATES DID NOT SHARE THE VIEWS ON CHILE
OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE WASHINGTON POST. HE KNEW THAT
HE MUST RECONCILE CHILEANS IN ORDER TO RESTORE THE COUNTRY
AND TO DO THIS HE WOULD USE THE BEST CIVILIAN BRAINS IN THE
COUNTRY. HE CITED SAEZ,, LENI'Z AND THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE,
HE KNEW THAT THERE WERE SOME TOUGH TIMES AHEAD AND HE WOULD
HAVE.TO TAKE SOME UNPOPULAR ECONOMIC MEASURES TO MOVE THE
COUNTRY TOWARDS RECOVERY. CHILE HAD GOOD PEOPLE AND ADEQUATE
RESOURCES. HE INTENDED TO USE THEM TO BEST ADVANTAGE.
"1 NOTED THE: THE U.S. WAS SENDING HIM AN OUTSTANDING
AMBASSADOR WHO WAS A GOOD FRIEND OF AND,.HAD GOOD ACCESS TO THE
SECRETARY OF STATE. GENERAL PINOCHET SAID HE APPRECIATED THIS
VERY MUCH AND LOOKED FORWARD TO MEETING THE AMBASSADOR SOON,
""PINOCHET SAID HE WAS SETTING'UP A NEW NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
SERVICE AND THAT HIS KEY MAN IN THIS WAS A COLONEL CONTRERAS.
ANOTHER WOULD BE THE TITULAR HEAD BUT'CONTRERAS WAS HIS MAN.
HE WOULD MUCH APPRECIATE OUR HELP IN'THE FORMATIVE PERIOD AND
I TOLD HIM WE WOULD BE GLAD TO HAVE CONTRERAS OR ANYONE ELSE
COME UP'TO ;SEE US TO SEE WHAT WE COULD DO TO BE OF ASSISTANCE
TO THEM.
"PINOCHET EXPRESSED ADMIRATION FOR OR. KISSINGER'S TIRELESS
QUEST FOR PEACE ANO HOPED THE SECRETARY WOULD COME TO
LATIN AMERICA. I SAID I BELIEVED HE WOULD AS HE UNDERSTOOD THE
IMPORTANCE OF THIS PART OF THE WORLD. GENERAL PINOCHET LOOKED
FORWARD TO MEETING HIM, WE SHOULD KNOW THAT THE CHILEANS WOULD
NOT CREATE ANY-PROBLEMS FOR US AS WE KNEW THEY HAD STAGED THEIR
REVOLUTION BY'THEMSELVES AND HAD DONE IT WITHOUT ANY OUTS IDE
HELP, BUT THEY DID NEED ASSISTANCE TO REBUILD THEIR ECONOMY,
HE AGAIN EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT THE INTRODUCTION INTO PERU
OF SOVIET ARMS,'TECHNICIANS AND DEPENDENT FAMILIES. HE
STRONGLY.FELT THAT.'THE USSR AND CUBA INTENDED TO USE PERU
AS A PLATFORM TO OPERATE IN THE CONTINENT. CHILE HAD NO
AGGRESSIVE INTENTIONS AND ONLY WANTED DEFENSIVE WEAPONS.. GENERAL
PINOCHET SAID HE FELT THAT PERON WAS MOVING IN A MODERATE
DIRECTION IN ARGENTINA.
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"GENERAL PINOCHET ASKED ME TO THANK THE,PRESIDENT AND DR,
KISSINGER FOR THE MARK OF CONFIDENCE THEY HAD GIVEN HIM IN
SENDING ME TO SEE HIM AND TO CONVEY TO THEM HIS ADMIRATION AND
GRATITUDE AND BEST WISHES IN THE NOBLE STRUGGLE THEY WERE WAGING
ON BEHALF OF HUMAN FREEDOM. HE HOPED THAT I WOULD COME TO SEE
HIM AGAIN.
$$HE LOOKED WELL AND CONFIDENT THOUGH RECOGNIZING THAT HE HAS
A TOUGH ROAD AHEAD AND MANY ENEMIES AT HOME AND ABROAD. HE, WAS
OBVIOUSLY EXTRE14ELY PLEASED AT THE VISIT AND THE INTEREST IT
INDICATED. HE SHOULD NOT 9E A SOURCE OF PROBLEMS., FOR US IN
THE INTER-AMERICAN FRAMEWORK. THERE WERE A FEW OTHER ITEMS I
WILL DISCUSS ON MY RETURN."
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