YOUR MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR MICHALOWSKI WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21

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• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-269-6-10-6
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• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: March 25, 2010
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• Publication Date: April 19, 1971
• Content Type: MEMO

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NATIONAL 'SECURITY COUNCIL
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MEMORANDUM FOR MR. KISSINGER
FROM: Helmut Sonnenfeldt
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SUBJECT: Your Meeting with Ambassador Michalowski Wednesday,
April 21
The Ambassador has returned from home leave and consultations. He had
tried to see you before he left. I am not sure what exactly he wants. As
you know he is a slick operator, having survived through. the Stalinist, 25X1
Gomulka and now the Gierek regimes. However, he may be in some trouble.
1. He may reopen the question of the catalytic cracking process (an $8
million process to be sold by an Illinois firm). Our decision to turn it down
last November was a setback for Michalowski, who had lobbied for. it and
enlisted the aid of Congressman Zablocki. The negative decision, however,
left open the possibility of reopening it later.
Jan Kaczmarek, Chairman of the Polish Science and Technology Committee,
who is coming here this month to visit with Ed David, mentioned continuing
interest in obtaining the process. Michalowski may hope for a favorable signal
before Kaczmarek arrives.
If he raises it you Might sa
-- naturally, if a formal request is renewed by the Chicago firm, and
the Polish Government is still interested, we would review the case.
what reason would the Ambassador cite for a favorable decision now
compared to last November? (He will now argue that we should have a positive
interest in helping the new government, and promoting stability in Eastern
Europe.)
NOTE: If he does not mention it, there is no reason for you to take the
initiative. (Defense is strongly opposed to the whole project. )
2. Conference on European Security. Even under Gierek, the Poles remain
active agitators for a European Conference; their latest scheme MORUC~F several
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conferences on the grounds that there is so much to discuss. He may ask
about the Berlin talks and argue that they should not be a strict precondition.
He might say that if Berlin is stalemated, a grand conference might improve
the atmosphere for a Berlin settlement.
You Might say
if ferrlin cannot be settled, what meaning would a conference have
that avoided all the difficult questions;
-- even U there were a Berson settlement, it is dii,icult to see what would
be an acceptable agenda for a conference; MBFR is the only subject of con-
ceivable interest, and a conference o all p:.uropeans is not necessary for this;
-- the Poles would do well to use their influence on Ulbricht and the
Soviets to settle Berlin. rather than promoting a meaningless conference.
3. The Polish Internal Scene. You might ask in what way Gierek's Aoreign
policy will differ Irom Gom ulka's.
4. The Poles are complaining on the one hand that At are obstructing the
ratification of the Polish-German treaaiy, but on the other hand, they have
indicated to Bonn they do not wish it ratified before the Soviet treaty. V7
Michalowski raises this with you again, you might wish to comment
-- we expressed our 'satisfaction' with the treaty at the time of its
signing. and you have paid on many occasions we support a German-Polish
re conciliation;
-- the V:' eat G rinaans linked the treaties to the Berlin negotiations, not
the United States, but we abide by their desires;
the ratification issue and linkage is a highly charged issue inside
West Germany, and we raito not wish to inject ourselves in domestic politics;
together with the Allies we will consider an appropriate statement
on the occasion of the ratification of the Germmn -Palish treaty.
s. Vietoaaaxs.. It is not certain whether Michalowski will want to talk about
Vietnam. His Charge, Fraackiewica, has been going around town saying that
the Poles were evaluating their position on negotiations.
- - He told Sullivan that %"+ a r saw was engaged in an evaluation
diplomatic prospects on the Indochina front and that this evaluation was
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associated with meetings which senior Poles would be having with the
North Vietnamese during the Soviet congress. Sullivan said current
prospects in Paris look very bleak.
-- He asked back Smyser whether there was any prospects or getting
the negotiations revived, and asked why we did not accept Hanoi's posid+n.
Smyser told him the next step was up to the North Vietnamese and that we
certainly would not accept the preconditions which had been set.
Our Embassy in Warsaw thinks that Frackiewics was acting on his own
i>ahis conversations here. Michalowski told our Ambassador in Warsaw that
he had no special plans to ate North Vietnamese in 'Warsaw and was attaware
of any policy review.
With this background. Michalowski may not have much to say. We doubt
that he will want to launch into discussions leading to Polish involvement in
the negotiations.
in any case, we do not wabt the Poles involved. and I see no reason .,or
you to say anything to Michalowski except that we find Hanoi' a preconditions
unac ceptaable.
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