CABLE TO HENRY KISSINGER (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-284-11-5-9
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 14, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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S E C R E T 141557Z FEB 74
PFRSnNAL TO DR. HENRY A. KISSINGER.
I SAW GE
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NERAL PINOCHET ALONE AT HIS OFFICE
IN THE DEFENSE MINISTRY. HE ",AID 25X1
HE WAS DELIGHTED TO SEE ME AGAIN. HE WAS RELAXED AND MOST CORDIAL
AND RECALLED OUR LUNCH TOGETHER IN QUITO IN 1959.
r'I CONVEYED GREETINGS FROM THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY AS WELL 25X1
AS OUR FRIENDSHIP AND SUPPORT, TOGETHER WITH OUR UNDERSTANDING OF
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SUCCESS OF HIS EFFORTS TO ENSURE CHILr-'S
RECOVERY.
"I EXPRESSED OUR DESIRE TO OF OF ASSISTANCE WITHIN THE EIMITS OF
THE CONSTRAINTS PLACED UPON US BY CONGRESS ANQ OUR WISH To PE HELPFUL
IN A DISCREET WAY. GENERAL PINOCHET SAID '14F WAS VERY HAPPY TO HEAR
THIS AND TO HEAR IT FRO'AN OLD FRIEND. HE HAD A VERY DIFFICULT
TASK; AHEAD AND NEEDED"ASSISTANCE TO INSURE THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL
RECOVERY OF CHILE AND ITS 4FENSE.
"I NOTED THAT WE HAD NO CURRENT PLANS TO CHANGE OUR POLICY
TflWARDS CUBA. HE EXPR,ESSEr GREAT SATISFACTION ON HEARING T-4IS.
HF?' SAID THAT.CASTRO WA-S STILL . WQRKING HARD AT EXPORTING T,HF
REVOLUTION. THE CHILEANS HAD FOUND EVIDENCE HERE THAT ARMS
ORIGINALLY SHIPPED TO.CHILF FROM CUBA HAD BEEN" TRANSSHIPPED TO
EXTREMIST GROUPS IN ARGENTINA AND OTHER NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES.
MORI/CDF
TODAY LARGE QUANTITIES OF SOVIET ARMS WERE tEING SHIPPED TF
PERU AND THIS WAS A `CAUSE OF SERIOUS CONCERN TO CHILE. IT WOULD C05137927
BE DIFFICULT TO SUSTAIN BOTH ECONOMiC RECOVERY AND ARMS RACE .
CHILE DID NOT WANT THE:' LATTER. THEY ONLY WANTED SECURITY.
"GENERAL PINOCHET:SAID HEM.WOULD TELL ME TWO THINGS HE HA NOT
TOLD ANY FOREIGNER. HE WAS GOING SHORTLY TO BRAZIL AND' WOU! D
SPEND SEVERAL DAYS THERE. BRAZIL HAD BEEN AND WAS BEING VFoY
HELPFUL TO HIM. I SAID THAT WE WOULD WORKWITH.THE BRAZILIANS IN
ON-FILE NSC
TRYING TO BE OF ASSISTANCE TO HIM: SECONDLY, HE SAID THAT
RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS
PRIOR To THE "MOVEMENT"" OF 11 SEPT HE HAD HAD SOME DOUBTS
AROUT THE FIBRE OF THE CHILEAN SOLDIER,' SINCE CHILE HAD NOT APPLY
BEEN AT WAR FOR NEARLY A CENTURY. THE CONDUCT OP THE CHILEAN
ARMED FORCES DURING ALLENDF' S OVERTHREW HAD CMPLETELY REAS E+RED
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *WHSR COMMENT * * * * * * * * * * * .
HAK, SCUWCROFT,MCFARLANE,RODMAN
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HIM AS TO THEIR FIBRE AND fiISCIPLINE.
"I SAID THAT AT THE..?MEXICO CITY CONFERENCE WE WOULD HAVE Nf
GREAT SURPRISES AND WOULD NOT ENGAGE IN CONFRfNTATION WITH
ANYONE.
"GENERAL PINOCHT EXPRESSED ADMIRATION FOR THE WAY IN WHICH
THE PRESIDENT HAD HANDLED nUR RELATIONS WITH THE USSR AND PPC
WITHOUT MAKING COSTLY CONCF-SSION TO EITHER AND FOR THE SKILLFUL
WAY IN WHICH WE HAD.LEFT, VIETNAM WITHOUT LOSING IT. HE EXPcESSED
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 BEE=N WITH HIM IN VrRY
DANGEROUS SITUATIONS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS AND HAD SEEN THE vINf)
OF COURAGE HE DISPLAYED WHEN UNDER PRESSURE OR IN DANGER.
,,GENFRAL PINOCHET SAID HE WAS DELIGHTED TO KNOW THAT THc
LEADERSHIP OF.THE UNITED STATES DID NOT SHARE THE VIEWS ON rHILE
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 SAEZs LENIZ AND THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE.
HE KNEW THAT THERE WERE SOmF TOUGH TIMES AHEAD AND HE WOULn
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.
"I 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 T 4IS
VERY MUCH AND LOOKED FORWARD TO MEETING THE AMBASSADOR SOON
llPINEICHET SAID HE WAS SE=TTING UP A NEW NATIONAL INTELLIe~NCF
SERVICE AND THAT HIS KEY MAN IN THIS WAS A COLONEL CONTREERAS.
ANOTHER WOULD BE THE TITULAR HEAD BUT CONTRERAS WAS HIS MANS;
HF 4O ULD MUCH APPRECIATE OUR HELP IN THE FORMATIVE PERIOD AND
I TOLD HIM WE WOULD BE GLAD TO HAVE CONTRE.RAS OR ANYONE ELSE
COME UP TO SEE US TO SEE.WHAT WE COULD DO In BE OF ASSISTANrF
T(i THEM.
lipINt7CHET EXPRESSED ADMIRATION FOR DR. KISSINGER'S TIREI r-SS
GUEST FOR PEACE AND. 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 P.INOCHET LOpwFr)
FORWARD TO MEETING HIM. WE SHOULD KNOW THAT THE CHILEANS wrU(.o
NOT CREATE ANY PROBLEMS FOP US. AS IWE KNEW. THEY HAD STAGEn THEIR
REVOLUTION BY THEMSELVES AND HAD DONEE IT WITHOUT ANY OUTSInr
HELP, BUT THEY DID NEED ASSISTANCE TO REBUILD THEIR ECONOMY.
HF AGAIN EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT THE INTRODUCTION INTO PERU
OF SOVIET ARMS, TECHNI.CIANS 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. t- NERAL
PINOCHET SAID HE -FELT THAT,PERON WAS MOVING IN A MODERATE
DIRECTION IN ~orc~r.~u
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"GENERAL PINOCHET ASKED ME TO THANK THE PRESIDENT AND G Q.
KISSINGFR FOR THE MARK OF CONFUENCE THEY HAD GIVEN HIM IN
SFND1NG ME TO SEE. HIH AND TO CONVEY TO THEM HIS ADMIRATION AND
GRATITUDE AND BEST WISHES IN THE NOBLE STRUGGLE THEY WERE W*GING
ON 13EHALF OF HUMAN FREEDOM.' HE HOPED THAT I WOULD COME. TO cFE
HIM AGAIN.
"HE LOOKED WELL AND CfNPIOENT THOUGH RECOGNIZING THAT Ht= HAS
A TOUGH ROAD AHEAD AND MANY ENEMIES AT HOME AND ABROAD. HF WAS
ORVIOUSLY EXTREMELY P.LEASEp AT THE VISIT ANn THE INTEREST IT
INDICATED. HE SHOULD NOT