CABLE TO HENRY KISSINGER FROM WILLIAM HOOD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-462-1-21-4
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2010
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: February 6, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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TO DR. KISS N R
FROM HOOD
6 FEBRUARY 1973
THOLLOWING MESS GE WAS PICKED UP AT 1600 HOURS, 6 FE RAYI 73.
FEBRUARY 6, 197
THE CHINESE SIDE AGREES TO THE U.S. PARTY AND
AIRC AFT CREW' WHO WILL ACCOMPANY QR, KIssiNoeR IN HIS
FEB*tMRY VISIT t Cf4INA AS PROPOSED BY THE v.s. SIDE
IN ITS MESSAGESOF FEBRUARY I AND S.* 1973 AND ALSO AGREE
THAT THE Iki,S? stoe BRING TWO CAMERAMEN AND A PHOTOGRAPHER,
2. THE cmistse SIDE WILL PROVIDE,FUEL, GROUND seAvices,
EXTERNAL POWER souRce AND TRANSPORTATION FOR COURIERS,
ETC, AS REQUESTED'OY THE U.S. SIDE IN'ITs MESSAGE ON
AVIATION 'DATA,
30 THE CIVIL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION OF CHINA
THINKS THAT IT WILL BE DANGEROUS FOR OR, KISSINGER'S
SPECIAL PLANE TO PASS OVER THE TAIWAN STRAITS. THEREFORE,
IT SUGGESTS THAT THE U.S. SPECIAL PLANE STOP Al CANTON
AND THEN FLY TO PEKING DIRECTLY, THE CHINESE SIDE WILL
SENO A' NAYIGAIOR AND A RADIO OPERATOR TO BOARD THE PLANE
IN CANTOS TO PROVIDE NAVIGATION, ON THE CHINESE sloe,
ASSISTANT MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS CHANG WEN?CHIN,
DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE PROTOCOL DE?PARTMENT CHU CHUAN0-
pisiliN AND STAFF soNBERS,CHANG LIJNO0*HAI AND TANG WEN **SHENG
wILL BE UN RAND TO GREET DR, KISSINGER AND HIS PARTY IN
CANTON AND ACCOMPANY THEM TO ?EKING. It IS SUGGESTED
THAT _THE U4S, SPECIAL PLANE STOP IN CANTON FOR ABOUT 40
MINUTES AND ARRIVE IN PEKING AT 2:30 P.M. .FEBRUARY IS
(PEKING TIME), THE U.S. SIDE IS REDuEsTep TO INFORM THE
2.
CHINESE SIDE OF THE TIME OF ARRIVAL IN CANTON. THE
INFORMATION ABOUT THE CANTON AIRPORT AND THE AIR ROUTE
FROM HONGKONG TO CANTON (INCLUDING THAT OF AERIAL cum .
mUNICATION FROM THE CANTON AIRPORT) WILL BE CONVEYED TO
THE 00S. CONSOLATE-DENERAL IN HONGKONG THROUGH THE HONGKONG
BRANCH OF THe HSINHUA NEWS AGENCY.
A. THE CHINESE SIDE AGREES-THAT WHILE IN PEKING
THE AIRCRAFT WILL COMMUNICATE WITH WASHINGTON ON THE
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