CABLE TO ARTHUR WATSON FROM HENRY KISSINGER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-472-5-3-9
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 13, 1971
• Content Type: CABLE

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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/12/19: LOC-HAK-472-5-3-9
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FOR:. AMBASSADOR WATSON
FROM:. HENRY A. KISSINGER
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? THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARIS 1757.
? I HAVE DISCUSSED WITH PRESIDENT YOUR COMMUNICATION WHICH
INDICATED THAT POMPIDOU IS INTERESTED IN VISIT BY NE TO PARIS.
IN VIEW OF YESTERDAY'S ANNOUNCEMENT AND RELATED RECENT TRENDS,
THE PRESIDENT NOW QONSIDERS THAT IT MIGHT BE OF BENEFIT TO
EXPLORE WITH _POMPIDOU THE DESIRABILITY OF A MEETING
BETWEEN PRESIDENT POMPIDOU AND PRESIDENT NIXON DURING THE FIRST
WEEK OF DECEMBER. PRESIDENT IS MEETING WITH PRESIDENT MEDICI
OF BRAZIL ON DECEMBER 7. THEREFORE, MEETING WOULD HAVE TO
BE CONCLUDED BY DECEMBER 6, OR COULD BE HELD DURING PERIOD
JUST AFTER MEETING WITH PRESIDENT MEDICI ON DECEMBER 7.
? OUR THINKING IS THAT SUCH A MEETING COULD TAKE PLACE IN
MARTINIQUE OR SOME OTHER APPROPRIATE FRENCH ISLAND IN THE
.CARIBBEAN. PLEASE EXPLORE THIS PROPOSAL INFORMALLY WITH
PRESIDENT POMPIDOU AND PROVIDE ME WITH HIS REACTION THROUGH
THIS CHANNEL, AS WELL AS ANY ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS YOU MIGHT
HAVE ON A POSSIBLE MEETING BETWEEN THE TWO LEADERS.
IT,IS IMPORTANT THAT YOUR DISCUSSIONS BE PORTRAYED AS EX-
PLORATORY ONLY AND THAT THEY BE HELD IN THE STRICTEST CON-
FIDENCE UNTIL .WE HAVE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO ASSESS POMPIDOU'S
REACTION.
WARM REGARDS.
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/12/19: LOC-HAK-472-5-3-9