TELEGRAM FLAP AWAITS MOYNIHAN ON TRIP HOME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404440172-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 172
• Publication Date: September 15, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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15 SEP 1974
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By Myron L. Belkind
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NEW DELHI, Sept. 14-Am--worst suspicions and gent.iate
bassador Daniel P. Moynihan fears" about U.S. policy Lo-
is returning to ,Washington ward India.
next week for U.S-. consulta-, `"She is not sure but thaj:-we
tion at the Sate Department would be content to see others
following publifiation of a : like her overthrown,' _lloyni-
blunt diplomatic dispatch on hin is reported to have cabled
U.S. intelligence activities and Kissinger. "She knows full
India's nuclear plans. : well that we have dcne our
Embassy officials said the: share, and more, of blootiy
trip, previously unannounced, and dishonorable deeds."
had been arranged before; Since Allende was over.
iMoyn han sent . a strongly thrown last year, Mrs. Gandhi
worded cable to Secretary of has often warned her country-
State Henry A. Kissinger last men to be on the alert za:mss:
week. The cable, as reported a repetition of events like
by The New York Times.' those in Chile. Mrs. Gencibi re-
could' have major repercus- peated this warning Wednes-
sions on Indian American rela- day while addressing members
tions and on Moynihan's fuof- 'Parliament belonging to
ture as ambassador. her Con-tress Party. r ccorr,i:'-;
The embassy officials said to Indian news reports.
:Moynihan would help prepare There was no inmm,~d.ate re-
for Kissinger's anticipated action from the government to
visit to New Delhi late next -he Flo::nil'an cable. Excerpts
mon:ii. from it were splasned ?.rr:s
According to published ex- indian newspapers this morn-
cerpts of the cable, Moynihan ing in dispatches from Wash-
predicted that Prime Minister ington.
Indira Gandhi will "proceed to Aides said Moynihan plan-
develop nuclear weapons and red to leave New Delhi for
a missile delivery system. Washington in the next day or
preaching nonviolence all the so.
way " There has been increasing
That view could damage speculation in New Delhi that
?,Io: nihan's relationship with Moynihan, who arrived here
Mrs. Gandhi. siuce it makes in February 1973. might leave
li. h: of her repeated state- his post after the Kissinger
ments that India will use nu- visit. Moynihan's two-year
clear energ.' only for peaceful leave of absence from Harvard
pu_poses. expires in February. and re-
in his other observation, ports from Cambridge have
Moynihan said reports that
the Centr 1 Intelligence said he is listed in the college
Agency helped undermine the catalogue to resume teaching
governm;:n: of former Chilean next year.
Pr resident Salvador Allende Moynihan has said he is not
had confirmed Mrs. Gandhi's ready to announce his plans.
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