ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-551-4-56-4
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2009
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: October 19, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

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OBER 20, 1975
ME$ORANDUM. FOR SECRETARY KISSINGER
FROMI THE SITUATION ROOM
3UBJECyl ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ITEMS
SOVIET RESPONSE TO ANTIO$OVIET CHINESE SPEECHS$ MOSCOW
NAB FINALLY RESPONDED TO THE ANTI'>SOVIET SPEECH VICE
PREMIER OMEN HSX..LIEN MADE,TWO WEEKS AGO AT THE 20TH
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS OF THE SINKIANG UIGHUR' AUTONOMOUS
REGION CHEN HAD CONGRATULATED SINKIANG FOR ITS PAST
VICTORIES IN NSNASHING SOVIET AGGRtSSION AND SUBVERSION
AND WARRNE0 OF THE CONTINUING NEED TO MAINTAIN VIGILANCE
A+GAIMRST 80TH THE POSSIBILITY OF 30VIET SURPRISE ATTACK
AND $OVIET ATTEMPTS TO FOMENT DISSENSION AMONG THE MINOR
IT194 THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME IN RECENT MONTHS THAT A
RANKING CHINESE OFFICIAL MAD EXPLICITLY RAISED THE POSSI+
BILITY OF A SOVIET ATTACK ON CHINA. PRAVDA ON OCTOBER
19 CARRIED, AN ARTICLE LAMBASTING CHINAIS POLICIES ON MI.
NORITIES -a PARRTICULAR1 Y ITS SUPPR, ;SIDN OF MINORITY RE
LIGIOMIR.a AND AGAIN REMINDING SOVIET READERS OF THE
PHYSICAL' THREAT CHINA POSES TO THE USSR , ; THE CHARGE THAT
THE CHINESE ARE SUPPRESSING MINORITY RELIGIONS ,, SUGGR ST3
THE SOVIETS BELIEVE THAT ONE REASON CHEN WENT TO SINKIANG
WAS BECAUS9 Of A RELLIGIOUS; PROBLEM THERE CAUSING TROUBLE
FOR PEKING,.PRAVDA'S IMPLICATION T-AT CHINA POSES A
THREAT TO THE 438RR IS A LOGICAL COUNTER TO CHENRS ANTI"
SOVIET REMARKS, M OSCOW t $ DELAY IN RESPONDING TO CHEN 1 S
TRIP TO SINKIANG SUGGEST' THE SOVIETS AT FIRST WERE ONCERR.,
TAIN AS TO PRECISELY WHAT THE VISIT SIGNIFIED,
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
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