CABLE TO SECRETARY KISSINGER (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-284-11-3-1
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 9, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection To Declassification 2009/09/30: LOC-HAK-284-11-3-1
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TO, THE WHITE HOUSE
S E 'C R E T S E . N S_1 T I V E 0914591 ' FEB -74
To: S CRFTARY IN.. ONLY SENSITIVE
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SAW PRESIDENT MEDIC`i FIR MnRE- THAN AN HOUR
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WA VERY CORDIAL A RELAXED. . HE SAW ME AT HIS FARM A INIn SLACKS
AND A :BRIGHT GREEN SPORT 'SHIRT.
#F EXPRESSED WARM APPRECIATION TO PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY
FOR RAVING SENT ME T?-;;:SEE HIM. I C .
NVEYED YOUR MESSAGES.
M, D I,C I WAS DELIGHTED ' ,HAT THERE I S NO I MPENn I NG CHANGE I N rli oR
POLICY TOWARDS CUBA AND SAID THAT BRAZIL"PELT WE DID NOT NFFO,
CUBA UNTIL LATTER GAVE SOME INDICATION OF HAVING ABANDONED
INTERVENTION IN A"FFAIR,S OF NEIGHBORS.
.WEDICI SAID THAT BRAZIL WISHED.PERON WELL'AS HE WAS ALMOST
LAST HOPE FOR ANY, KIND OF ORDER IN ARGENTINA. HE FELT IT wISF
FOR ME. TO SEE HIM AND:.. VELASCO AND WAS .PA..RTICULARLY PLEASED THAT
I 'WOULD SEE PINOCHET. HE SAID THAT BRAZIL WAS COMMITTED' Tn CHILE
GOVERNMENT' SUCCESS AND HA'D "DOMF AND WOULD no EVERTHING
POSSIBLE- TO HELP THEM:;,, HE WOULD LIKE To, COORDINATE A.SSISTA,,iCE
To CHILEANS WITH US TD'''AVQID DUPLICATION.
MFDICI EXPRESSED CONCERN AT'PERUVIAN RECEIPT OF SOVIET ARMS
ORIGINALLY INTENDED F R ALLENGB. SAID U.S. AND BRAZIL MUST CONCERT
TO AVOID ANY CONFLIC.
I TOLD MEDICI THAT LATIN AMERICANS SHOULD NOT EXPECT SECRETARY
KISSINGFR TO PULL ANYRABBITS:OUT OF HAT AT MEXICO CITY BUT USA
WAS SINCERELY DESIROUS OF ESTABLISHING NEW QELATICINSHIP WIT-I
'NEIGHBORS BASED ON JUSTICE NOT SIZE OR STRENGTH: MEDICI PRAISEn
GENEROUS U.S. GESTURE. TO PANAMA AND HOPED IT WOULD BE UNDERSTOOD
.AS SUCH BY THE PANAMANIANS,,
I SAID WE'LOOKED FORWARD TO"CLOSER RELATIONSHIP AND EXCHANGF OF
INTELLIGENCE WITH BRAZILIANS. PRESIDENT HA? CHOSEN EXTRAORnINARILY
ABLE AMBASSADOR WHO.NJOYE( H'IS TOTAL CONFIDENCE AND THAT ric-
SECRETARY OF STATE. PRESIDENT MEDICI.SAID AMBASSADOR CRIMMINS,
ARSOLUTEIY FIRST CLA",S,,AND EASILY MOST ABLE AND DISTINGUISHtn
FOREIGN DIPLQMAT'"? + BR'A21L IN RECENT YEARS.
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HAK: SCOWCROFT, No Objection To Declassification 2009/09/30: LOC-HAK-284-11-3-1
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MEDICI PRAISED STRONG U.S. ACTION IN MIDDLE EAST AND ABILIT\, TO
MATCH AND SURPASS SOVIET AIRLIFT FOLLOWED BY SECRETARY'S
ABLE BRINGING OF ARABS AND ISRAELIS TOGETHER. HE SAID THAT
LEBANESE FOREIGN MINISTER HAD GIVEN HIM LONGs WRONG ACCOUNT OF
MIDDLE FAST EVENTS. MEDICI ALSO PRAISED U.S. INCREASE OF
DEFENSE BUDGET WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY PURSUING NEGOTIATING TRACK.
SAID SOVIET THREAT STILL SERIOUS AND BRAZILIANS AWARE OF IT,
MAJOR CLOUD WAS RISE IN OIL PRICES BUT "SECRETARY KISSINGER WAS
WORKING ON IT AND IF HE WAS WORKING ON IT THERE WOULO BE RFSULTS.",
BRAZILIANS WERE KEENLY LOOKING FORWARD TO SECRETARY'S VISIT,
PRESIDENT MEDICI CONTRASTEfD DISORDERLY SITUATION HE FOUND n*1
ASSUMING THE PRESIDENCY WITH CURRFNT TRANQUILLIY IN BRAZIL.
ONLY REAL SHADOW WAS :THREAT OF WHAT MUCH HI,, HER OIL PRICES
WOULD MEAN TO BRAZIL,. NIOIC`I SAID HE HAD. BEEN VERY LUCKY I,,ACHIEVING WIDESPREAD CONCFNSUS CIF BRAZILIANS AND COULD WITS?
CLEAR CONSCIENCE PASS ON GOVERNMENT TO HIS SUCCESSOR. IN
RETIREMENT AS IN PRESIDENCY HE WOULD REMAIN FRIEND AND ADMIRER
OF THE U.S. AND BELIEVED DEEPLY THAT SURVIVAL OF FREEDOM WAS TIED
Tfl POWER AND RESOLVE OF THE THE U.S. AND ITS COURAGEOUS PRESIDENT
WHOM HE FELT WOULD PREVAIL OVER THE LITTLE MEN , WHO ,WERE TRY t NG TO
BRING HIM DOWN. FULLER REPORT ON MY RETURN.
E?r IMPOET.
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No Objection To Declassification 2009/09/30: LOC-HAK-284-11-3-1