INFORMATION ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-548-10-2-0
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 5, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT CATAGORY: TDHAK
MESSAGE / ANNOTATIONI
MESSAGE:
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ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
TO DICK CAMPBELL FOR SECRETARY KISSINGER
DATE 10/09/73//282
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VIA SWINGER CONTAINS CODEWORD WH32463
OCTOBER 5, 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR: THE PRESIDENT
FROM: HENRY A, KISSINGER
SUBJECT; INFORMATION ITEMS
cHIL N DEVELOPMENTS: CHILEAN FOREIGN MINISTER ADMIRAL ISMAEL
HIJERTA FLEW TO NEW YORK YESTERDAY TO REPORT TO THE UN GENERAL
ASSEMBLY WHY THE ARMED FORCES SEIZED POWER ON SEPTEMBER 11.
HUERTA 15 SCHEDULED TO ADDRESS THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON OCTO-
3ER A. HE TOLD JOURNALISTS IN SANTIAGO WEDNESDAY NIGHT THAT
HE KNEW THERE WAS AN UNFAVORABLE ATTITUDE IN THE UN TOWARD THE
JUJNTA, HE MENTIONED CHARGES BY SOVIET UN DELEGATE MALIK CLAIM-
ING THAT CHILEAN COMMUNIST PARTY SECRETARY GENERAL CORVALAN WAS
TO RE SHOT ON WEDNESDAY, HUERTA SAID THAT CORVALAN -- WHO WAS
ARRESTED LAST FRIDAY -- WAS IN GOOD HEALTH AND ENJOYING EX-
CELLENT TREATMENT. THE CHILEAN COMMUNIST LEADER IS UNDER IN-
VESTIGATION ON CHARGES OF HIGH TREASON AND WILL BE TRIED BY A
MILITARY TRIBUNAL.
MEANWHILE THE CHILEAN MINISTER OF INTERIOR SAID WEDNESDAY THAT
THE C0 NOT STOP THOSE WHO WANTED TO LEAVE THE
COUNTRY AND THAT, UNLESS A SPECIAL CASE CAME UP, SAFE CONDUCTS
WOULD BE PROVIDED TO ALL THOSE WHO TOOK ASYLUM IN FOREIGN EM-
BASSIFS, THE JUNTA PRESS SECRETARY ADVISED AMBASSADOR DAVIS
THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD INVITED SENATOR KENNEDY TO COME To
CHILE TO INVESTIGATE CONDITIONS THERE -- WITH PARTICULAR
REFERENCE TO REFUGEES, THE CHILEAN EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON
HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED TO CONVEY A SIMILAR INVITATION TO SENATOR
HUMPHREY ANND/OR HIS SISTER.
THE CHILEAN LEGAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE REPORTED OFFICIALLY ON
OCTOBER 3 THAT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO DIED FROM BULLET WOUNDS
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SITUATION(S) MESSAGE(S) LISTING DATE 10/09/73//282
SITUATION: HAKUN
SUBJECT CATAGORY: TOHAK
MESSAGE / ANNOTAT I ON $
BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 11 AND OCTOBER 2 WAS 476v OF WHOM 462 WERE
CIVILIANS AND 14 WERE MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND POLICE,
THE JUNTA ALSO ISSUED A DECREE ON WEDNESDAY APPOINTING MILI-
TARY OFFICERS To HEAD CHILE'S MAJOR UNIVERSITIES, FORMER
AIR FORCE COMMANDER IN CHIEF GENERAL RUIZ WAS NAMED RECTOR
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHILE IN SANTIAGO AND PRESIDENT OF THE
COUNCIL OF RECTORS,
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S T Jj h jN INDDCHLNA_; MILITARY ACTIVITY ALONG PHNOM PENH'S
SOUTHERN FRONT WAS LIGHT YESTERDAY. OUTPOSTS NEAR THE PREK HO
BRIDGE WERE TARGETS FOR INSURGENT SHELLINGS,- BUT THERE WERE NO
GROUND ACTIONS, GOVERNMENT OFFICERS ARE COMMANDEERING SAMPANS
TO MOVE THEIR TROOPS INTO THE FLOODED AREA NORTH OF ROUTES 2 AND
201 IN ORDER TO TRY TO REGAIN HIGH GROUND ALONG THESE ROADS.
TWENTY MILES SOUTHWEST OF PHNOM PENN, GOVERNMENT TROOPS AT THE
ISOLATED TOWNS OF TRAM KHNAR AND SRANG ARE UNDER INCREASING COM-
MUNIST PRESSURE, ELSEWHERE, GOVERNMENT UNITS AT KDMPONG CHAM
HAVE BROKFN THE COMMUNISTS! MONTH-LONG ENCIRCLEMENT OF THE AIR-
FIELD JUST NORTHWEST OF THE CITY AND CONTINUE TO EXPAND THEIR
AREA OF CONTROL AGAINST LIGHT RESISTANCE.
FIGHTING WAS MODERATE TO HEAVY THROUGHOUT SOUTH VIETNAM YESTERDAY,
IN MILITARY REGION 10 FIGHTING WAS MODERATE, DESPITE RECENT RE-
PORTS THAT THERE WOULD BE A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN ATTACKS IN
QUANG NAM PROVINCE. IN THE HIGHLANDS, COMMUNIST SHELLING ACTIV-
ITY CONTINUED TO CENTER IN NORTHERN BINH OINH PROVINCE. FIGHTING
WAS LIGHT IN MILITARY REGION 3, WHILE THE DELTA WAS MODERATELY
ACTIVE. GOVERNMENT GUNNERS IN CHAU DOC PROVINCE REPORTEDLY
CAUGHT A NORTH VIETNAMESE BATTALION IN THE OPEN ALONG THE CAM"
BODIA.N BORDER, KILLING AT LEAST 80 SOLDIERS WHILE SUSTAINING
ONLY ONE WOUNDED,
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