FOLLOW-UP MESSAGE TO AMBASSADOR MOYNIHAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-36-4-34-0
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 2, 2012
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: July 17, 1973
• Content Type: MEMO

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'MEMORANDUM
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL ACTION (Outside System)
SECRET (XGDS)
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT: ,
July 17, 1973
DR. KISSINGER
HAROLD H. SAUNDERS
Follow-up Message to Ambassador Moynihan
Attached is a follow-o message to Ambassador Moynihan [Tab Al
which takes further tw subjects addressed in the quick message
to him last night [Tab B That was designed to let him. know, in
connection with his meet g today with Prime Minister Gandhi, that
nothing had taken place he e which changed the instructions he
received in San Clemente.
--The attached includes a aragraph to tell him what you
have done on the question o iood. for India. As you know,
it has been extremely difficul?to get any answers on food
export questions while the woriV.-wide review and the
Phase IV decisions are still up the airs
also mentions the point that K
for Pakistan's integrity. I had deli.
last night's message because I thou
want to keep this idea. to yourself unt
to consider it and perhaps discuss it
there is a paragraph in the attached on
if you decide to inform Moynihan now.
ul made about guarantees
erately omitted this from
t perhaps you would
you had had a chance
ith the Shah. However,
this which you can use
Recommendation:, That you send the attached essage to Moynihan if
you feel that something additional is required,
Send it
Kill it
SECRET (XGDS)
MORI/CDF C05097890
XGDS-3.
C LAS -Impossible to De te rmine Date,
BYAUTH-Dr, Henry A. Kissinger
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SECRET (XGDS).
TO: NEW DELHI/AMBASSADOR MOYNIHA
FROM: THE WHITE HOUSE/HENRY A. KISSIN
I. I wanted to get my short message of last night o
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t to you in a
hurry so that you would be assured that nothing in my conversation
with Ambassador Kaul affected anything you might I ay to Prime
Minister Gandhi in your meeting today. However,
couple of more detailed points I want you to have.
2. As I indicated last night the world-wide revie
there are a
of our food sit-
uation and the decisions in connection with Phase I are still very
much in process. A decision on how much food In
not normally come out of those reviews for another
However, I recognize full well the political proble
might buy would
several weeks.
which you have
described and agree we should avoid it if we can. rberefore, I have
called Secretary Secretary Butz and asked him whetitet,--gae-r-e-is-an amount of
food 414.94-.seentla-1i1eliiJ.o-be available to India no
decisions are. He has promised me an answer by
SECRET (XGDS).
tter what our,
e end of today.
XGDS -.3
DECLAS -Impossible to Determine Date:
BYAU'r1-1-Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
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NELd. DEL-4I/AMBASSADOR ,00YNILAN!/EYES ONLY
T!-IE WHITE HOUSE/HENRy
I THANK YOU FOR YOUR MESSAGE (NE! DELHI 086). I UNDERSTAND. FULLY
iTE POLITICAL POINT yoll *ARE MAKING ABOUT OUR HANDLIN OF THF
INDIAN FOOD REQUEST. UNFORTUNATELY, THE QUANTITY IS .O LARGE- THAT
w-E JUST HAVE TO GET THROUGL THE .DECISION-MAKING PROCESS OVP.R
THE: NEXT WEEK TU TE DAIS 9.1EFqRE 'WE WILL KNaW 'WHERE WE STAN 1N
ON
FUTURE EXPORTS. hE SHALL 4PAR Y4-1UR wARNINGscAREFULLY IN MINI. AND
HT1PE THAT THIS DECISION-MANG PEq0D rs SHORT ENOUGH AS TO DEPRIVE
? THE. INDIANS OE ANY REAL AkGUMENT THAT WE HAVE HELD Ul ON T-IEM?
THERE WAS.NOTHING SIGNIEICANT FROM MY MEETING .WITH
A:,CASSADrIR KAUL WHICH WOUL? AFFECT YOUR TALk WITH ,THE PPE
EARLIER IN
E ARE
SAID THAT,
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mIN1STER. HE 010 RAISE THE FOOD REQUEST WHICH HE HA
TE 1:EFK PUT TO SECRETARY ''UTZ. IPOINTED-OOT THAT 1
PERIOD-OF MA'4.ING DECISIONS ON OUR EXPORT PROGRAM .BUT
l'iSnFAP AS PnLITICAL JUDGmENT-OREVAILS, THE INDIANS:
WOULD HAVE A
141:GH PRIORLTY. 1 INDICATED THAT P.;71.1TICAL JUDGMENT MAY NOT PREVAIL
SINCE .OUR ECONOMIC pROOLEMS ARE COMPLEX AND THAT NE HJUST OD NOT
H4vE AN ANSwi..'q THIS WEEK. CN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE, HE FELT 'HAT THE
1,1.4cm EcoNgMIC RELATIDNSHIp IS IN PLACE..HE FAVORS STEP-BY-STEP
STATE OFPARTmFNT FAVORS NO DECISInN ON FUTURE AID U TIL Ou; _
APPRnACH. I SIMPLY INDICATFO THAT YOU WOULD YE CARRyING
ErRARD THESE DISCUSSIONS IN NEW r',ELHI. HE CAME IN irRimARIO'
Ti 01.INT HIS PICTURE OF DEvELOPvE\!TS IN THE AREA FROM THE PERSIAN
GULE THROUGH SOUTH ASIA ON THE EVE OF WHAT WE HAD ORIGINALLY
T',.-40"t7,NT WOULD BE A VISIT BY PRESInENT OHUTTn NEXT WEEK AND THE
sLA,..ils "IS IT THE FOLLOWING WEEK. ON THESE ISSUES, HE TOOK 4 LINE
i
WPICH IS FAMILIAR TO YOU.
? wAkm REGARDS.
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