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181. Telegram From the Embassy in Poland to the Department of State

Warsaw, September 9, 1966, 0944Z.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL CHICOM-US. Confidential; Immediate; Limdis. Repeated to Hong Kong and Taipei and passed to the White House and USIA.

182. Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (Sisco) to Secretary of State Rusk

Washington, September 13, 1966.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, UN 6 CHICOM. Secret; Exdis. A handwritten notation on the source text indicates that Bundy concurred.

183. Editorial Note

184. Memorandum From Alfred Jenkins of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Special Assistant (Rostow)

Washington, September 16, 1966.

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Name File, Jenkins Memos. Secret. Copies were sent to William J. Jorden and Donald Ropa of the NSC staff.

185. Circular Telegram From the Department of State to Certain Posts

Washington, September 16, 1966, 8:52 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, UN 6 CHICOM. Confidential; Priority. Drafted by Gleysteen, cleared by Berger, and approved by Sisco. Sent to 101 Embassies; repeated to 10 Embassies, Hong Kong, USUN, the U.S. Mission in Geneva, and Paris for USRO.

186. Telegram From the Embassy in the Republic of China to the Department of State

Taipei, September 20, 1966, 0932Z.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL 2 CHICOM. Secret; Limdis. Received at 8:05 a.m. Repeated to Hong Kong.

187. Memorandum of Conversation

New York, September 20, 1966, 1 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL CHICOM. Secret; Limdis. Approved by Thompson on September 24. The meeting took place at the Passy Restaurant in New York. The source text is Part V of X.

188. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant (Rostow) to President Johnson

Washington, September 20, 1966, 2:30 p.m.

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Country File, China, Vol. VII. Confidential. A handwritten “L” on the source text indicates that it was seen by the President.

189. Memorandum of Conversation

New York, September 20, 1966, 5:30 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 67 D 305, CF 83. Confidential. Drafted on September 29. Approved in S on October 18. The source text is Part III of III. The meeting was held at the Barclay Hotel in New York City.

190. Memorandum by the Board of National Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, September 23, 1966.

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Country File, China, Vol. VII. Secret.

191. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the Republic of China

Washington, September 29, 1966, 6:57 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL CHINAT-US. Secret; Priority; Limdis. Drafted by Bennett; cleared in draft by Roy, Admiral Lemos of DOD/ISA, Richard H. Donald of ACA, and [text not declassified] of CIA; and approved by Berger. Repeated to Hong Kong.

192. Telegram From the Mission to the United Nations to the Department of State

New York, October 4, 1966, 0151Z.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL 7 USSR. Secret; Priority; Exdis. Repeated to Moscow and the White House.

193. Telegram from the Embassy in the Republic of China to the Department of State

Taipei, October 25, 1966, 0500Z.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL 27 CHICOM-CHINAT. Secret; Priority; Limdis. Repeated to Hong Kong and to Manila for Bundy.

194. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Thailand

Washington, October 28, 1966, 9:37 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, UN 6 CHICOM. Secret; Exdis. Drafted by Gleysteen, cleared by Berger, cleared in draft by Acting Secretary Katzenbach, and approved by Sisco. Repeated to USUN for Goldberg.

195. Memorandum From Alfred Jenkins of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Special Assistant (Rostow)

Washington, November 2, 1966.

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Name File, Jenkins Memos. Secret. Copies were sent to William J. Jorden and Donald Ropa of the NSC staff.

196. Telegram From the Embassy in the Republic of China to the Department of State

Taipei, November 3, 1966, 1040Z.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL 7 US/BUNDY. Secret; Priority; Exdis. Received at 6:27 a.m.

197. Memorandum of Conversation

Washington, November 3, 1966, 5:30 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, UN 6 CHICOM. Secret; Nodis. No drafting information appears on the source text. Approved in U on November 7. The meeting was held in Under Secretary Katzenbach’s office.

198. Special National Intelligence Estimate

Washington, November 3, 1966.

Source: Department of State, INR/EAP Files: Lot 90 D 99. Top Secret; Controlled Dissem. According to a note on the cover sheet, the estimate was submitted by Director of Central Intelligence Helms and concurred in by the U.S. Intelligence Board on November 3. The Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence organizations of the Departments of State, Defense, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the National Security Agency participated in the preparation of the estimate. All members of the U.S. Intelligence Board concurred, except the FBI Representative, who abstained on the grounds that the subject was outside his jurisdiction.

A November 1 memorandum from INR/RFE Director Fred Greene to Hughes states that the SNIE was intended to be a summary of portions of NIE 13–2–66 of the same title, sanitized for distribution to persons not cleared for access to NIE 13–2–66, but that the draft SNIE had been revised to incorporate information about the fourth Chinese nuclear test explosion. (Ibid.) NIE 13–2–66, “Communist China’s Advanced Weapons Program,” dated July 1, is not printed. (Central Intelligence Agency, NIE Files)

199. Memorandum From Alfred Jenkins of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Special Assistant (Rostow)

Washington, November 4, 1966.

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Country File, China, Vol. VII. Secret. Copies were sent to Jorden and Ropa.

200. Memorandum From Secretary of State Rusk to President Johnson

Washington, November 5, 1966.

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Memos to the President, Walt W. Rostow. Secret. The source text does not indicate the drafter, but Sisco’s November 4 memorandum cited in footnote 2, Document 195, which forwarded the draft memorandum to Rusk, indicates that it was drafted by Sisco and Buffum and cleared by Berger and Meeker. Sisco’s memorandum states that the proposal reflected a consensus of views reached at a meeting with Katzenbach, Berger, and Meeker and that Goldberg concurred. The source text was sent to the President with a November 5 memorandum from Rostow noting that NSC staff member Nathaniel Davis thought the proposal was probably the “best we can do” to avoid being in a minority.

201. Editorial Note

202. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Canada

Washington, November 9, 1966, 1:06 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, UN 6 CHICOM. Secret; Immediate; Exdis. Drafted by Bundy, cleared by Sisco and Rufus Z. Smith, and approved by Rusk. Repeated to USUN for Goldberg and to London, Canberra, Wellington, Tokyo, Rome, Brussels, and Taipei.

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XXX, China