176. Transcript of a Telephone Conversation Between President Nixon and the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger)1
[Omitted here is discussion unrelated to Chile.]
[P:] Anything new on Chile?
K: We have put out directives on Friday.2 Their propaganda is stepping up against us but nothing overt.
P: After making the statement he did3 [omission is in the original] it’s as cold as that. Helms has to get to these people. Get out of it now.
K: We have made that clear.
P: Re-scheduling of debts comes up when?
K: Early next year. We have put in the instructions at the NSC meeting into the directive. I am holding a meeting on Chile in the Sr. Review Group every 3 weeks.
P: I feel strongly this line is important regarding its effect on the people of the world. If he can prove he can set up a Marxist anti-American policy, others will do the same thing.
K: It will haveeffect even in Europe. Not only Latin America.
[Omitted here is discussion unrelated to Chile.]
- Source: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Kissinger Papers, Box 365, Telephone Conversations, Chronological File. No classification marking. All blank underscores are omissions in the original.↩
- Document 175.↩
- President Nixon may be referring to Allende’s inaugural address, which was featured in a November 8 New York Times article. (Juan De Onis, “Chile: Allende Begins the March Toward Socialism,” New York Times, November 8, 1970, p. E5)↩