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The original documents are located in Box 3, folder "Canada - State Department Telegrams:
From SECSTATE - NODIS" of the National Security Advisor. Presidential Country Files for
Europe and Canada, 1974-77 at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
Presidential Libraries Withdrawal Sheet
WITHDRAWAL ID 014160
REASON FOR WITHDRAWAL
National security restriction
TYPE OF MATERIAL
Telegram
CREATOR'S NAME
SECSTATE WASHDC
RECEIVER'S NAME
AMEMBASSY OTTAWA
TITLE
Secretary's Meeting with Canadian
Foreign Minister MacEachen, September
24
CREATION DATE
09/26/1974
VOLUME
2 pages
COLLECTION/SERIES/FOLDER ID
032500045
COLLECTION TITLE
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER. PRESIDENTIAL
COUNTRY FILES FOR EUROPE AND CANADA
BOX NUMBER
3
FOLDER TITLE
Canada - State Department Telegrams:
From SECSTATE - NODIS
DATE WITHDRAWN
10/16/2001
WITHDRAWING ARCHIVIST
GG
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Department of State
AMERICA
CONF IDENT
N00710
TELEGRAM
PAGE STATES 31 OF STATE 069133
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TO AMEMBASSY OTTAWA IMMEDIATE
RECD: MARCH 27,1975
CONFIDENTIALSTATE 009133
NOUIS
CHEROKEE
E.O. 116521 GUS
TAGS: CA, US
SUBJECT: INVITATION TO MACEACHEN
REF: OTTAWA 1115
FOR AMBASSADOR PORTER FROM THE SECRETARY
1. THANKS VERY MUCH FOR YOUR GOOD SUGGESTION. IF
MACEACHEN COULD TAKE THE TRUUBLE TO COME DOWN HERE, I
WOULD RATHER MEET WITH HIM AND OFFER HIM LUNCH. I COULD
DO THAT NEXT MUNDAY, MARCH 31 AND GIVE HIM AN ASSESSMENT
NOT ONLY OF THE MIDDLE EAST BUT CYPHUS AS WELL ANUPER-
HAPS TAKE UP A FEW ISSUES THAT ARE CLOUDING US-CANAUIAN
AFFAIRS.
2. WOULD YOU DELIVER THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE TO
MACEACHEN FOR ME: "DEAR ALAN: ON MY RETURN FROM A
DISAPPOINTING SERIES OF TALKSIN THE MIDDLE EAST, I
LEARNFROM MARCEL CADIEUX HOW INTERESTED YOUARE IN BEING
KEPT UP TO DATE ON DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. I
FORD
CONFIDENTIAL
66. 10/15/01
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WONDER IF WE COULD GET TOGETHER FUR A TALK. IF YOU WOULD
FIND IT CONVENIENT TO COME DOWN TO WASHINGTON BRIEFLY
ON MONDAY, MARCH 31, I COULD OFFER YOU LUNCH ANOGIVE
YOU MY ASSESSMENT OF THE SITUATION IN THE MIDULE EAST
AND WE COULD PERHAPS TALK ABOUT A FEW OTHER ISSUES OF
COMMON CONCERN. I AM SORRY FOR THE SHORTNOTICE.
IF YOUR SCHEDULE WILL NOT PERMIT THIS, WE MILL BRIEF
AMBASSADOR CADIEUX HERE AND WE CAN PERHAPS FIX ANOTHER
TIME FOR us TO GET TOGETHER.
WARM REGARDS, HENRY. =
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AMEMBASSY PARIS IMMEDIATE
AMEMBASSY BONN IMMEDIATE
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S E C R E T STATE 235072
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SUBJECT: ECUNOMIC SUMMIT
EYES ONLY FOR AMBASSADOR OR CHARGE FROM SONNENFELDT
1, FYI. CANADIAN AMBASSADOR WARREN CALLED ON ME TO MAKE
-
A STRONG PITCH FOR CANADIAN PARTICIPATION IN ANY ECONOMIC
SUMMIT. HE PREFACED THIS BY STATING THAT THE GOC WAS
SKEPTICAL ABOUT THE ADVANTAGE OF SUCH RESTRICTED GROUPINGS,
THAT IT HAD LIVED WITH THE G-5 WITHOUT LIKING IT, AND THAT
IT HOPED THAT ECONOMIC SUMMITRY WOULD NOT IN ANY CASE BE
FORD
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INSTITUTIONALIZED. THIS SAID, IF AN ECONOMIC SUMMIT WERE
À
HELD, CANADA SHOULD BE INCLUDED, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE
NUMBER OF PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES WERE RESTRICTED TO THREE,
GERALD
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OF STATE
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NORTH-SOUTH DIALOGUE WOULD BE DISCUSSED WHEN SECRETARY
KISSINGER VISITS OTTAWA THIS MONTH, AND CANADA'S INCLUSION
S
OR EXCLUSION AT A SUMMIT COULD NOT BUT AFFECT THE TENOR OF
THESE TALKS. ITWOULD, WARREN SAID, BE A VERY BIG ISSUE!
2', I REPLIED BY NOTING THAT THE SUMMIT HAS NOT ORIGINALLY
OUR IDEA. GISCARD'S INITIAL PROPOSAL HAD FIRST BEEN TAKEN
UP BY SCHMIOT, AND IT THEN WAD BEEN DISCUSSED IN HELSINKI
HY WILSON, FOHD, GISCARD AND SCHMIDT. THE ORIGINAL CONCEPT
HAD BEEN BROADENED FROM ITS MONETARY FOCUS TO ENCOMPASS A
MUCH WIDER AND MORE FUNDAMENTAL RANGE OF POLITICO/ECONOMIC
ISSUES, BUT WITH THE EMPHASIS ON INFORMAL AND VERY PRIVATE
DISCUSSIONS. US, UK, GERMAN AND FRENCH EXPERTS HAD BEEN
APPOINTED TO EXPLORE THE MATTER AND THEY HAD MET DURING A
RECENT TRIP BY GEORGE SHULTZ, OUR EXPERT, TO EUROPE.
THERE THEY HAD AGREED TO MEET AGAIN IN NEW YORK THIS COMING
WEEKEND FOR FURTHER DISCUSSIONS, AND TO INVITE JAPAN, THE
REMAINING MEMBER OF THE G-5, TO SEND AN WEXPERT.' SUBSE-
QUENTLY, IT HAD ALSO BEEN DECIDED TO INVITE ITALY.
3. I SAID I WAS NOT IN A POSITION TO DEBATE THE DESIR-
ABILITY OF SUCH A SUMMIT. THE LEADERS CONCERNED FELT IT
USEFUL TO GIVE MORE VISIBLE EVIDENCE THAT THE WEST HAS IN
COMMAND OF ITS DESTINY, AND THEY WERE AGREED IN PRINCIPLE
TO HOLD SUCH A SUMMIT. IN OUR VIEW A SUMMIT SHOULD FOCUS
ON THE BROADER POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE
CURRENT ECONOMIC SITUATION, RATHER THAN REING USED TO
NEGOTIATE SPECIFIC, ESSENTIALLY TECHNICAL ISSUES. AS TO
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OR REPETITION OF SUCH MEETINGS,
NOTHING HAD BEEN DECIDED AND IN My VIEW MUCH WOULD DEPEND
ON MOW THINGS WENT AT THE SUMMIT:
4. WITH RESPECT TO CANADIAN PARTICIPATION, I SAID THAT
THE US WAS IN FAVOR, BUT THAT WE WERE NOT IN A POSITION
TO MAKE A UNILATERAL DECISION. I SUGGESTED THAT THE
CANADIANS GET IN TOUCH WITH THE ATHER PARTICIPANTS,
PARTICULARLY THE FRENCH AND GERMANS, WHO MAD ORIGINALLY
PROPOSED SUCH A SUMMIT: ONCE THE OTHERS HAD INDICATED
AGREEMENT, I WOULD IMMEDIATELY BE TN TOUCH WITH ANBASSADOR
WARREN TO GIVE HIM THE DETAILS ON ARRANGEMENTS FOR THIS
FORD
WEEKENDIS MEETING IN NEW YORK.
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5. WARREN CLOSED BY NOTING THAT THEY WOULD HAVE A MAN
S
AVAILABLE IN NEW YORK, AND THAT THEIR PM WOULD BE AVAILABLE
FOR THE LATE NOVEMBER DATES THAT THEY HAD HEARD MENTIONED
FOR THE SUMMIT. I SAID THAT THE LATE NOVEMBER DATES FOR
THE SUMMIT HAD BEEN PROPOSED BY THE JAPANESE, BUT WERE
UNACCEPTABLE FOR us, AND THAT THERE WAS NO AGREEMENT AS
YET ON DATES FOR THE SUMMIT.
6. FOR BONN, AMBASSADOR HILLENBRAND, SCHMIOT SAID TO
SHULTZ AND ME IN NEW YORK LAST NIGHT THAT WHILE HE WISHED
THE ORIGINAL GROUP HAD NOT BEEN EXPANDED HE HAD NO
OBJECTION TO CANADIAN PARTICIPATION, THE CANADIANS MAY
SEEK FORMAL GERMAN APPROVAL BOTH IN BONN AND FROM SCHMIDT'S
PARTY IN NEW YORK,
7, FOR PARIS, AMBASSADOR RUSH. I CALLED FRENCH AMBASSADOR
TO TELL HIM OF CANADIAN APPROACH AND TO ALERT HIM TO
PROHABLE CANADIAN INQUIRY AT ELYSEE, I ALSO MENTIONED
TO KIM THAT SCHMIDT HAD LAST NIGHT RECALLED THAT HE,
SHULTZ AND GISCARD HAD DISCUSSED THIS MATTER WHEN THEY
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MET IN PARIS LAST MONTH AND HAD AGREED IN PRINCIPLE TO
INCLUDE CANADA IF ITALY WERE INCLUDED. END FYI, KISSINGER
FORD
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AMEMBASSY LONDON IMMEDIATE
AMEMBASSY PARIS IMMEDIATE
AMEMBASSY ROME IMMEDIATE
AMEMBASSY TOKYO IMMEDIATE
C N F 1 D E N I A STATE 241540
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E.O. 11652: GDS
TAGS: CA, GW, UK, FR, IT, JA
SUBJECT: ECONOMIC SUMMIT
1, DURING A CALL BY THE CANADIAN AMBASSADOR ON OCTOBER 8,
THE SECRETARY ADVISED HIM OF CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS CONCERN-
ING THE PROPOSED ECONOMIC SUMMIT MEETING. THE SECRETARY
NOTED THAT AGREEMENT HAD NOT YET BEEN REACHED ON CANADA'S
PARTICIPATION IN THE NOVEMBER MEETING, AND AN ANNOUNCEMENT
OF THE MEETING SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE ON OCTOBER 10 IS
LIKELY TO MENTION ONLY THE 6 AGREED PARTICIPANTS. HE
STRESSED THAT THE U.S. IS STRONGLY SUPPORTING CANADA'S
INCLUSION IN THE CONFERENCE AND SAID THE PRESIDENT MIGHT BE
WRITING PERSONALLY TO GISCARD TO RECOMMEND CANADIAN PARTI-
CONFIGENTIAL
FORD
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CIPATION. AS WE UNDERSTAND THAT BRITAIN, JAPAN AND
GERMANY ALSO SUPPORT OTTAWA'S CANDIDACY, THE SECRETARY
SAID HE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR THE FRENCH
TO TURN DOWN THIS REQUEST.
2. THE SECRETARY EMPHASIZED TO AMBASSADOR WARREN THE
IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING THE ISSUE FROM EVOLVING INTO A
CONFRONTATION WITH THE FRENCH. HE SAID WE WERE TRYING TO
DEVISE A FACE-SAVING FORMULA WHICH WOULD FACILITATE A
CHANGE OF POSITION BY THE FRENCH.
ZODIU
3, WHILE NOTING THAT SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFER-
ENCE HAD ALREADY LEAKED, THE SECRETARY STRESSED THE
IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING THE ISSUE CONFIDENTIAL UNTIL
RESOLVED. HE SAID THAT IF HE IS ASKED BY THE PRESS ABOUT
CANADIAN PARTICIPATION AFTER THE OCTOBER 10 ANNOUNCEMENT,
HE WILL SAY THE U.S. SUPPORTS CANADA'S INCLUSION AND WE
ARE, HOPEFUL IT CAN BE WORKED OUT. KISSINGER
ZODIU
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FOR AMBASSADOR
E.O. 11652: XGDS-3
TAGS: PFOR, PARM, CA
SUBJECT: ANTICIPATED PRESIDENTIAL NUCLEAR POLICY STATEMENT
REF: STATE 243174
1. REF VEST TELCON OF OCTOBER 1, YOU SHOULD NOW IMPLEMENT
ORIGINAL REFERENCED INSTRUCTION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE,
STRESSING OUR CONCERN THAT THIS MATTER BE TREATED WITH
ABSOLUTE CONFIDENTIALITY AND LIMITED TO MINIMUM NECESSARY
OFFICIALS,
200-0
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