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Mr. Kissinger/The President
2:20 p. m., November 14, 1970
K:
Mr. President, how are you. I wanted to bring you up to
date on one development. The Syrian army overthrew the government.
P:
I read that.
K:
I think it is one of the positive results of our Jordanian move.
P:
From what I can read from the news summary, the move
certainly is not a move to the left but to the right.
K:
But these people will still be in the radical camp.
P:
They can't be anything else.
K:
It proves that a most hardline regime didn't survive a challenge
to
us. People will remember. As far as conduct of negotiations, it
has problems because it means we now have to talk about the Golon
Heights. I think the Egyptians would have preferred to drop it, but
that is a tactical issue. On the whole, it is a positive development
and therefore quite good.
One other thing -- Laird has been talking to Stennis about the
Stennis amendment to the appropriations bill to the effect that combat
troops cannot be used in Laos and Thailand. He wants to authorize
Stennis to add the word "Cambodia." I think I would like to call
Stennis.
P:
No. "Cambodia" will not be used. I want the threat. It's the
whole point. We'd be out of our minds. We have to keep them guessing.
We shouldn't have Thailand in there because we have a treaty.
K:
It has nothing to do with whether we intend to use them or not.
I had a talk with Dobeynin this morning and told him about the tender.
He said he would report to Moscow.
P:
Did he know it was there?
K:
He said, 'Do you take it seriously or are you making an issue?
I said we are taking it seriously. They are trying to kick us a little.
It's not in its former position. They have it way in a corner of the
harbor - on the Cuban side of the harbor. It's not where the installation
is. It's a salami tactic where they always test you.
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 13526, Section 3.5
PER RAC REVIEW 6/12/2008
By
JHS
NARA, Date 8/20/2012
Con. I of 6]
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