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    "ocrText": "TAC38\nMEMORANDUM\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nTOP SECRET/SENSITIVE/EYES ONLY\nMay 15, 1971\nTHE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN\n%\nMEMORANDUM FOR:\nTHE PRESIDENT\nFROM:\nHENRY A. KISSINGER K\nSUBJECT:\nMeeting with Ambassador Farland,\nMay 7, 1971\nOn Friday, May 7, I met for three hours with Ambassador Farland\nin Palm Springs. At that time, I outlined the exchange of messages\nbetween the U.S. and China that has taken place through the Pakistanis;\nI read portions of the most recent message delivered by Ambassador\nHilaly on April 21 and told Ambassador Farland that you intended to\nrespond by proposing that I meet with Chou en-Lai, or a suitable\nChinese representative, either in Pakistan or at a location in southern\nChina easily accessible from Pakistan. We considered a number of\ndetails associated with the trip and reached some tentative decisions.\n-- After reviewing several alternative communication channels,\nwe agreed to place a special Navy communicator in Karachi to provide\na communications channel similar to the one I have set up with Bahr\nand Rush. This should be operational this week.\n-- I discussed with Ambassador Farland my proposed trip\nitinerary which would provide for an arrival in Islamabad on a Friday,\nat which point he or Yahya could arrange to host me for the weekend.\nThis would provide the cover for my meeting with the Chinese, and on\nMonday I would continue on to Tehran. I indicated that I would probably\nrequire about 24 hours with the Chinese and would plan on meeting in\nthree separate sessions.\n-- Ambassador Farland felt that it would be better to be taped\nby the Chinese than the Pakistanis, and for this reason the meeting should\nbe conducted in southern China rather than Pakistan.\n-- We discussed the relative merits of my traveling to China by\nPakistani, Chinese or U.S. aircraft and tentatively decided that the\noptimum arrangement would be to pre-position a smaller White House\nTOP SECRET/SENSITIVE/EYES ONLY"
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