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Joe Sisco
11:25 p.m., February 1, 1970
K:
I have had another talk with the President and told him of
our conversation yesterday. He is aboard.
S:
I have an analysis prepared and a suggested reply. I will
do a clean draft of both and will have it for the Secretary in the next
few hours. Whenever you want to look at it, I will get it to you on
the understanding that it is a first crack.
K:
It isn't that urgent [he explained that he was leaving for New
York returning late evening and asked Sisco to send it to his office],
Sisco agreed to do this.
K:
I told Freeman we have this letter and that when the President
had time to focus on a reply, you would be in touch with him. I
called Dobrynin and said the President received the letter and, for
your information, the President thinks under no circumstances should
we deliver before Thursday and he would prefer to hold it for a week.
S:
I am inclined to do it a little more quickly. A delayed answer
on our part can be exploited from a propaganda point of view as
reflecting no interest on the part of the U.S. with regard to the
ceasefire. I would suggest Tuesday or Wednesday.
K:
He won't agree to Tuesday.
S:
I think our answer should be factual, but low key. This
document (which I read very carefully) has many propaganda overtures.
Our reply has to be framed on the assumption they may make their
paper public at some point. Therefore, our reply has to be framed
in private as well as public sonsiderations.
K:
He wants to make some statement that their statement we
are colluding with the Israelis is not true.
S:
Did Dobrynin say that this was directly a message from anybody
in the government?
K:
It is from Kosygin to the President. I had that taken off in
the xeroxing.
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