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Secretary Kissinger
Secretary Rush
1/24/74; 9:28 a. m.
K: Hello.
R: Oh, Henry.
K: Yes, Ken.
R: Good morning. I yesterday had a meeting with Thompson, who is Under
Secretary of the Foreign Office.
K: Yes, I know him.
R: And the other British on Diego Garcia. And they are, of course, willing
to have us use Diego Garcia and expand it but and they want to turn this into
an improvement of our relations which they say have not been too good of late.
One thing they said Heath has insisted on, however, is that we consult them
on any use that may not be just strictly normal use. And of course I am
resisting that to the fullest extent I can. But Thompson has no authority
whatever to change it and we are trying to use as inocuous language on
consultation as possible. I pointed out to them that this could be very
inhibiting factor as far as they are concerned.
K: Unless we have substantially unrestricted use it isn't a lot of help to us.
R: It is not a hell of a lot of help to us unless it is unhibited. I think maybe
we will be able to get some consultation language that will not be too restrictive.
But they say politically that it is impossible for them obviously to give us
unrestricted use. Jim called me yesterday and said he realized that unrestricted
use was impossible but we would try to get the word "full use" which maybe
we will be able to work in. But without a reversal by Heath himself we will
not be able to use it without consultation. And of course on alllof our other
bases we do have to have some kind of consultation with them. The negotiations
are going to resume this afternoon. Cy Weiss is primarily conducting them.
After I headed them I talked with them and spent the day together. I just
wondered ifyou had some further thoughts you wanted me to give them.
K: Well, I just think we should have the greatest possible use of the base
and if they would give full use and have some consultation phrase that isn't
too inhibiting -- but have we checked with Defense.
R: I talked with Jim and I am going to call Jim again after I get off this phone
with you, and tell him just what the situation is. We will have to have some
consultation thing but as I say I hope it can be as -- we are trying for something
that will be inocuous as possible and if we don't get it we will continue to
negotiate instead of giving in very quickly.
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 13526, Section 3.5
NLN09-16/12517 11/14/2013
By WITH NARA, Date 11/30/2016
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