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20260908 CDTL NRM D70 6 February 1974 70. Bản ghi nhớ của W. R. Smyser, thuộc Ban tham mưu gửi Ngoại trưởng Kissinger.

20260908 CDTL NRM D70 6 February 1974 70. Bản ghi nhớ của W. R. Smyser, thuộc Ban tham mưu gửi Ngoại trưởng Kissinger.


https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v18/d70

Google Translated

Tài liệu số 70

Quan hệ Đối ngoại của Hoa Kỳ, 1969–1976, Tập XVIII, Trung Quốc, 1973–1976

70. Bản ghi nhớ của W. R. Smyser thuộc Ban tham mưu Hội đồng An ninh Quốc gia gửi Ngoại trưởng Kissinger.

Washington, ngày 6 tháng 2 năm 1974.

CHỦ ĐỀ

Thông tin nền về các diễn biến nội bộ tại Tầu cộng.

Tôi tán thành đề nghị của Dick Solomon (Tài liệu A) về việc ông nên cung cấp thông tin nền (theo nguyên tắc không trích dẫn nguồn tin trực tiếp) cho một số nhà báo được chọn lọc về những diễn biến hiện nay tại Tầu cộng.

Tuy nhiên, tôi muốn đưa ra hai lưu ý quan trọng, phòng khi ông chưa nghĩ tới:

—Tôi cho rằng trong vài tháng tới, giới báo chí sẽ rất dễ nảy sinh ý định công kích nỗ lực của chúng ta đối với Tầu cộng, coi đó là "một khía cạnh khác của chính sách hòa dịu (détente) đã không mang lại kết quả như cam kết". Việc Tầu cộng siết chặt quy định đi lại và tình trạng bất ổn nội bộ tại nước này sẽ cung cấp "đạn dược" cho những chỉ trích đó—dù không "hiệu quả" bằng những gì phía Nga đã cung cấp.

—Có người sẽ lập luận rằng việc ông cung cấp thông tin nền thực chất là một nỗ lực nhằm ngăn chặn kiểu công kích đó.

Theo tôi, điều này có nghĩa là nếu ông thực hiện việc cung cấp thông tin nền, thì cần phải chọn lọc cực kỳ kỹ lưỡng; có lẽ nên thực hiện theo hình thức trao đổi riêng với từng nhà báo khi họ đến gặp ông để bàn về các chủ đề khác.

Tôi cũng muốn nhấn mạnh thêm rằng điều này cho thấy sự cần thiết phải duy trì một chuyên gia độc lập am hiểu về Tầu cộng tại đây nếu ông quyết định để Solomon rời đi. Thực tế tại Hồng Kông đã cho thấy họ không hiểu thấu đáo vấn đề, dù là dưới góc độ của Tầu cộng hay Hoa Kỳ. Tôi e rằng Văn phòng Liên lạc Hoa Kỳ (USLO) tại Bắc Kinh cũng sẽ không làm tốt hơn. Bộ Ngoại giao và phần lớn báo chí của chúng ta sẽ bị cuốn theo các phân tích của họ, và nếu thiếu năng lực đánh giá độc lập, chúng ta sẽ không thể phản bác lại những quan điểm đó từ đây.

1.   Nguồn: Cơ quan Lưu trữ Quốc gia, Tài liệu Tổng thống Nixon, Hồ sơ NSC, Hộp 528, Hồ sơ Quốc gia, Viễn Đông, Cộng hòa Nhân dân Tầu cộng, Tập 9, từ ngày 1 tháng 1 năm 1974. Mật; Nhạy cảm; Chỉ dành cho người có thẩm quyền xem (Eyes Only). Khẩn; gửi để thông tin.

2.   Mục A là bản sao bản ghi nhớ ngày 5 tháng 2 của Solomon, Tài liệu số 69.

1.   Document 70

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XVIII, China, 1973–1976

70. Memorandum From W. R. Smyser of the National Security Council Staff to Secretary of State Kissinger1

Washington, February 6, 1974.

SUBJECT

·       Backgrounder on Chinese Internal Developments

I concur with Dick Solomon’s recommendation (Tab A)2 that you brief selected journalists on a “deep background” basis about current developments in China.

But I want to add two obvious words of caution, in case they have not already occurred to you:

  • —I think there will be a great temptation in the next few months for members of the press to attack our China effort as “another element of détente that has not worked out as promised.” Chinese hardening on travel and Chinese domestic turmoil will provide ammunition adequate for this though not as good as the ammunition that the Russians have provided.
  • —Some people could argue that your backgrounder represents an effort to stave off that kind of attack.

I think this means that, if you give the backgrounder, it must be done on a highly selective basis, perhaps even on an individual basis with journalists who have come to see you on some other topic.

Let me add that this underlines the need for you to keep an independent China expertise here if you choose to let Solomon go. Hong Kong has already shown that it does not understand the issue either in Chinese or American terms. USLO in Peking will do no better, I fear. The Department and much of our press will be swept away by their analysis, and without independent capacity we will not be able to counter them from here.

1.   Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 528, Country Files, Far East, People’s Republic of China, Vol. 9, Jan. 1, 1974–. Secret; Sensitive; Eyes Only. Urgent; sent for information.

2.   Tab A is a copy of Solomon’s February 5 memorandum, Document 69.

Thân thế (các) nhân vật

Henry A Kissinger

Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs until November 3, 1975; also Secretary of State from September 21, 1973

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(We also had trouble with excesses here: when we made it “our war” we would not let the South Vietnamese fight it; when it again became “their war,” we would not help them fight it. Ironically, we prepared the South Vietnamese for main force warfare after 1954 (anticipating another Korean-type attack), and they faced a political war; they had prepared themselves for political warfare after 1973 only to be faced with a main force invasion 20 years after it had been expected.)

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Nixon Richard M.,

Vice President of the United States

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President of the United States

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Smyser, W. Richard,

member, National Security Council Operations staff/East Asia from 1973 until 1975

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member, National Security Council staff

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