648. Letter From the Under Secretary of State (Katzenbach) to the Deputy Secretary of Defense (Nitze)1
Dear Paul:
Thank you for your letter of October 192 on South Africa and enclosing the JCS comments.
I have asked our people to move ahead as quickly as possible on the new regional National Policy Paper on Southern Africa,3 which is designed [Page 1091] to cover situations like those described in the JSC memorandum. A new draft may be available for circulation early next month. Discussion of this paper would clearly be the most useful basis for making decisions on the problems highlighted in the JCS memorandum.
As for an immediate look at the interim policy of visits, I doubt that consideration of this aspect of the problem can usefully be separated from the full spectrum of our policy of which it is actually a key element.
On the other hand, should operational business require an interim decision regarding a given case in a South African port, I think we should be able to deal with the case in the SIG.
Sincerely yours,
- Source: Washington National Records Center, RG 330, OSD Files: FRC 71 A 4546, South Africa, 333—452.1, 1967. Secret.↩
- Document 647.↩
- See Document 409.↩