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222. Memorandum From the Presidentʼs Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Kissinger ) to President Nixon

K- This is one of the most cynical, callous reactions of a great government to a terrible human tragedy I have ever seen. When Paks try to put down a rebellion in East Pakistan, the world screams. When Indians kill a few thousand Paks, no one cares. Biafra stirs us because of Catholics; the Israeli Olympics because of Jews; the North Vietnam bombings because of Communist leanings in our establishment. But when 100,000 (one-third of all the people of a black country) are murdered, we say and do nothing because we must not make blacks look bad (except, of course, when Catholic blacks are killed)…

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1972-09-20
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–5, Part 1, Documents on Sub-Saharan Africa, 1969–1972
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve05p1/d222
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Record ID	`frus:frus1969-76ve05p1/d222`

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222. Memorandum From the Presidentʼs Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Kissinger ) to President Nixon. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1972. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1969-76ve05p1/d222.