The Kissinger Transcripts shows, according to the New York 77mes’ former Beijing bureau chief, the bare knuckles of triangular diplomacy, the mercurial Mao, the blustery Brezhnev, and the multiple personalities of Henry Kissinger, analyzed with expert commentary by William Burr of the National Security Archive. Here are the transcripts, formerly classified Top Secret/Sensitive, of Kissinger’s talks with Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Leonid Brezhnev, Andrei Gromyko, and others.

A welcome trespass on terrain that the former Secretary of State still treats as his private preserve. [The Kissinger Transcripts] properly reclaims at least a portion of the record that should have long since become public property.The unvarnished record leaves little room for doubt about the blunders and crimes that flowed from Kissinger’s imposition of a reductionist interpretive system on a complex international reality.The Kissinger Transcripts is invaluable to understanding the diplomacy of one of the most influential figures of our era.

Preface

Introduction: Henry Kissinger and American Power

 a Multipolar World

Chapter 1. See How Those Pieces Could be Moved to Our

Advantage’: Washington-Moscow-Beijing, 1971-72

--Memcons of Nixon and Pompidou, 13 December 1971，

  9:00 AM and 4:00 PM, The Azores

--Memcon of IGssinger and Dobrynin, 17 August 1971，

  The White House

--Memcon of IGssinger and Huang， lO December 1971，

  CIA Safehouse Manhattan

--Memcon of Nixon and Mao， 21 February 1972，

  Mao’s Residence

--Statements Made by PRC Leaders to Secretary Kissinger

  or President Nixon Regarding the Peaceful Liberation

  of Taiwan, 22-25 February 1972, Beijing

--Memcon of Kissinger and Huang, 4 August 1972,

  CIA Safehouse Manhattan

Chapter 2. Two Former Enemies, Kissinger in Beijing,

February 1973

--Memcon of Kissinger and Mao, 17 February 1973,

  Mao’s Residence

--Memcon of Kissinger and Zhou, 16 February 1973,

  Villa Number 3

--Memcon of Kissinger and Zhou, 18 February 1973,

  The Great Hall of the People

--Kissinger to Nixon, My Trip to China, 2 March 1973

Chapter 3. From Cambodia to the October War:

Beijing-Washington, March-October 1973

--Memcon, Kissinger and Han, 15 May 1973, The White House

--Memcon, Kissinger and Huang, 6July 1973,

  Western White House, San Clemente

--Memcon, Kissinger and NSC StaffAdvisers, 19 July 1973,

  The White House

--Memcon, Kissinger and Huang, 25 October 1973,

  Department of State

Chapter 4. In Search of Strategic Alliance: Kissinger in Beijing,

November 1973

--Memcon, Kissinger and Zhou, lO November 1973,

  The Great Hall of the People

--Memcon, Kissinger and Mao, 12 November 1973,

  Mao’s Residence

--Memcon, Kissinger and Zhou, 13 November 1973,

  The Great Hall of the People

--Memcons, Kissinger and Zhou, 14 November 1973,

  Guest House

Chapter 5. What’s 3,000 MIRVs Among Friends?:

Kissinger in Moscow, March 1974

 --Memcon, Kissinger and Staff Soviet Experts,

  18 March 1974, Department of State

 --Memcon, Kissinger and Brezhnev, 25 March 1974,

  The Kremlin

 --Memcon, Kissinger and Brezhnev, 27 March 1974,

  The Kremlin

Chapter 6. Firing Cannons: Beijing-Washington, 1974

 --Memcon, Kissinger and Deng, 14 April 1974,

  U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Manhattan

 --Memcons, Kissinger and Deng, 26 November 1974,

  Great Hall of the People, Beijing

 --Memcon, Kissinger and Deng, 27 November 1974,

  Guest House, Beijing

Chapter 7- Trials of Detente, Washington-Moscow, 1974-75

 --Memcon, Kissinger and Brezhnev, 24 October 1974,

  The Kremlin

 --Memcon, Kissinger and Brezhnev, 26 October 1974,

  The Kremlin

 --Memcon, Kissinger and Gromyko, llJuly 1975, Geneva

Chapter 8. We Have Some Problems with the Chinese,

1975-1976

-- Memcon, Kissinger and Staff China Experts, 6 July 1975,

  Department of State

--Memcon, Kissinger and Mao, 21 October 1975,

  Chairman Mao’s Residence

--Memcon, Ford, Kissinger, and Gates, 19 March 1976,

  The White House

--Memcon, Kissinger and StaffChina Experts,

  29 October 1976, State Department

Chapter 9. But 8,000 Cubans Running Around . . .:

Kissinger in Moscow, January 1976

--Memcon, Kissinger and Brezhnev, 21January 1976,

  11:oo AM-I’5O PM, The Kremlin

--Memcon, Kissinger and Brezhnev, 21January 1976,

  5:o2-6:3o PM, The Kremlin

--Memcon, Kissinger and Brezhnev, 22January 1976,

  The Kremlin

--Memcon, Kissinger and Gromyko, 23January 1976,

  Soviet Foreign Ministry

Epilogue: I Would Like to Be Chairman of Something,

January 1977

--Memcon, Kissinger, Vance, and Huang, 8January 1977,

  Department of State

Glossary

Who’s Who

A Note on Sources

Acknowledgments

Index