Washington - The former US secretary of state, Dr Henry Kissinger, secretly offered China intelligence on the Soviet military as part of the Nixon administration's "triangular diplomacy" with Beijing and Moscow, according to documents released here yesterday.
Dr Kissinger repeatedly offered Beijing information, highspeed computers and a "hot line" to advise the Chinese of Soviet troop movements starting in October 1971 and throughout the height of the Sino-Soviet split, according to documents released by the National Security Archives, a part of George Washington University.