At 4:30, Cheng 【鄭健生] phoned that two cables had arrived which stipulated that I should do the decoding myself. Told him to send cable-room clerk with the cables and codes to my residence.
Lin 【林鐘]【1】 came. I began to decode at 5 p.m. One cable conveyed the information on Kennedy’s commitment to use the veto in order to keep the Reds out of the U.N. This commitment was conveyed by Drumright 【莊萊德] to C. 【蔣中正] on Oct. 17, 1961. It was confirmed this year by Rusk when he visited Taipei in April.
The other cable was a sophomoric essay on strategy in S. E. Asia and the polices of the British Labour Party. It is not confidential. In ideas, the cable is simply empty. Who really composed it?
The decoding kept me up to 2 a.m. Monday.
【注】
【1】應為林鐘，此時於中華民國駐美大使館協理電務工作。
1962-1968年為駐美大使館三等秘書，1968-1971年為二等秘書。
後歷任多明尼加共和國大使館一等秘書、駐沙烏地阿拉伯大使館公使、駐韓大使館公使、外交部人事處長等職。
參考：〈駐美大使館職雇員工作分配表（五十三年三月二十日）〉，收於陳紅民、傅敏主編，《美國哈佛大學哈佛燕京圖書館藏蔣廷黻資料》第16冊，頁314；政治大學社會科學資料中心，中華民國政府官職資料庫。