CABLE TO WHITE HOUSE FROM TEHRAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-173-6-23-8
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 28, 2012
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: April 17, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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S E C 9 E T EYES ONLY 1708?8Z APR 74
CITE TEHRAN 872
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
MORI/CDF per
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TC IMMEDIATE GENERAL BRENT SCOWCROFTs WHITE HOUSE.
NO NIACT; PLEASE DELIVER AT OPENING OF BUSINESS 17 APRIL.
FOR: SECRETARY KISSINGER.
FROM: AMBASSADOR HELMS, TEHRAN.
RFF TEHRAN 870 (BARZANI'S LETTER TO SECRETARY KISSINGER).
1. THE SHAH SENT.WORD vIA SAVAK CHIEFS GENERAL NASIRI,
TUESn)AY MORNING 1b APR1L THAT HM WANTED ME TO READ THE
KURDISH DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S PROPOSED AUTONOMY DECLARATION PRIOR
To MY AUDIENCE SCHEDULED FOR LATE THAT AFTERNOON. THE DECLARA-
TION CONSISTING OF A PREAMBLE OF fi PAGES ANr7 A STATEMENT OF
PRINCIPLES AND ORGANIZATION OF 7 PAGES WAS PROUGHT TO THE 25X1
EMBASSY BY A SAVAK nPPYCrg TN M RN N" (THE COMPLETE
TEXT OF BOTH PARTS ITN A
REQUEST To SEND A COPY 10 YOUR n DICATEO THAT
THE KURnS WERE PLANNING TO BROADCAST THEIR AUTONOMY DECLARATION
.OVER THEIR CLANDESTINE "RADIO KuROESTAN" LATER IN THE EVENING
..1j APRIL.
2. IiHEN I SAW THE SHAH, HE SAID THAT HE WANTED OUR GOVERN
MENT TO STUDY THE PROPOSED KURDISH AUTONOMY DECLARATION. NF WAS
SEEKING AND WOULD WELCOME OUR GOVERNMENT'S COMMENTS AND VIEWS
O?'? THE CONTENTS OF THE DECLARATION ITSELF AND ON THE ADVISABIL
14TY OF PROMULGATING IT AT THIS TIME.
3. 1 POINTED OUT THAT ONCE RRI?ADCAST, THE STATEMENT COU(D
NrT PE UN-BRDADCAST OR RECJLLED. IT SEEMED TO ME A STEP WHICH
SHOULD RE VERY CAREFULLY C;'INSIDERED BEFORE REING"TAKEN.
4. THE SHAH SAID THAT HE HAP KJOT HAD THE OPPORTUNITY In
CnNSIDEa ALL ASPECTS OF TH= PROPOSAL HIMSELF AND THAT IS ONP REA--.
SON HE AS S1=EKING OUR V'IES. "SINCE WE ARE IN THIS THING
TqGETHE+?", HE SAID HE WANTED TO CONSULT THE U.S. BEFORE REACH-
ING A DECISION.
IN MY PRESENCE HE TELEPHONED SAVAK.,OR:DERING THEM THAT
THE RRDADCAST OF THE AUTONOMY DECLARATION SHOULD BE POSTPONFD
AT LEAST UNTIL SATURDAY, 20 APRIL. HE SAID THAT GENERAL BARZANI
IS IN TPHRAN AND WILL WAIT HERE UNTIL THEN TO HAVE THE~SHAH'S
* * * * * * * * * * * * * *;.;HSR COMMENT * * * * * *
S e0t. CRDFT, MCPARLANE, R!J )MAN
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b. uE SAID THAT IN ANY CASE HE WOULD BE INCREASING HIS
014N.FINANCIAL ASSISTA-NCE Tn THE KURDS WHO NOW NEED MORE AID THAN
EVER DUF TO THE INFLUX OF AN ESTIMATED QUARTER OF. A MILLION REFUGEES
FROM THc SOUTH INCLUDING TjUUSAN0S OF PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE,
TEACHERS, DOCTORS AND INTELLECTUALS.
7. THE SHAH POINTED OUT THAT THE PRESENT REGIME IN IRAQ
IS AN AGGRESSIVE COMBINATI!PW OF THE BAITH AND THE COMMUNISTS.
AND UNTIL IRAQ GETS A DECENT GOVERNMENT IT SEEMED DESIRABLE
TO HIM TO SUPPORT THE KURDS.
8. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE WASHINGTON STAFF STUDY WHICH
.WAS FORWARDED TO US FOR.CO141MENT AS WH 40770, PUT FORTH SOME
COGENT REASONS FOR THE KURDS NOT ISSUING THEIR OWN DECLARATION.OF
AUTONOMY AT THIS TIME. SUCH A DECLARATION WILL BE A PUBLIC BURN-
ING OF BRIDGES WHICH WILL VIRTUALLY FORECLOSE FURTHER NEGOTIATION
AND WILL GIVE THE BAGHDAD REGIME A FURTHER PRETEXT FOR MAJOR
COERCIVE MILITARY ACTION, THE KURDS CAN AL:n!AYS ISSUE THE DECLARA-
TION AT SOME FUTURE TIME IF IT APPEARS ADVANTAGEOUS TO DO Sit.
IF THE SHAH AND WE INDICATE WE APPROVE OF ISSUING THE DECLARATION
AT THIS TIME, WE SHALL BE IMPLICITLY BOUND TO SUPPORT THE Kf1RDS
THROUGH THE CONSEQUENCES WHICH FOLLOW. WE KNOW THAT THEIR
PROJECTED MINIMUM BUDGET IS 180 MILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR ANn
THAT THEY ARE GOING TO NEEn MA S v SUPPLIES OF FOOD AND OTHER
MATERIALS TO SUPPORT THEIR POPULATION OF ONE AND A HALF MILLION
PEOPLE (TEHRAN 869). WITH AN ArEA WHICH IS ECONOMICALLY. UN-VIABLE,
IS IT In, THE KURDISH INTEREST In MAKE THIS IRREPARABLE BREAK
WITH BAGHDAD. WE IN TEHRAN On. NOT THINK SO AND RECOMMEND T'JAT
WE TELL THE SHAH AND THE KURDS THAT WE 00 NOT RECOMMEND THAT
THEY ISSUE THE AUTONOMY DECLARATION FOR THE TIME BEING.
9. NEED YOUR COMMENTS BEFORE SATURDAY LOCAL TIME. WARM REGARDS.
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