CABLE TO BRENT SCOWCROFT FROM HENRY KISSINGER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-173-7-15-6
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: May 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: November 3, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/05/06: LOC-HAK-173-7-15-6
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OF; WHETHER s UR NOTUTHft-SOVIETS
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ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY?,:'
I. PLEA SE,PASS FALLOWING MESSAGE~ONTO ?HE PRESIDENT ON
~' MY TALKS WIT H THE .SHAH OF IRAN }
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BENAILED DOWN
HERE; ?HEY' WOULD TN ANY EVENT . PREFER TO BE ISRAELIS ON THESYRIAN FRONT.: THE'= `Mry
HE~ "I 00, 000 REFUGEES WHICH HE IS NOW
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VASA PDSSTBILT r SAUDL AAB:IANS;, ;AND. T'HE -WES?GER MANS
AT THIS DS PAIN? ANT;EC SHAH SPOKE OF IRANIAN MILITARY ASSISTANCE
T ? HETO THE KUR BED THE ARTILLERY AND FINANCIALS SIJPPORT .
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