CABLE TO THE WHITE HOUSE FROM JIDDA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-207-3-11-6
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2012
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: February 11, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/10/31 : LOC-HAK-207-3-11-6
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FpOs AMBASSADOR AKINs.i JIDDA 337
To THE WHITE HOUSE FOR GENERAL SCQWCROFT
1. THE PRECAUTIONS :TAKEN ON SoWv/Et WEA WORTHWHILE.
Hf HAD IoLO HIS GOVERNMENT THAT HF HAD AN imPoRTANT
NEW MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT NIXON FOR THE KING AND
THAT THF HAD. ASKFD HIM TO DELIVER IT
PERSONALLY To HIS MAJESTY. HE GAVE NO INDICATION
THAT IT WAS ONLY THE ORIGINAL OF THE MESSAGE I HAD
GIVEN To THE KING THE PREVIOUS DAY (FEB De!).
2. DID THE PRESIDENT MENTION TO SOWA1EL THAT THE :
OiflGINAL HAD ALREADY BEEN....6IVEN To THE KING? I
GATHER .PROM YOUR LETTER THAT THFRE IS NO POSSIBILITY
THAT THE PRESIDENT ASKED :Him TO DELIVER THE LETTER
PERSONALLY. '
3. OMAR SASAF ASKED IF THE PRESIDENT RECEIVED
SoWAyEL BEFORE ID OICLOCK IN THF HORNING - "THERE
MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOME CHANCE THAT HE WAS SOBER THAT
EARtY1! AND SAID HE WAS MOST GRATEFUL TO GET THE
STRAIGHT STORY. IT HAD STUCK Om AND OTHERS 'HERE
moST STPANGELy THAT THE PRESIDENT WOULD cmposE, THIS
Np.w CHANNEL FOR AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE.
4. I LEFT RIYADHESTERDAY AFTERNOON (FPB'lm)
AND SOWAYEL WASN'T DUE IN TILL YESTERDAY EVT,NINGJ:
I EXPECT TO SEE SA44WTOMoRRoW AND HE WILL BRIEF
? ON WHAT SOwAYELSAID'4 4 DON'T THINK IT MAKES
ANY DIFFERENCE wmAT,HE:'SAYs, AS I GAVE SAQQAF
CoPy Of YOUR LETTER TO ME :AND HF SAID HE WOULD
PASS IT ON TO THE KING.
THE LETTER I:GAVE Him WAS IINLy SLIGHTLY FLESHED
OUT, I MUST CONFESS THOUGH THAT 1 ADDED A IT OF
SFtF-AGGRANDIZEMENT.;. 11WHAIGSENDS HIS GREETINGS."
I HAD THOUGHT OF MAKING IT "DICK SENDS HIS GREETINGS"
Bul HUBRIS DOESNITCARRY ME QUITE THAT FAQ-YET. '
6. WARM REGARDS
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/10/31 : LOC-HAK-207-3-11-6
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