CABLE TO THE WHITE HOUSE FROM MOSCOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-211-3-7-6
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 26, 2012
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 5, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/11/26: LOC-HAK-211-3-7-6
SECRET
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
To THE WHITE HOUSE
SECRET061550Z JUN 74
FM AMBASSADOR STOESSEL, MOSCOW 019
To: GENERAL SCOWCROFT, WHITE HOUSE ? EYES ONLY
1. I WILL MUCH APPRECIATE ANY HELP YOU CAN GIvE IN
KEEpING US ADVISED ON TIMELY BASIS CONCERNING MATTERS
OF INTEREST CONCERNING PRESIDENT'S VISIT. WE HAD NO
ADVANCE WORD, FOR EXAMPLE, QN CHANGED DATE FOR VISIT OR
ON PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT OF VISIT. SOVIETS HERE, HOWEVER,
WERE WELL-INFORMED AND I WAS IN AWKWARD POSITION WITH
KoRNIYENKO AT ONE POINT BECAUSE OF THIS.
2. I KNOW THE PROBLEMS AND LIOTATIONS iN THIS AREA,
BUT HOPE IT IS NOT AMISS TO RE/TERATE MY INTEREST. OUR
CREDIBILITY AS WELL AS USEFULNESS ? CAN BE ENHANCED
IF WE CAN KEEP ABREAST OF SOVIETS HERE ON INFORMATION
CONCERNING US. ACTIONS.
3, ON ANOTHER SUBJECT, I HOpE I CAN RECEIVE AUTHORIZATION
SOONEST TO DEPART MOSCOW AT MY DISCRETION. SPECIAL U.S.
AIR FORCE PLANE IS NOW ON GROUND IN MOSCOW.- WE itiLL
ARRANGE FOR IT TO DEPART FRIDAY, JUNE 7 WITHOUT ME ON
BOARD. I Am TENTATIVELY PLANNING TO DEPART COMMERCIALLY
EVENING JUNE B, ASSUMING AUTHORIZATION RECEIVED. SOVIET
SIDE IN TEST BAN TALKS IS PRESSING FOR BREAK ON WEEKEND
(MOROKHOv INTENDS TO GO TO VIENNA FOR IAEA MEETING) AND
I TRUST OUR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BREAK WILL BE APPROVED.
4. PERHAPS YOU COULD SAY WORD TO ART IF HE HAS NOT
ALREADY SENT SOMETHING ON THIS. THANKS AND REGARDS,
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/11/26: LOC-HAK-211-3-7-6