CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-259-3-40-7
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: March 2, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/16: LOC-HAK-259-3-40-7
195 OZ MAR' 74 ZFF- I ZFF ' 4 ZYH.
FM THE SITUATION ROOM
TO AMEMBASSY AMMAN
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S E C. R E T SENSITIVE
TOHAK 73
TO LARRY EAtLEBURG:ER FOR SEC. KISSINGER
MARCH 2, 1974
TOs HENRY A. KISSIH ;E,R
FROM: BRENT SCO'WCROFT
THE PRESIDENT CALLED TO ASK, WHEN Y0,U,: WOULD? BE BACK ? WE TALKED
A BIT ABOUT THE PAN YOU HAD WC RKEI OUT FOR MOVING AHEAD
S Y R COMMENTED WHAT, A. GREAT JOB YOU WERE
DOING AND HOW '.TOUGH I T WAS TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH PEOPLES WHO
WERE, SO OBSTREPEROUS. HE ASKED IF ;.THERE' SERE ANY NEW ,DEVELOP-
&ENTS ON THE EMBARGO.. I TOLD HIM THA,T.T11 . SITUATION WAS
BASICALLY: UNCHANGED AND THAT WE ^ iAD -004 X RECEIVED ANY
WORD ABOUT THE, CONVENING OF AN OIL M lI#G.. THIS. WAS BEFORE
RECEIPT OF .HAKTO329 WHICH SHOULD. PLEASE' ;HIM HE SAID HE WOULD
LIKE TO MEET tITH YOU TUESDAY MORNI,:NG.
FORD 'WOULD LIKE TO. BE HELPFUL WITH REGARD-.TO' HUSSEIN BUT AT
THIS MOMENTDOES NOT KNOW WHETHER IT WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR"HIM
TO SHIFT OR CANCEL if,1S.SPEAKING ENGAGEME::NT" WE WILL NOT KNOW
BEFORE MONDAY AT THE EARLIEST
I HAVE SPOKEN WITH ESERLE AND HAVE } LM I,;N LINE ON THE. TRAD
BItJ,.. HE. THINKS IT 7I$ VERY II PO=RTANTI: 'TH T -,HE HAVE 15 MINUTE
WITH YOU BEFORE YOUR MEETING WIT:f :JA,C-KS6*;.,ON .WEDNESDAY.
SCHLESINGER CALLED KOROLOGOS YE`STERVAY I''N TING.IHAT TOM
WAS BAD-MOUTHl,..NG THE NITZE AWPC}; RTd~E ~T.T M APPARENTLY'
REALLY EXPLODED AT HIM# FOUR LETTER,'w: k, AND ALL . PART OF
THE 'CONTROVERSY WAS OVER .GOLDWA{TER`S. A,TfliT;::UDE TOWARD NITZE.
I GUESS GOLDWATER RESOLVED THAT, ONE; SLNcE THE POST TODAY. HAS
GETLER, ARTICLE CAPTIONED ""GOLDWATER O.P!O.SES POSSIBLE NITZE PO
WALTERS WILL STAY HERE UNTIL YO:U;a"t RETURN:,"IF, YOU CAN. SEE
HIM TUESDAY, HE WOULD PLAN. TO 'DEFART;: FOR, 'RABAT TUESDAY EVENING,
I SPOKE BRIEFLY WITH SHULTZ ABOUT 'TH "TR. DE BILL. HE PLANS
TO:STAY AWAY, FROM TITLE,:1V,E'XCEPT TO TR,Y TO COIN A NEW
PHRASE FOR, MF* AND ;I'S 'FULLY; IN LINE,. NEE ;IS NOT AT ALL HAPPY
,ABOUT THE BRAZI IA~I', COU TER.VAIL;;ING `'ARTY .;t' AT:.TER. HE SAID HE
CERTAINLY WWOULD` NO.T.'MAKE AN ISSUE -F IT AND WOULD, THEREFORE.,
WAMIT UNTIL YOU- RETURNED,,. BUT HEPE.ELS STRONGLY THAT' THIS IS HIS
,HE PRESIDENT HAS JUST DEPARTED FO:R: 0A," MP 'DAVID*
WARM..REGARD.S,
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