CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-259-3-8-3
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 27, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/01/04: LOC-HAK-259-3-8-3
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TO LARRYEAGLEBURGER FOR HENRY A. KISSINGER
FROM: BRENT SCOWCROFT
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1. VORONTSOV CALLED WITH AN ORAL NOTE PROM BREZHNEV To
THE PRESIDENT CONCERNING SOVIET PARTICIPATION IN MEETINGS In
DEAL WITH.' THE ENERGY PROBLEM. THE NOTE READS AS FOLLOWS:
+"LEONID BREZHNEV ASKS TO CONVEY TO THE PRESIDENT HIS
GRATITUTDE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE AND QUICK REPLY OF THE AMERICAN
SIDE TO HIS (BREZHNEV'S) CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE INITIATIVE
OF THE PRESIDENT IN CALLING CERTAIN MEETINGS ON THE OIL PROBLEM.
WE TAKE NOTE OF WHAT THE SECRETARY SAID CONCERNING THE POSSI-
BILITY OF SOVIET UNION PARTICIPATION AS -- IN OBSERVER STATUS
IN THE WORK OF THE CONFERENCE,.THAT IS, THE CONFERENCE JOINTLY
OF CONSUMERS AND PRODUCING COUNTRIES OF OIL. SO FAR AS THE
BILATERAL CONSULTATIONS OR EXCHANGE OF OPINIONS BETWEEN THE.
SOVIET UNION AND THE UNITED STATES ON THE OIL PROBLEM, WE ARE
IN AGREEMENT WITH DR. KISSINGER'S SUGGESTIONS TO.HAVE TO THAT
EFFECT AN EXCHANGE OF OPINION IN WASHINGTON AND WOULD PROPOSE
To START IT ON FEBRUARY 28TH. THE SOVIET REPRESENTATIVE AT
THOSE NFGOTIATIONSOR EXCHANGE OF OPINIONS WILL BE MR. OSIpPV,
THE.DEPUTY MINISTER FOR FOREIGN TRADE. WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW
THE.OPINION.OF THE WHITE HOUSE WHETHER THIS DATE IS ACCEPTABLE
TC1'THE AMERICAN SIDE FOR THE BEGINNING OF THIS EXCHANGE OF
_OPINIONS CSIPOVIS CURRENTLY IN WASHINGTON AS A PART OF THE
PATfJLICHEV VISIT.
2. STATE HAS REQUESTED SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION FOR
THE ISRAELI FINANCE MINISTFR WHO IS HERE BASICALLY FOR A SERIFS
OF FUND-RAISING SPEECHES. FRED BUZHARDT DOES NOT WANT TO PROVIDE
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THE PROTECTION ON .POLITICAL GROUNDS. HE IS FEARFUL THAT WE
WILL COME UNDER SEVERE .CRITICISM FOR PROVIDING PROTECTION Fop,
SUCH ACTIVITIES (HE SAYS HE IS UNDER SEVERE PRESSURE AS IT
IS ON THE HILL OVER THE ENPRMOUS COSTS OF FOREIGN DIGNITARIES
PROTECTION). FRED SAYS HE WILL On IT . IF YOU BELIEVE IT IS
ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL BUT, IN THE INTEREST OF PRESERVING THE
PROGRAM AND FUNDING AS A WHOLE., HE WOULD STRONGLY PREFER NOT
TO.
3. A REUTERS DISPATCH'FROM MOSCOW STATES THAT GROMYKO LEFT
MOSCOW TODAY ON AN UNANNOUNCED VISIT TO DAMASCUS.
WARM REGARDS.
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