CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-259-6-2-6
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 5, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2009/12/04: LOC-HAK-259-6-2-6 rC- 4-0/o
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05161IZ MAY 74 ZFF-1 ZFF-4'ZYH
FM THE SITUATION ROOM
TO AMEMBASSY AMMAN
S E C R E T SENSITIVE EYES ONLY WH41148
DELIVER TO BREMER/RODMAN FOR THE SECRETARY'
T1: HENRY A. KISSINGER
FROM:BRENT SCOWCROFT
THE PRESIDENT WENT DIRECTLY To CAMP DAVID LAST NIGHT WHEN
HE RETURNED FROM HIS TRIP. HE CALLED ME THIS MORNING AND
TALKED A BIT ABOUT YOUR LATEST REPORT AND ASKED WHEN YOU
THOUGHT YOU WOULD BEGETTING BACK. HIS GENERAL ATTITUDE SEEMS
TO BE THAT, BASED ON YOUR LAST REPORT FROM JERUSALEM (HAKT04O)
THINGS WERE GOING ROUGHLY AS COULD BE EXPECTED. I EMPHASIZEr.)
YOUR COMMENT ABOUT THE IMPACT OF HIS LETTER AND SAID THAT IF
IF YOU WENT TO THE GULF STATES YOU WOULD PROBABLY RETURN SOME.
TIME AROUND MAY 14. THE PRESIDENT SAID TO TELL'YOU TO KEEP UP
THE GOOD WORK, THAT YOU WERE DOING A TERRIFIC JOB WITH
IMPOSSIBLE PEOPLE.
THERE IS NOTHING UNUSUAL IN THE NEWS TODAY EXCEPT ONE
EDITORIAL IN THE STAR, "KISSINGER AND ELLSBERG". I WILL SENT,
THE TEXT SEPARATELY, BUT THE EDITORIAL CLOBBERS COLSON'S
AFFIDAVIT FOR IMPLYING THAT YOU HAD ANYTHING TO DD WITH THE
ACTIVITIES OF THE PLUMBERS AND DEPLORES THIS ATTEMPT TO
BESMIRCH YOUR REPUTATION. IT IS A VERY HEARTENING ARTICLE.
FLANIGAN HAS TALKED TO CARDINAL KROL ABOUT THE GIEREK VISIT
AND HAS GOTTEN A GREEN LIGHT, SO WE CAN NOW START THINGS
MOVING WITH THE POLES ON THE VISIT.
HAIG WILL BE ON '"ISSUES'AND ANSWERS" THIS AFTERNOON.
WARM REGARDS.
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