CABLE TO AMCONSUL JERUSALEM FROM THE SITUATION ROOM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-260-2-18-1
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: May 19, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2009/12/04: LOC-HAK-260-2-18-1
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TO AMCONSUL JERUSALEM
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PLEASE DELIVER TO BREMER/RbDMA'N FOR THE SECRETARY
MAY 19, 1974,
TO SECRETARY KISSINGER
FROM: SONNENFELDT
THROUGH GENERAL SCOWCROFT.
1. REGARDING YOUR MESSAGE ABOUT MY CONTRIBUTION TO THE
STATE DEPARTMENT PRINCIPALS DAILY ACTIVITY`REPORT, I HAD
NOT THOUGHT IT WISE TO REFER IN THAT DOCUMENT, GIVEN ITS
DISTRIBUTION, TO THE MATTERS ON WHICH WE HAVE BEEN RE--
PORTING TO YOU WITH CONSIDERABLE FREQUENCY IN THE WHITE
HOUSE CHANNEL. LIKEWISE, I HAVE NOT REPEATED IN THE
ACTIVITIES REPORT MATERIALS ALREADY SENT TO,YOU
SEPARATELY IN STATE CHANNELS, PARTICULARLY THOSE SEN-
SITIVE ONES ON CSCE AND THE NATO DECLARATION, WHICH ARE
DEALT WITH IN MESSAGES MORE TIGHTLY HELD THAN THE
ACTIVITIES REPORT.
2, AS REGARDS'THE NATO DECLARATION, DE ROSE TOLD
MORI/CDF
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RUMSFELD LATE FRIDAY THAT THE QUAI'DOES NOT REPEAT NOT WISH
TO USE THE NEW BRITISH TEXT AS THE BASIS BUT WISHES TO HAVE
PARAGRAPH BY PARAGRAPH REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS FRENCH
TEXT. WE HAVE INSTRUCTEDUSNATO TO MAINTAIN FIRM SUPPORT
OF THE NEW BRITISH TEXT ' AND TO COORDINATE TACTICS CLOSELY
AND PRIVATELY WITH THE UK.?RUMSFELDs LUNS AND CALLAGHAN
WILL ALL BE HERE THIS WEEK WHICH WILL PROVIDE OPPORTUNITY
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ADVERSE REACTION TO BRITISH TEXT. WE WILL HAVE BETTER
IDEA OF PROSPECTS WHEN NAC BEGINS MONDAY, ALBEIT MINUS
LUNS AND.RUMSFELDs TO BEGIN FORMAL CONSIDERATION OF
DECLARATION.ISSUE. OUR DCM.HAS STRONG INSTRUCTIONS TO
SUPPORT'BRITISH AND TO MAKE A FEW.CONSTRUCTIVE PROPOSALS
FOR AMENDMENTS, PRE-ARRANGED WITH UK TO AVOID; APPEARANCE
OF COLLUSION,
3, I HAD NOT SEEN.IKLE'S MESSAGE TO YOU ON INDIAN TEST
BEFORE IT WENT, BUT IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES IT WAS PROBABLY
JUST AS WELL FOR HIM TO GET YOUR DIRECT REACTION. IN ANY
EVENTS WE ARE MAKING CERTAIN THAT NOTHING FURTHER GOES
OUT THAT YOU HAVE NOT APPROVED, INCLUDING TALKING POINTS.
FOR OHIRA VISIT IN WHICH INDIAN TEST IS BOUND TO FIGURE
PROMINENTLY.
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2009/12/04: LOC-HAK-260-2-18-1