CABLE TO AMCONSUL JERUSALEM FROM THE SITUATION ROOM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-260-3-2-7
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: February 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 23, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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FM THE SITUATION ROOM
TO AMCONSUL JERUSALEM
S E C R E T SENSITIVE EXCLUSIVELY EYES ONLY
DELIVER AT OPENING OF BUSINESS WH41461
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PLEASE DELIVER TO BREM.ER/RODMAN FOR THE SECRETARY
MAY 22' 1874
To, HENRY A..KISSINGER
FROM: BRENT SCOWCROFT
THE PRESIDENT MET WITH THE CENTO FOREIGN MINISTERS TODAY
AND DELIVERED WHAT AMOUNTED TO A. 45 MINUTE MONOLOGUE.
HE BEGAN BY DESCRIBING CENTO AS BEING CONSIDERED TOHAVE
MUCH, LESS MEANING.TODAY THAN IN THE PERIOD DURING WHICH IT WAS
FORMED. AS'A MILITARY ALLIANCE, IT.IS NOT VERY MUCH AND-THE TURKS
AND THE PAKISTANIS HAVE ON OCCASION WONDERED WHAT GOOD IT W S
WHEN THEY HAD A MILITARY PROBLEM OF THEIR OWN. OUT THE COUNTRIES
OF THE ALLIANCE HAVE COMMON INTERESTS THAT OVERRIDE.THEIR VARIOUS
MILITARY CONCERNS SUCH AS THE SURVIVAL OF PAKISTAN. THE
STRENGTH AND ECONOMIC VITALITY OF THE CENTO COUNtRIES IS
IMPORTANT TO THE FUTURE OF THAT AREA OF THE WORLD. THE CENTO
TREATY IS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THE STABLIITY OF THE AREA BECAUSE
ITGIVES AN ADDED ELEMENT To DISCOURAGE THOSE WHO MIGHT BE TEMPTED
TOWARD ADVENTURISM?
THE PRESIDENT THEN BEGAN To SAY SOMETHING ABOUT EACH,OF
THE COUNTRIES, BUT NEVER GOT FURTHER THAN PAKISTAN. REGARDING
PAKISTAN, HE SAID THAT, WITH DUE REGARD FOR CONGRESSIONAL
CONCERNS, WE WOULD DO WHATEVER WE COULD TO SUPPORT PAKIStAN."
THERE HAD BEEN ONE PARTITION OF PAKISTAN AND THERE COULD BE
ND MORE, TO THE EXTENT THAT',THE U. S.. REESTABLISHES A
DIALOGUE WITH INDIA, OUR INFLUENCE WOULD BE TO RESTRAIN
INDIA.
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SECRETARY GENERAL ASSAR THEN THANKED THE PRESIDENT FOR
MEETING WITH THE "GROUP.ANO FOR HIS WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT.
HE SAID THAT THE MINISTERS ARE AWARE, AS THE PRESIDENT HAD
POINTED REATLY
BUTTHEY ~STILL THOUGHT THERE SITUATION FARNEED FOR HAD
THE ALLIANCE AND
HAD DISCUSSED IN THEIR MEETINGS TRACING A COURSE FOR.THE FUTURE.
THE PRESIDENT RESPONDED TO ASSAR BY REVIEWING AGAIN THE
CHANGES SINCE THE FOUNDING OF CENTO. HE THEN SHIFTED INTO HIS
STANDARD RUNDOWN OF THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
NO SURPRISES.
FOLLOWING THAT THE PRESIDENT DISCUSSED THE PRAGMATIC NATURE
OF OUR POLICY TOWARD THE SOVIET UNION, THE DIFFICULTIES. OF.
SALT. ETC. -- . ALL , IN STANDARD TERMS. HE MOVED ON TO THE RRC
AND TALKED ABOUT THE NEED.. FOR A ,DIALOGUE WITH THEMP THEIR
INTEREST IN A STRONG U.S., AND THEIR RIVALRY WITH THE SOVIET
UNION.
THE PRESIDENT THEN WENT ONTO SAY THAT.THE U.S. DIALOGUE
WITH OUR POTENTIAL ENEMIES WAS IN SUPPORT OF, NOT IN. OPPOSITION
Top OUR FRIENDS. HE POINTED OUT IN CONCLUSION THAT THE MIDDLE
EAST, AND EVEN MORE SO CENTRAL EUROPEs WERE VITAL AREAS FOR.
SUPERPOWER RIVALRY. ALLIES AND FRIENDS MUST TRUST EACH OTHER
IN THESE CRITICAL TIMES'AND THE U.S. WOULD MAINTAIN ITS
STRENGTH AND SUPPORT OF ITS FRIENDS.
AS THE GROUP WAS WALKING OUT, CALLA.GHAN EXPRESSED THE NEED
FOR A NATO DECLARATION AND A TRADE BILL. THE PRESIDENT DID
NOT COMMENT'ON THE NATO DECLARATION BUT SAID WE WOULD HAVE
A TRADE BILL PROVIDED CONGRESS WAS REASONABLE AND AT A
MINIMUM DID NOT CUT OFF CREDIT FOR THE SOVIET UNION.
AT LUNCH AT THE BRITISH EMBASSY FOLLOWING THE MEETING,
CALLAGHAN REMARKED TO ME THAT HE THOUGHT THE PRESIDENT HAD
PUT ON AN AMAZING PERFORMANCE. HE SAID HE WAS MOST IMPRESSED
AT THE PRESIDENT'S INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
WITH ALL THE OTHER THINGS HE HAD ON HIS MIND.
WARM REGARDS.
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