CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-260-3-5-4
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 23, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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PLEASE DELIVER TO BREMER/RODMAN FOR THE SECRETARY.
MAY 22,1974
TO: HENRY A. KISSINGER
FROMi BRENT SC13WCROFT
RUSH HAS SENT IN A REPORT ON THE PROGRESS IN OUR
NEGOTIATION OF A SUMMIT ENERGY AGREEMENT.WITH THE USSR.
OUR ORIGINAL PRGP.OSAL 'HAD TWO CENTRAL ELEMENTS ' AN
EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ON .ENERGY PRODUCTION, DEMAND, RES
AND TRADE;. AND COOPERATION ON ENERGY RED IN CERTAIN AREAS
NOT' INCLUDING OIL AND. GAS EXTRACTION TECHNOLOGY. WE ALSO'
PROPOSED TO INCORPORATE IN THE AGREEMENT SOME ENERGY R&D
WORK THAT IS PLANNED BUT, NOT YET EXECUTED UNDER THE SET
BILATERAL ("REPACKAGING").
SOVIETS ARE
BE LIMOITED E TO FORpR'.CST THE
AREAS OF INFORMATION ECA.STING
METHODOLOGY AND TO THE COOPERATIVE PROJECTS THEMSELVES, (2)
THAT THE TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATION FOCUS. CONSIDERABLE EFFORT
ON OIL AND GAS, AND(? THAT WE NOT TRANSFER THE SST
PROJECTS TO THE ENERGY. AGREEMENT.
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THE SOVIET' PROPOSAL IS TROUBLESOME SINCE (1) WITHOUT
THE INFORMATION EXCHANGE WE WILL HAVE ND QUID PRO QUO TO BALANCE
THE TECHNOLOGY COOPERATION WHICH WOULD FAVOR THEM (AND
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INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
POSSIBLY, THEREFORE, BE A SOURCE OF SOME CONGRESSIONAL
CRITICISM), AND (2) OIL AND GAS TECHNOLOGIES ARE OFTEN COMMERCIALLY
SENSITIVE AND LARGELY BEYOND THE VSG'S.ABILITY TO TRANSFER
EVEN IF WE WERE.SO INCLI-NED. WE STILL BELIEVE REPACKAGING
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TO BE A GOOD IDEA IN ORDER'TO HAVE AS COMPREHENSIVE AN AGREEMENT
AS POSSIBLE.
THE SOVIETS HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT THEIR FORMULATION GIVES
US SUBSTANTIVE AS WELL AS PRESENTATIONAL PROBLEMS. IT IS
ANTICIPATED A U.S. TEAM' HEADED BY AMBASSADOR STOESSELs
WILL BE-.INVITED TO MEET IN MOSCOW NEXT WEEK FOR FURTHER
.NEGOTIATION.
RUSH O PROPOSES,THAT IN tHE NEXT M WE SHOULD t1),CONTINUE
To. PUSH FOR A BROADINFORMATIONEXCHANGEON ENERGYs (')
SEEK A FORMULATION OF COORERAT ON..ON FOSSIL FUELS WHICH
IS NOT SPECIFIC REGARDING,,PARTICULAR PROGRAMS, AND FAILING
THAT, ADD SEVERAL MORE.' SPECIFIC, PROJECTS TO DIMINISH THE
PROMINENCE OF,OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY; AND
(3') URGE REPACKAGING BUT, IF UNSUCCESSFUL,,BE PREPARED TO AD.D
SOME NEW BUT LESS WELL DEVELOPED AREAS OF COOPERATION IN'NON-
CONVENTIONAL FORMS OW ENERGY (SYNTHETIC FUELS,-HYDROGEN,
PETROCHEMICAL FEED) TO GIVE THE AGREEMENT GREATER BREADTH,
CHUCK COOPER' WITH STATE. CONCURENCE PROPOSES THE, FOLLOW
ING
AMPLIFICATIONS TO OUR' NEGOTIATING POSITION:
ASSUMING THE SOVIETS AGREE TO AN INFORMATION EXCHANGE,
IF MIGHT BE DESIRAGLE TO SEEK TO ESTABLISH IN THE AGREEMENT
A MECHANISM FOR THE EXCHANGE. A WORKING GROUP OF THE
JOINT COMMITTEE DEVOTED TO THE FUNCTION (AS IN THE AGRICULTURAL
AGREEMENT) WOULD BE ..ONE POSSIBILITY.
WE SHOULD MAKE EVERY EFFORT To LIMIT THE DISCUSSION OF OIL
AND GAS TO A BROAD STATEMENT,.AND NOT BECOME SPECIFIC AST0
THE TYPES OF COOPERATION ENVISAGED. IT SHOULD BE LEFt TO'THF_
JOINT COMMITTEE TO DEVELOP SENSIBLE PROGRAMS.
:-WE SHOULD GO AS FAR AS THE SOVIETS ARE WILLING IN BRINGING
ALL. EXISTING COOPERATIVE ENERGY PROJECTS UNDER THIS AGREEMENT.
BECAUSE OF OUR PRESENT UNCERTAINITY CONCERNING'THE
ATTAINABLE SCOPE OF THE AGREEMENT,.-AtND ALSO BECAUSE OF THE
REORGANIZATION OF THE. ENER-GY.AGENCIES UNDERWAY IN OUR
THIS ASSIGNMENTISHOULD BERLEFTT OPEN FOR THE NEXT FEWEMONTHS:.
SUBJECT To. YOUR APPROVAL, I WILL ISSUE INSTRUCTIONS IN YOUR
NAME TO THE U.S. DELAGATION APPROVING RUS-H'S RECOMMENDATIONS
AND FOLDING IN COOPER'S AS OUTLINED ABOVE,
WARM REGARDS.
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