CABLE TO HENRY KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-507-1-52-0
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: May 18, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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? MrAMI ?HERALD* WHICH I WILL ALSO SEND Y01J9
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Is MATT R AND HIS TESTIMONY IS COMPLETELY CONSISTENT wIT}(.
HE FAcrs, WAITTEN REOORDs PERTAINING TO THIS MATTER WFE
VIEWED I14 EXECUTIVE SESSION BY DEsIGNATED MEMBERS OF THE SENATE
FORIN R LATIONS COMMITTEE " RoN WILL BEvusE To COMMENT ON THr
K F WHAT THE PRESIDENT WA s ALLEGED TO HAVE SAID,
s.THE TEXT OF THE MATERIAL A coNTAINED IN THE RALTMo SUN
ARTICLE I OENERALLy ACCURATE IN ITs THRUsTs IT Is A vtRY
TAPE AND MUCH OF THE CONVERSATION IS INAUDIBLE, THE
PRESIDENT DID SAY, "SURE* AND THEN..0HENRY'S sTAFF-4., HE 1NsI TE
?oN auGGIN4(BLANX) (PRoRASLY IrAKE) AFTER HE JOINED MUSXIE'S
STAFF* ,(UNINTELLIGIBLE) I ?ASSUME IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED
(UN/NTELLIOIBEL) AT LEAST* I KNOW IT NOT PEOAUSE I KNOW
KNOW THAT HE ASKED THAT IT PE DONE AND I ASSUME THAT IT WAS."
THIS i'ASSAGE WAS AT THE TAIL END oF A CONWERsATION
DEAN WHICH PEOAN WITH A DISCUES/ON OF HENRY BRANDON AND THE FA T
THAT HE WAS BEING TAPPED WHEN THE ADmINIsTnATI0N CAME IN.
HALPERIN's NAME wAS MENTIoNED AND THEN THE Disc6ssIDN TuR
To JOE KRAFT AND Tmt FAcT THAT HE WA 1 IN st;GED WECAUE 1-iWSA
WORKINa WITH'THI: FRENCH.
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