ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-550-2-34-1
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: October 24, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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FM THE SITUATION ROOM//TOHAKO.10//
TO GOMPERT/BREMER FOR THE SECRETARY
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TOHAKO 10
OCTOBER 24, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARY KISSINGER
FROM: THE SITUATION ROOM
SUBJECT: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ITEMS
GREEK EX-PRESIDENT PAPADOPOULOS AND OTHER JUNTA LEADERS
ARRESTED: EX-PRESIDENT GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS AND FOUR OTHER
LEADERS OF THE APRIL 21, 1967 GREEK COUP WERE ARRESTED AT
THEIR HONES EARLY ON OCTOBER 23 AND DEPORTED TO THE ISLAND
OF KEA.. ACCORDINGCBTO A RADIO ANNOUNCEMENT,. THE FIVE LEADERS
OF THE COUP WERE INVOLVED IN CONSPIRATORIAL ACTIVITIES DIS-
TURBING PUBLIC ORDER AND SECURITY. PAPADOPULOS WAS PLACED
UNDER HOUSE ARREST EARLIER THIS- (MONTH ALLEGEDLY FOR CONSPIRING
AGAINST THE STATE. IN AN ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT RELEVANT TO
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE EX-PRESIDENT, THE ATHENS APPEALS
COURT IS SCHEDULED TO DECIDE-ON OCTOBER 24 WHITHER TO INSTIGATE
CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS ON CHARGES OF HIGH TREASON AGAINST PAPA-
DOPOULOS AND OTHER MILITARY LEADEiIS FOR THE APRIL 21, 1967
COUP D'ETAT.
THE ARREST AND EXILE OF EX-PRESIDENT PAPADOPOULOS AND OTHER
LEADERS OF THE 1967 MILITARY COUP ARE DESIGNED TO SATISFY
PUBLIC SENTIMENT THAT JUSTICE SHOULD BE DONE AND LEADING
PERSONALITIES OF THE EX-JUNTA PUNISHED.
THIS HAS BECOME A MAJOR ELECTION ISSUE. THE DEPORTATION TO
A NEARBY ISLAND IN THE AEGEAN IS REPORTEDLY TO ALLOW THEIR
EASY ACCESS TO ATHENS FOR TRIAL. PRIME MINISTER KARAtIIANLIS
MAY ALSO BE REACTING TO REPORTS THAT PAPADOPUULOS AND OTHER
EX-JUNTA MEMBERS WERE PLANNING TO FORM A POLITICAL PARTY.
CHARGES HAVE ALSO BEEN BROUGHT AGAINST GREEK STRONGMAN IOANNIDIS
WHO IS NOW UNDER INVESTIGATION.
THE RABAT ARAB SUMMIT: A PREVIEW,: LESS THAN TWO DAYS BEFORE
THE FORMAL OPENING OF THE ARAB SUMNIT IN RABAT, REPORTING FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES HAS BEGUN TO SHARPEN iHEFOCUS ON POTENTIAL
PROBLEMS IN THE POSITIONS OF KEY PARTICIPANTS, CENTERING AROUND
THE CRITICAL ISSUES OF THE PALESTINIANS AND MOVING TO THE NEXT
PHASE OF NEGOTIATIONS. AT THE SUAMIT, THE ATTITUDES OF AND
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INTERPLAY BETWEEN FOUR PRINCIPAL PARTIES WILL BE IMPORTANT:
EGYPT/SAUDI ARABIA: SADAT HAS ENDORSED A GRADULALIST
APPROACH TO FURHTER SETTLEMENT EFFORT IN THE MIDDLE
EAST, AND WILL WORK TO NEUTRALIZE OPPOSITION TO THIS
AS WELL AS SEEK A RECONCILIATION OF THE .CONFLICTING
INTERESTS OF JORDAN AND THE PALESTINE LIBERATION
ORGANIZATION (PLO) ON THE ISSUE OF WHO IS TO NEGOTIATE
FOR THE FUTURE OF THE JORDANIAN WEST BANK. HOWEVER,
SADAT'S ULTIMATE SUCCESS WILL DEPEND HEAVILY ON THE
CONTINUED SUPPORT OF SAUDI ARABIA AT THE SUMMIT TO
HELP NEUTRALIZE RADICAL OPPOSITION. THE SAUDIS HAVE
EXPRESSED THEIR VIEW THAT THE BEST APPROACH TO A
SOLUTION IS THE GRADUALIST ONE, AND ALSO SEEK TO
RESOLVE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN JORDAN AND THE PLO.
NEVERTHELESS, THE SAUDIS HAVE SHOWN EXTREME RELUCTANCE
IN THE PAST TO EXPOSE THEMSELVES TO OTHER ARAB CRITI-
CISM FOR ANY POSITION THEY MIGHT TAKE, AND THEY RECOG-
H NIZE THAT ON BOTH THESE ISSUES THEY WBULD STEUND ALONE
WITH SADAT.
?- SYRIA THE SYRIANS APPEAR TO BE MOVING TOWARD FULL
ENDORSEMENT OF THE VIEW THAT ONLY THE PLO CAN NEGOTIATE
FOR THE WEST BANK. THEIR CAMPAIGN AMONG OTHER ARABS
AGAINST EGYPT'S GRADUALIST APPROACH MAY ALSO BE SUCCESSFUL.
- THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION : THERE IS LITTLE
EVIDENCE THAT THE PLO WILL GO FOR LESS THAN A FULL SUM-
MIT AFFIRMATION OF ITS RIGHT TO NEGOTIATE FOR THE
RETURN OF THE WEST BANK.
~- JORDAN: : JORDAN HOPES TO EMERGE FROCDTHE SUMMIT WITH AN
ENDORSEMENT TO NEGOTIATE FOR THE ZEST BANK, RELYING ON
ITS TRUMP CARD THAT ISRAEL WILL NOT NEGOTIATE WITH THE
PLO. REALISTICALLY, HOWEVER, HUSAYN MUST KNOW THAT HE
HAS LITTLE SUPPORT ON THIS ISSUE; NEVERTHELESS, HE HAS
INDICATED THAT IF HE DOES NOT RECEIVE SUCH SUPPORT, HE
MAY WITHDRAW COMPLETELY FROM THE SUMMIT AND HAS THREATENED
WITHDRAWAL FROM FUTURE PEACE TALKS AT GENEVA. AS REPORTED
BY EMBASSY -AMiMAN, JORDAN IS ENTERING THE SUMMIT IN AN
ISOLATED, COMPETITIVE, AND SELF-VINDICATING MOOD.
IF THE SUMMIT IS TO EMERGE- WITH A RESOLUTION RECONCILING THE
UGRDANIAN AND PLO POSITIONSF AND GIVING EGYPT' A MANDATE TO PROCEED
WITH A GRADUAL APPRAOACH TO NEGATIATIONS, MAINTAIN AN UNBREACHED POSITION
N SUPP.ORTI=OF SADAT.
CASTRO INTERVIEW AIRED: IN AN INTERVIEW FOR CBS AIRED
TUESDAY NIGHT, CUBAN PRIME MINISTER CASTRO REITERATED HIS
PRONOUNCEMENT THAT THE ONLY PRECONDITION FOR DISCUSSION ON
NORMALIZATION OF U.S.-CUBAN RELATCYNS IS THE LIGZING OF
THE U.S.-SUPPORTED HEMISPHERIC BLOCKADE OF THE ISLAND. THE
INTERVIEW WAS FILMED JUST DAYS AFTER CASTRO'S ANTI-AMERICAN
SPEECH DURING THE RECENT VISIT OF SEHKTORS JAVITS AND PELL.
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CASTROBELIEVES THAT AN IMPROVEMENT IN RELATIONS UNDER YOUR
ADMINISTRATION MAY BE POSSIBLE, NOTING THAT "IN CONTRAST TO
PRESIDENT NIXON," YOU HAVE NO PERSONAL INVOLVEMENT WITH
THUNHURREVOLUTIONARY ELEMENTS.
ARGENTINE "NATIONALIZATION" OF ITT SUBSIDIARY: LAST WEEK
PRESIDENT PERON ANNOUNCED PLANS TO NATIONALIZE STANDARD
ELECTRIC OF ARGENTINA, AN ITT SUBSIDIARY, ALONG WITH TWO
OTHER FOREIGN-OWNED TELLECOMMUNICATIONS FIRMS. THE ANNOUNCE-
MENT APPARENTLY WAS TRIGGERED BY AN ITT REQUEST FOR A GOVETN-
MENTQTAKEOVER (WITH THE GOVERNMENT ASSUMING ITS NEARLY $100
MILLION IN DEBTS) AFTER AN EARLIER OFFDI TO SELL FOR BOOK
VALUE PLUS GOVERNMENT ASSUMPTIMC OF ITS DEBTS WAS REJECTED BY
THE ARGENTIOE GOVNRNMENT. (LOW)
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ON SOUTH AFRICA'-S 3/07) 99 to EMBASSY PARIS REPORTS THAT THE
BRITISH MISSION THERE HAS BEEN TOLD FRANCE WOULD VOTE "NO"
ON EXPULSION IF THE U.S. AND THE UK DID THE SAME. THE BRITISH
SOURCE SAIDNE WAS REPORTING THIS TO LONDON WITH A COMMENT
THAT IT SHOULD BE TAKEN WITH A GRAIN OF SALT, SINCE FRANCE HAS
NOT VETOED SINCE 1956. (HORAN)
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