INFORMATION ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-550-2-69-3
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2010
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: November 1, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/10/28: LOC-HAK-550-2-69-3
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SUBJECT ? I NFOP MAT ION ITEMS
SCHEDULES FOR BR IT ISF! (DEFENSE REVIEW. THE BR IT ISP PLAN TO 5E--
CIN CONS UL T AT IONS WITH WASHItt'GTQN, BONN, ANC-)' EVENTUALLY NATO
AFTER THE CA6INET COMMITTEE REACHES DECISIONS ON DEFENSE REVIEW
ON NOVEMBER 4. IF THE U.S. CONCURS, BR IT ISH OFFICIALS ANT ICtPATF
THAT TALKS COULD BEC I N I N WASHINGTON FY MID- WOVEM'iE?FR. THE BR IT-
ISH fELEGAT ION PROW L Y W ILL BE LF" BY SIR JOHN HUNT, BP IT I SH
CABINET SECRETARY. T HE FR IT iSH EXPECT 01r:CUSSIOdr 'KITH NATO --
'HICH WOULD BE HELD AFTER CONSULTAT IONS ?; IT H THE` U. S. AND FRS -"^
ARE LIKELY TO LAST TWO TO THREE A ONTHS. SOPS REDUCT IONS IN
IITAIN'S NATO-COMMITTED FORCES ARE L IKELY, PROBA.ILLY IN THE
fR IT ISH ARMY ON THE RHINE. A MINISTPY OF DEFENSE OFFICIAL HAS
COMMMENT ED TO T HE U, S. MMBASSY T HAT THE VE.FE NSE REVIE~a IS " NOT
COMING OUT TOO BADLY." THE DEFENSE STAFF HAS BEEN ADVOCAT ING
DEFENSE CUTS OF APOUNC $ 1 B ILL ION, THE IMPACT OF THE CUTS HOW-
EVER, WILL DEPE i4D ON HOW QUICI Y THEY ARE APPLIED. IF SPACED
OVER A PER 100 OF YEARS, I HEY COULD HAVE ONLY A MINIMAL EFFECT
ON FOR CE EFFECT ! Vi NE SS AND 'PROCUREMENT PIS OCR A.M`S.
DANISH L IGHT*E $GHT FIGHTER REPLACEMENT: EMBASSY COPENHAGEN
REPORTS THAT, ACCORDING TO A DANISH AIR FORCE SCU?CE, THE DANISH
MILITARY WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY PECOMmMEND THE PURCHASE OF GENERAL
DYNAMIC'S YF-16 AS THE L IGHTNE ICHT FIGHTER REPLACEMENT. AN
IMPORTANT ING?IED LENT IN THE RECOMMENDATION, IS THE EXPECTED SO-
PHIST ICATED ELECTRONIC TECHOLOGY THE DANES WOULD EXPECT TO
ACQUIRE AS PART OF THE OFFSET. IN A RECENT NF!f:'SPAPER ART ICLE,
DEFENSE MINISTER BROND UM'i FOR THE F I P S T T IPM LAIC' OUT THE +HwLF
QUEST ION OFFICIALLY FOR THE DANES AND PMPL IE'O THE CHOICE "HOULi)
HE AN AMER ICAN AIRCRAFT, OUP EMBASSY IS SUGGESTING TO THE EURO-
PEAN REPPESENTAT IVES OF THE TWO AMER ICAN CONTENDERS THAT THEY
SHOULD EXTEPAD THEMSELVES TO THE OAMJISH TRADE ONION CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON STAR-NEWS: HENRY BRAD SP{R fEPOR TS THAT, DESPITI-
THE INCREASINGLY CHAOT IC AND VIOLENT POLITICAL SITUATION IN
"fit ICON NORTH VIETNAM IS BECOMING WORR IED THAT EVENTS MICHT
NOT DEVELOP THE WAY IT WANTS. HANOI IS AFRAID THAT TIHE AGI-
TAT ION AGAINST PRESIDENT THIEU MIGHT RESULT IN A CLEANUP OF
CORRUPT ION WHICH COULD PEGA IN SUPPORT FOR T H IEU OF SOME
LEADER S NO',"' OFNOUNCINC HI"' Irl rA ICU`,{ CFMr.N,,STR AT 10,14F.
A STAR ED (TOR IALV ON "SOOT HABLE SENSIB IL IT IFS" ASSESSES YOUR
RECENT TR IP TO IND IA AS A USEFUL FENCf PATCHING SESS ION THAT
D ID L ITT L E T C RESOLVE THE MAJOR PR OPL E IV, S. THE PERCEPT ION THAT
IND I A I S, I N FACT, -VAR G 1 !JAL." 113 YOUR GL OPAL CAL CU't AT IONS RE-
MAINS VAL ID. FOR ALL THIS, HO'tEVFR, THE Tr I P ??AS WORTH IT A
AN EXFPCISF IN PURELIC PELAT IONS. Sr, FT SOAP, IN L IPL OMACY, CAN
SOMET IMl S tg!OF~K wONOCPS. AND T HAT IS ONE COMMODITY, IN AN ERA
OF SCAPCITY, ST ILL IN PLc NT IFIL StUP11 Y.
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INTERCEPTED LAOT IAN MESSAGE REVEALS THAT LAOS AND CUBA 'N ILL
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MIULTANEOUS PIJBL ICAT ION OF THE COMMUN IQt!E: IN HAVANA AND VIE_NT IANE
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/10/28: LOC-HAK-550-2-69-3