INFORMATION ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-550-3-52-0
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: November 23, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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ON-FILE NSC RELEASE INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
CODEWORD EXCLUSIVELY EYES ONLY
NOVEMBER 24, 1974
THE PRESIDENT
HENRY A. KISSINGER
INFORMATION ITEMS
SOVIETS, EL PASO GAS, AND JAPANESE SIGN AGREEMENTS: ACCORD-
ING TO PRESS REPORTING, EL PASO GAS COMPANY, THE -SOVIET UNION,
AND JAPANESE BUSINESSMEN SIGNED A TWO YEAR AGREEMENT FOR
JOINT EXPLORATION FOR NATURAL GAS IN SIBERIA. THE ANNOUNCE-
MENT WAS MADE IN PARIS ON FRIDAY. CONFIRMATION OF SIZABLE
DEPOSITS IN SIBERIA COULD LEAD TO OTHER AGREEMENTS FOR DELIVERY
OF THE GAS TO AMERICA AND JAPANESE MARKETS, ACCORDING TO AN
EL PASO GAS SPOKESMAN. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS THAT
THE PROSPECTING WILL COST THE USSR $400 MILLION AND THAT
THE JAPANESE EXPORT-IMPORT BANK HAS ALLOWED $100 MILLION FOR
THE PROJECT ON THE CONDITION THE U.S. EXPORT-IMPORT BANK DOES
THE SAME. THE AGREEMENT IS SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION BY CON-
GRESS.
If0110 GOVERMENT: PREMIER-DESIGNATE ALDO MORO OVERCAME LAST
MINUTE SQUABBLES OVER CABINET JOBS TODAY AND ANNOUNCED FORMA-
TION OF ITALY'S 37TH GOVERNMENT SINCE THE FALL OF FASCISM.
mno PRESENTED A MINORITY COALITION CABINET LIST TO PRESIDENT
GIOVANNI LEONE AT THE QUIRINALE PALACE AND LEONE APPROVED IT,
THE NEW GOVERNMENT ENDED A 51-DAY CABINET CRISIS THAT BEGAN
WHEN THE GOVERNMENT HEADED BY PREMIER MARIANO RUMOR COLLAPSED
OCTOBER 3. MORO NAMED RUMOR AS FOREIGN MINISTER, THE POST
MORO FIELD IN THE PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT. THE NEW GOVERNMENT
FORMULA WAS A MINORITY COALITION OF MORO'S CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS
AND THE REPUBLICANS WITH OUTSIDE SUPPORT FROM THE TWO SOCIALIST
PARTIES.
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