CABLE TO BRENT SCOWCROFT FROM HENRY KISSINGER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-111-12-31-0
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: May 29, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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T,3: GENERAL SCOWCROFT
F;zW4 SECRETARY KISSING-R
1. PLEASE HAVE WINSTON LORD CONVEY THE C 11UJW! +G AS SOON AS
POSS IBLF FROM ME TO THE LA! NDRYt E~;:
IN THE SPIRIT OF CLOS: CONSULTATION BETWEEN THE PRC A;,4,_,
USs I WANT TO INFORM THE C~4INESF LEADERS IN ADVANCE OF THE
FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT WHIrH HAS JUST BEEN AGREED UPON AND
WHICH WILL Be MADE AT THE L.IHITE HnUSE A,~DUN'1 1:00 P.M. TODD-
(WEDNESDAY):
+"THE DISCUSSIONS CO`.sDDUCTED BY UNITE1} STATES
SFCRFTARY CIF STATE HENRY KISSIN(,F' WITH SYRIA AND ISRAEL 4,,%-E LED
Tn AN AGREEMENT ON THE DISENGAGFM5NT OF SYRIAN AND ISRAELI -nnRCES.
THE AGPEEMENT WILL BE SIGNL-D PY SWRIAN AND ISRAE=LI MILITARY
REPRESENTATIVES IN THE EGY,rTIAN-ISRAELI MIL'+TARY WORKING Gpit.JP
OF THE GENEVA CONFERENCE dl,h, FR IPAYs MAY 31S F s 1741, IN GE4F`, n.U!
THE DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT ITSELF FOLLOWS THE MODEL
OF THE EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI AG, EE$4ENT OF JANUARY. IT IS INTEN at AS
TAE FIRST STEP TOWARD ACHIEVEMENT OF A JUST AND DURABLE PEAS-E
SETTLEMENT IN THE MIDDLE''5ST.
ALL THE RELEVANT DWU',RENTS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED?, AND Taw
SIGNING AT GENEVA WILL aE PURELY CEREMONIAL. UNITED STATE;.
AND SOVIET REPRESENTATIVES WILL BE PRESENT AT THE SIGNING Amn
WHILE TECHNICAL DETAILS OF IMPLFMFNTATION ARE BEING WORKED ntUT
BY THE PARTIES IN THE GENEVA MILITARY WORKING GROUP..
I WANT THE CHINESE LEADERS TO KNOW THAT I PAID AHALF-
HOUR COURTESY CALL ON GROMYKO I' DAMASCUS AFTER MIDNIGHT
TUEOAY NIGHT, ON MY WAY TO THE AIRPORT. IT WAS PURELY A
COURTESY CALL AND TOOK PLArE AFTER THE NEGOTIATIONS HAD BEc
COMPLETED.
THE CHINESE LEADERS WILL APP?ECIATE THAT ALL OF THE EFrnRT
T'eAT HAS BEEN MADE BY THE 1.1NITEoo STATES IN THE NEGOTIATION SAS
BEEN IN PURSUANCE OF THE BASIC STRATEGY WHIrH HAS PEEN DISD''tSSED
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******* S E C R E T *******S Cox,
a+AN'e TIiES WITH THE CHINESR SI0$-. P LEASE C-.4VEV My h4AR$ t ". 54`N41
R GARfS TO ALL MY CHINESE c.RIEN-S.
I -ALL SE IN TOUCH WITH THt= CHINESE SI E At AFv EARLY
ApT ?R my RETURN TO WASHINGTON Tn ^ISCUSS GGT~:ER r-URTHCC;MING c~V,V-NTS.
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