IRANIAN REQUEST FOR UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE IN PROVIDING FOODSTUFFS FOR BARZANI'S KURDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-173-6-20-1
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 28, 2012
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: April 15, 1974
• Content Type: MEMO

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CEAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY W
DOS review
completed
MORI/CDF per
C03207140
MEMORANDUM FOR; The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Assistant to the President for
. YWASHIPGTON, D.C. 20304
15 April 1974
Tiational.Security Affairs
SUBJECT: Iranian Request for United States
Assistance in Providing Foodstuffs
for Barzani's Kurds
On 14 April 1974
a request that the United States Government assist
Iran in providing foodstuffs, especizilly wheat, flour,
'edible oils, sugar, rice, powdered milk, tea, beans, and
potatoes, to the area of Iraq controlled by lul l a Mustafa
Barzarti.'s Kurds and blockaded by Baghdad.
said that the food situation in the
uarze.nn-ne-.-a-aree ?.6s becoming critical due to the influx
of refugees and Iraqi punitive economic measures. The
.Iranians also said that the above foods were in short
.supply in Iran itself and that United States Government sup
port "w.-as therefore need d?
2. The above information has been given to Ambassador
?,0,:s in Tehran.
3. It is our view that as long as the present state
of tension exists between the Baghdad Goverment and 14ulla
Mustafa's Kurds, the latter will suffer chronically from
food. shortages. By trying to be responsive to requests for
re-
bulky Co'~:iodities -- requests which hill certainly be curring -- we run the serious risk of eroding the security
of our present operation, not to mention raising our costs
to an unacceptable level.
kil.a:t'i:l IiA I1 ~ 1 L~
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;4. .i 't;- fore my recommendation that our
r~espons point out 4I.-he difficulties. of try-
ing to t; ~ _t -rlaly lame anoutits of ccttmodities and
our unwill irc ness to thus raise the risk factor to an
urtacceptatle level., '. If Iran is unable 'Co reet all the
Kurds' requirements , It should be recommended to the
Kurds that they appeal overtly to el ee iosynary organi-
.zations equipped to help in this way.
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/12/28: LOC-HAK-173-6-20-1
W. E. Colby
Director