CABLE TO SECRETARY KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-260-1-42-5
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: May 15, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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To: SECRETARY KISSINGER
FROM: BRENT SCONCROFT',
THE FOLLOWING IS FROM ONNENFELDT,
UR ABSENCE WHILE HE HE
IN TOWN SALINGER CALLED IN YOUR EO WAS BRIEFLY
OWN TO CONVEY A."MESSAGE". IT WAS FROM,MICHEL RDr FORMER
SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE PSU, LEFT WING 'SOCIALIST PARTY. RnCARD
IS CURRENTLY MITTERAND'S CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISER AND GENERAL?
CONFIDANT, ACCORDING TO SALINGER. HIS MESSAGE WAS THAT IF MITTERAND
SHOULD WIN, HE IS ANXIOUS THAT YOU SEND OVER A REPRESENTATIVE VERY
PRIVATELY TO REVIEW THE WHOLE RANGE OF USr-FRENCH'RELAT1ONS.. BEFORE
POSITIONS HARDEN WITH THE ENTRY OF COMMUNISTS INTO THE GOVERNMENT'.
ACCORDING T? SAL.IMGER-ROCARD SAID MITTERANt) WANTS TO.AVOIC FURTHER
DETERIORATION IN'UI-.'RRE.NC~H RELATIONS. SALINGER SAID ROCARD VISITED
HIM JUST BEFORE THE FIRST' TOUR OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TO PASS
ON THIS MESSAGE TO YOU. SALINGER TOLD ME 'THAT', HE THINKS THIS Is,
PROVABLY ALL;,ACADEMIC,SINCE MITTERAND 1$. UNLIKELY TO MAKE IT' IN THE
RUNOFF. HE FEELS THAT THE GUILLAUME AFFAIR IN GERMANY HAS AROUSED
WIDESPREAD FEARS OF THE COMMUNISTS IN FRANCE AND THIS, IN ADDITION.
TO MANY OTHER FACTORS WILL HELP GISCARD. I TOLD SALINGER J. AP'PRE..
CIATED THE MESSAGE AND WOULD PASS..,,IT ON TOy_OU., SALINGER SAID IF
MITTERAND SHOULD WIN HE WOULD BE,IN TOUCH EARLY NEXT WEEK 80 .4
CLAIMS TO HAVE NO DESIRE To GET FURTHER INVOLVED IN ANY CONTACT WE
MIGHT CHOOSE TO MAKE WITH MITTERAND.ALONG THE LINES: PROPOSE} BY
ROCARD. CLEARLY, THERE IS NOTHING THAT NEEDS OR SHOULD BE.DONE AT
THIS TIME. SHOULD MITTERAND WIN, YOU WILL HAVE TIME TO EVALUATE
THIS APPROACH; AND WHAT I ASSUME WILL BE OTHERS .ALONG SIMILAR. LINES.
I SUPPOSE-THERE MA's BE SOME RISK THAT PIERREWILL WRITE SOMETHING
I N ?EXPRESS ABOUT THi S . WHATEVER WE ELECT TO 00'.,
2. RUINA CALLED. TO ,STAY. THAT ON HIS: LAST VISIT To THE USSR HE
HAD FOUND SER,IOUS'MIS:INFORMAT1ON AMONG HIS FRIENDS IN THE'ACADEMY
AND THE INSTITUTES ON SUCH MATTERS AS BOMBER PAYLOAD,
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THROWWEIGHT ETC. HE AND RATHJENS HAD HAD AN INVITATION FOR ANOTHER
VISIT IN THII N*T.FEW WEEKS BUT HAD HAD TO CANCEL. STILL, HE WANTED
TO KNOW IF WE.FELT THERE MIGHT BE ANY UTILITY IN HIS GOING OVER
THERE WITH RATH4ENS TO DO SOME EDUCATIONAL WORK ON THESE TECHNICAL
MATTERS. I TOLD MIM THAT IT WOULD NOT BE A.-GOOD
WHEN NEGOTIATIONS ON SALT'.WERE IN A DELICATE PHASE. HE ACCEPTED
THIS READILY. IT MAY AMUSE YOU THAT HE TOLD ME.BOTH ON THE PHONE
AND HARVARD-MTT
AEARLIER IN THEN WEEK WHEN I GAVE A TALK AT, .THE
MINAR THAT HE FELT WE WERE! FAR TOO MUCHCDNCERNED WITH MIRVS AND
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SHOULD SEEK A COMPREHENSIVE AGREEMENT WITH REDUCTIONS. THIS IS A
WIDESPREAD VIEW AMONG THE LIBERAL ACADEMICS IN THE ARMS CONTROL
COMMUNITY. THE BEDFELLOWS ARE ONCE AGAIN CROWDING THE SALT BED.
WARM REGARDS.
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