CABLE TO LARRY EAGLEBURGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-259-2-31-8
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: January 16, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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LARRY EAGLE8URGER FOR SEC. KISSINGER
JANUARY 1974.
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WE HAVF CULLED FROM
ALLEGATIONS DIRECTED AT THE SECRETARY.
A. KISS'INGER OEMANOEO EXCFSSIVE SECRECY IN POLICY 'PLAo,iNING.
I. " THE WHITE HOUSE WAS EAGER TO KEEP ITS SECRETS TO
.ITSELF...KISSINGER PREFERRFD TO KEEP THE WORKINGS OF THE NCr?
:SFCRET---OFTEN FROM OTHER PFFICFS IN THE WHITE HOUSE. KNOW( r"D(E
is POWER AND T'HAT'S THE WAY KISSINGER ALWAYS OPERATE(." (COICAGO
Sl1N TIMFS, JANUARY 12)
'THE SECRECY PRECAUTIONS APPLIED BY KISSINGER CONSTITUTED A
WAR AGAINST, THE BUREAUCRACY TO A REMARKABLE DEGREE...THE ATIA(1S-
PrHEkE. ,OF PRIVACY THAT FNVELOPE0 THE ADMINISTRAf ION+S FGREIr,,
AND NATIONAL SECURITY POLICIES EXTENDED TO STATE AND ACDA...
RnGERS AND GERARD SMITH WERE KEPT IN THE DARK UNTIL THE EVE= OF
THE (MAy 21,. 1971) ANNfUNC i-MENT (rN SALT)." (WASHINGTON PosT
JAN 13).
3,. "KISSINGER MADE THE JCS PARANOID AS HEL)_...+"(CHICAGO
TR.I8UNE, JAN. 11 )
KISSINGER TAPPED LAIRO'S AND RpGERSO TELEPHONES.
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1. "A FORMER WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL.. SAID PRESIDENTIAL. SFCURIT',,
AnVISER KISSINGER ORDERED THE TAP ON 1AIRO'S OFFICE TO DETF'.:MINE
WHETHER HIS SECRET DIPLOMATIC DEALINGS WERE BEING LEAKED TO THE
N NTAGON. " (CHICAGO SUN TIMES, JAN. 12)
2 . "K I SS INGER ... ORDERED 4 TELFPw+ITNE TAPPEn I N 1971 I N THs-
n9FICE OF MELVIN R. LAIRD... AFTER A MICROPPONE WAS DISCOVFrED
In THE OFFICE OF ONE OF HI5 AIDES, WAYNE SMITH." (CHICAGO SmN
T I HFSs JAN 13 )
3. "AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES INSIS1En THAT REPORT ALLUDES TO TwE.
PL'EVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED TAPPING OF IT. GENERAL ROBERT E. PURSE s=Y..""
(WASHINGTON POST, JAN 13)
4. TAD SZULC ON TODAY SHOW ON JAN 15 REPORTED HAK APPARENT( Y
In 19b9-70 SET IN MOTION HIS OWN PROCESS TO TAP LAIRD AND RnGFRS
RY ACTUALLY TAPPING PHONES OF THEIR CLOSEST ADVISERS."
C. KISSINGER WAS ANGERED nY PRESS LEAKS ANn SPYING AND TOOK
R(=TALIATQRY ACTION.
1. "...THESE LEAKS HAD ANGERED ROTH NIXON AND KISSINGER.''
(IHICAGO TRIRUNEP JAN 11)
2. OKISSINGER'S SUSPICIONS THAT THE MILITARY HIGHT BE SPYII.
ON H1M...WERE AROUSED IN PART BY THE OISCOVPRY THAT THE JC".
HAD PREPARED A TABLE OF ORr,ANIZATION.OF HIS NSC.?.AS A
WAY OF TARGETING POSSIBLE LEAK POINTS." (CHICAGO SUN TIMES.
JAN 13)
3. "NSC STAFF MEMBERS ALSO SUSPECTED THAT THE JCS WERE USiNr
TOE DIA TO PENETRATE FOREIGN DIPLOMATIC CHANNELS TO FIND OUT
WHAT KISSINGER WAS UP TO WITH CHINA, THE USSR AND NORTH
VIETNAM ...AT KISSINGER'S DIRECTION THE DIA WAS ORDERED
To STOP ITS POACHING ON THE. CIA AND SHORTLY THEREAFTER DIA
WAS REMOVED FROM THE CONTROL OF THE JCS AND PLACED UNDER
THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE." (IBIn)
4. ""THF LIAISON OFFICER BETWEEN THE JCS AN() THE -NSC WAS
QUIETLY TRANSFERRED AFTER A WHITE HOUSE INVFSTIGATION...DIS-
CLOSED THAT TOP MILITARY OFFICIALS WERE SPYING ON KISSINGE ,.""
"...ALTHOUGH NO CHARGES WFPE EILEn FORMALLY...AS MANY AS SI-
MEN WERE REASSIGNED AFTER THE INVESTIGATION." (CHICAGO TRIP"NEs
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5. "WELANDER WAS REMOVED FQOM HIS NSC POST IINLY BECAUSE
RADP:ORO HAD WORKED FOR HIM." (WASHINGTON POST, JAN 12)
0. K ISS INGER MAY HAVE LIED ABOUT HIS KNOWLE ~GF ^F THE PLUMGPt RS.
1. ;'CURING MR. YOUNG'S INV-STIGATION...HE WAS ORDERED TO RF,i1RT
P; RIf1DICALLY TO GENERAL HAIG...THIS WAS THE FIRST INDICATInnN
T}4AT MR. YOUNG, A FORMER AIDE To MR. KISSINGER, MAINTAINE'
A PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHI'_WITH THE NSC WHILE SERVING WITH
Ti-4E PLUMBERS. Mk. KISSING--R HAS REPEATEDLY DENIED ANY
KNO14LEOGF OF THE PLUMBERS# ACTIVITIES." (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, )AN 12)
?. "OR. KISSINGER OFFERED THE SENATE SEEMINGLY CATEGORICAL.
ASSURANCE THAT HE HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF DAVID YOl_JNG WHO...
Rr.N THE INVESTIGATION WHICH KISSINGER ORDERFO...THESE ASSUknNCES
LIIOK VERY STRANGE NOW." (WASHING;TfN POST, JAN 15)
-4 . "THEY (THE SPYING STORIES)IHP(.Y THAT OR. KISSINGER LIE"
To A CONGRESSIONAL COMMITrFE." (JOE KRAFT.a WASHINGTON POST.
JAN. 15)
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