INDIAN OCEAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-259-3-20-9
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: March 1, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2009/12/17: LOC-HAK-259-3-20-9
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FM THE SITUATION ROOM
USINT CAIRO
S E C R E TI INOCIS WH40594
TO LARRY EAGLEBURGER FOR SEC. KISSINGER
FEBRUARY 281 1974
FROM. JAN LODAL/HELMUT SONNENFELDT
SUBJECT INDIAN OCEAN
SONNENFELOT HAS ALREADY DESCRIBED FOR YOU IN STATE
CHANNELS THE BUEACRATIC SITUATION IN THE USA; ON VARIOUS INDIAN
OCEAN QUESTIONS, INCLUDING RATInNALE FOR USF WITH CONGRESS ON DIEGO
GARCIA AND POSSIBILITY OF U..I.S.--SOVIET NAVAL LIMITATIONS.
IN TERMS OF 8ROADFR SU)RSTAN, TIVE QUESTInNS WE ARE PREPARING
A PAPER FOR YOUR MOSCOW TRIP THAT WILL ADDRESS SUCH POSSIBLE NAVAL
LIMITATIONS, IN THE EVENT v(OU WANT TO BE IN A POSITION TO DISCUSS
THESE MATTERS WITH BREZHNEv. IN ADDITION,' !iE BELIEVE IT WOULD BE
WORTHWHILE TO ISSUE A NSSM ON THESE INDIAN OCEAN QUESTIONS, THE
BUREAUCRACY WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED BY THIS AS THERE HAS BEEN
CONSIDERABLE WORK DONE ALREADY (NSSMS 104,110) AND IT IS BADLY
OUT OF DATE (1970-71). A ~.SSM EXERCISE WOULD SERVE TQ FURTHER
SLOW DOWN THE BUREAUCRACY PROM TAKING INITIATIVES. IF ANYTHING
WORTH PURSUING EMERGES, TH-~ NSS?vv ,EFFORT COULD SERVE TO ATTAIN THE
BUREAUCRATIC CONSENSUS WHICH MIGHT BE CRITICAL--OR PERHAPS
IMPOSSIPLF--FOR NEGOTIATING; SUCH NAVAL LIMITATIONS.
WITH THE ABOVE IN MINrs WE ARE PREPARING A DRAFT NSSM TNT,ENDED
TO DEVELOP ALTERNATIVE U.S. STRATEGIES THROUGH 1980 FOR DEALING
WITH CURRENT AND PROJECTED SOVIET ACTIVITIES IN THE INDIAN OCEAN
AND FOR FURTHERING U.S. INTERESTS IN THE AREA. WE WILL HAVE IT
READY FOR YOUR CONS I DRRAT I,ON ON YOUR RETURN.
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2009/12/17: LOC-HAK-259-3-20-9