TALKING POINTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-181-4-31-2
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: November 28, 1973
• Content Type: MISC

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/12/06: LOC-HAK-181-4-31-2
XGDS) November 28, 1973
MORI/CDF per
C03223798
TALKING POINTS
1. You might ask Mr. Colby to brief on the military situation and on
what CIA knows of the outcome at the Algiers conference.
2. You may wish to bring the principals up to date on the following
elements of your diplomatic strategy:
--Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Israel have been asked to concur
in a draft US-USSR letter to Waldheim stating their readiness
to attend the peace conference on December 17 or 18.
--The rationale for convening the peace conference as soon as
possible is to give Sadat an early reason for not resuming hostilities
and Faisal some peg on which to hang a relaxation in the oil
embargo. It is understood that substantive progress will be
unlikely until after the Israeli election.
--It is our thought that the first issue on the agenda will be the
disengagement of military forces.
determine what additional parties might be r t d (Lebanon,
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Palestinians).
--Since we will have to wait until after the formation of a new
Israeli government for any substantive progress, assuming elections
take place on schedule, it seems likely that the first major decisions
would only be formulated toward the end of January or into February.
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DECLAS - Date Impossible to Determine.
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/12/06: LOC-HAK-181-4-31-2
The conference itself will then