CABLE TO THE WHITE HOUSE FROM NEW DELHI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-187-4-33-4
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: November 1, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/03/02: LOC-HAK-187-4-33-4
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Fig AMBASSADOR MOYNIHAN NEW DELHI 155
Tn THE WHITE HOUSE, FOT GEYERAL SCOWCROFT
1. PROFESSORIALLY SPEAKING, HOW On YOU MEAN "RESEARCH TO 010 HAS
NOT IDENTIFIED ANY COUNTRY WHICH HAS CLAIMED THAT SHIPS Cowin
NOT PASS IT EN ROUTF T1 OTHER AREAS?" THIS REVEALS CRYPTO
DFVIATIONIST ANTI-PF.DPLE LINEAR PROGRAMMED MENTALITY. IN OT FAR WCIRPS
YOU DO NOT FATHOM THE HINDU MIND.
2. SPEAKING AS AMBASSADOR, I AM MUCH IN YOUR DEBT. MUST SEA-
FOREIGN MINISTER THIS oFTE'NOON, UNLESS I HEAR OTHERWISE I ,:SILL
TELL HIM, IN CONFIDENCE, WHERE THE SHIPS ARE HEADING.
3. SPEAKING AS SOMETIME GUNNERY OFFICER OF OSS OUIRINUS COmf f.) YOU
ASK THOSE ADMIRALS TO KEEP US IN TOUCH, AND FURTHER TO EXP! `!RE USES
OF THE SUNDA STRAIT WHICH TAKES YOU ON A MILD SOUTHWESTERLY
COURSE THAT EASES UP TO THE= GULF WITHOUT EXCITING INDIA, HA> GLADE=SH'
AU!D SRI LANKA, ALL OF WHICH ARE NOW OFFICIALLY QUASI HYSTE'PICAL.
THE HANCOCK IS A WORLD WAR TWO SHIP: IT CAN'T GET ANYWHERE ,,FQY
FAST, ANY WAY. AS A DECK OFFICER ON A SMALL SHIP I AM LEARY OF THE
BRASS AVOIDING HARD NAVIGATION. IF THE SUNDA STRAIT IS TRIr Y, MORE.
IS THE REASON TO TELL THAT TASK FORCE COMMANDER TO STEAM TH