CABLE TO HENRY KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-258-6-90-0
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 90
• Publication Date: December 9, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/01/04: LOC-HAK-258-6-90-0
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FM THE SITUATION ROOM TOHAi. 16
TO AMEMBASSY BRUSSELS
S E C R E T SENSITIVE EXCLt..,SIVELY EYES ONLY
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TO LARRY EAGLEBURGER FOR SECRETARY KISSINGER,
TnHAK 16
To: SECRETARY KISSING
FROM: BRENT SCOWCROFT
1. HAVE JUST MET WITH DINITZ AND BROUGHT HIM UP TO DATE ON THE
FAHMI DEMANDS REGARDING THE LETTER TO THE SYG. ALSO EXPLAINED
WHAT 1 HAD TOLD DOBRYNIN WITH REGARD TO THE "TIMING". ISSUE.
2. DINITZ EXPLAINED THAT ONLY ON THURSDAY HAD HE KNOWN THAT THE
PASSAGE IN THE OR?IGINAL.DRAFT ON FUTURE PARTICIPATION I-N- THF.
CONFERENCE HAD BEEN MQOIFIFD TO INCLUDE. SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO
PALESTINIAN AND LEBANESE PARTICIPATION. WHEN Rf DISCUSSED WITH
YOU THE POSSIBILITY OF INCLUDING THEIR DESIRED SPECIFICATION
OF UNANIMITY IN THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING RATHER THAN IN
THE LETTER ITSELF, HE SAYS HE DID It ON THE BASIS OF THE ORIGI-
NAL LANGUAGE, NOT THE MODIFIED LANGUAGE "THE QUESTION OF THE PAR-
TICIPATION OF THE PALESTINIANS AND LEBANON,,, .IN ANY
EVENT, HE SAYS THAT HIS SUGGESTION WAS REPUDIATED BY HIS GOVERN-
MENT, WHICH INSISTS THAT THE IDEA OF UNANIMITY, TO HAVE ANY
MEANING, MUST BE IN THE PUBLIC LETTER, NOT A PRIVATE UNDERSTANDING
3, 1 AVOIDED HAVING TO COMMENT ON OUR POSITION ON THE "U.N.
AUSPICES" ISSUES BUT D,INITZ EXPPESSED HIS GOVERNMENT AS BEING.
"ABSOLUTELY AND DEFINITELY"" AGAINST A CONFERENCE UNDER U.N.
AUSPICES, AND WOULD PREFER THE RESTORATION Of THE PHRASE: SOVIET AUSPICES."
4. IN SUMMING UP, DINITZ REITERATED THEIR ABSOLUTE OPPOSITION TO
THE "TIMING" PHRASE, AND EXPRESSED HIS PLEASURE AT OUR SUPPORT ON
THAT POINT. HE STATED THAT THE ISRAELI FIRST PREFERENCE WOULD BE
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FOR THE ORIGINAL DRAFT WORDING WHICH DID NOT SPECIFY LEBANON AND
THE PALESTINIANS BY NAME, PLUS THE ADDITION OF THE PHRASE
RFQUIRING UNANIMITY ON FUTURE PARTICIPATION, FAILING THAT, THEY
WOULD PREFER TO HAVE THE PHRASING "THE QUESTION OF THE PAR--.
TICIPATION OF THE PALESTINIANS AND LEBANON" PLUS THE REQUIREMENT
OF UNANIMITY SPECIFIED IN THE LETTER TO THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE
AND AN AGREEMENT ON UNANIMI/tY AS PART OF THE U.S.-ISRAELI UNDER-
STANDING. DINITZ SAID HE 14CIPES THAT THE LANGUAGE OF THE LETTER
CAN BE CLEARED UP PRIOR TO YOUR ARRIVAL IN TEL AVIV.
5. DINITZ REPORTED THAT THE.DAYAN MEETING WITH SCHLESINGER WAS
FAR DIFFERENT, FROM THAT WITH CLEMENTS (WHICH HE UNILATERALLY
ASCRIBED TO OUR INTERVENTION BETWEEN MEETINGS), HE SAID THAT
SCHLESINGER WAS QUITE MODERATE, STATED THAT SOME ITEMS OF SUPPLY,
SUCH AS STAND-OFF WEAPONS, WERE ISSUES OF AVAILA-
BILITY AND THAT OTHERS, SU'.CH AS THE F-4 BECAUSE OF ITS
SYMBOLISM., WERE INDEED ISSUES FOR POLITICAL DECISION. DINITZ SAID
THAT DAYA.N CAME AWAY FROM THIS MEETING IN A CONSIDERABLY SETTER
FRAME OF MIND. THAN THE GLOOM WHICH THE CLEMENTS MEETING HAD
ENGENDERED. (I. DID NOT DISCUSS WITH SCHLES,I LAGER THE APPROACH HE
SHOULD TAKE WITH OAYAN, SO THAT THE MORE FORTHCOMING APPROACH
WAS ONE WHICH HE DECIDED UPON HIMSELF.)
6. DAYAN HAS NOW DEPARTED,.FOR TEL AVIV. DINITZ SAYS HE PLANS
TO LEAVE ON WEDNESDAY, AND WILL BE IN TEL AVIV FOR YOUR ARRIVAL.
7,-WARM REGARDS.
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