CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-259-3-7-4
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 27, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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TO LARRY EAGLEBURGER FOR SEC. KISSINGER
FEBRUARY 27s 1974
TO LARRY EAGLEBURGER
FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT
FOR: HENRY A. KISSINGER
1. THERE WAS NO STAFF MEETING THIS MORNING BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT
HAD BREAKFAST WITH THE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP, AL HAIGs AND RRYCE
HARLIDW.
20 BOTH MARILYN BERGER'AND BERNIE GWERTZMAN HAVE ARTICLES RE
SULTING APPARENTLY FROM YOUR DISCUSSIONS ON THE AIRCRAFT. THE
ARTICLES ARE HEADLINED ""U.S. HELPING CAIRO ON SUEZ OPENING,,,
THE ARTICLES ARE VERY SIMILAR AND DEAL EXTENSIVELY WITH THE
DEFENSE MINECLEARING TEAM, WITH A "U.S. OFFICIAL" IMPLYING THAT
THE SOVIET UNION WAS NOT BwING ASKED FOR ITS HELP IN THE MINE-
CLEARING. THE ARTICLES ALSO SAID YOU EXPECTED TOIRECEIVE A POW
LIST FROM ASSADs WOULD GO TO JORDAN AND BRUSSELS BEFORE RETURN
ING, AND PERHAPS TO RIYAD FOR A COURTESY CALL. GWERTZMAN SAYS
THAT "AMERICAN OFFICIALS.WITH THE PARTY WERE SURPRISED" WHEN
PRESIDENT NIXON PREDICTED THE END OF THE EMBARGO. THE ARTICLES
THEN INDICATE THAT WE HAVE MADE PROGRESS WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT
ON SALT AND ARE CONVEYING TO THE SOVIET UNION OUR IDEAS ON "+ES-
SFNTIAL EQUIVALENCIESs" THE URGENCY-OF DEALING WITH MIRVSs AND
THE HINT OF SOME +"GIVE"" ON THE FBS ISSUE.
3, THE POST HAS AN EDITORIAL SNEERING AT THE MEXICO CITY Cr1N-
I ERENCE AS BEING LITTLE MORE THAN ONE INTENSIVE BURST OF DIPLOMACY.
ALSOP HAS AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE JCS SPY CASE WHICH HE ESSENTIALLY
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CHARACTERIZES.AS MUCH AOO ABOUT VERY LITTLE, RESTON HAS AN AR-
TICLEs ""MR. KISSINGER. AND THE EUROPEANS,"' WHICH DESCRIBES THE
PUZZLEMENT OF THE BRITISH ABOUT YOUR STYLE. HE HAS YOU BEING
IRRITATED BECAUSE YOU WISH TO TALK TO A UNITED EUROPE WHEN THERE
IS NO SUCH THING AND THE BRITISH THINKING YoU ARE IN TOO MUCH OF
A HURRY IN THE FACE OF THE MANY EUROPEAN INTERNAL POLITICAL AND
PERSONAL PROBLEMS. I WILL SEND YOU THESE PIECES SEPARATELY.
WARM REGARDS.
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