CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-260-1-10-0
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 10, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2009/12/07: LOC-HAK-260-1-10-0
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TO AMCONSUL JERUSALEM
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DELIVER TO BREMER/RODMAN FOR THE SECRETARY.
TO:
FIR
FROM:
MAY 10, 1974
JERRY BREMER/PETER RODMAN
HENRY A. KISSINGER
BRENT SCOWCROFT
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IN THE EVENT THAT THE DISENGAGEMENT TALKS BREAK DOWNS WE
BELIEVE THE SYRIANS WOULD STEP UP THEIR WAR OF ATTRITION.
AT A MINIMUMS THEY. WOULD SEEK Try INFLICT HEAVY CASUALTIES
ON THE ISRAELI FORCES AND TRY TO SEIZE LIMITED OBJECTIVES
WITHIN THE ISRAELI SALIENT, EVEN AT CONSIDERABLE COST TO THFIR
FORCES. SOMEWHAT LESS LIKELY, BUT STILL QUITE PROBABLE,
WOULD BE AN ALL-OUT ASSAULT AIMED AT ROLLING BACK THE ISRAELI
MORI/CDF
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FORCES AND PENETRATING AS FAR AS POSSIBLE TOWARD THE PRE' -1967 CEASE-
FIRE LINE. IN EITHER CASE, PROTRACTED WARFARE WOULD ENSUE.
THERE ARE INDICATIONS THAT SYRIAN SHOCK TROOPS ARE TRAINING
FOR ASSAULTS ON HILLTOP OBJECTIVES, AND MIDDLE-LEVEL SYRIAN
OFFICERS REPORTEDLY EXPECT THAT SUCH ASSAULTS'WOULD BE MADE
AT MANY POINTS ALONG THE FRONT IF THE TALKS BREAK DOWN. THE
SYRIANS REPORTEDLY ALSO HAVE PLANS FOR A GENERAL OFFENSIVE
WHICH COULD BE PUT INTO EFFECT WITH LITTLE ADDITIONAL PRE-
PARATION.
UNQUOTE
WARM REGARDS.
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2009/12/07: LOC-HAK-260-1-10-0