CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-260-1-49-8
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: May 16, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/02/22: LOC-HAK-260-1-49-8
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PLEASE'DELIVER TO BREMER/RODMAN FOR THE SECRETARY
Tbs ? HENRY A. KISSINGER
FROM: BRENT SCOWCROFT
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
THE. PRESIDENT CALLED ABOUT 9:00 P.M. HE ASKED IF WE HAD
ANY FURTHER WORD FROM. YOU AND'THEN HE BEGAN TO SPECULATE
ABOUT THE.POSSIBLE EFFECT OF THE TERRORSIST MASSACRE ON YOUR
NEGOTIATIONS.ANDON THE OVERALL SITUATION. AFTER SOME DISCUSSION
ALONG THOSE LINES. THE PRESIDENT ASKED IF I HAD TOLD.YOU HOW
MUCH HE APPRECIATED YOU AND THE EFFORTS THAT YOU WERE MAKING.
I ASSUR60 HIM THAT I HAD AND HE REPLIED THAT IF !"THOUGHT
OF ANYTHING WE HERE '. COULD' DO' To HELP YOU TO LET HIM.KNOW.
IT WAS A VERY ' RELAXED,. WARM CONVERSATION AND CONFIRMS MY'
EARLIER FEELING 'THAT'.ALL IS WELL NOW.
YOU ASKED FOR JUDGMENT$ ABOUT YOUR SCHEDULED,MEET'INGSWITH OH.IRA
AND THE CENTO, MINISTERS IF YOU SHOULD HAVE TO REMAIN IN THE
MIDDLE EAST THAT LONG (HAKTO 94). ON OHIRAs I,WOULD SUGGEST.
THAT IF IT APPEARS SAY BY:FRIDAY THAT YOU WILL NOT BE RETURNING
IN TIME, WE TELL HIM,.OF THAT POSSIBILITY AND GIVE HIM THE OPTION
OF POSTPONING HIS TRIP SHOULD HE CARE TO DO SO. FOR
THE CENTO CONFERENCE, I DD NOT SEE THAT WE HAVE ' ANYCHOICE RUT,TD
CONTINUE AS SCHEOULED WITH RUSH FILLING IN FOR YOU IF NEED
BE. I WOULD, HOWEVER, SUGGEST IN THIS CASE THAT'WE CABLE.
EACH OF THE COUNTRIES. AGAIN . AROUND FRIDAY, TO TELL THEM OF
OF YOUR DELAYED REtURNi IN THE EVENT THAT THEY MIGHT 'WISH TO
MODIFY THE MAKEUP OF.THEIR DELEGATIONS. (I UNDERSTAND,.
FOR EXAMPLES THAT CALLAGHAN MAY NOT WISH TO COME IF YOU WILL
NOT BE HERE) IF I HAVE ANY FURTHER THOUGHTS ON THE SUBJECT,
I WILL LET YOU KNOW.
WARM REGARDS.
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/02/22 : LOC-HAK-260-1-49-8