CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-260-1-5-6
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 10, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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O 100146Z MAY 74 ZFF-1 ZFF-4 ZYH
FM THE SITUATION ROOM
TO USDEL CAIRO- BREMER/ROOMAN FOR SEC. KISSINGER
S E C R E T SENSITIVE DELIVER AT OPENING OF BUSINESS
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TOHAK 132
DELIVER TO BREMER/RODMAN FOR THE SECRETARY.
TO: HENRY A. KISSINGER
FROM: BRENT SCOWCROFT
OOBRYNIN CALLED TO REPORT ON OUR REQUEST TO CALL OFF
MALIK IN HIS EFFORTS TO CONVENE A SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING'.
DOBRYNIN SAID THAT THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT WOULD POSTPONE
"FOR THEE TIME BEING" ITS ATTEMPTS TO CONVENE A SECURITY
COUNCIL MEETING ON THE UNEF MATTERS, SO AS NOT IN ANY WAY
To EMBARRASS YOUR CURRENT EFFORTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
DOBRYNIN ADDED THAT HE HOPED WE FULLY UNDERSTOOD THE SOVIET
POSITION ON THESE UNEF ISSUES. HE IMPLIED THEY WOULD RAI
THE ISSUES AGAIN AT A LATER DATE.
THE PRESIDENT CALLED A FEW MINUTES AGO To TALK A BIT
ABOUT YOUR LATEST REPORT (HAKTO 67). HE INTERPRETTED IT AS
VERY SLIGHTLY ENCOURAGING AND CONCLUDED BY TELLING ME
TO LET YOU KNOW HE FULLY SUPPORTED YOUR TOUGH STANCE WITH
THE ISRAELIS AND THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT HIS SUPPORT FOR
CONTINUED AID TO ISRAELI AND ALSO IN THE EVENT OF ANY NEW
HOSTILITIES, IS FULLY CONDITIONED ON THEIR TAKING A REASON-
ABLE POSTURE IN YOUR PRESENT NEGOTIATIONS. HE SAID THAT
YOU COULD USE THIS WITH THE ISRAELIS IF YOU WISH OR, IF
YOU NEED ANOTHER LETTER FROM HIM TO GOLDA, YOU COULD HAVE
ONE.
THE DOMESTIC NEWS IS QUITE GRIM. AS I TOLD YOU YESTER-
DAY, THE VICE PRESIDENT MADE SOME UNFORTUNATE STATEMENTS
ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S WEAKNESS. SENATOR SCOTT BLASTED THE
TRANSCRIPTS AS "DEPLORABLE,, AND "DISGUSTING,,. THE CHICAGO
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TRIBUNE CAME OUT FOR THE PRESIDENT'S RESIGNATION OR IMPEACH-
MENT. TODAY RHODES SAID THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD CONSIDER
THE POSSIBILITY OF RESIGNING BECAUSE OF THE DEVASTING
IMPACT OF THE TRANSCRIPTS AND FORD MADE A SPEECH WHICH
REPORTEDLY CRITICIZES THE EDITING OF THE TRANSCRIPTS AND THE
CRISIS IN PUBLIC CONFIDENCE CREATED BY WATERGATE DEVELOP-
MENTS. JERRY SCHECTER REMARKED TO ME THAT THE CURRENT MOOD
ON THE HILL IS VERY BAD. NOBILITY AND COURAGE APPEAR TO BE
IN EXTREMELY SHORT SUPPLY AT THE MOMENT.
THE PRESIDENT JUST CALLED AGAIN. YOU KNOW THE CONDITION,
HE REITERATED THAT HE WAS BEHIND YOU AND THAT THE ISRAELIS
SHOULD KNOW THAT IF THEY ARE INTRANSIGENT "THEY HAVE HAD
IT."
WARM REGARDS.
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