CABLE TO AMEMBASSY TEHRAN FROM THE SITUATION ROOM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-262-1-34-2
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 1, 2010
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: November 1, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to DelRclassification in Part 2010/06/01 : LOC-HAK-262-1-34-2
0 012304Z NOV 74
FM THE SITUATION ROOM
TO AMEMBASSY TEHRAN
C 0 N F 10 E N T I A L EYES 0NLY
DELIVER AT OPENING OF BUSINESS WH4 2
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PASS TO BREMER/GOMPEPT FOR THE SECRETARY
NOVEMBER 1, 1974
TO f3REMER/R OD MAN
FOR HENRY A K I SS I NGER
FROM BR,T S COW CR O FT
1. , t, JUST TALKED TO SEIDMAN AND EXPLAINED THE RATIONALE ON
THE TOUGH BARGAINING FORTHCOMING APPPCACH.REGARDING THE FOOD
CONFERENCE SPEECH. HE SAID HE UNDERSTOOD COI%'PLETEL Y AND THAT
THE ONLY CONCERN HAD BEEN THAT WWE NOT "GIVE SOMETHING AWAY
FOR NOTHING.I ASSURED HIM THAT WAS FARTHEST THING FROM YOUR
MIND BUT THAT A VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE OF TACTICS WAS INVOLVED.
2. 1 ALSO MENTIONED TO HIM THE TWO ISSUES ON WHICH YOU HAD
CABLED THE PRESIDENT, AND AGAIN HE SAID HE HAD NO PROBLEM
W IT H E IT HER ONE. HE EMPHAZ I SED T 0 ME T HAT HE HAD BEEN UNDER
SUBSTANT IAL PRESSURE FROM SOME OF HIS COLLEAGUES YESTERDAY
AND THAT HE CONCEIVED HIS ROLE AS BEING SIMPLY TO INSURE THAT
RELEVANT ISSUES WERE BPOUGHT TO THE PRESIDENT" S ATTENT ION.
I POINTED OUT THAT THERE WAS NEVER ANY QUEST ION THAT THAT WOULD
BE DONE. IT WAS A MATTER OF PROCEDURE, AND I HAD NOT BEEN
HAPPY WITH THE WAY IT HAD BEEN HANDLED.
3. HE SA 10 HE NOW THOUGHT THAT H I S JOB HAD B E E N DONE
AND THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS NOW AWARE OF THE MAJOR ISSUES
REMAINING. HE 0 10 NOT INDICATE THAT HE PLANNED TO COMMUNICATE
FURTHER WITH THE PRESIDENT ON THE SUBJECT.
4. 1 W ILL, OF COUR SE, INFORM YOU AS SOON AS WE HAVE
A REACT ION FROM THE PRESIDENT TO YOUR CABLE.
WARM REGARDS.
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/06/01 : LOC-HAK-262-1-34-2