CABLE TO WHITE HOUSE FROM TEHRAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-481-10-5-1
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: January 2, 2013
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 16, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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1. 1. PLEASE PASS FOLLOWING TO SECRETARY KISSINGER FOR
PRESIDENT AND, HIM.
2. PRIME MINISTER BHUTTO SUMMONED ME FEW MINUTES AGO. AFTER
GIVING BRIEF RUNDOWN ON HIS PRODUCTIVE MEETINGS WITH PRESIDENT IN WASH-
INGTONs HE...DESCRIBE.D DOMESTIC PRESSURES.BUILDING UP IN HIS COUNTRY,
AS RESULT -O WHAT.HE::.EFERRED TO AS "ALL-PERVASIVE MUSLIM INFULENCE"s
FOR POSTIVE ACTION IN SUPPORT OF ARAB CAUSE IN. CURRENT CONFLICT. HE
SAID THAT HE HAS BEEN CONTAINING THIS PRESSURE BY VARIOUS. DEVICES, BUT
IN ADDITION TO DOMESTIC CONSIDEQATIONSs HE HAS BEEN GETTING INSISTENT
REQUESTS FROM ARAB PARTICIPANTS, PARTICULARLY SYRIA, FOR MILITARY
SUPPORT. EVEN HIS MILITARY CHIEFS OF STAFF FAVORED SENDING A BRIGADE
To SYRIAN FRONT.- BHUTTO CLAIMS HE ARGUED THEM OUT OF SUCH AN AD-
VENTURE BUT HE DID AGREE TO SENDING SOME AMMUNITION TO SYRIA WHICH
HE?'HAS DONE AND IS DOING. HIS QUERY TO THE PRESIDENT IS THIS: IN
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FROM: AMB. HELMS, TEHRAN
CONTEXT OF PAK DOMESTIC POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS PRESSURES, YE STILL
A&WANTS TO BE HELPFUL, AND IF POSSIBLE CONSTRUCTIVE: IN BEHALF OF HIS
"FRIEND AND VALUED ALLY"s THE UNITED STATES. HE WANTS TO KNOW
HAK,SCOWCROFTsRODMAN,HOWE,MCFARLANF
WHETHER ON BALANCE IT WOULD BE USEFUL FOR HIM TO PROCEED TO DAMASCUS
AFTER HE VISITS TURKEY AND SAUDI ARABIA,., WHICH ARE CURRENTLY SCHEDUL-
ED. HE SEES A PLUS IN THIS VISIT, BECAUSE HE COULD
CONVINCE SYRIANS OF HIS INABAILITY TO HELP THEM MILITARILY EXCEPT FOR
AMMUNTION. HE COULD ALSO TRY TO PERSUADE THEM THAT THE TIME HAS COME
FOR A CEASE-FIRE IN PLACE. HE SEE A MINUS IN THE FACT THAT SUCH A
VISIT MIGHT BE MISUNDERSTOODs.THAT IT WOULD LOOK AS THOUGH,HE
WERE THROWING WHAT WEIGHT PAKISTAN HAS BEHIND THE ARAB CAUSE. IN
SHORT, HE WANTS USG OPINION AS TO WHETHER HE SHOULD PROCEED. TO SYRIA
OR WHETHER HE SHOULD RETURN HOME DIRECTLY FROM SAUDI ARABIA.
HIS,PRIDE WOULD NOT'PERMIT HIM TO PUT THE QUESTION-IN TERMS OF USG
APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL.
3. YOUR REPLY CAN BE'PASSED TO BHUTTO EITHER HERE OR VIA
MACOMBER IN ANKARA. HE SAYS. HE DOES NOT CARE WHICH. HE DEPARTS
TEHRAN AT 1400 LOCAL.OCTOBER 17, PROCEEDING FROM TURKEY TO SAUDI
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ARABIA OCTOBER 18.
4. THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN PASSED THROUGH MEq BECAUSE BHUTTO DID
NOT WANT TO DEAL WITH SOBER IN ISLAMABAD ON THIS KIND OF MATTER. HIS
REASONS CAN BE HANDLED SEPARATELY IN ANOTHER MESSAGE IF YOU NEED
THEM.
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