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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
LOC-HAK-549-3-39-7
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RIPLIM
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T
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3
Document Creation Date: 
January 11, 2017
Document Release Date: 
May 3, 2011
Sequence Number: 
39
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Publication Date: 
April 16, 1974
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CABLE
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t'- __"' "'A' at_ ? af-I No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/05/03: LOC-HAK-549-3-39-7 V V ******* T 0 P S E C R E T *******S COPY OP I M M E'D DE WTE #1764 1060933 0 160535Z APR 74 FM THE SITUATION ROOM //TOHAK07// TO JERRYBREMER FOR SEC. KISSINGER T 0 P S E C R E T SENSITIVE CONTAINS CODEWORD VIA BLACK PATCH WH40978 TOHAK07 TOP SECRET-SENSITIVE CONTAINS CODEWORD APRIL 16s 1974 MEMORANnUM FOR SECRETARY KISSINGER FROM: THE SITUATION ROOM SUBJECT: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ITEMS MIDDLE FAST SITUATION: BY CONTRAST TO THE HEAVY GROUND AND AIR ACTIVITY ON THE ISRAELI/SYRIAN FRONT OVER THE WEEKEND, INCInENTS ON THAT FRONT APPEAR TO HAVE TAPERED OFF YESTERDAY AND WERE CON- FINED LARGELY TO GROUND ACTION, AGAIN MAINLY IN THE MOUNT HERMON AREA. IN ISRAEL' THE'POLITICAL SITUATION REMAINS FLUID, WITH OUR EMBASSY SUGGESTING THAT DEVFLfPMENTS POINT INCREASINGLY TOWARDS NFW ELECTIONS IN LATE OCTOBER. THE LABOR ALIGNMENT HAS REQUESTED MORE TIME -- UP TO TWO WEEKS -- TO DECIDE ON ITS POSITION ON THE FORMATION OF A NEW GOVERNMENT, WHILE RIGHTIST OPPOSITION PARTIES LIKUD AND THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS PARTY CONTINUE URGING THE EARLY FORMATION OF A NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT. OUR EMBASSY HAS nES- CRIBED THE CURRENT RANGE OP OPTIONS AS FOLLOWS: -- CONTINUATION OF THE PRESENT CARETAKER GOVERNMENT IF MRS. MEIR AGREES, WITH A POSSIBLE CABINET RESHUFFLE, AND THE HOLDING OF NEW ELECTIONS IN OCTOBER; -~ THE FORMATION OP A NEW INTERIM GOVERNMENT ON THE BASIS OF THE PRESENT OR A NEW COALITION, WITH ELECTIONS IN OCTOBER; AND THE FORMATION OF A NEW PERMANENT GOVERNMENT NOW. State Dept., NSA reviews completed ACCORDING TO AMBASSADOR KEATING, TALK IS CURRENTLY CENTERING ON * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *WHSR COMMENT * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * SFCFILE PSN:011B02 PAGE 01 TOR-106/05".31Z DTG:16n535Z APR 74 ******* T 0 P S E C R E T *******S COPY No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/05/03: LOC-HAK-549-3-39-7 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/05/03: LOC-HAK-549-3-39-7 ******* r 0 P S E C R F T *******S COPY THE FIRST TWO OPTIONS, ESPECIALLY SINCE FINANCE MINISTER SAPIR HAS APPARENTLY REFUSED TO TRY TO LEAD A CABINET, (NIEHUSS/QUANnT) NnRTH KOREA TRIES ROMANIAN CHANNEL WITH LETTER TO CONGRESS:', IN ADDITION To TRYING TO DELIVER A LETTER FROM THEIR PARLIAMENT TO OUR CONGRESS THROUGH OUR UN MISSION, NORTH KOREA HAS ALSO ATTEMPTED TO TRANSMIT THE LETTER THROUGH THE ROMANIAN GOVERNMENT. (WE REJECTED THE NORTH KOREAN APPROACH IN NEW YORK.) STATE HAS INSTRUCTED OUR EMBASSY IN BUCHAREST TO INFORM THE RnMANIANS THAT WE WOULD BE PREPARFD TO TRANSMIT THE SEALED MES- SAGE FROM THEIR EMBASSY HE~',E TO THE CONGRESS, JUST AS WE DID LAST YEAR. OUR EMBASSY WOULD AnD THAT WE HAVE NO INTENTION OF BECOMING INVOLVED IN ANY COMMUNICATIONS WITH NORTH KOREA. WE SUGGESTED TO STATE (f4)- WHICH WAS INCLINED TOWARD THIS COIJR.SE IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE THE ROMANIANS, THAT OUR EMBASSY ALSO IN- FORM THE ROMANIANS THAT WE WERE DnING THIS AS A FAVOR TO THEM IN THIS INSTANCE, BUT THAT WE EXPECTED THEM NOT TO PUT US IN THIS POSITION AGAIN. THE MESSAGE, YOU MAY RECALL, HOLDS THAT KOREAN UNIFICATION +.,iILL BE POSSIBLE ONLY WHEN U.S. INTERFERENCE IN KOREA IS ENDED, AND PR. POSES THAT WE NEGOTIATE DIRECTLY WITH NORTH KOREA A PEACP TREATY TO REPLACE THE ARMISTICE AGREEMENT. (FROEBE) OPPOSITION TO PAK GOVERNMENT CONTINUES: OFFICIALS OF THE SOUTH KnRFAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES APPEAR RESOLVED TO CONTINUE THEIR OP- PfSITION TO THE PAK CHONG-HUI GOVERNMENT DESPITE STERN WARNINGS BY THE AUTHORITIES. APPROXIMATELY 20 OFFICIALS OF THE COUNCIL P5N:O11802 PAGE 02 TO?R:106/05:31Z DTG:16^5352 APR 74 ******* T 0 P S E C R E T *******S COPY No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/05/03: LOC-HAK-549-3-39-7 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/05/03: LOC-HAK-549-3-39-7 ******* T 0 P S E C R E T *******S COPY MET ON APRIL 12 TO DRAFT A STATEMENT CRITICIZING THE PAK GOVERN- MENT FOR "OPPRESSIVE RULE." THIS ACTION MAY HAVE BEEN STIMULATED IN PART BY THE FACT THAT THE BOARD OF GLOBAL MINISTRIES OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN NEW YORK HAS ALSO PREPARED A STATEMENT TERMING THE PAK REGIME AS ,INCREASINGLY TOTALITARIAN AND DICTA- TORIAL."" THE NEW YORK STATEMENT ALSO APPEALS TO THE PRESInFNT T[1 MAKE CLEAR, HIS DISPLEASURE WITH THE SOUTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT. TOP SECRET-SENSITIVE CONTr.,.INS CODEWORD PSN:011802 PAGE 01, OF 03 TOR:106/05:31Z D.TG:16n535Z APR 74 ******* r 0 P S E C R E T *******S COPY No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/05/03: LOC-HAK-549-3-39-7