ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-550-1-22-5
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: July 9, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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FM THE SITUATION ROOM //TOHAK049//
TO BREMER/RODMAN FOR DR. KISSINGER
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T 0 P S E C R E T SENSITIVE CONTAINS CODEWORD VIA BLACK PATCH WH42422
MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARY KISSINGER
FROM: THE SITUATION ROOM
SUBJECT: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ITEMS
JULY 9, 1974
SOVIET U-CLASS SUBMARINE CONSTRUCTION: SATELLITE PHOTOGRAPHY
SHOWS THAT THE SOVIETS ARE FITTING OUT THEIR SECOND
U-CLASS NUCLEAR-POWERED ATTACK SUBMARINE AT THE SEVERODVINSK
SHIPYARD ON THE WHITE SEA. THE U-CLASS IS A 30-FOOT-LONGER VER-
SION OF THE V-CLASS SUBMARINE. THE SECOND U-CLASS UNIT, BUILT
AT THE GORKIY SHIPYARD ON THE VOLGA, RIVER, WAS MOVED TO SEVEROD-
VINSK AFTER BEING LAUNCHED LATE LAST WINTER. IT COULD BE OPERA-
TIONAL BY LATE THIS YEAR. THE FIRST U-CLASS SUBMARINE WAS INI-
TIALLY SIGHTED IN THE BARENTS SEA IN THE SPRING OF 1973 AND IS
NOW OPERATING WITH THE NORTHERN FLEET.
B H ALGERIA
AND ABU HAVE APPROACHED CAIRO EXPRESSING INTEREST IN
HELPING EGYPT TO IMPROVE RELATIONS WITH IRAQ. THE ALGERIAN AP-
PROACH PRECEDED IRAQI VICE PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN'S VISIT TO
ALGERIA AND THE SUGGESTION WAS MADE THAT BOUMEDIENE WANTED TO
BE IN A POSITION TO GIVE A POSITIVE SIGNAL FROM CAIRO DURING
THAT VISIT. PRESIDENT SADAT POLITELY
TURNED THE St ULE UI0N ASIDE, INDICATING THAT CAIRO DOES BETTER
IGNORING IRAQ THAN TRYING TO NEUTRALIZE ITS HIGHLY CRITICAL
POLICIES. A SIMILAR RESPONSE WAS CONVEYED TO ABU DHABI WITH
SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE FACT THAT, AT A MINIMUM, THE CESSATION
OF ANTI-EGYPTIAN IRAQI PROPAGANDA WOULD BE A PRECONDITION TO A
MORE POSITIVE RESPONSE BY CAIRO. (NIEHUSS/QUAWDT)
PODGORNY STOPOVER IN EGYPT: CHAIRMAN PODGORNY'S BRIEF TOUCH-
DOWN IN LUXOR AIRPORT YESTERDAY -- EN ROUTE TO SOMALIA FOR AN
OFFICIAL VISIT -- PROVIDED THE OCCASION FOR PUBLICITY FOR THE
SOVIETS. HIS MESSAGE OF FRIENDSHIP ON ENTERING.EGYPTIAN AIR-
SPACE WAS REPLAYED I N THE CAIRO MEDIA. THE LOCAL GOVERNOR
GREETED PODGORNY, BUT THERE WERE NO REPORTS OF ANY OTHER HIGH-
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LEVEL EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS PRESENT. SOVIET MEDIA DESCRIBED POD-
GORNY'S AIRPORT RECEPTION AS PREPARED BY EGYPT "ON BEHALF OF
PRESIDENT SADAT." (NIEHUSS/QUANDT)
U. S. FACILITATES JORDAN/YEMEN MILITARY AID: STATE AND DEFENSE
WERE ABLE TO DEVELOP A POSITIVE RESPONSE OVER THE WEEKEND TO
JORDAN'S REQUEST TO TRANSFER U.S.-ORIGIN AMMUNITION FROM JOR-
DANIAN STOCKS TO NORTH YEMEN ON AN EMERGENCY BASIS. KING HUS-
SEIN IS BEING SO INFORMED. THIS ACTION WAS TAKEN IN RESPONSE
TO AN URGENT REQUEST FROM YEMENI PRESIDENT HAMDI LAST THURSDAY,
WHO ALSO INDICATED TO THE JORDANIANS THAT ME PLANS TO REPLACE
ALL REMAINING SOVIET MILITARY ADVISORS WITH JORDANIANS AND WILL
SEEK COMPREHENSIVE AID FROM THE SAUDIS FOR RE-EQUIPPING YEMEN'S
ARMED FORCES. HAMDI IS NOW IN SAUDI ARABIA FOR THAT PURPOSE.
(NI EHUSS/ QUANDT)
GREEK FOREIGN MINISTRY RESIGNATIONS: GREEK FOREIGN MINISTER
TETENES, FOLLOWING THE STEPS OF HIS TWO TOP AIDES OVER THE
WEEKEND, RESIGNED YESTERDAY FOR WHAT THE ATHENS REGIME DESCRIBED
AS REASONS OF HEALTH (HE HAS HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE).
ALTHOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN RUMORS THAT THE REGIME DID NOT CONSIDER
TETENES AN OUTSTANDING FOREIGN MINISTER, THERE HAS ALSO BEEN
AMPLE SPECULATION THAT TETENES IS DISMAYED WITH THE JUNTA'S IN-
FLEXIBLE POSITIONS ON THE AEGEAN DISPUTE WITH TURKEY AND ON THE
CYPRUS PROBLEM AND WITH THE MILITARY'S INCREASING INVOLVEMENT
IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS. TETENES HAS BEEN THE MAIN ADVOCATE OF FLEX-
IBILITY TOWARD TURKEY AND CYPRUS BUT, AS FOREIGN MINISTER, HAS
HAD A VERY SHORT LEASH. FOLLOWING THE POSITIVE ATMOSPHERE
TETENES GENERATED IN TALKS IN OTTAWA WITH THE TURKISH FOREIGN
MINISTER, THE JUNTA'S HAND-PICKED PRIME MINISTER ANDROUTSOPOULOS
TURNED ASIDE TURKISH PROPOSALS FOR NEGOTIATIONS IN HIS TALKS IN
BRUSSELS. ON CYPRUS, THE REGIME HAS DONE LITTLE TO DISCOURAGE
A CONFRONTATION WITH MAKARIOS OVER THE NATIONAL GUARD ISSUE AND
GRIVASITE VIOLENCE.
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SOPOULOS' VIEWS SUGGESTS THAT ATHENS MAY TRY TO WORK OUT A COM-
PROMISE ON MAKARIOS' PLANS TO REDUCE THE GUARD -- INVOKING THE
ARGUMENT THAT "HELLENIC" RANKS MUST REMAIN STRONG DURING A PERIOD
OF TENSION WITH TURKEY -- AND THUS AVOID AT LEAST A SHORT-TERM
RISIS ON THAT ISSUE. (NIEHUSS)
KHMER REPUBLIC TO EXTEND OFFER OF UNCONDITIONAL NEGOTIATIONS: EM-
BASSY PHNOM PENH REPORTS THAT 'TODAY MARSHA
MLON NOL WILL PUBLICLY
OFFER UNCONDITIONAL NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE OTHER SIDE TO SOLVE THE
CAMBODIAN PROBLEM. THIS STATEMENT, BASED ON AMBASSADOR DEAN'S
PROPOSAL OF JUNE 24, IS INTER ALIA INTENDED TO GENERATE INTER-
NATIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE PHNOM PENH GOVERNMENT AND AID THEM IN
RETAINING THEIR SEAT AT THE UNITED NATIONS THIS FALL. THE STATE
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DEPARTMENT WILL SAY THAT THE U.S. WELCOMES THIS EFFORT BY GKR IN
RESPONSE TO ANY PRESS INQUIRIES. STATE IS ALSO URGING POSTS IN
COUNTRIES WHERE GKR IS REPRESENTED TO ENCOURAGE CAMBODIAN OFFI-
CIALS TO SOLICIT SUPPORTING STATEMENTS FROM HOST GOVERNMENTS.
( GUJINN/STEARMAN)
BOLIVIA--NEW CABINET AND ELECTIONS: ACCORDING TO A PRESS REPORT,
OFFICIAL SOURCES HAVE CONFIRMED RUMORS THAT PRESIDENT BANZER
WILL ANNOUNCE SHORTLY A NEW ALL-MILITARY CABINET AND THE HE WILL
CALL FOR NATIONAL ELECTIONS WITHIN A YEAR. SUBSECRETARIAL POSTS
WILL BE FILLED BY CIVILIANS AND A SPECIAL ADVISORY BODY COMPOSED
OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE MILITARY WILL
BE SET UP TO RETAIN SOME SEMBLANCE OF THE CURRENT GOVERNING PO-
LITICBRKMPCSLITION. BANZER WILL ALSO REPORTEDLY ANNOUNCE AN IN-
CREASE IN MILITARY PAY SCALES AND ALLOWANCES. SINCE THE ABORTIVE
JUNE 5 MILITARY COUP ATTEMPT, BANZER HAS BEEN SEEKING SOME MEANS
TO RESTORE MILITARY UNITY AND SHORE UP SUPPORT FOR HIS GOVERNMENT.
HE HELD MEETINGS OVER THE WEEKEND WITH THE, MILITARY HIGH COMMAND,
THE CABINET MINISTERS AND LEADERS OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES. ALL
APPARENTLY HAVE AGREED TO THE NEW PLAN, WHICH COULD ENABLE BANZER
TO STAY IN OFFICE AT LEAST FOR THE TIME BEING. (LOW)
SIMLA PROCESS -- INDIA ON PAKISTAN: INDIAN FOREIGN SECRETARY
KEWAL SINGH (IN SWARAN SI NGH' S ABSENCE) REACTED VERY POSITIVELY
TO WORD PASSED THROUGH U.S. CHANNELS THAT PRIME MINISTER BHUTTO
REMAINS INTERESTED IN A CONTINUANCE OF THE SIMLA PROCESS DESPITE
THE TEMPORARY SETBACK FOLLOWING INDIA'S NUCLEAR EXPLOSION. KEW AL
SINGH SAID HE APPRECIATED THE CONSTRUCTIVE INTEREST OF THE U.S.
I N SEEING THIS PROCESS MOVE FORWARD AND THEN EXPANDED ON INDIA'S
OUTLOOK, SAYING THAT INDIA VERY MUCH DESIRED RENEWED CONSULTATIONS
WITH PAKISTAN AND WAS READY FOR NEW TALKS WHENEVER ISLAMABAD
WANTED TO BEGIN. SINGH SAID HE WOULD BE PASSING THE MESSAGE
OF BHUTTO'S INTENTIONS ON TO MRS.- GANDHI AND FOREIGN MINISTER
SINGH. (NIEHUSS/APPELBAUM)
GUINEA-BISSAU IN THE UNITED NATIONS: SECRETARY GENERAL WALDHEIM
HAS TOLD SCALI, IN GENEVA, THAT WHEN HE RETURNS TO NEW YORK TO-
DAY HE EXPECTS A PLEA FROM THE GUINEA-BISSAU REPRESENTATIVE FOR
AN EARLY SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON UN MEMBERSHIP. WALDHEIM
PLANS TO SIDESTEP THE REQUEST USING AS AN EXCUSE HIS TRIP TO
LISBON TO DISCUSS THE PORTUGUESE DECOLONIZATION OF ITS AFRICAN
TERRITORIES. WALDHEIM CONFIRMED THAT HIS VISIT TO LISBON IS
SET FOR JULY 25-26. SOARES HAS TOLD WALDHEIM THAT HE WANTS HIM
TO GIVE SPINOLA A REALISTIC ASSESSMENT OF WORLD FACTORS SUR-
ROUNDING THE QUESTION OF PORTUGUESE TERRITORIES, COUNTERING
WHAT SOARES CHARACTERIZED AS THE MANY DIFFERENT VIEWS IN THE
JUNTA ON PORTUGAL'S AFRICAN POLICY.
AFTER HIS VISIT TO LISBON, THE SECRETARY GENERAL TENTATIVELY PLANS
A 10-DAY VACATION IN SALZBURG PRIOR TO RETURNING TO NEW YORK.
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