CABLE TO SECRETARY KISSINGER FROM AMBASSADOR EILTS 152

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-260-1-34-4
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: May 13, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/06/29: LOC-HAK-260-1-34-4
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MAY 74 ZFF-?1 ZFF-4 ZYH
FM THE SITUATION ROOM
TO AMCONSUL JERUSALEM
S E C R E T SENSITIVE EXCLUSIVELY EYES ONLY
PLEASE DELIVER TO BREMER/RnDMAN FnR THE SECRETARY
TO: SECRETARY KISSINGER
FROM: AMBASSADOR SILTS 152
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1. RE YOUR QUERY, IT Is MY IMPRESSION THAT IT IS PRIMARILY
MARWAN WHO IS PUSHING FOR THE KUW4IT-GULF SHAIKHDOM SHOPS. HOWEVER'
APART FROM A KUWAIT SHOP WHICH FAHMY NOW THINKS UNDESIRABLE FOR
SECURITY REASONS' FAHMY' TOO, BELIEVES YOU SHOULD MAKE AN EFFORT
To STOP BRIEFLY IN BAHRAIN, QUTAR AND ABU DHABI. FAHMY'S
MAIN CONCERN SEEMS TO BE THE UPCOMING JUNE 1. OIL MINISTERS MEETING.
HE THINKS IT WILL BE EASIER TO MANAGE THE PARTICIPATING GULF
REPRESENTATIVES IF YOU HAVE BEEN BY THOSE STATES. I HAVE THE
FURTHER IMPRESSION THAT SAiAT SHARES FAHMY'S WORRY ABOUT
MANAGING THE OIL MINISTER CONFERENCE IN CAIRO, BUT THAT HE MORE THAN
FAHMY OR MARWAN WILL ACCEPT YOUR DECISION NnT TO GO. MARWAN HAS
INDEED ENGAGED SADAT'S PRESTIGE IN THIS MATTER' BUT I BELIEVE
THE PRESIDENT CAN EXPLAIN YOUR INABILITY TO GO AND CAN 00 So WITH
ONLY MINIMAL EMBARRASSMENT TO HIMSELF.
3. MARWAN LEFT FOR PARIS THIS MORNING AND
IS EXPECTED TO BE AWAY FOR 24 HOURS. HENCE, I CANNOT GET HIS
UPDATED ASSESSMENT OF THE SECURITY SITUATION UNTIL HE RETURNES
SOMETIME TOMARROW. AS OF 0230 THIS MORNING, HOWEVER, MARWAN
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
STILL STOUTLY INSITED THAT WITH EGYPTIAN SECURITY PEOPLE DEPLOYED
TO THE GULF STATES AND THE KUWAITI ARMY ON ALERT' THERE SHOULD BE
NO RPT NO SECURITY PROBLEM, I SUSPECT HE WILL CONTINUE TO STAND BY
THAT ASSESSMENT.
4. BELIEVE EGYPTIANS APPRECIATE THAT YOUR FIRST AND
OVERRIDING PRIORITY DURING CURRENT TRIP MUST BE DISENGAGEMENT
NEGOTIATIONS. THIS IS A PH.HINT THAT I HAVE REPEATEDLY MADE TO FAHMY
AND MARWAN AND THEY AGREE. AT THE SAME TIME THEY CONTINUE
To BELIEVE THAT' ONCE AGREEMENT IS REACHED ON A DISENGAGEMENT.
LINE, OTHERS OF YOUR STAFF CAN WORK OUT DETAILS, THEREBY PERMITTING
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YOU TO MAKE ONE DAY SWING TO GULF STATES, STOPPING ONLY AN HOUR
OR. TWO AT AIRPORT OF EACH STATE. I WILL, OF COURSE, CONTINUE TO
STRESS OVERRIDING IMPORTANCE OF DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT ANn
PRESSURE AT TIME CONSIDERATIONS WHICH YOU FACE.
5. ON BALANCE, WHILE AS INDICATED ABOVE AND IN MY PERTINENT
MESSAGE OF EARLIER TODAY, rGYPTIANS WOULD DFARLY LIKE YOU TO VISIT
GULF STATES AT THIS TIME, I AM ALSO CONFIDENT THEY WILL ACCEPT
YOUR, DECISION WITH ONLY MIr,'OR GRUMBLING. WILL AWAIT COPIES OF
LETTERS ALREADY SENT TO GULF-RULERS AND SUBMIT ANY FURTHER COMMENTS
THAT MIGHT BE USEFUL ONCE I HAVE SEEN LETTERS.
6. WARM REGARDS.
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