CABLE TO AMCONSUL JERUSALEM FROM THE SITUATION ROOM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-260-2-34-3
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2010
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: May 20, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/12/08: LOC-HAK-260-2-34-3
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FM THE SITUATION ROOM
TO AMCONSUL JERUSALEM
S E C R E T SENSITIVE EYES'ONLY
TOHAK255
PLEASE DELIVER TO BREMER / RODMAN FOR THE SECRETARY
MAY 20, 1974
TO: JERRY BREMER/PETER RODMAN FOR SECRETARY KISSINGER
FROM: BRENT SCOWCROFT
1. THE PRESIDENT CALLED TO ASK WHAT YOUR CURRENT THOUGHTS
WERE ON THE PROSPECTS FOR HIS TRIP TO THE MIDDLE EAST.
I SAID THAT YOU HAD NOT COMMENTED SPECIFICALLY ON THAT OVER
THE WEEKEND BUTs SINCE YOU HAD NOT RULED OUT A TRIP EVEN
WHEN PROSPECTS SEEMED MOST DOUBTFUL, I ASSUMED IF YOU WERE
TO GET AN AGREEMENT YOU WOULD BE VERY FAVORABLY DISPOSED TOWARD ATRIP.
2, THE PRESIDENT SAID HE ASSUMED LIKEWISE AND SAID WE
SHOULD PROBABLY START'THINKING ABOUT SUCH THINGS AS TIMING
AND ITINERARY. HE SUGGESTED THAT A TRIP PROBABLY SHOULD
COME AS EARLY AS"WE COULD ARRANGE IT IN JUNE SO AS NOT
To BE BACK TO BACK WITH THE SOVIET TRIP. WITH REGARD TO
COUNTRIES TO BE VISITED, HF SAID IT MIGHT NOT BE POSSIBLE
TO DO EVERYTHING WE WOULD LIKE TO, GIVEN THE CONSTRAINTS.
OF TIME. THE COUNTRIES HE MENTIONED WERE EGYPTs ISRAEL'
SAUDI ARABIA, JORDAN, MOROCCO, AND PERHAPS ALGERIA AND SUDAN.
IN MENTIONING THESE STOPSs HE WAS OBVIOUSLY ONLY REFLECTING
ON POSSIBILITIES, NOT LAYING OUT AND ITINERARY.
3. ASSUMING YOU THINK THE TRIP IS MANAGEABLE, WE WILL HAVE
HORRENDOUS LOGISTICS PROBLEMS MOUNTING IT IN THE LIMITED
TIME AVAILABLE' ESPECIALLY COMING AS IT WILL IN THE SAME TIME
FRAME AS THE SOVIET VISIT. FOR EXAMPLES WE ARE ALREADY REACHING THE
TIME WE SHOULD BE SENDING A PRE-ADVANCE TRIP TO THE SOVIET
UNION,.ASSUMING THE JUNE 24 DATE IS FIRM.
4. ANY THOUGHTS YOU HAVE WOULD BE APPRECIATED, ESPECIALLY
SOMETHING I CAN TELL THE PRESIDENT TO KEEP HIM CONTENTED. ANY PLANN
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WE COULD DO WOULD ALSO BE HELPFUL, ALTHOUGHI THINK WE NEED
TO HOLD CLOSELY ANY MENTION OF A PRESIDENTIAL TRIP UNTIL YOU
RETURN AND MEET WITH THE PRESIDENT..
5. HAIG JUST CALLED TO.SAY THAT THE PRESIDENT IS INTERESTED
IN A JOINT LEADERSHIP MEETING IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING YOUR
RETURN, PERHAPS NEXT MONDAY (I SEE NOW MONDAY'IS A HOLIDAY,
So WE PROBABLY WOULD NOT HAVE ANY CONGRESSMEN TN TOWN).
HE ALSO ASKED WHAT YOUR THINKING WAS ABOUT A TRIP AND EMPHASIZED
HOLDING ANY MENTION OF A TRIP CLOSELY UNTIL YOU RETURN AND
TALK TO THE PRESIDENT ABOUT IT.
WARM REGARDS.
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