CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-506-7-80-4
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 80
• Publication Date: January 11, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/09/20: LOC-HAK-506-7-80-4
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TC1' LARRY.EAGLEAURGER'"FAR SEC KISSINGER ABOARD
R E T. SEN;SIt.IVE EYES ONLY
OEL IVER'.IN . EALEU, ENVE'UOPE. TO LARRY .EAGLEBURG
T01 HENRY A. KISSINGtR
F ROM: BRENT S`COWCROFT;
WITHOUT YOUR SFARKLI`IGWIT, STAFF MEETING THIS MORNING. WAS
A'.DESULTORY AFFAIR. TI,MMONS REPORTED THAT HIS COINGRESSIONAL
SOUNDINGS CONT_INUE 1O "INDICATE THAT THE BASIC ISSUE IN-THE HINTER-
LAND IS THE ENERGYCRISIS.AND THAT BY IN LARGE THE PEOPLE ARE
BLAMING THE OIL.,CQIPANIES. INFLATION IS THE NEXT MOSTrPR?MIWENT
EXPRESSER H"IS CIINCE.RN WITH SOME OF THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL
STATEMENTS AN`D ACYIVITIESs WHICH SEEM TQ BE RUNNING COMPLETELY
UNCOORDINATED WITH ?THE WHIT HIFUSE.; HE FEELS IT IS A SERI0uS
AND A GROW It4. PROBteM,:AND, WITH., THE "PRESIDENT AWAY, FORD, IS
BECOMING A SORT OF A Pi ES'IDENT IN ABSENTIA.
YOU WILL 'BY THIS TIME HAVE SEEN THE TRIBUNE AND STAR
,'SPYING' ART-ICL?ES AND N?TE0, THAT MOORER HAS DE:NI,ED ON THE
RECORD THAT HE HAD ANY DIPFICULTY' -OBTAINING IN`FORMATION,.
THROUGH-RMAL CHANNEL-S. I WILL NONETHELESS SPEAK WITH HIM
ALONG TH LINES CIF HAKT0 1,r ;WITH THE `THRUST BEING THAT WE.
MUST: ENS-IRE' THAT HIS, REBUTTAL' CONTINUES TO qE DISPLAYED
PROMINENTLY IN. ART;:rCLES ON' THE SUBJECT..
WARM REGARDS.
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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/09/20: LOC-HAK-506-7-80-4