CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-259-1-105-7
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2009
• Sequence Number: 105
• Publication Date: December 22, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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TO AMEMPASSY GENEVA
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TO: LARRY EAGLEBURGER FOR THE SECRETARY. DELIVER AT OPENING OF
BUSINESS.
Tn: HENRY A. KISSINGER
FROM: BRENT SCOWCROFT
EXCEPT FOR A VERY SHORT DISCUSSION OF THE NEW COUNSEL FOR THE
IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE -- WHO
WAS PORTRAYED IN GENERALLY FAVORABLE TERMS --THE ENTIRE WHITE HOUSE
STAFF MEETING WAS DEVOTED TO A DISCUSSION OF THE EMERGENCY ENERGY
BILL WHICH HAD COME OUT OF CONFERENCE ON THURSDAY. IT HAD A NUMBER
OF BAD FEATURES IN IT AND THE DISCUSSION CENTERED ON THE EXTENT
Tn WHICH IT COULD BE CLEARED UP AND WHETHER OR NOT IT COULD BE
VETOED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. AS USUAL NO DECISION WAS REACHED.
(AS IT TURNED OUTS THE SENATE MADE ENOUGH REVISIONS IN THE CON-
FERENCE REPORT TO MAKE THE BILL ACCEPTABLE, PASSED ITs SENT IT TO
THE HOUSE AND ADJOURNED. AT LAST REPORTS THE HOUSE WAS STILL
STRUGGLING WITH IT.)
WHILE ALL WEEK THERE HAS BEEN DISCUSSION IN STAFF MEETINGS OF
DISCLOSURES WHICH WERE TO TAKE PLACE TODAY, THE "WHITE PAPERS"
WERE NOT RELEASED. THIS WAS APPARENTLY RON ZIEGLER'S BIG PROJECT
BUT THE PAPERS SEEMED NOT TO HAVE BEEN IN ACCEPTABLE CONDITIONS
WHEN THEY WERE PRODUCED LAST NIGHT.
AS I TOLD YOU ON THE PHONES YOUR CONFERENCE SPEECH WAS. REALLY
EXCELLENT. YOU SHOULD ALSO KNOW THAT YOUR ARRIVAL REMARKS PRODUCED
A WARM GLOW ALL AROUND HERE.
OINITZ HAS RETURNED AND IS REQUESTING TO SEE YOU EITHER SUNDAY
OR MONDAY,
SIMON AND SCHLESINGER ARE NOW HAVING A GREAT FIGHT IN THE PRESS.
SIMON BEGAN BY GOING PUBLIC WITH STATEMENTS THAT DEFENSE WOULD
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HAVE TO HELP THE U.S. INTERNATIONAL CIVILIAN AIRLINES WITH FUEL
AND THAT IT MIGHT BE NECESSARY TO CUT WAR RESERVES OF FUEL TO 95
PERCENT. SCHLESINGER WAS FURIOUS AT THE LACK OF CONSULTATION AND
JERRY FREIDHEIM IN HIS PRESS BRIEFING THIS MORNING IN ESSENCE SAID
THAT THE SIMON'S GROUP HAD THEIR DATA ALL WRONG. ENERGY HAS BEEN
A COMPLETE DISASTER AREA AROUND HERE FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS.
THE PRESIDENT HAD A PRIVATE DAY TODAY. HAIG SPENT ALOT OP TIME
WITH HIM DISCUSSING THE "WHITE PAPERS" AND THE ENERGY PROBLEM.
THERE NOW SEEMS TO BE SOME SLIGHT QUESTION ABOUT THE PRESIDENT
GOING TO FLORIDAs ALTHOUGH THE INDICATIONS STILL ARE THAT HF WILL
GO.
WARM REGARDS,
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