MEMO TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-506-7-93-0
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 93
• Publication Date: January 14, 1974
• Content Type: MEMO

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1974
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Henry A. Kissinger
Brent Scowcroft
1. With regard to the subject of HAKTO 15, the following things
are happening:
(a) The Press Office is gathering a list of each and every
allegation which has been made in the "spy case. " That list will then
be reviewed and decisions made on which allegations should receive
a goo-iWe response and what that response should be. The list of
allegations should be complete within a couple of hours, and I will
send them to you immediately for any suggestions you may have.
The proposed response will also be checked with you before release.
(b) Haig directed at Staff Meeting this morning that interviews
with the press we%4d be reported beforehand to the Press Office and
that there would be no repeat no backgrounding without explicit prior
approval.
2. I have an appointment with McNamara for 5:00 p.m. this
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3. I have spoken with Buzhardt about this whole issue. He, as
you know, ran the Defense part of the investigation into the case. He
said that you would never know that his report and Young's report
even dealt with the same case. Young's report inflated the issue
drastically, giving a strong "7 days in May" flavor to it. Young's
motivation, according to Buzhardt, is to make a grand national
conspiracy out of the case and then to show that he, Young, solved
it. In Buzhardt's opinion, the great bulk of the source stories have
come from Ehrlichrnan and Young and he thinks both of them have been
very active. (I also think Laird has been participating, but I cannot
in any way document that. )
4. It is possible that the story about the tap on Laird's office
is a gar Ue or confusion over the Pursley tap. There is absolutely
no connection, of course. The Pursley tap was reinstituted on
May 2, 1970 and terminated in February 19714along with all
the others.
5. Your press comments have so far not repeat not appeared
. anywhere in the press, but Janka says that the radio last evening
reported your "vicious, malicious, outrageous lie statement. Will
keep you posted.
Warm regards.
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