MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-168-5-39-8
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: December 29, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/27: LOC-HAK-168-5-39-8 = Q)44
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S E C R E I AMMAN 6324
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TAGS: PFOR, JO, SY9 IS
SUBJECT: NESSAGE FrROt-l SECRETARY
REF: STATE 252146
1. WHEN I DELIVERED SECRETARY'S MESSAGE TO PM RIFAI TODAY,
HE REFERRED TO REPORTED ISRAELI TROOP CONCENTRATIONS ON
JORDAN'S BCADER AND COMMENTED THAT HE SEEMED TO BE ONLY ONE
AMONG JORDAN'S LEADERS WHO DID NOT BELIEVE THAT ISRAEL *AS
ABOUT TO ATTACK JORDAN.
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2. RIFAI ADDED THAT HE WAS ALSO A;';ONG VERY FEW WHO DID NOT
.BELIEVE THAT SYRIA WOULD RESUME HOSTILITIES ON SYRIAN-ISRAELI
FRONT 41THI,N NEXT FE'W DAYS. HE SAID HIS TALK WITH A-AD ON
DEC-"- .3ER 26 IN DAMASCUS HAD CONVINCEi HIM THAT SYRIA WAS NOT
CO 'TE'iPLATING RENEWAL OF HOSTILITIES IN IMMEDIATE FUTURE..
3. ` COQ^,MENT ~~
I S t? rt DURING
HIS TALK WITH ASAD, RIVAL MIGHT HAVE GIVEN SOME ASSURANCES
THAT JORDANIAN TROOPS WOULD RE''-AItN IN SYRIA. FACT THAT HE
WAS OV.HRJLED ON THIS POINT HAS RESULTED IN LOSS OF FACE AND 4ILL
UNDOUBTEDLY MIAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO MUNTAIN
WORKING RELATIONS WWII- ASAD ON OTHER ISSUES, INCLUDING SYRIA'S
PARTICIPATION IN GENEVA CONFERENCE. GRAHAM
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