CABLE TO SECRETARY KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-261-7-5-9
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 29, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection To Declassification 2009/09/23 LOC-HAK-261-7-5-9
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Z 291745Z OCT 74 ZFF- I ZYH
FM THE SITUATION ROOM
TO AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI
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C O N F I D E N T I A L EYES ONLY
TOHAK 66
PLEASE PASS TO GOMPERT/BREMER FOR THE SECRETARY
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TO: SECRETARY KISSINGER
FROM: BRENT SCOWCROFT
1. FOR HIS IMPROMPTU PRESS CONFERENCE, THE PRESIDENT
WALKED INTO THE PRESS ROOM. RATHER THAN HOLDING IT' I N THE
OVAL OFFICE. ON THE WHOLE, HE DID VERY WELL AND CAME ACROSS
IN. A VERY POSITIVE COMPETENT FASHION. WE WILL-SEND YOU THE
FOREIGN POLICY'PORTIONS AS SOON AS THE TRANSCRIPT IS COM-
PLETED. ONE OF THE FIRST QUESTIONS HE GOT, HOWEVER, WAS
ON' THE RABAT SUMMIT AND THE PLO. (I HAD GIVEN HIM THE
BASICALLY "NO COMMENT" LANGUAGE I OUTLINED IN TOHAK 64.)
THE PRESIDENT'S ANSWER IS AS FOLLOWS:
QUESTION: MR. PRESIDENT, I HAVE A ,TWO-PART QUESTION
ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
NUMBER ONE, IN THE EMERGENCE OF THE PLO IN THE MIDDLE
EAST, HOW DOES THIS AFFECT OUR POSITION REGARDING THE MID-
DLE EAST?
AND THE SECOND PART, ALSO ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, NEGATIVE
REPORTS OUT OF JAPAN AND ANTI-AMERICAN FEELINGS AND ITEMS
LIKE THAT, WHETHER YOU ARE RECONSIDERING GOING TO JAPAN.
THE PR SIDENT: LET ME ANSWER THE SECOND QUESTION FIRST.
NO DEVELOPMENTS IN JAPAN HAVE CHANGED MY ATTITUDE. I
INTEND TO GO TO JAPPAN, AS HAS BEEN PLANNED FOR SOME TIME.
THE DECISION BY THE ARAB NATIONS TO TURN OVER THE
NEGOTIATING FOR THE WEST BANK TO THE PLO MAY OR MAY NOT --
AT THIS STAGE WE AREN'T CERTAIN WHAT IMPACT IT WILL HAVE
ON OUR ROLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
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WE, OF COURSE, FEEL THAT THERE MUST BE MOVEMENT TOWARDS
SETTLEMENT OF THE PROBLEMS BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT ON THE
ONE HAND, BETWEEN ISRAEL AND JORDAN OR THE PLO ON THE OTHER,
AND THE PROBLEMS BETWEEN ISRAEL AND SYRIA IN THE OTHER CATE-
GORY.
WE HAVE NOT HAD AN OPPORTUNITY YET TO MAKE ANY FIRM DECI-
SION, ON WHAT IMPACT THERE WILL BE. FROM THAT ARAB DECISION. I
CAN ONLY SAY THAT WE THINK IT IS OF MAXIMUM IMPORTANCE THAT
CONTINUED MOVEMENT' TOWARD PEACE ON A JUSTIFIABLE BASIS IN THE,
MIDDLE EAST IS VITAL TO THAT AREA OF THE WORLD, AND PROBABLY
TO THE WORLD AS A WHOLE.
2. SISCO JUST CALLED TO TELL ME'THAT HE HAS TOLD JOHN KING
TO MAKE ABSOLUTELY NO COMMENT TODAY.
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