CABLE TO HENRY KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-258-6-86-5
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 86
• Publication Date: December 9, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/01/04: LOC-HAK-258-6-86-5
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DEC 73 ZYH ZF,F 1 ZFF 4
FM THE SITUATION ROOM TOHA'12
TO AMEMBASSY BRUSSELS
S E C R E T EYES ONLY WH37494
TO LARRY EAGLEBURGER FOR SECRETARY KISSINGER
To: SECRETARY KISSINGER
FROM: BRENT SCOWCRDFT
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE INSTRUCTIONS
APPLY
1. Dr YOU WISH TOSEC 14 TO BE PASSED TO THE PRESIDENT?
DINITZ HAS STILL NOT RETURNED, BUT I WILL GET TO HIM SOONEST.
3. TIMES HAS NOT YET ARRIVED, BUT POST AND STAR ARE FULL OF
ARTICLES PICKING APART THE PRESIDENT'S FINANCIAL REPORTS RELEASED
LAST NIGHT. THE POST HAS AN,ARTICLE BY LAWRENCE STERN ABOUT'THE
NRO AND THE ENORMOUS. AMOUNTS OF MONEY SPENT IN THIS "SUPER SECRET"
PROGRAM VIRTUALLY WITHOUT CONTROLS. SY HERSH BEGINS A SERIES IN`THE
STAR ON THE "WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS," I WILL HAVE THE TEXT SENT
SEPARATELY, BUT THE ARTICLE POINTS OUT THAT YOU "PLAYED A FAR MORE
CRITICAL ROLE THAN PUBLICLY KNOWN" IN THE INVESTIGATION INTO
ELLSBURG AND THE SETTING UP OF THE PLUMBERS. YOU WERE REPORTEDLY
"LITERALLY CLIMBING THE WALLS" WHEN THE PENTAGON PAPERS WERE
PUBLISHED BECAUSE OF YOUR CONCERN NOT ABOUT THE PAPERS BUT FOR THE
OTHER CLASSIFIED INFORMATION WHICH ELLSBURG POSSESSED. THERE IS A
BACKGROUNDER BY JEREMY O'LE,ARY FROM BRUSSELS DESCRIBING IN MORE DETAIL
THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE OCTOBER 24 ALERT. ON THE EDITORIAL
WITHDRAWAL NEEDN'T BE TOTAL. "JOE KRAFT DEPLORES THE LACK OF
U.S.-EUROPEAN COOPERATION ON ENERGY, STEMMING, HE SAYS, ON THE
EUROPEAN SIDE FROM THEIR HANG UP ABOUT THE U.S. AS.A "MA:LEVOLENT
SUPER POWER"" AND, ON THE U.S. SIDES" FROM PETTY PERSONAL AIMS BEING
PURSUED BY YOU, SHULTZ, AND SCHLESINGER. HE POINTS OUT YOU WERE
So UPSET WITH THE CRITICAL HEATH SPEECH THAT YOU THREATENED TO
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S E C R E T COpy
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CANCEL AN APPEARANCE IN LONDON, AND THAT YOU HAD THE ABILITY TO
SURMOUNT THESE U.S.-EUROPEAN DIFFERENCES, BUT YOU THUS -PAR HAD
SHOWN Nn SIGN "OF SUCH A LARGE PURPOSE." EVANS AND NOVAK DESCRIBE
WHAT THEY CALL A BITTER BATTLE BETWEEN ASH AND SIMON/SHULTZ OVER
CONTROL OF ENERGY MATTERS. DAVID BROADER DESCRIBES THE ENORMOUS
ACCUMULATION OF POWER BY SHULTZ, CAPPED BY MOVING ""HIS MAN"" IN AS
BnSS OF THE ENERGY PROGRAM.
4. WARM REGARDS.
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