CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-506-7-97-6
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 97
• Publication Date: January 14, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/09/20: LOC-HAK-506-7-97-6
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In LARRY EAGLEBURGER FOR SFC. KISSINGGER
DELIVER AT OPENING OF BUSINESS
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JANUARY 14, 1974
To: HENRY A. KISSINGER
FROM: BRENT SCOWCROFT
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
I. I HAD A LONG CONVERSATION WITH MCNAMARA. HE WAS
SURPRISINGLY. WELL INFORMED ON ALL OF THE PRFSS STORIES WHICH HAD
APPEARED AND ALSO HAD APPARENTLY ACQUIRED SOME INFORMATION c,~ACK
AROUND THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT ITSELF. AFTFR CONSIDERABLE FXCHAN'GE,
MCNAMARA FELT THAT THE ONLY PUBLIC STATEMENT WHICH WOULD 8c APPRO-
PRIATE TO MAKE AT THIS T I MF. WOUL D BE FOR YOU TO SAY THAT Tht T S WAS A
MATTER DESERVING A FULL INQUIRY AND THAT WHTLF YOU WERE NOT ACQUAINT-
En WITH ALL ASPECTS OF THE MATTER, YOU WOUL~l COOPERATE IN SUCH AN IN-
QUIRY. HE POINTED OUT THAT WHETHER OR NOT THIS WAS PRUDENT WOULD DEPEND
.ON THE PRESIDENT'S ATTITUDE= TOWARD CALLING (-OR AN INQUIRY. I' EX-
PLAINED THAT STENN I S WAS PREPARED TO TAKE JURISDICTION TO H!r AI) OFF
AN INQUIRY BY ANY OTHER 8(Of)Y, BUT THAT NO DFCISION HAD BEEN MADE ON
SEEKING AN INQUIRY. OTHER THAN THE POSSIBILITY OF-THAT SORT OF A
STATEMENT, MCNAMARA DID NOT FEEL YOU SHOULD MAKE ANY PUBLIC STATEMENT.
.A BACKGROUND STATEMENT HE FELT WOULD BE UNWISE IN THAT IT wr1ULD
FURTHER STIMULATE THE ISSUE AND PROLONG ITS LIFE IN THE PRESS.
FUNDAMENTALLY, HIS' JUDGMENT WAS THAT YOU SHOULD DO NOTHING, HF FEELS
THAT YOUR POSITION IS SO OVERWHELMINGLY STRONG THAT THIS INCIPIENT
CAN REALLY DO NOTHING TO ERODE IT. IN COMINr, TO THIS CONCLUS ICON, HE
POINTED OUT THAT CASES--LIKE YOUNG AND EHRLICHMAN--WILL BE TIMING TO
;TRIAL AND THAT YOU MAY BECf7ME INVOLVED IN THOSE TRIALS. TO SAY SOME-
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *.WHSR COMMENT * * * * * * * * * .:.
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/09/20: LOC-HAK-506-7-97-6
 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/09/20: LOC-HAK-506-7-97-6
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Tf4ING NnW, ESPrECIALLY WHEN YOU DO NOT KNOW ALL ASPECTS OF TstE CASE
AND THE INVESTIGATIONS, COULD CREATE DIFFICULTIES FOR YOU t. ATFR ON.
HE WAS VERY WARMS VERY SYMPATHETIC, AND VERY UNDERSTANDING nF THE
HELPLESSNESS OF YOUR POSITION Sn FAR AWAY. AGAIN AND AGAIN 14E
MADE THE POINT, HOWEVER,, THAT YOUR POSITION WAS FAR TOO STPnNG
FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT TO RE OF REAL CONCERN.
?. ROCKEFFLLER DOES NOT PLAN To COME TO WASHINGTON THIS
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