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DEPARTMENT Or STATE
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WHITE HOUSE
'71 JUL 8 AM 8:53
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FM AMEMBASSY BEIRUT
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 4332
INFO USMISSION USUN NEW YORK
SECRET BEIRUT 5848
EXDIS
SUBJECT SUCCESSORI TO U THANT
REF: STATE 119761
1 - IN COURSE DISCUSSION OTHER MATTERS JULY 7 WITH NAJIB
SADAQA, SECRETARY GENERAL, LEBANESE FOREIGN OFFICE I
ASKED HIM IF GOL WAS GIVING ANY THOUGHT TO SUCCESSORI
FOR U THANT. HE REPLIED THAT GOL HAD RECEIVED MESSAGE
THAT MORNING FROM UNDEL AMBASSADOR GHORRA ADVISING GOL
U THANT, BECAUSE OF POOR HEALTH, NOT LIKELY SEEK REAPPOINTMENT
AS SYG AND GOLI SHOULD BE CONSIDERING OTHER CANDIDATES
FOR POSITION. SADAQA EXPLAINED GOL HAD NO PARTICULAR
CANDIDATE IN MIND AS YET BUT WAS GIVING MATTER THOUGHT.
IN SUBSEQUENT CONVERSATION HE INDICATED JAKOBSON
WAS ABLE MAN BUT HIS CANDIDACY MIGHT PRESENT PROBLEMS
FOR ARABS. HEI OBVIOUSLY CONSIDERED FORMER AUSTRIAN
MINISTER WALDHEIM GOOD PROSPECT. NO OTHER
CANDIDATES MENTIONED.
2. I TOLD HIM WE SHARED GHORRA'S OPINION THAT UI THANT
UNLIKELY SEEK REAPPOINTMENT AND WE TOO THOUGHT IT WAS TIME
SERIOUS CONSIDERATION BE GIVEN TO SUCCESSOR CAN-
DIDATES.
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INFO AMEMBASSY AMMAN
SECRET BEIRUT 5786
SITUATION ROOM WHITE WHITE HOUSE HOUSE
'71 JUL 6 PM 4:26
EXDIS
REF: BEIRUT 5585, STATE 117055 AND 116162
SUBJ: US POSITION RE RAISING JERUSALEM ISSUE IN SECURITY
COUNCIL
1 ° AS FOREIGN OFFICE SECRETARY GENERAL NEGIB SADAGA WAS
ILL LAST WEEK I GAVE RESPONSE RE US POSITION ON JERUSALEM
TO FONMIN ABOUHAMAD EVENING JULY 3. IN REVIEWING OUR POSITION
ALONG LINES STATE 116162 WITH APPROPRIATE ADDITIONS FROM SUBSEQUENT
MESSAGES, I STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE OFI MAKING NO FINAL
DECISION ON TIMING OF RESOLUTION WITHOUT CONSULTING US.
OTHERWISE EFFORTS WHICH WE WERE MAKING TO MOVE INTERIM SUEZ
CANAL SETTLEMENT OFF DEAD CENTER COULD BE JEOPARDIZED.
2. FONMIN THANKED ME AND STATED HE HAD BEEN GIVEN
ESSENTIALLY SAME INFORMATION FROM THE JORDANIANS WITH
WHOM THE GOL WAS IN CLOSE AND CONTINUOUS TOUCH. GOLI
WAS NOW STUDYING WORDING OF RESOLUTION ANDI FONMIN
EXCES
HOPED TO SEND SECRETARY GENERAL SADAGA TO AMMAN WITHIN
NEXT FEW DAYS FOR FURTHER CONSULTATION. FONMIN APPRECIATED
IMPORTANCE OF TIMING OF RESOLUTION AND CERTAINLY DIDI NOT WISH
TO DO ANYTHING WHICH WOULD JEOPARDIZE FORWARD MOVEMENT
ON INTERIM AGREEMENT.
3. HE WAS CONCERNED BY HELMS VISIT TO ISRAEL. I TRIEDI TO
REASSURE HIM. BELIEVE HOWEVER, IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF WE COULD
RECEIVE SAME QUIDANCE REQUESTED BY CAIRO IN CAIRO 1613°
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INFO OCT-01 1046 W
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TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4295
CONFIDENTIALBEIRUT5728
EXDIS:
SITUATION ROOM WHITE HOUSE WHITE HOUSE
FOR SEELYE, NEA/ARN,
'71 JUL 2 PM 14
1. WE HAVE RECENTLY BEEN INFORMED BY US INTERESTS:
SECTION IN ITALIAN EMBASSY, DAMASCUS, THAT SYRIANS WILL
PERMIT US OFFICIAL TO COME TO DAMASCUS ONCE A WEEK TO
PROCESS AMERICAN PASSPORTS AND SYRIAN VISAS. WE HAVE
MADE CONSTRUCTIVE BUT NONCOMMITTALI REPLY TO SYRIANS
THROUGH DR. ROMANO, COUNSELOR, ITALIAN EMBASSY, AND ARE
IN PROCESS MAKING RECOMMENDATION ON PROPOSAL TO DEPT.
PROPOSAL AS NOW STANDS PROVIDES CONVENIENCE! TO SYRIANS
BUT FROM OPERATIONAL STANDPOINT OFFERS LITTLE TO US.
WE ARE MINDFUL, HOWEVER, OF IMPORTANT POLITICAL CONSIDERATION
INVOLVED IN SYRIANS MAKING THIS MOVE AND CONSEQUENTLY WISH TO
MAKE POSITIVE COUNTER PROPOSAL DETAILS OF SYRIAN OFFER AND
OUR RECOMMENDED COUNTER PROPOSALI WILL BE SUBMITTED DEPT NEAR
FUTURE.
2. WITHOUT CONSULTING ANYONE, MISSION OFFICER
SENT UNCLASSIFIED LETTER DATED JUNE 28 TO ARTHUR ALLEN,
CUVNEA. IN LETTER OFFICER INFORMED ALLEN INTER ALIA OF
EXCES
PROPOSAL WHICH HE HAD HEARD FROM SYRIAN LOCAL IN US
INTERESTS SECTION. COMMUNICATION EMBODYING PROPOSAL
WHICH SENT TO INTERESTS SECTION BY SYRIAN GOVERNMENT
WAS MARKED SECRET. IF WE ARE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS
SYRIAN MOVE IT IS IMPERATIVE FORI THE TIME BEING THAT
SYRIAN ACTION BE HELD VERY CLOSE® WE WOULD APPRECIATE
YOUR ADVISING ALLEN TO CLASSIFY LETTER AND NOT DISCUSS
THAT ASPECT HIS LETTER WITH ANYONEL ELSE.
GP = 3 °
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CONEIDENTIAL
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Department of State
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TELEGRAM
WH
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FM AMEMBASSY BEIRUT
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 4259:
AMEMBASSY AMMANI IMMEDIATE
CONFI I DENT I A LI BEIRUT 5585
EXDIS
SUBJ: PRIME MINISTER SALAAM'S VISIT TO JORDAN AND JERUSALEM
ISSUE
REF: BEIRUT 5185!
1 - IN CALL ON SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE
THIS MORNING, JUNE 29, I ASKED HIM ABOUT THE RESULTS OF
PRIME MINISTER SALAAM'S RECENT VISIT TO JORDAN. HE EX-
PLAINED THE VISIT HAD NO PARTICULAR OBJECTIVE, BUT WAS
PART OF THE ROUND OF VISITS WHICH THE PRIME MINISTER
AND FOREIGN MINISTER HAD MADE INI RECENT MONTHS. THE
GOU. WAS FEELING SOMEWHAT ISOLATED. LEBANON WANTED
ASSURE KING IT NOT "ALLIGNED" AGAINST HIM AND SUPPORTED
JORDAN AS IT DID OTHER ARAB STATES IN THE AREA.
2. HEI MENTIONED THAT THERE WAS NO AGENDA FOR THE VISIT
BUT THE TWO PRINCIPAL TOPICS DISCUSSED WERE THE
FEDAYEEN MOVEMENT AND JERUSALEM. WITH REGARD TO THE
FEDAYEEN MOVEMENT, HE EMPHASIZED THAT THE PRIME MINISTER
MADE IT ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT HEI WAS NOT THERE TO MEDIATE,
BUT WAS WILLING To DO ANYTHING HEI COULD TO AMELIORATE THE
SITUATION. HE NOTED THAT HE HAD SEEN YASSER ARAFAT THE
DAY BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE FOR AMMANI AND WAS WILLING CON-
VEY ANY MESSAGE KING MIGHT HAVE. KING POSED NO OBUECTIONS
TO SALAAM SEEING FEDAYEEN LEADERS IN AMMAN WHICH SALAAM
INDICATED ARAFAT HAD SUGGESTED.
3. ON JERUSALEM, THE JORDAIANS WANTED THE LEBANESE TO
NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
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TAKE INITIATIVE so THAT THE JERUSALEM ISSUE WOULD BE
RAISED IN THE SECURITY COUNCIL BY A NON-ARAB STATE. THE
GOL AGREED TO DO WHAT IT COULD. IN ACTUAL FACT, THE GOL
HAS BEEN CONSULTING WITH FEISAL ON THE QUESTION AND IT
PLANS TO MAKE NO MOVE, AT LEAST, UNTIL IT HAS HEARD
FROM SAUDI ARABIA.
4. SADAQA THEN TOLD ME OF A CONVERSATION HE HAD HAD WITH
EBANON'S AMBASSADOR TO JORDAN WHO WAS IN BEIRUT YESTER-
DAY, JUNE 28. ACCORDING TO THE AMBASSADOR, HE HAD BEEN
TOLD BY AKRAM ZOAITER, THE JORDANIAN AMBASSADOR HERE WHO
WAS: IN AMMAN, THAT THE AMERICANS HAD NO OBUECTIONS TO
THE JORDANIANS RAISING JERUSALEMI IN THE SECURITY COUNCIL
ZOAITER MAINTAINED THAT THE KING HAD TOLD HIM THIS.
5. SADAQA ASKED ME IF IT WERE TRUE. I TOLD HIM THAT'
AS HEI WELL KNEW, WE DID NOT WANT JERUSALEM RAISED IN
THE SECURITY COUNCIL FOR REASONS: OF WHICH HE WAS WELL
AWARE THIS WAS OUR BASIC POSITION. WE ALSO UNDER-
STOOD JORDAN'S ANXIETY OVER WHAT THE ISRAELIS WERE DOING
IN JERUSALEM. I KNEW THAT THERE WERE TALKS GOING ON IN
AMMAN BETWEEN THE JORDANIANS AND OUR AMBASSADOR, BUT I
DID NOT KNOW WHAT THE RESULTS OF THOSE TALKS WERE.
6.0 COMMENT: I DO NOT THINK, FROM MY CONVERSATION WITH
SADAQA, THAT THE GOLI WILLI GET OUT IN FRONT OF THE
JORDANIANS ON THIS ISSUE SADAQA HIMSELF COMMENTED
THAT THE GOLI WOULD NOT BE "MORE ROYALIST THAN THE KING".
ON THE OTHER HAND, THERE SEEMS LITTLE DOUBT THAT THEY WILL
COOPERATE WITH THE GOU AS THEY, TOO, FEEL STRONGLY ON
THIS ISSUE.
7. IN ORDER TO REPLY TO SADAQA, I WOULD APPRECIATE GUIDANCE
IN LIGHT ZOAITER'S STATEMENT AS TO WHAT I SHOULD SAY CONCERNING
EXCES
OUR CURRENT POSITION RE RAISING JERUSALEMI ISSUE IN SECURITY
COUNCIL.
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TO SECSTATE WASHDC 4090
SECR ET BEIRUT 4972
EXDIS:
GHALEB KAYALI, FORMER SYRIAN CHARGE IN WASHINGTON,
IS PRESUMABLY NOW UNDER ARREST IN SYRIA. ACCORDING TO
A CLOSE FRIEND, A FEW WEEKS BACK WHEN HE RETURNED TO
SYRIA HIS PASSPORT WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM. AFTER
RETURNING TO BEIRUT FOR A FEW DAYS HE RETURNED TO
DAMASCUS. HIS FAMILY HAS NOT SEEN HIM SINCE. ALTHOUGH
NO ONE KNOWS THE REASON FOR HIS PRESUMED ARREST, IT MAY
WELLI BE CONNECTED WITH HIS VISIT TO WASHINGTON LAST
APRIL
BUFFUM
EXCES
SITUATION ROOM
WHITE HOUSE
'71 JUN 11 PM 5:23 23
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TO SECSTATE WASHDC 4034
INFO AMEMBASSY AMMAN
USMISSION USUN
SITUATION SITUATION ROOM ROOM
06338 WHITE HOUSE
'71 JUN 8 PM 8:49
SECRE T BEIRUT 4824
EXDIS:
REF# BEIRUT 4737
EXETS
1. TO PURSUE OUR INTEREST IN LEBANESE ATTITUDE TOWARD
SC MEETING ON JERUSALEM I LUNCHED JUNE 8 WITH THE
DIRECTOR GENERAL FONOFF SADAQA.
2. IN RESPONSE MY QUERY WHETHER HEI HAD REPORT FROM HIS
AMBASSADOR IN AMMAN, HE INDICATED LATTER HAD SEEN KING
HUSSEIN YESTERDAY. KING REPORTEDLY EXPLAINED TO HIM
US RESERVATIONS ABOUT GOING TO SC NOW: IN ADDITION, KING
SAID HE WISHED TO RESERVE HIS OWN JUDGMENT ON MATTER "FOR A
FEW DAYS" WHEN HE PROMISED TO GET IN TOUCH AGAINS. SADAQA
RECOGNIZED JORDANIAN GOVERNMENT PRIMARILY INVOLVED AND
SAID HUSSEIN'S VIEW WOULD BE DECISIVE FACTOR IN
DETERMINING WHETHER OR NOT SC SHOULD BE CONVENED.
( I WENT OVER SAME GROUND WITH HIM AS WITH FOREIGN
MINISTER YESTERDAY IN EXPLAINING WHY WE OPPOSED RECOURSE
TO SC AT PRESENT TIME.)
3. SADAQA (PLEASE PROTECT) ALSO INDICATED UN AMBASSADOR
GHARRA HAS BEEN REQUESTED TO REVIEW UN ANGLE AND
DECLASSIFIED
SUBMIT RECOMMENDATIONS. HOWEVER, SAID SADAQA, GHORRA
E.O. 13526, Section 3.5
HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED NOT REPEAT NOT TO TAKE ANY POSITION
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WITH OTHER DELEGATIONS ON POSSIBILITY OF SC MEETING
PENDING GOL DETERMINATION OF ITS OWN ATTITUDE. GP - 3 .
BUFFUM
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TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3816
SITUAT WHITE TON ROOM 100500 HOUSE ROOM
MAY 14 PM 7:27
INFO AMCONSUL DHAHRAN
AMEMBASSY JIDDA
AMEMBASSY LONDON
AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV
S E&C R ENT BEIRUT 4049
EXDIS
DEPT ALSO PASS USINT CAIRO
SUBJ: ISRAELI APPROACH TO TAPLINE FOR PAYMENT TRANSIT FEES
REF: DEPTEL 83946
1. CHANDLER, TAPLINE PRESIDENT, MADE PARALLEL DEMARCHE
TO AMBASSADOR YESTERDAY, INDICATING SIMULTANEOUS APPROACH
BEING MADE TO SISCO.
2. WE SHARE TAPLINE ASSESSMENT THAT OVERALL ARAB REACTION
TO TAPLINE ACQUIESCENCE TO ISRAELI DEMANDS FOR ROYALITIES WOULD BE
SERIOUS INDEED. WHILE JIDDA WILL BE ASSESSING SAUDI REACTION
AND EFFECTS SUCH ACTION ON ARAMCO CONCESSION, WE BELIEVE SYRIA
WOULD FORCE CLOSURE OF LINE AND LEBANON WOULD
PROBABLY FEEL COMPELLED FOLLOW SUIT. MOREOVER, WE WOULD EXPECT
ARAB LEQGUE BOYCOTT ACTION AGAINST OTHER OPERATIONS TAPLINE
SHAREHOLDERS IN ARAB WORLD -- I.E. ESSO, MOBIL, TEXACO AND SOCAL.
3. ON ISRAELI MOTIVATION BEYOND THE OBVIOUSLY FINANCIAL,
I STRONGLY SUSPECT IMPLICATIONS FOR SUCH PAYMENT ON ULTIMATE
STATUS OF GOLAN INFLUENCES ISRAELI THINKING.
4. WHILE LEGAL DIVISION OPINION WILL BE REQUIRED, IT SEEMS TO
ME MOST QUESTIONALBE WHETHER ISRAELIS HAVE GOOD BASIS IN LAW
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TO MAKE SUCH CLAIM. MY RECOLLECTION OF RIGHTS ENJOYED BY
OCCUPYING POWER UNDER HAGUE CONVENTIONS DOES NOT INCLUDE
RIGHT TO COLLECT ROYALTIES SUCH AS THOSE PAID BY TAPLINE TO
GOVERNMENT ENJOYING SOVEREIGNTY IN AREA AS RESULT NEGOTIATED
AGREEMENT.
EXCES
5. WE THINK THAT TAPLINE AND SHAREHOLDERS SHOULD DECLINE
TO MEET DINSTEIN IN NEW YORK OR ELSEWHERE ON FORMAL GROUNDS
THAT TAPLINE HAS REQUESTED GUIDANCE FROM USG BECAUSE OF
LEGAL PROBLEMS INVOLVED. INCIDENTALLY, DESPITE PLEDGES OF
UTMOST SECRECY, WE THINK WORD WOULD LEAK OUT FAIRLY QUICKLY INTO
ARAB WORLD OF THESE DISCUSSIONS. THIS SAME OBSERVATION, OF COURSE,
WOULD APPLY TO ANY DISGUISED TAPLINE PAYMENTS.
6. WE BELIEVE BEST COURSE OF ACTION WHICH WILL PROTECT
TAPLINE AND US MIDDLE EASTERN OIL INTERESTS IS FOR USG
TO POINT OUT TO ISRAELIS DINSTEIN'S PROPOSAL PREJUDJES
FINAL
DISPOSITION GOLAN AND IS, AT BEST, HIGHLY PREMATURE.
WE MIGHT ALSO NOTE OUR HOPES THAT NO ERRANT "BULLDOZER" WOULD
DAMAGE LINE.
7. IF THIS COURSE OF USG ACTION NOT FEASIBLE, THEN TAPLINE
SHOULD, IN OUR JUDGEMENT, DECLINE TO PAY ROYALITIES. EVEN
THOUGH THIS MIGHT RISK CLOSURE, IT WOULD PROTECT FOR ITS PARENT
COMPANIES THEIR OIL CONCESSIONS ELSEWHERE IN ARAB WORLD.
8. WE NOTE INCIDENTLLY THAT CHANDLER TOLD US THAT COST
OF BYPASSING ISRAELI OCCUPIED SECTION OF LINE WOULD BE ABOUT
$60 MILLION INCLUDING PUMPING STATION WITHIN SYRIA. TAPLINE NOT
PREPARED MAKE THIS SORT OF INVESTMENT. GP-3.
BUFFUM
NOTE BY OCXT: BEIRUT 4049 NOT PASSED USINT CAIRO.
NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE SECRET AUTHORIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
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SITUATION ROOM
WHITE HOUSE WHITE :#09255 USE
FM AMEMBASSY BEIRUT
'71 MAY 14 PM 9:02
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 3812
S E C R E T SECTION 1 OF 2 BEIRUT 4042
EXDIS
FOR PEDERSEN FROM BUFFUM
SUBJ: SECVISIT ME
REF: ROME 801
FOLLOWING IS UNCLEARED MEMCON BASED ON MY NOTES AND FOROFF
RECORD, WHICH JUST AVAILABLE TODAY.
SECRETARY MET WITH FOREIGN MINISTER ABOUHAMAD AT THE
PRESIDENTIAL PALACE MAY 4. PRESENT WERE SISCO, PEDERSEN,
BUFFUM, MCCLOSKEY, AND ON THE LEBANESE SIDE, SADAGA, SABRA,
AND CHAMMAS.
1. AFTER WELCOMING THE SECRETARY, THE FOREIGN MINISTER
EXPRESSED DEEP APPRECIATION FOR SECRETARY'S ARRIVAL STATEMENT
INDICATING OUR SUPPORT FOR INTEGRITY OF LEBANON WITHIN ITS
PRESENT BOUNDARIES.
2. SECRETARY RESPONDED THAT HE HAD COME TO AREA TO LEARN
FIRST-HAND THE VIEWS OF THE ARABS, TO SHOW THAT U.S.
NOT PREJUDICED IN FAVOR OF ANY ONE PARTY AND THAT WE
PREJUDICED ONLY IN FAVOR OF PEACE. SECRETARY EXPRESSED
HOPE PARTIES CONCERNED COULD NOW MOVE CLOSER TOGETHER
AND SAID HE PLANNED CONCENTRATE HIS EFFORTS IN CAIRO
AND TEL AVIV ON THIS OBJECTIVE HE EXPRESSED VIEW
LEBANESE CAN PLAY IMPORTANT ROLE BECAUSE OF THEIR RESPECTED
POSITION IN ARAB WORLD.
3. ABOUHAMAD INDICATED THAT LEBANON GREATLY INTERESTED
NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
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EXCES EXPIS EXCES
IN PEACE EFFORTS AND NEED TO FIND A SETTLEMENT, PARTICULARLY
A SOLUTION TO PROBLEM OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES. HE NOTED
GOL POSITION RESTS ON VALIDITY 1949 ARMISTICE AGREEMENT
AND WAS PLEASED THAT U.S. SHARES THIS VIEW. HE EMPHASIZED
LEBANESE INTEREST IN SAFE-GUARDING ITS DEMOCRATIC INSTITU-
TIONS AND FREEDOM. U.S. POLICY, HE SAID, CAN HELP OR HARM
THESE INSTITUTIONS GOL HOPES, IN PARTICULAR, SOLUTION
WILL TAKE ACCOUNT OF FACT THAT LEBANON WILL HAVE 3000,000
PALESTINIANS ON ITS TERRITORY WHOSE ABSORPTION WOULD CAUSE
DIFFICULT PROBLEMS. HE SAID LEBANON PREFERS REFUGEES
RE-SETTLE OUTSIDE OF THIS COUNTRY AND RECEIVE INDEMIFICATION
AND/OR ACQUISITION OF SOME OTHER NATIONALITY, THEN IF
SOME PALESTINIANS WISH TO RETURN TO LEBANON WITH SOME OTHER
NATIONALITY GOL WOULD ACCEPT THEM. ONE CONCRETE REQUEST
FOREIGN MINISTER MADE WAS THAT U.S. TAKE NO FINAL POSITION
ON THIS SUBJECT INCLUDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE OR ANY OTHER
DISPOSITION OF REFUGEE PROBLEM WITHOUT PRIOR CONSULTATION WITH GOL.
4. SECRETARY ASSURED HIM WE WOULD CONSULT LEBANON BE-
FORE FINAL POSITION TAKEN ON THIS SUBJECT. SECRETARY
ADDED THAT SOLUTION OF PALESTINIAN PROBLEM MUST BE FAIR
TO THE PEOPLE AND WORKED OUT IN A WAY ACCEPTABLE TO ALL
THE COUNTRIES OF THE REGION.
5 . FOREIGN MINISTER CONTINUED THAT U.S. INITIATIVE WELL-
KNOWN AND WORLD NOW WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT U.S. WILL DO
TO GET ITS PLAN IMPLEMENTED. HE RECALLED UAR HAD ACCEPTED
ROGERS PLAN WITHOUT RESERVATION, BUT THAT POSITION OF
ISRAEL STILL UNKNOWN. U.S. HAS SAID IT DOES NOT WANT TO
PRESSURE ISRAEL, BUT WILL TRY TO PERSUADE IT TO COOPERATE
IN PEACE SETTLEMENT EFFORTS. GOL WOULD APPRECIATE KNOWING
FUTURE U.S. INTENTIONS THIS REGARD. LEBANON IS CONVINCED
THAT, LIKE ITSELF, U.S. WANTS PEACE AND WONDERS WHY WE
WILL NOT PRESSURE ISRAEL LEBANON WANTS TO PLAY A CONSTRUC-
TIVE ROLE WITH THE OTHER ARAB STATES, BUT IS CONVINCED
THAT IF U.S. DOES NOT EXERCISE PRESSURE THERE WILL BE NO
PEACE SETTLEMENT.
6. ABOUHAMAD STATED THAT DURING HIS RECENT VISIT TO
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AIRO EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER HAD GONE SO FAR AS TO
TELL HIM THAT IF THIS WAS U.S. PRICE FOR GETTING ISRAELI
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MILITARY PRESENCE IN COUNTRY AFTER PEACE SETTLEMENT,
ALTHOUGH IT WOULD NOT, FOR ITS OWN INTERESTS, ABANDON
SOVIET ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. HE SAID
EGYPTIANS HAD CONFIRMED TO HIM THAT RECENT ESTABLISHMENT
OF TRIPARTITE FEDERATION MEANT NO, REPEAT NO, CHANGE IN
SADAT'S POLICY. HE WAS SATISFIED UAR IS PREPARED TO
MAKE PEACE WITH ISRAEL. RIAD EXPLAINED "NO PEACE" MEANT
"NO PEACE TREATY": "NO NEGOTIATIONS" MEANT "NO DIRECT
NEGOTIATIONS": AND "NO RECOGNITION" MEANT "NO FORMAL
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7. ABOUHAMAD EXPRESSED VIEW THAT PARTIAL SOLUTION, E.G.
OPENING SUEZ CANAL, WOULD BE DETRIMENTAL TO THE INTERESTS
OF LEBANON, JORDAN AND THE UNITED STATES UNLESS ANY SUCH
MOVE CLEARLY PART OF OVERALL SETTLEMENT. (SECRETARY AGREED).
8. ABOUHAMAD ALSO EXPRESSED GREAT WORRY THAT ISRAELIS
PROCEEDING RAPIDLY TO TURN JERUSALEM INTO COMPLETELY
JEWISH CITY. SECRETARY RESPONDED THAT WE ARE ALSO CONCERNED AND
INDICATED HIS INTENT TO RAISE THIS PROBLEM WITH ISRAELI
GOVERNMENT.
IN COMMENTING ON FOREIGN MINISTER'S REMARKS, SECRETARY
RECALLED THAT ROGERS PLAN IS NOT A BLUEPRINT FOR A SETTLE-
MENT, BUT OUTLINE WHICH LEAVES AREAS TO BE NEGOTIATED BY
THE PARTIES. INSOFAR AS USINGTERM "PRESSURE" CONCERNED,
SECRETARY SAID THIS SIMPLY DOES NOT WORK IN DEALING WITH
GOVERNMENTS, BUT IS COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE. PURPOSE OF HIS
TRIP IS TO PROVIDE A PROCESS SO THAT A SOLUTION CAN BE
FOUND. HE RECALLED THAT MUCH MORE PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE
DURING PAST YEAR AND HOPE WE WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE PROGRESS.
SECRETARY NOTED THAT IT IS TRUE THERE IS MUCH SYMPATHY FOR
ISRAEL IN U.S., BUT EMPHASIZED THIS IS NOT ANTI-ARAB.
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AS A STATE, BUT THERE IS ALSO MUCH SUPPORT FOR PALESTINIAN
REFUGEES FOR THE ROGERS PLAN AND AN INCREASING UNDERSTANDING
IN THE U.S. FOR THE CURRENT ARAB POSITION. HE CITED
RECENT NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIALS AS EXAMPLE. SADAT'S
SPEECH, WHICH CAME OUT OPENLY, INDICATING WILLINGNESS TO
MAKE PEACE WITH ISRAEL, HAS CHANGED ATTITUDE OF MANY
AMERICANS. THIS REGARD, SECRETARY COMMENTED THAT PRECISE
NATURE OF PEACE AGREEMENT E.G. WHETHER FORMAL PEACE
TREATY OR SOME OTHER FORM IS NOT THE MAIN PROBLEM.
10. SECRETARY INDICATED U.S. HAD NO PAPER AND NO
SPECIFIC PROPOSALS TO PUT TO UAR AT THIS POINT BUT WE
HAVE SPECIFIC IDEAS WE INTEND RAISE WITH EGYPTIANS.
HE ALSO COMMENTED THAT ANY INTERIM AGREEMENT SHOULD
ONLY BE CONCEIVED AS PART OF FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ENTIRE RACKAGE.
11. SISCO SAID WHAT IS ESSENTIAL NOW IS TO TRY AND
DEFINE THE ELEMENTS OF AN AGREEMENT AND THIS IS WHAT
WE HOPE TO OBTAIN DURING TALKS IN CAIRO AND TEL AVIV.
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BETWEEN SECRETARY AND LEBANESE PRESIDENT SLEIMAN FRANGIE
ON MAY 3, 1971.
2. SUMMARY. SECRETARY HAD ONE-AND ONE-HALF HOUR MEETING
WITH PRESIDENT FRANGIE MAY 3 BEFORE PRESIDENT'S DINNER
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PROBLEMS CREATED FOR LEBANON BY ARAB-ISRAEL DISPUTE,
UNDERLINING LEBANON'S SPECIAL INTEREST IN NON -INVOLVEMENT
IN ARAB = ISRAEL HOSTILITIES, PROTECTIONI FROM ISRAELI
AND/OR ARAB MILITARY ACTION, AND RESETTLEMENT OFI ITS:
PALESTINIAN COMMUNITY OUTSIDE LEBANON. STATING THAT
LEBANON'S FOREIGN POLICY IS BASED LESS: ON MILITARY
FORCE THAN ON SUPPORT OF FRIENDLY GOVERNMENTS, HE
STRESSED SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP THAT EXISTS AND IN HIS:
VIEW SHOULD EXIST BETWEEN LEBANON AND US. INI LIGHT
OF THIS RELATIONSHIP, HE POSED SEVERAL SPECIFIC QUESTIONS:
WOULD USG BE ABLE PROVIDE LEBANON INCREASED ECONOMIC
ASSISTANCE TO HELP RELIEVE ECONOMIC DISLOCATIONS CAUSEDI
BY ARAB=ISRAEL PROBLEM? WHAT ARE PROSPECTS FOR OVER-
ALL SETTLEMENT OF ARAB-ISRAEL PROBLEM? WHAT FORMULA
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GUARANTEES COULD USG PROVIDE FOR SECURITY OFI LEBANONIS
BORDERS? IN EVENT RESUMPTION ARAB ISRAELI HOSTILITIES;
WHAT SUPPORT COULD USG PROVIDE FOR LEBANON'S EFFORTS: TO
AVOID INVOLVEMENT IN CONFLICT? WHAT NEW AMERICAN
COMMITMENT MIGHT REPLACE TRIPARTITE AGREEMENT OFI 1950?
SECRETARY CONCURRED THAT US AND LEBANON ARE LINKED
BY SPECIAL TIES: SAID USG WITHIN LIMITS ITS FINANCIALI
CAPABILITY WILL CONTINUE LOOK SYMPATHERICALLY ON
LEBANESE REQUIREMENTS FOR ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE: DECLINEDI
ESTIMATE PROSPECTS OF OVERALL SETTLEMENT AT THIS STAGE
BUT EXPRESSED HOPE CEASE-FIRE WILLI CONTINUE AND SOMEI
PROGRESS MAY BE MADE TOWARD INTERIM AGREEMENT BETWEEN
ISRAEL AND UAR ON SUEZ CANAL: STATED SOLUTION TO
PALESTINIAN REFUGEE PROBLEM SHOULD BE FORMULATED BY
THOSE DIRECTLY CONCERNED PALESTINIANS AND GOU BUT
THAT USG STANDS READY TO MAKE FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONI
TOWARD SUCH SOLUTION: REAFFIRMED US INTEREST IN
PRESERVATION OF LEBANON, STATING USG WOULD STRONGLY
OPPOSE ANY AGGRESSIVE ACTION BY ISRAELLAGAINST
LEBANON, BUT ADDED THAT HE COULD NOT BELIEVE THAT
ISRAEL WOULD EMBARK ON so UNWISE A. COURSE: STATED
THAT IT CONTINUED TO BE USG POLICY TO PROVIDE MILITARY
ASSISTANCE TO GOL FOR SELF-DEFENSE AGREED WITH
PRESIDENT FRANGIE'S OBSERVATION THAT THE SPECIALI
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEBANON AND US IS BASEDI NOT ON
ANY TREATY, BUT ON COMMUNITY OF SPIRIT. PRESIDENT
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3. SECRETARY MET WITH PRESIDENT FRANGIE AT PRESI-
DENTIAL PALACE FOR HOUR AND HALF MAY 3, BEFORE
PRESIDENT'S DINNER IN HIS HONOR.
ONLY OTHER LEBANESE PRESENT WAS FONOFFISECGEN
SADAQA, WHO TOOKI FULL NOTES BUT DID NOT PARTICIPATE
EXCEPT TO INSERT A FEW CLARIFYING REMARKS:
40 SPEAKING CAREFULLY FROM NOTES, PRESIDENT MADEI
EXTENDED PRESENTATION OF PROBLEMS, DOMESTIC AND
FOREIGN, CAUSED LEBANON BY ARAB-ISRAELIDISPUTE AND
POLICIES GOL HAS ADOPTED TO DEALI WITH THEM CENTRAL
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EVER SINCE LAST CENTURY, WHEN AUB FOUNDED AND
EMIGRATION TO US BEGAN. NOW "ENERY FAMILY IN LEBANONI
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HAS SOMEONE IN THE US"
5 . PRESIDENT BEGAN WITH CONVENTIONALI ARAB THESIS THAT
UN, IN CREATING ISRAEL TO RIGHT WRONG DONE JEWISHI
COMMUNITY IN EUROPE, COMMITTED EQUALLY EGREGIOUS WRONG
GAINST ARAB COMMUNITY IN PALESTINE, HUNDREDS OFF
THOUSANDS OF WHOM HAD BEEN MADE HOMELESS IN 1948 ANDI
967. ISRAEL PROFESSED TO BE FORTRESS AGAINST COM-
MUNISM. FACT WAS THAT's BUT FORI ISRAEL, THE ARABS
WOULD NOT YET KNOW EITHER COMMUNISM ORI SOVIET UNION.
SRAELI EXPANSIONISM WAS COMPELLING THREE ARAB
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FUNDS FROM OVERDUE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. CONTINUED
NABILITY OF ARAB GOVERNMENTS TO MODERNIZE ECONOMIES:
COULD EVENTUALLY ENABLE COMMUNIST IDEOLOGY TO PREVAILI
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6. PRESIDENT STRESSED THAT SUBJUGATION TO ISRAEL! IS
NOT A VALID ALTERNATIVE FOR ARABS. AS UNIMPEACHABLE
PRO AMERICAN LEBANESE LIKE DR. CHARLES MALIKI HADI TOLDI
GOVERNOR SCRANTON IN 1969, FACED WITH CHOICE BETWEENI
IONISM AND COMMUNISM, ARABS WOULD CHOOSE COMMUNISM.
7 ° FRANGIE EXPRESSED GRATIFICATION THAT USG HAD
DECIDED TO PLAY ROLE OF "REFEREE" (HAKAM) BETWEEN
RABS AND ISRAELIS. LEBANON'S GREATEST VIRTUE WAS: ALSO
SOURCE OF ITS GREATEST DANGER. AS ONLY DEMOCRACY
IN ME, LEBANON OFFERED HAVEN FOR POLITICAL REFUGEES:
AND FORUM FOR POLITICAL PRONOUNCEMENTS: BEIRUT HAD
BECOME PROPAGANDA CAPITAL OF ME. IN ACTUAL NUMBERS,
RADICAL COMPONENT OF LEBANESE BODY POLITIC WAS: SMALL
BUT IN LEBANON'S CLIMATE OF POLITICAL FREEDOM THEY ARE
ABLE TO CREATE A COMMOTION THAT BELIES THEIR NUMBERS'
B - MANY ARABS FROM NEIGHBORING STATES - - NOTABLY
50,000 SYRIANS AND UPWARDS OFI 300,000 PALESTINIANS
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HAD TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF LEBANON'S LIBERALI ECONOMY ANDI
FREE SOCIETY. PALESTINIANS WERE LEBANON'S GREATEST
PROBLEM. LEBANESE BODY POLITIC WAS SPLIT INTO TWO
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CAMPS. ONE SUPPORTED PALESTINIAN EFFORT TO EXPLOIT LEBANESE
ERRITORY IN THEIR CAMPAIGN Tor REGAIN THEIR LOST HOME-.
AND. THE OTHER OPPOSED IT. FEDAYEENI
CTIVITIES ON LEBANESE TERRITORY WERE
HREATENING TO DESTROY DELICATE BALANCE ON WHICHI
LEBANON'S UNIQUE WAY OF LIFE IS BASED. IF THAT
B ALANCE SHOULD BREAK DOWN AND LEBANON'S SPECIALI
CHARACTER BE DESTROYED, LEBANON WOULD NOT SURVIVE.
OBVIOUSLY, DISAPPEARANCE OF LEBANON WOULD BEI CONTRARY
TO INTERESTS: OF ITS PEOPLE. IN PRESIDENT'S OPINION
WOULD ALSO BE CONTRARY TO INTERESTS OF WESTERN
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WORLD. IF SO, IT WAS INCUMBENT ON GOL AND USG TO
WORK TOGETHER FOR EVENTUAL! RESETTLEMENT OFI PALESTINIANS:
OUTSIDE LEBANON.
9 MEANWHILE, GOL HAS TO CONTEND WITH DELICATE PROBLEM
POSED BY FEDAYEEN OPERATIONS FROM LEBANESEI TERRITORY.
0 JECTIVE IS TO PREVENT SUCH OPERATIONS. HOWEVER,
LEB ARMY OF 12,000 MEN IS TOO SMALL TO SEAL OFF 120-
KILOMETER BORDER WITH ISRAEL. MOREOVER, SECURITY FORCES:
MUST SEEK TO CONTROL FEDAYEEN IN MANNER CALCULATED
TO AVOID DIRECT CONFRONTATION, WHICH COULD SPLIT
BANON IN TWO. PRESIDENT DID NOT KNOW HOW MUCH LONGER
SUCH CONFRONTATION COULD BE AVOIDED.
10. SINCE 1967, LEBANON HAD BEEN SUBJECTED TO CONTINUING
SERIES OF MILITARY ACTIONS BY ISRAELI FORCES, OSTENSIBLY
RECTED AGAINST FEDAYEEN. PRESIDENT HAD CAUSE TO
SUSPECT ISRAELI HAS DESIGNS AGAINST LEBI TERRITORY ANDI
WATERS. HE DEEPLY CONCERNED ISRAELI MIGHT SEIZE ON
SOME FEDAYEEN ACTION AS PRETEXT FOR PURSUING TERRITORIAL!
AMBITIONS. ISRAEL'S SKILLED INTELLIGENCE! SERVICES
WERE QUITE CAPABLE OF FABRICATING INCIDENT IF NECESSARY.
TI. GOL ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT JERUSALEMI. AMERICANS
AND LEBANESE APPRECIATE JERUSALEM'S IMPORTANCE TO
ISTIANS. IFI IS EQUALLY IMPORTANT TO MOSLEMS AS:
BR DGE BETWEEN THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT.
GOL WORRIED BY SIGNS UAR AND ISRAEL MIGHT CONCLUDE
ARATE PEACE. AUTOMATIC RESULT WOULDI BE ALLIANCEI
OTHER PARTIES TO ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT - JORDAN
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SYRIA, AND PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE. INEVITABLE VICTIMI
OF SUCH ALLIANCEI WOULD BE LEBANON.
13. FINALLY, SAID PRESIDENT, SINCEI 1967 LEB ECONOMY
HAD SUFFERED SEVERELY FROM LOSS OF BUSINESS CONFIDENCE
AND DECLINE IN TOURISM. GOL MUCH APPRECIATEDI $5 MILLIONI
GRANT AND $12 MILLION CREDIT USG HAD MADE AVAILABLE
FOR PURCHASES OFI MILITARY EQUIPMENT, AND INDICATIONS
FURTHER SUCH ASSISTANCE MIGHT BE AVAILABLE.
14. PRESIDENT CONCLUDED HIS INITIAL PRESENTATION BY
POSING SEVERAL BASIC QUESTIONS.
SECRETARY BEGAN BY ASSURING PRESIDENT
THAT HE KNEW FROM EXPERIENCE OF THE SPECIAL
TIE BETWEEN US AND LEBANON. FROM PAST SERVICE IN USGI
HE HAD PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF THAT SPECIAL CONCERN WHICHI
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER HAD FELT FOR WELFARE OFI LEBANESEI
AND WHICH HAD BEEN FACTOR IN 1958 LANDING IN LEBANONI
SECRETARY'S COMMENTS ON SPECIFIC QUESTIONS RAISED BY.
PRESIDENT WERE AS FOLLOWS:
15. PRESIDENT ASKED IF USG WOULD BE INI POSITION Tor
PROVIDE ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE IN LARGER AMOUNTS IN THEI
FUTURE. THANKING PRESIDENT FOR HIS EXPRESSION OFI
APPRECIATION FOR US AID, SECRETARY REPLIED USG ALSO HADI
ITS FINANCIAL PROBLEMS, BUT IT WOULD CONTINUE
TO CONSIDER LEBANON'S FINANCIAL NEEDS SYMPATHETICALLY.
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16. PRESIDENT ASKED SECRETARY'S OPINION ON PROSPECTS!
FOR OVERALL SETTLEMENT OF ARAB-ISRAEL PROBLEM.
SECRETARY POINTED OUT THAT USG SEES ITS ROLE VIS-A-VIS
ARAB-ISRAEL NEGOTIATIONS, NOT AS REFEREE OR JUDGE, BUT
RATHER AS THAT OF HELPING PARTIES TO REACH AGREEMENT.
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YEAR IN OFFICE, HE HAD FORMED IMPRESSION THAT THE TWO
SIDES HAD GOTTEN LOCKED INTO ARGUMENT OVER LEGITIMACY
OF EACH OTHER'S POSITION. NO PRACTICALI ADVANTAGE SEEMEDI
TO DERIVE FROM THIS KIND OF DISCUSSION EVENTS WHICHI
LED TO CREATION OF ISRAEL ARE NOW BEHIND US. THEY
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MAY BE APPROPRIATE FOR HISTORIANS, BUT CANNOT PRODUCE
A SOLUTION. OBUECTIVE OF US INITIATIVE WAS TO PUT
PARTIES ON ROAD TOWARD SETTLEMENT THERE WAS NO
INTENTION TO DISREGARD MORAL PRINCIPLE ON CONTRARY,
USG CONSIDERS RESOLUTION 242 OFFERS FAIREST BASIS:
FOR A SOLUTION. US INITIATIVE IS BASED THEREON.
17. USG HAD CONCLUDED ARAB-ISRAEL PROBLEM IS: TOO
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BE DEALT WITH IN LOGICAL ORDER FIRST ELEMENT, IN
AMERICAN VIEW, SHOULD BE TERRITORIAL QUESTION. USG
HAD STARTED WITH ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN ASPECT OF THIS QUESTION
BECAUSE AT THAT TIME UARG POSITION HADI SEEMED SOMEWHAT
MORE RIGID THAN POSITIONS OF JORDAN AND LEBANON ..
THE OTHER TWO ARAB PARTIES THAT HAD ACCEPTED
RESOLUTION 242. SECRETARY RECOGNIZED VALIDITY OFI
PRESIDENT'S OBSERVATION THAT A PARTIALI SOLUTION OFI
ARAB ISRAEL QUESTION WOULD BE DANGEROUS FOR LEBANON ANDI
JORDAN. HE WOULD REGARD AN ISRAELI UARI AGREEMENT ON
TERRITORIAL QUESTION ONLY AS ESSENTIALI FIRST STEP
TOWARD COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION.
18. PRESIDENT SADAT HAD RESPONDED TO US INITIATIVE
BY ADOPTING A FORTHCOMING POSITION. AT LONG LAST AN
ARAB STATE THE LARGEST - - HAS AGREED TO RECOGNIZEI
EXISTENCE OF ISRAEL. ONE OF SECRETARY'S MAIN OBJECTIVES:
IN GOING TO ISRAEL WILL BE TO CONVINCE GOI TO RESPOND
IN KIND USG FEELS THAT, IN RETURN FORI CONTRACTUALI
PEACE FROM ARAB SIDE, ISRAEL SHOULD BEI WILLING TO
WITHDRAW FROM MOST OF THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES. ONCEI
TERRITORIAL PROBLEM IS SOLVED, OTHER ELEMENTS COULD
BE DEALT WITH, SUCH AS JERUSALEM AND STATUS OFI
PALESTINIANS.
19. IN SUMMARY, SECREARY FELT CEASE-FIRE WILLI
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CONTINUE. HE WAS HOPEFUL OF EARLY PROGRESS TOWARD A
UAR- ISRAEL AGREEMENT ON REOPENING OF SUEZ CANAL:
EXPLORATION OF THIS POSSIBILITTY WAS SECOND MAJOR
PURPOSE OF ISRAEL VISIT. SECRETARY DIDI NOT NOW FEEL
IN POSITION TO EVALUATE PROSPECTS FOR ANI OVERALLI
SETTLEMENT.
20. PRESIDENT EXPRESSED PERSONALI OPINION THAT ALLI
PARTIES WERE FORTUNATE THAT NASSER HADI ENJOYED ENOUGHI
PRESTIGE AND INFLUENCE TO ACCEPT AMERICAN INITIATIVE
AGAINST STRONG ARAB OPPOSITION SADAT HAD FOLLOWED
NASSER'S LEAD BUT HE WAS TOO NEW IN HIS JOB TO MAKE
ANY FURTHER CONCESSIONS. NOR COULD ANY OTHER ARAB
LEADER. PRESIDENT PARTICULARLY HOPED JARRING WILL
CONTINUE AS MEDIATOR, SINCE HEI DOUBTED ANY ARAB LEADER
COULD AFFORD TO ENTER INTO DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS WITH
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ISRAEL. SECRETARY COMMENTED USG SEES NO NEEDI FOR
DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS AT PRESENT STAGE, ALTHOUGHI THEY
MAY PROVE TO BE PREREQUISITE TO AN OVERALLI SETTLEMENT.
21. PRESIDENT SAID HE CONCURS THAT ARGUING OVER
MORALITY OF PAST ARAB AND ISRAELI ACTIONS SERVES: NO
PRACTICAL PURPOSE. HOWEVER, MORALITY OF CURRENT
ACTIONS IS HIGHLY RELEVANT RESOLUTION! 2421 HIAS BEEN
ACCEPTED BY MAJOR ARAB PARTIES, BUT REUECTED BY
ISRAEL. IT IS ARAB TERRITORY WHICH IS UNDER
OCCUPATION. THESE FACTS THROW CONSIDERABLE LIGHT ON
RELATIVE INTENTIONS. SECRETARY STATED USG HAD PRESSEDI
ISRAEL TO RECOGNIZE CONCEPT OFI RESOLUTION 242. FRANGIE
SAID THAT GOL STANDS READY PROVIDEI ANY ASSISTANCE IT
CAN TO US PEACE EFFORT.
2. RE JERUSALEM, SECRETARY SAID USG BELIEVES ANY
SETTLEMENT SHOULD GUARANTEE RIGHTS OF ALL RELIGIOUS
COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING RIGHT OF ACCESS. FOR MOREI
DETAILED STATEMENT OF US POSITION, SECRETARY WOULD
REFER GOL TO RELEVANT PARAGRAPHS OF HIS POLICY SPEECHI
OF 1969 (WITH WHICH SADAQA IS FAMILIARI) SECRETARY
SAID USG DISAPPROVES OF THOSE CURRENT ISRAELI ACTIONS
WHICH TEND TO CHANGE CHARACTERI OF JERUSALEM, AND HE
INTENDS RAISE THIS MATTER DURING HIS VISIT TO ISRAELIA
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WITH PRESIDENT FRANGIE
23. PRESIDENT ASKED SECRETARY WHAT FORMULA WOULDI
OFFER BEST SOLUTION OF REFUGEE PROBLEM. LEBANON, WITH
A POPULATION PER SQUARE KILOMATER OF 240, CANNOT ACCEPT
THEIR PERMANENT SETTLEMENT IN LEBANON. ANY OVERALLI
SOLUTION MUST PROVIDE FOR RESETTLEMENT IN STATES WITH
GREATER ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY. DID USG CONSIDER
CREATION OF A PALESTINIAN STATE WOULD FACILITATE
RESETTLEMENT:
24. SECRETARY SAID USG WOULD BE WILLING TO MAKE
FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION TO COSTS OFI RESOLVING REFUGEEI
PROBLEM, BUT DOES NOT FEELIQUALIFIED TO PROPOSE ANY
FORMULAS. EXPERTS ON THIS SUBJECT ARE PALESTINIANS:
AND KING HUSSEIN. WE HAVE ELICITED HUSSEIN'S COMMENTS.
HE IS OPPOSED TO A PALESTINIAN STATE BUT HAS SUGGESTED
FEDERAL ARRANGEMENT BETWEEN PALESTINIANS ANDI JORDANIANS.
FRANGIE APPENDED PERSONAL COMMENT THAT, IFI INTERNATIONALI
AGREEMENT IS REACHED FOR RESETTLEMENT AND MONETARY
COMPENSATION OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES, HEI STRONGLY HOPES:
THAT THOSE NOW IN LEBANON WOULD RESETTLED OUTSIDEI
BEFORE THEY RECEIVED COMPENSATION
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25. FRANGIE SAID HIS ADMINISTRATION HAD MADEI SPECIALI
EFFORT TO CONSOLIDATE LEBANON'S RELATIONS WITH NEIGHBORK.
ING ARAB STATES. THESE RELATIONS WOULD BE SERIOUSLY
AFFECTED BY RESUMPTION OF ARAB-ISRAEL HOSTILITIES.
IN THIS EVENT, WHAT SUPPORT COULD USG PROVIDE FOR
LEBANESE EFFORT TO AVOID INVOLVEMENT? SECRETARY
STATED USG HAS DEMONSTRATED ITS READINESS TO PROVIDE
MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO FRIENDLY COUNTRIES LIKE JORDAN
AND LEBANON FOR SELF-DEFENSE.
26. FRANGIE SAID THAT EVER SINCE 1967 HEI HAS BEEN
APPREHENSIVE ABOUT ISRAELI INTENTIONS TOWARDI SOUTHI
LEBANON. HE PRODUCED A BOOK SHOWING MAPS OF ISRAELI
IN 1948, AS IT IS TODAY WITH THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES,
AND AS IT IS SEEN BY ISRAELI EXPANSIONISTS REACHING
TO BORDERS OF BIBLICAL KINGDON OF DAVID OR EVEN
STRETCHING FROM NILE TO EUPHRATES. TRIPARTITE AGREE-
MENT OF 1950, NOT INVOKED AGAINST ISRAEL AFTER 1967
WAR, APPEARED TO HAVE LAPSED. WHAT COMMITMENTS MIGHT
USG PROVIDE FOR SECURITY OF LEBANON'S BORDERS?
27. SECRETARY SAID IT IS DIFFICULT TO FORMULATE
POLICIES FOR HYPOTHETICAL SITUATIONS, BUT HEI COULDI
REAFFIRM USG'S DEEP INTEREST IN PRESERVATION OF
SECURITY AND STABILITY OF LEBANON COMMITMENTS: OF
TYPE HE UNDERSTOOD PRESIDENT FRANGIE TO HAVE IN MINDI CANI
S
BE MADE ONLY BY TREATY AND REQUIRE RATIFICATION BY
CONGRESS. NATURALLY, ISRAEL HAS THE RIGHT TO PROTECT
ITS OWN TERRITORY FROM ATTACK. HOWEVER, IF USG HAD
REASON TO SUSPECT ISRAEL OF CONTEMPLATING UNPROVOKEDI
ACTION AGAINST LEBANON, THE USG WOULD MAKE A STRONG
EFFORT TO STOP IT. IF ISRAEL SHOULD ACTUALLY TAKE
AGGRESSIVE ACTION AGAINST LEBANON USG WOULDI REGARD IT
WITH UTMOST SERIOUSNESS AND IMMEDIATELY PRESS FOR WITH
DRAWAL OF ISRAELI FORCES. IN FACT AGGRESSIVE ISRAELI
ACTION AGAINST LEBANON WOULD SO JEDPARDIZE ISRAEL'S
RELATIONS WITH US THAT SECRETARY COULD NOT BELIEVE
GOI WOULD EVER EMBARK ON SO UNWISE A COURSE.
28. FRANGIE STATED THAT IT IS LEBANON'S POLICY
S
TO REPLY IN FINAL ANALYSIS, NOT ON TANKS OR CANNONS, BUT
ON INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIPS, AND ABOVE ALL ON ITS:
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SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP WITH THE UNITED STATES: NOT ON
FORMAL TREATIES, BUT ON ENGAGEMENTS OF THE SPIRIT--
"FROM HEART TO HEART". THAT, SAID THE SECRETARY, IS:
HOW WE SEE OUR RELATIONSHIPI WITH LEBANON.
29. BY THIS POINT IN CONVERSATION PRESIDENT'S GUESTS:
HAD ARRIVED AND CONFEREES ADJOURNED FOR DINNER.
PRESIDENT SEEMED TO UNDERSTAND THAT SECRETARY HADI
GIVEN HIM HONEST ANSWERS TO DIFFICULT QUESTIONS, WITH
OUT HOLDING OUT UNREALISTIC HOPES' ANDI HE CONCLUDED
MEETING WITH STATEMENT THAT HE HAD APPRECIATED THEI
CANDID TONE OF THE MEETING, AND HE! FELT REASSURED.
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FOLLOWING IS UNCLEARED MEMCON, FYI AND SUBJZCT TO CHANGE UPON
REVIEW.
1. PRINCE FAHD EMPHASIZED UNDER LYING STRENGTH OF US7SAUDI
RELATIONSHIP AND CHARACTERIZED THIS AS IMPORTANT FACTOR IN
PR OMOTING AREA STABILITY. ATTACKS LEVELED AGAINST SAUDI ARABIA
FOR ITS CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH US HAVE NOT REPEAT NOT BEN A
DETERRENT TO THIS RE LATIONSHIP. FAHD REGRETTED THAT CERTAIN
OTHER ARAB GOVERNMENTS HAD NOT REPEAT NOT FOLLOWED SAUDI
POLICY OF MODERATION.
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2. SECRETARY SAID WE APPRECIATE SAUDI ARAB IA'S STEADFAST AND
LOYAL FRIENDSHIP AS WELL AS THE DIFFICULTIES SAUDIS FACE WITH OTHER
ARAB STATES. SECRETARY THOUGHT THAT OUR DETERMINED EFFORTS TO
OBTAIN A JUST AND LASTING PEACE WERE B EGINNING TO MAKE AN IMPACT
IN THE AREA. HE CITED HIS UPCOMING VISIT TO CAIRO IN THIS CONNECTION
3. FAHD AGREED WITH SECRETARY AND SAID THAT ARAB COUNTRIES WITH
QUOTE COMMUNIST PENETRATION UNQUOTE WERE COMING TO SAUDI
ARABIA AND SAYING THEY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE IMPROVED RELATIONS WITH
THE US. WHEN IN EARLIER TIMES CERTAIN ARAB STATES HAD CR ITICIZED
KINB FAISAL AT SOME MEETINGS FOR HIS CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE
US, FAISAL ALWAYS REPLIED THAT THAT WAS HIS BUSINESS AND HE DID
NOT REPEAT NOT CRITICIZE THEM FOR THEIR CLOSE RELATIONS WITH THE USSR,
FAISAL HAD, HOWEVER, CHASTISED THEM FOR BEING INCONSISTENT IN
OPPOSING QUDE COLONIALISM UNQUOTE WHILE SUBORDINATING THEMSELVES
TO A HIGHLY COLONIAL USSR. IRONY WAS THAT WHEN THINGS WENT BAD
FOR THESE STATES, THEY WO ULD ASK FAISAL TO HELP THEM PATCH
UP THEIR DIFFICULTIES. FAISAL HAD TOLD LEADERS OF THESE COUNTRIES
THEY COULD HARDLY EXPECT FORTHCOMING USG POLICY TOWARD THEM
IF THEY CONTINUE TO MALIGN US.
3. FAHD THEN DISCUSSED SAUDI ARABIA'S QUOTZ INTERNAL REALITES
UNQUOTE. HE STATED THAT INTERNAL SAUDI SITUATION IS EXCELLENT
AND COUNTRY STABLE. THIS IS CASE DESPITE EFFORTS OF THE LAST TWO
YEARS BY UNFRIENDLY ARAB STATES TO GET IN TOUCH WITH SAUDI
DISSIDENTS AND CAUSE PROBLEMS. SECRETARY ASKED IF THIS
INCLUDED UAR. FAHD SAID NOT REPEAT NOT ANY MORE AND ALLUDED
TO PAST UNFRIENDLY MOVES BY IRAQ AND SYRIA. FAHD SAID THAT FAILURE
OF REVOLUTIONS IN IRAQ AND OTHERSOCIALIST COUNTRIES REFLECTED WELL
ON SAUDI REGIME. SAUDIS WHO VISITED THESE COUNTRIES COME BACK
DOUBLY SATISFED.
4. SECRETARY SAW ANALOGY AS BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA,
EAST AND WEST GERMANY, AND THE TWO CHINAS. HE SAID THE
SYSTEM IN FREE SOCIETY IS INHERENTLY SO MUCH BETTER THAT WE
OFTEN TELL THOSE WHO DOUBT TH IS THEY SHO ULD GO AND SEE FOR
THEMSELVES.
5. FAHD THEN WENT INTO SOME DETAIL TO D ESCRIBE EFFORT BY
GROUP OF SAUDI DISSIDENTS TO CAUSE TROUBLE. SEPARATE
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25X1
THIS MESSAGE HAS CONCURRENCE
R SO ROCHE.
1. WE CONTINUE TO PICK UP EVIDENCE THAT SOME DEMONSTRATIONS
WILL TAKE PLACE IN BEIRUT. SO FAR, CHIEF SPONSORS ARE LEFTISTS,
STUDENT GROUPS AND PALESTINE ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING FATAH.
HOWEVER, BASED ON LATEST INFO MAY 1, WE DO NOT EXPECT THEY
WILL BE MASSIVE OR VIOLENT.
2. GOL SECURITY EXPERTS FULLY COOPERATIVE AND APPEAR
CONFIDENT THEY CAN PROVIDE ADEQUATE PROTECTION. (DETAILS
PROVIDED SEPTEL.) THEY HAVE EARMARKED ABOUT 2,000 TROOPS
AND 20 ARMORED CARS FOR SPECIAL PROTECTIVE DUTY DURING VISIT.
RESPONSIBLE OFFICIALS DEMONSTRATE HEALTHY CONCERN ABOUT
POTENTIAL SECURITY THREATS. POSSIBILITY CAN NEVER BE
COMPLETELY DISCOUNTED, OF COURSE, OF LAST MINUTE ORGANIZED
CR INDIVIDUAL EFFORTS TO ATTACK US PER SONNEL OR INSTALLATIONS,
PROVOKE INCIDENTS BETWEEN GOL SECURITY FORCES AND CROWDS OR
OTHERWISE SEEK DENIGRATE SECRETARY'S VISIT. WE HAVE ALL OUR
INTELLIGENCE RESOURCES ALERTED FOR ANY SUCH ACTIVITY AND WE ARE
KEEPING ENTIRE SITUATION UNDER CLOSE REVIEW. AT PRESENT DEGREE OF
SECURITY RISK FOR SECRETARY'S VISIT CONTINUES LOOK ACCEPTABLE.
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3. I BELIEVE POTENTIAL PROBLEMS INHERENT IN SUCH VISIT
MINIMIZED BY FACT PRIME MINISTER CALLED IN PALESTINIAN
LEADERS AND TOLD THEM TO BEHAVE, IN ADDITION TO WHICH PRESIDENT
FRANGIE HAS PERSONALLY CONSULTED ALL KEY POLITICAL LEADERS
AND INDICATED HIS DETERMINATION VISIT SHOULD GO SMOOTHLY.
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY SISCO
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1. DEPARTMENT HAS INFORMATION FROM SENSITIVE SOURCE
TO EFFECT THAT ONE DIAB OF ORLANDO, FLORIDA CAS YET UN-
IDENTIFIED OTHERWISE) HAS INFORMED ANTHONY ZAHLAN, KNOWN
FATAH MEMBER IN BEIRUT, THAT HE ARRIVING BEIRUT VIA BOAC
FLIGHT 322 ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 5:40 P.M. DIAB
REQUESTS ZAHLAN TO ARRANGE FOR UNSPECIFIED ONWARD FLIGHT
TO KUWAIT.
2. FBI CHECKING OUT DIAB. CIA, SECRET SERVICE AND
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3. NO RPT NO KNOWN CONNECTION BETWEEN ABOVE AND REPORTED
THREAT IN REFTEL BUT WE SUGGEST THAT EMBASSY PROCEED ON
ASSUMPTION OF SUCH POSSIBILITY IN ORDER COVER ALL EVEN-
TUALITIES.
4. FOR LONDON: WE UNDERSTAND CITED BOAC FLIGHT DEPARTS
LONDON NOVEMBER 10 (BATURDAY), REQUEST APPROPRIATE CHECK
WITH BOAC AND SPECIAL BRANCH.
5. FOR BEIRUTI PLEASE ENSURE THAT RSO ROACH AND
AGENT-IN-CHARGE JOHN BALDADIAN ARE INFORMED CONTENTS
THIS MESSAGE SOONEST.
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1 . SWEDISH AMBASSADOR IN BEIRUT WHO ALSO ACCREDITED TO
DAMASCUS GAVE ME INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF HIS LAST VISIT
THERE HE SAID SENIOR FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIAL (HEAD OF
EUROPEAN DIVISION, RECENTLY SYRIAN AMBASSADOR TO PARIS)
TOLD HIM CREATION OF NEW TRIPARTITE FEDERATION REFLECTED
INTERNAL WEAKNESS IN ALLI THREE COUNTRIES CONCERNED.AS
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FAR AS SYRIA INVOLVED, ACCORDING TO SOURCE COUNTRY
DIVIDED BETWEEN MODERATE FACTION SEEKING PEACE, WHICH
NOW IN CONTROL, AND STRONG MINORITY WHICH ADHERES TO
OLDER MILITANT LINE. SYRIA'S PARTICIPATION IN FEDERATION,
SAID HE, WAS NECESSARY SOP TO EXTREMIST WING TO DEMON-
STRATE CONTINUED SYRIAN SOLIDARITY WITH REST OF ARAB
WORLD
2. SWEDISH AMBASSADOR SAID HEI WAS ASTONISHED AT FRANKNESS
OF SOURCE IN COMMENTING ON INTERNAL DISENSION WITHIN
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1. PENULTIMATE SENTENCE OF PARA 1. V 1) SHOULD READ
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REF: BEIRUT 3456
1. FOLLOWING ARE SOME SUGGESTIONS I HOPE YOU MAY FIND USEFUL
IN DEVELOPING A RESPONSE TO SOME OFI THE DIFFICULT QUESTIONS
PRESIDENT FRANGIE WILLI PUT TO SECRETARY AS CONTAINED PARA V
REFTEL:
V . 1) US: FULLY SUPPORTS TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF LEBANON
IN ALLI FORESEEABLE CIRCUMSTANCES WE HAVE LONG CONSIDERED
A / SPECIAL TIE LINKS OURI TWO COUNTRIES AND HAVE IN THE PAST
DEMONSTRATED LENGTHS TO WHICH WE WILL GO TO HELP PROTECT
LEBANON AGAINST OUTSIDE INTERVENTION. IT IS QUITE IMPOSSIBLE
FOR US TO FORECAST EXACTLY WHAT FORM US SUPPORT WOULD TAKE
TO COPE WITH SOME FURTHER THREAT TO LEBANESE INTEGRITY IN
VIEW OF RANGE OF HYPOTHETICALI SITUATIONS WHICH COULD ARISE.
FOR EXAMPLE BOTH THE REQUIREMENTS: FOR OUR ASSISTANCE AND THE
NATURE OF OUR HELP WOULD BE GREATLY AFFECTED BY QUESTION OF
WHETHER THREAT TO LEBANONI COMES - FROM CLEAR, UNPROVOKED EXTERNAL
THREAT (FOR EXAMPLE, BY RADICAL ARAB REGIME OR USSRD, OR WHETHER
THREAT APPEARS TO STEM PRIMARILY FROM INTERNAL SOURCES SUCH
AS LEFTISTS OR PALESTINIAN MILITANTS. IN ADDITION, WE MUST
POINT OUT THAT SINCE WE HAVE NO FORMALI
TREATY RELATIONSHIP WITH LEBANOR CERTAIN KINDS OF COMMIT-
MENTS: CANNOT BEI PROVIDED IN ADVANCE WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL
CONSULTATION AND CONSENT. AT MINIMUM, HOWEVER, WE ARE,
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BOTH THROUGH FRIENDSHIP WITH LEBANON AND AS: UN MEMBER
WHICH IS ALSO PERMANENT MEMBER OF SECURITY COUNCIL COME
MITTED TO UPHOLD UN CHARTER PROVISIONS WHICH DEAL WITH
THREATS TO PEACE. ACCORDINGLY AT MINIMUM, LEBANON WOULD
ENJOY OUR FULL POLITICAL SUPPORT AT UN. IN ADDITION, WE
HAVE DEMONSTRATED CLEARLY AS WAS RECENTLY CASE IN JORDAN
THAT WE ALSO PROVIDE IMPORTANT, IFI NOT CRITICAL MATERIAL
AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT WHEN OUR FRIENDS ARE
THREATENED. AS WE HAVE ASSURED LEBANESE IN PAST, WE AT-
TACH GREAT IMPORTANCE TO LEBANESE NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE
AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AND WOULD VIEW WITH GREATEST
CONCERN ANY THREAT TO THEIR INTEGRITY FROM ANY SOURCE.
WEI DO NOT INTEND TO LET OUR LEBANESE FRIENDS DOWN® IN
PARTICULAR WE WOULD EMPHASIZE THAT OUR SUPPORT FOR
TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF LEBANON MEANS THEI COUNTRY OF
LEBANON WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES: WHICH HAVE EXISTED SINCE
1949. WE HAVE NOT HAD OCCASION TO MAKE EXPLICIT REFERENCE
TO LEBANESE FRONTIERS IN OUR PREVIOUS BILATERAL OR FOUR-
POWER TALKS ON A PEACE SETTLEMENT SINCE THEY HAVE NOT BEEN
THEI SUBJECT OF SEPARATE DISCUSSION THE LEBANESE MAY BE
ASSURED, HOWEVER WE CONSIDER THAT THE OLD INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY
BETWEEN LEBANON AND PALESTINE (ARTICLE V ISRAELVLEBANESE ARMISTICE
AGREEMENT SHOULD BE THEI PERMANENT FRONTIER BETWEEN LEBANON AND
ISRAEL. WE KNOW OF LEBANESE! CONCERN THAT ISRAEL MIGHT TRY TO
ENCROACH UPON ITS TERRITORY, PARTICULARLY THE HEADWATERS OF
THE RIVER WHILEIWE THINK ANY SUCH ACTION IS UNLIKELY,
WE WISH TO ASSURE THE LEBANESE WEI WOULD NOT COUNTENANCE ANY
SUCH MOVE.
V . 21 WE ARE KEENLY AWAREI OF HIGHLY SENSITIVE PROB-
LEM FOR LEBANON IN ACCEPTING PALESTINIAN REFUGEES PERMAN-
ENTLY ON ITS TERRITORY. WE WOULD COOPERATE FULLY IN
WORKING OUT A SOLUTION WHICH DID NDT REQUIRE LEBANON TO
INTERGRATE THESE REFUGEES AS CIVIZENS OF LEBANON, WHICH
WE KNOW WOULD UPSET NARROW CONFESSIONAL BALANCE OF THE
COUNTRY. THERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS THIS COULD BE DONE.
ONE WAY, SUGGESTED BY LEBANESE, IS: CREATION OF A PALESTINIAN
STATE AND CONFERRING PALESTINIANI NATIONALITY ON REFUGEES.
WE THINK IT WOULD BE WRONG FOR US TO TAKE A STAND ON
THIS QUESTION BECAUSE A. VIABLE SOLUTION TO THE QUESTION OF
ESTABLISHING A SEPARATE STATE OF PALESTINE MUST REST ON
THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE IN THE AREA, WHICH WE ARE NOT YET
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ABLE TO ASSESS.
AS FAR AS MASSIVE MATERIAL SUPPORT IS CONCERNED, WE ARE
PREPARED TO CONTRIBUTE GENEROUSLY TO A SOLUTION WHICH WILL
INDUCE THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF REFUGEES TO ACQUIESCE IN A
SETTLEMENT ON TERMS ACCEPTABLE 70 ALL THE GOVERNMENTS IN THE
AREA. WE BELIEVE A THOROUGH-GOING STUDY IS REQUIRED OF THE
ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY OF OTHER COUNTRIES AND THE MEANS OF
ATTRACTING REFUGEES TO RESETTLE ELSEWHERE. IN THIS REGARD,
WE THINK A COMPREHENSIVE REGIONALI SURVEY OF THE ECONOMIC
POTENTIALI OF THE AREA UNDER NEUTRAL INTERNATIONAL AUSPICES,
SUCH AS THE WORLD BANK WOULD REVEAL WHAT POSSIBILITIES EXIST
IN THE ARAB WORLD. IN ADDITION, WEI WOULD EXPLORE THE
POSSIBILITY OF EMIGRATION OUTSIDEI THEI AREA TO PLACES
SUCH AS THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA AND SOUTH AMERICAN.
V. 31 IN CASE OF AN ARAB INTERVENTION, WEI WOULD
MAKE QUICKLY AND CLEARLY KNOWN OURI COMMITMENT TO THE
NATIONALI INDEPENDENCE AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF
EXETS
LEBANON. WE WOULD ALSO SEEK WAYS OF HELPING LEBANONI TO
ACQUIRE QUICKLY ANY ADDITIONAL MILITARY RESOURCES IT FELT
IT NEEDED TO PROTECT ITS INDEPENDENCE. WE WOULD ALSO CONCERT
WITH LEBANON'S OTHER FRIENDS, SUCH AS FRANCE AND THE UNITED
KINGDOM, TO ENSURE MAXIMUM FREE WORLD SUPPORT FOR THE
LEBANESE POSITION.
V . 41 ASSUMING THAT IN ANY FUTURE HOSTILITIES, LEBANON CONTINUES,
AS IN PAST, TO AVOID BELLIGERENT ACTIONS AGAINST ISRAELI
TERRITORY, WE WOULD STRONGLY URGE ISRAELIS TO RESPECT LEBANESE
NON- INVOLVEMENT AND WOULD OPPOSE ANY UNPROVOKED ATTACK ON
LEBANON FROM ANY QUARTER
V . 51 (REQUIRES SECRETARY'S PERSONAL ANSWER
V. 61 WE APPRECIATE GENERAL COUNSEL OF MODERATION BEING GIVEN
BY LEBANON TO ITS ARABI NEIGHBORS. WEI BELIEVE HER BEST CONTRI-
BUTION IS THROUGH FURTHER STRENGTHENING OF FRIENDLY TIES WITH
COUNTRIES SUCH AS SYRIA AND IRAQ, WHERE WE HOPE GOL WILL
CONTINUE ARGUE FOR MODERATION RESTRAINT, AND SUPPORT FOR PEACEFUL
SETTLEMENT. CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED RELATIONS WITH UAR
COULD ALSO ADD ADDITIONAL AND HELPFUL VOICE OF MODERATION IN
COUNCILS OF UARI GOVERNMENT. IN ADDITION, GOLI IS IN UNIQUE
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POSITION TO ENCOURAGE KEY OFFICIALS OF LARGEST PALESTINIAN
ORGANIZATION (FATAH) TOWARDS POLICY OF MODERATION.
V. 71 WE WILL CONTINUE TO COOPERATE WITH LEBANON,
AS ONE OF OUR CLOSE FRIENDS, WITHIN OVERALL FISCALI AND
CONGRESSIONAL LIMITATIONS UNDER WHICH WE OPERATE TO ADVANCE
DEVELOPMENT OF LEBANON® WE FULLY RECOGNIZE THAT LEBANESE
STABILITY, TO WHICH WE ATTACH GREAT IMPORTANCE MUST REST
ON SATISFACTION OF INCREASING DEMANDS FROM MOST SEGMENTS
OF LEBANESE POPULATION FOR EXPANDED OPPORTUNITIES FOR
EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT, AND IMPROVE STANDARD OF
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1 . PRESIDENT FRANGIE HAS INDICATED PREFERENCE MEET ALONE
WITH SECRETARY MONDAY EVENING BEFORE DINNER. (US INTER-
PRETER NICHOLAS MURPHY, FS0-5' WOULD ALSO BE PRESENT
THIS REFLECTS FACT CONSIDERABLE DISTRUST CONTINUES EXIST
BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND MOSLEM LEADERSHIP, AND PRESIDENT
IS APPARENTLY CONCERNED THAT IF THERE IS LARGE US
REPRESENTATION IN MEETING HE WOULD FEEL OBLIGED TO
INCLUDE PRIME MINISTER, SAEB SALAM HE CLEARLY FEELS
HE CAN TALK MUCH MORE FRANKLY BOTH ABOUT HIS PROBLEMS
WITH FEDAYEEN AND OTHER ARAB STATES IF SALAAM NOT
PRESENT. AS LONG AS MEETING INITIALLY BILLED AS TETE-A-
TETE HE WOULD PRESUMABLY FEELIHE COULD AVOID INVITING
PM. BEIRUT TELI 3456 REVEALS SENSITIVITY OF QUESTIONS HE
WILLI RAISE. IT IS QUITE CONCEIVABLE, HOWEVER, THAT AT
LAST MINUTE HE WOULD INDICATE INTEREST IN HAVING SISCO
AND ME JOIN DISCUSSION.
2. PRIME MINISTER TOLDI ME THAT FOR SECRETARY'S CALL ON
HIMI TUESDAY MORNING HE WOULD, AT MOST, HAVE ONE OR TWO
ASSOCIATES WITH HIM. US SIDE SHOULD PREFERABLY TOTAL
NO MORE THAN FOUR. IN ADDITION TO SECRETARY, I WOULD
SUGGEST, FOR EXAMPLE, SISCO, SEELYE AND MYSELF. INTERPRETER
WILL NOT BE NEEDED WITH SALAAM.
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EXCES EXCES EXCES
3. MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER: PRESUMABLY SAME SIZE AS PM.
4. RE PRESS CONFERENCE: ABOUT ONLY FREE TIME IN SECRE-
TARY'S SCHEDULE FOR PRESS CONFERENCE WOULD BE 9:00 A.M.
MAY 4. I WOULD BE RELUCTANT TO CROWD HIS SCHEDULE THAT
MUCH: IN ADDITION, THERE ARE SECURITY, PHYSICAL AND POLI-
TICAL PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN TRYING TO SELECT REPRESENTATIVES:
OF SOME FORTY-FIVE DAILY NEWSPAPERS AND 25 WEEKLIES WHICH
APPEAR IN BEIRUT, PARTICULARLY SINCE PRESS CONFERENCE WOULD
HAVE TO BE HELD IN THE RESIDENCE.
I BELIEVE MAIN EXPOSURE BY SECRETARY SHOULD COME IN
FORM OF ARRIVAL AND/OR DEPARTURE STATEMENT TO TV AND
PRESS AT AIRPORT, COMBINED WITH ANY BACKGROUNDING
MCCLOSKEY MIGHT CARE TO DO AT PRESS ROOM IN PHOENICIA
HOTEL IN ADDITION, I WILLITRY TO HAVE SOME RESPONSIBLE
PRESS REPRESENTATIVES AT LUNCH FOR SECRETARY MAY 4.
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1. GOL HAS PROVIDED US WITH BRIEFING PAPER (TEXT BELOW)
FROM WHICH PRESIDENT FRANGIE WILL SPEAK IN HIS MEETING
WITH SECRETARY. THIS PAPER HIGHLY SENSITIVE AND IS
KNOWN ONLY TO PRESIDENT, FOREIGN MINISTER AND SECGEN
OF FOREIGN OFFICE. ADVANCE DRAFT MOST USEFUL TO US:
SINCE IT INCLUDES, IN SECTION V , QUESTIONS WHICH PRESIDENT
WILLI ASK AND ANSWERS TO WHICH WILLI REQUIRE CAREFUL PREPARATION.
2. TO AVOID DUPLICATION GOLI HAS AGREED PRIME MINISTER
SALAAM AND FOREIGN MINISTER ABOUHAMAD SHOULD DISCUSS
LEBANON'S PROBLEMS WITH SECRETARY PRIMARILY IN ARAB
CONTEXT.
3. TEXT OF PAPER FOLLOWS:
"I. OUR IMMEDIATE PROBLEMS. 1) TO MAINTAIN INTERNAL
SECURITY AND PUBLIC ORDER WHICH MIGHT BE DISTURBED BY THE
FEDAYEEN AND THOSE WHO SUPPORT THEM. 21 TO CONTROL
FRONTIER ZONES TO FULLEST EXTENT POSSIBLE IN ORDER TO
AVOID ISRAELI REPOSTES. 3) IN EVENT OF CONFLICT WITH
FEDAYEEN TO AVOID (OR TO FACE POSSIBLE ARAB INTERVENTION.
"II. OUR LONGER TERM PROBLEMS% 11 TO MAINTAIN
TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF LEBANON (WE KNOW THAT ISRAEL COVETS:
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A PART OF OUR TERRITORY IN EVENT OF GRAVE TROUBLES ISRAEL
MAY ATTEMPT TO INTERVENE MILITARILY IN ORDER TO OCCUPY
TERRITORIES IT COVETS). 2) TO ARRIVE AT SATISFACTORY
SETTLEMENT OF PALESTINE PROBLEM WHEREBY MOST PALESTINIANS:
LEAVE LEBANON 3) TO KEEP LEBANONI OUT OF CONFLICT IF
HOSTILITIES RENEWED ON CANAL OR ON ALLI FRONTS. 41 TO
MAINTAIN UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES OUR DEMOCRATIC
INSTITUTIONS AND OUR LIBERAL ECONOMIC STRUCTURES. 51 AFTER
END OF HOSTILITIES TO ADAPT OURSELVES TO NEW CIRCUMSTANCES
AND DEVOTE MAJOR PART OF OUR EFFORTS TO ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT.
"III. OUR POLICY. 1) WE ATTEMPT TO AVOID CONFLICT
WITH FEDAYEEN: A CONSTANT DIALOGUEL A CLIMATE OF CONFIDENCE,
ETC. 21 WE REINFORCE OUR DEFENSIVE DISPOSITION IN THE
INTERIOR AS WELL AS ON SOUTHERN BORDER. 3) WE WILL IM-
PROVE OUR RELATIONS WITH OUR ARAB NEIGHBORS TO DEVELOPI
BETTER COMPREHENSION OF OUR PROBLEMS AND OUR POLICY.
41 WEI COUNT UPON OUR INTERNATIONALI FRIENDSHIPS AND,
IN THE FIRST PLACE, UPON THAT OF THE UNITED STATES.
"IV. THAT WHICH WE ALREADY KNOW OF US POLICY. 1) YOU
SUPPORT INDEPENDENCE OF LEBANON, ITS SOVEREIGNTY AND ITS
INTEGRITY. 2) YOU EXERT PRESSURE UPON ISRAEL SO THAT
ISRAELI RIPOSTES AGAINST FEDAYEEN ACTIONS WILL NOT BE
DISPROPORTIONATE TO PROVOCATIONS. 3) IN CASE OF UNPROVOKED
ISRAELI AGGRESSION YOU WILL DO ALLI WHICH IS IN YOUR POWER
TO PREVENT OR TERMINATE THE OCCUPATION. 41 YOUR ARE DISPOSED
TO ASSIST US IN STRENGTHENING OUR DEFENSE ($5 MILLION IN AID
AND A CREDIT OF $12 MILLION WHICH MIGHT BE AUGMENTED).
"V. WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR POLICY.
1) ARE YOU DISNOSED TO GUARANTEE IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES THE
TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF LEBANON? UNDER WHAT FORM? AND ON
WHAT CONDITIONS? 21 WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP US IN
REDUCING THE NUMBER OF REFUGEES? CREATE A PALESTINIAN
STATE INCLUDING THE OBLIGATORY ISSUANCE OF PALESTINIAN
NATIONALITY TO ALL THE REFUGEES? PROVIDE MASSIVE MATERIALI
AID TO A PALESTINIAN STATE TO ATTRACT REFUGEES TO IT?
ARRANGE A GENERAL AGREEMENT INCLUDING A DIVISION OF
REFUGEES AMONG THOSE COUNTRIES HAVING TRUE CAPACITY OF
ABSORPTION?.. 31 IN CASE OF AN ARAB INTERVENTION, WHAT
CAN YOU D0? 4) IN CASE OF A GENERAL RENEWAL OF HOSTILI-
TIES, WHAT ASSISTANCE CAN WE COUNT ON FROM YOU so CAN
REMAIN OUT OF THE CONFLICT? 5) CONSIDERING THAT OUR
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DIFFICULTIES CANNOT BE SOLVED IN A RADICAL MANNER
UNLESS THE WHOLE PROBLEM OF THE MIDDLE EAST IS ITSELF FINALLY
SOLVED, WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER ARE THE PRESENT CHANCES OF
A GENERAL SETTLEMENT AND IN WHAT APPROXIMATE TIME PERIOD
DO YOU THINK IT MIGHT COME ABOUT? 61 DO YOU DESIRE A DEMARCHE
OR SOME PARTICULAR ACTION ON OUR PART TO SUPPORT YOUR EFFORTS
TO ACHIEVE A SATISFACTORY GENERALI SETTLEMENT? 7) TO WHAT
EXTENT CAN WE COUNT ON YOUR COOPERATION IN ORDER TO
ASSURE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR COUNTRY?" GP = 3
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SUBJECT: SECRETARY'S TRIP
1. DURING DISCUSSION SECRETARY*S VISIT WITH FOREIGN
MINISTER APRIL 23, REPORTED SEPTELL ABOUHAMAD CONVEYED
SUGGESTION WHICH I HAD IMPRESSION WAS MADE TO HIM
YESTERDAY BY EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR FONMIN URGED THAT
AFTER SECRETARY'S VISIT TO TEL AVIV, SECRETARY STOP
AGAIN IN BEIRUT EN ROUTE HOME FOR SUCH VISIT GOL
WOULDINVITE UAR FOREIGN MINISTER TO BEIRUT FOR WIND-UP
DISCUSSIONS. PURPOSE OBVIOUSLY WOULD BE TO FIND
OUT WHAT, IF ANYTHING, ISRAELIS HAVE TO OFFER AND TO
SHOW THAT SECRETARY'S FINAL MEETING IN AREA WAS WITH
ARAB LEADERS.
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SECRETARY WOULD BE TRAVELLING ON A VERY TIGHT TIMETABLE
AND THAT HE HAS MANY COMMITMENTS IN WASHINGTON. GP - 3.
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1 . I CONCUR IN DEPTARTMENT'S JUDGMENT PARA 2 REFTEL
LEBANESE WOULD NOT WISH GET THIS MUCH INVOLVED IN SUBSTANCE
OF JARRING'S TALKS, EVEN ORALLY, AT THIS STAGE.
2. STORIES FROM ISRAEL THAT LEBANESE HAD PROVIDED
JARRING WITH "REPLY" TO ORIGINALI ISRAELI PROPOSALS
HAVE ALREADY EVOKED STRONG DENIALS HERE WITH EXPLANATION
LEBANON CONTINUES TO STAND ON 1949 ARMISTICE AGREEMENTS.
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1. SYRIANS HAVE GIVEN GREEN LIGHT FOR REPAIRS TO TAPLINE.
WELDING CREWS FROM LEBANON HAVE ALREADY ARRIVED SYRIA.
2. WE DO NOT HAVE DETAILS OF SETTLEMENT AS TAPLINE REPRESENTATIVES
HAVE NOT YET RETURNED FROM DAMASCUS.
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1. FOREIGN MINISTER PROVIDED US TODAY ON HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
BASIS WITH COPY OF LEBANESE ANSWER TO JARRING. IT FOLLOWS
LINE WE HAD AGREED WITH LEBANESE TO EFFECT THAT, AS COUNTRY
THAT DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN 67 WAR, THEY PREFER
NOT GET INVOLVED IN JARRING'S NEGOTIATIONS ALTHOUGH FINAL
PARAGRAPH LEAVES DOOR OPEN FOR PARTICIPATION IN FUTURE.
2. COPY WAS SENT LEBANESE UN MISSION JANUARY 27 AND WAS
TO BE GIVEN JARRING LAST NIGHT OR THIS MORNING.
BEGIN TEXT: AS HAS ALREADY BEEN EXPLAINED TO AMBASSADOR
JARRING BY LETTER DATED 18 ARRIL 1969, THE POSITION OF
LEBANON IN THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT IN ITS ENTIRETY AND,
CONSEQUENTLY, IN THE CONVERSATIONS RELATING TO THE APPLICA-
TION OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 242, FLOWS FROM
SPECIAL JURIDICAL AND POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS:
THE WAR OF JUNE 1967, WHICH DID NOT AFFECT LEBANESE TERRITORY,
WAS THE ORIGIN OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION OF 22
NOVEMBER 67. WHILE CONCERNED BY THE CONFLICT BECAUSE OF
THE TIES WHICH LINK IT AND THE ARAB COUNTRIES, BECAUSE
OF THE PRIMARY INTEREST WHICH IT ATTACHES TO THE RECOGNITION
OF THE RIGHTS OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, AND BECAUSE OF
CONSTANT ISRAELI THREATS AGAINST IT, LEBANON CONSIDERS THAT
THEI INTERNATIONAL ACT WHICH PRESENTLY GOVERNS ITS RELATIONS
WITH ISRAEL IS THE LEBANESE- ISRAELI ARMISTICE CONVENTION
CONCLUDED UNDER THE AEGIS OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND WITH
ITS ACTIVE PARTICIPATION ON MARCH 23, 1949.
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LONGER NEED BE EXPLAINED AND WHICH MR. THANT EXPOUNDED
IN HIS REPORT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 19, 1967.
LEBANON AND ISRAEL ARE LINKED BY ENGAGEMENTS WHICH THEY
HAVE CONTRACTED. LEBANON's FOR ITS PART, HAS ALWAYS
RESPECTED ITS ENGAGEMENTS.
THE DIPOSITIONS OF THE ARMISTICE CONVENTION COVER MOST
OF THE ESSENTIAL OBJECTIVES OF THE NEGOTIATIONS NOW GOING
FORWARD UNDER THAT AEGIS OF AMBASSADOR JARRING. IN FACT,
THIS CONVENTION ESTABLISHES THAT THE ARMISTICE LINES
BETWEEN LEBANON AND ISRAEL COINCIDE COMPLETELY WITH THE
INTERNATIONAL FRONTIER BETWEEN LEBANON AND PALESTINE.
THIS FRONTIER HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED WITHOUT INTERRUPTION
BY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS IN
BILATERAL AND MULTILATERAL DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTS AT THE
SAME TIME, THE SAME CONVENTION IMPLIES THE NON-RECOURSE
TO MILITARY FORCE. IT ESTABLISHES A PRECISE PROCEDURE
AND CREATED A SPECIAL ORGANISM WITH THE PARTICIPATION
AND UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE UNITED NATIONS TO
CONTROL THE EXECUTION OF THESE DISPOSITIONS.
IT THUS APPEARS THAT THE ADOPTION OF ANY OTHER POSITION
BY LEBANON AT THE PRESENT TIME WOULD HAVE NO PURPOSE.
IF THE SITUATION EVOLVES LEBANON, WHICH HAS ALWAYS FULLY
COOPERATED WITH THE UNITED NATIONS, WILL BE INSPIRED BY
THIS SPIRIT OF COOPERATION IN THE ATTITUDES WHICH IT MAY
BE CALLED UPON TO ADOPT. GP - 3 °
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SUBJECT: TAPLINE NEGOTIATIONS WITH SYRIA
REF: STATE 13891
1. FOLLOWING RECEIPT OF REFTEL, WE REVIEWED PRESENT
STATUS OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH TAPLINE PRES CHANDLER.
TAPLINE CHIEF NEGOTIATOR ROBINSON HAD ANOTHER SESSION WITH
SYRIANS EVENING JANUARY 26 AT ONE LEVEL HIGHER
IN SYRIAN HIERARCHY, NAMELY DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
HILAL WHO HAS OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ECONOMIC
AFFAIRS. AT THIS NEXT LEVEL IN NEGOTIATIONS, FOUR
POINTS WERE RAISED BY HILAL:
A. TAPLINE WISHED REMOVE LIMITATION ON SHIPMENTS
THROUGH LINE OF 175 MILLION BARRELS ANNUALLY. HILAL
ARGUED THAT ECONOMIES ON SCALE WOULD REDUCE UNIT COSTS
FOR TAPLINE AND ASKED ONE-HALF CENT BARREL ROYALTIES
ON EXCESS SHIPMENTS. CHANDLER BELIEVED THAT AFTER
DISCUSSION COMPROMISE WOULD BE REACHED BY RAISING
LIMITATION TO 190 MILLION WITHOUT INCREASED ROYALTY;
B. TAPLINE-SYRIAN AGREEMENTS HAVE PROVISION
WHEREBY TAPLINE CAN SUPPLY 50 PERCENT SARG CRUDE OIL
REQUIREMENTS. (THIS IS DONE BY IPC DELIVERIES WITH
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WISHES TO CANCEL THIS SO-CALLED "CRUDE OPTION" AND
PROPOSED $400,000 PAYMENT TO EQUATE WITH DISCOUNT ON
POSTED PRICE BEING GRANTED SYRIANS. THEN IN NEGOTIATIONS
TAPLINE THREW IN ADDITIONAL $400,000 AS SORT OF EX-
GRATIA PAYMENT. HILAL POSITION WAS THAT SYRIANS
WANTED CRUDE OPTION RETAINED BUT DEMANDED TAPLINE MAKE
$400,000 EX-GRATIA PAYMENT ANYHOW;
C. HIGHER ROYALTIES ON FUTURE SHIPMENTS HAD
BEEN PROPOSED BY TAPLINE FOR PERIOD OF 24 MONTHS
ONLY. HILAL INSISTED THESE PAYMENTS NOT BE SUBJECTED
TO ANY LIMITATION;
D) HILAL INSISTED THAT RETROACTIVELY PAYMENT OF
NINE MILLION DOLLARS BE MADE IN ONE LUMP SUM RATHER
THAN PARTIALLY SPREAD OVER TWO YEARS (SEE BEIRUT 720
FOR DETAILS). CHANDLER SAID ON THIS POINT ROBINSON
USED BRINKMANSHIP APPROACH, STATING THAT TAPLINE OWNERS
WOULD MAKE NO FURTHER CONCESSIONS THIS POINT AND WERE
PREPARED TO SEE LINE CLOSED INDEFINITELY RATHER THAN
GIVE IN. THIS POSITION DREW FROM HILAL ASSURANCES
SYRIANS DID INDEED WANT TO SEE LINE REOPEN, ETC., AND
SAID QUESTION WOULD BE RECONSIDERED IN NEXT DISCUSSION.
2. ROBINSON RETURNED DAMASCUS MORNING JANUARY 27 FOR
FURTHER NEGOTIATING SESSION WITH HILAL, NOW UNDERWAY.
AFTER OUR CONVERSATION CHANDLER TELEPHONED TO SAY HIS
APPOINTMENT WITH ASAD IS FOR TOMORROW, JANUARY 28,
RATHER THAN LATER TODAY.
3. WE REVIEWED SUBSTANCE REFTEL WITH CHANDLER ON
IMF AND COMMERCIAL BANK FUNDING. HE AGREED BEST COURSE
IS TO AWAIT RESULTS HIS DISCUSSIONS WITH ASAD. HE REITEREATED
TO EMBOFF THAT HIS OWNERS HAD GIVEN HIM NO LEEWAY
ON INCREASED RETROACTIVITY CASH PAYMENTS BUT
THOUGHT IF GOING GOT TOUGH, HE MIGHT FLOAT IDEA OF
TAPLINE'S GOOD OFFICES WITH FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.
4. WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO PARAGRAPH 2 OF REFTEL,
RELUCTANCE TO MAKE FULL AND IMMEDIATE CASH PAYMENTS
IS NOT ON PART OF TAPLINE BEIRUT BUT OF TAPLINE OWNERS
IN U.S. WHO CONTROL TAPLINE THROUGH EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
IN NEW YORK, REFERRED TO COMMONLY AS EXCON.
CHANDLER SAID HE HAD VERY DIFFICULT NEGOTIATING JOB
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WITH EXCON TO GET WHAT HE HAD ALREADY. WHILE
ACCEPTING THE LOGIC OF DEPT'S VIEWS, CHANDLER
EMPHASIZED TO EMBOFF THAT HE DID NOT WANT TO BE
PUT IN POSITION OF APPARENTLY GOING BEHIND EXCON'S
BACK TO APPEAL TO DEPT. MOREOVER, HE RECOGNIZED
IT WAS GOOD NEGOTIATING TACTICS ON EXCON'S PART TO HOLD
LINE AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, ESPECIALLY WHEN GOING IS
TOUGH. THUS, HE PLANS HOLD TO "BRINKMANSHIP"
POSITION ALTHOUGH OBVIOUSLY HE WILL LEAVE HIMSELF
LAST-MINUTE LOOPNHOLE. CHANDLER SAID HE WAS FULLY AWARE
OF IMPORTANT ROLE TAPLINE COULD PLAY IN INFLUENCING
NEGOTIATIONS IN LIBYA AND ELSEWHERE. HOWEVER, AT SAME
TIME HE BELIEVED PENDING OUTCOME HIS CONVERSATION WITH
ASAD, THAT DEPT. SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO URGE EXCON INTO
MORE GENEROUS TERMS. HE REFERRED FREQUENTLY DURING
CONVERSATION TO POLITICAL RISKS OF POSSIBLE FUTURE
TAPLINE CLOSURES THAT WOULD MAKE PAYMENT OF FULL
AMOUNTS SOMEWHAT OF A GAMBLE.
5. COMMENT: WE BELIEVE WE SHOULD HAVE BETTER FIX ON
FINAL SYRIAN POSITION AFTER CHANDLER-ASAD TALKS
AND THUS ARE INCLINED TO DEFER TO CHANDLER'S WISHES
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SUBJECT: TAPLINE NEGOTIATIONS AND REOPENING
REF: LONDON 0602 (REPEATED BEIRUT AS STATE 123511
1. SINCE OUR LAST REVIEW SYRIAN NEGOTIATIONS ON JAN 21
WITH TAPLINE CHIEF NEGOTIATOR ROBINSON (BEIRUT 6021, HE
HADI SESSION IN DAMASCUS JAN 24 AND IS RETURNING
FOR ANOTHER SESSION TODAY JAN 25. PRIOR RECEIPT REFTEL,
ROBINSON ASKED US DELAY OUR REQUESTED MEETING VTITH HIM
UNTIL THIS EVENING.
2. COMMENT: EVEN WITHOUT INFO ON REFTEL THE SUDDENLY
QUICKENED PACE THESE NEGOTIATIONS SUGGESTS TAPLINE AND
SARG WERE NEARING AGREEMENT. KEY ISSUE HAS BEEN HOW MUCH
SARG WILL SETTLE FOR. HOPEFULLY WE WILL HAVE BETTER
FIX LATER TODAY ON PRICE OF THE RUG NOW BEING HAGGLED
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1. AS AUTHORIZED BY DEPARTMENT I INFORMED FOREIGN
MINISTER LATE JANUARY 15 WE THOUGHT GOL WOULD BE WELL
ADVISED TO HANG BACK A BIT IN JARRING NEGOTIATIONS AND
RESERVE COMMENT ON ISRAELI PROPOSALS AT THIS STAGE OF
THE PROCEEDING OTHER THAN TO SAY THEY WERE GLAD SUBSTANTIVE
TALKS WERE IN TRAIN. HE AGREED.
2. ABU HAMAD INDICATED SURPRISE AT REPORT RECEIVED TODAY
FROM CHARLES MALIK WHO HAD JUST DISCUSSED ISRAELI
PROPOSALS WITH U THANT. FOREIGN MINISTER SAID WHILE
JARRING HAD BEEN OPTIMISTIC WITH GHORRA, U THANT TENDED
TO DISMISS ISRAELI PAPER AS CONTAINING NOTHING NEW AND
IMPLYING THEY OFFER LITTLE HOPE FOR MAKING PROGRESS.
3. SOVIET AMBASSADOR CALLED ON FOREIGN MINISTER TODAY AND
ALSO TOOK PESSIMISTIC LINE ABOUT PROSPECTS FOR NEGOTIATIONS.
HE SEEMED PARTICULARLY VEXED, ACCORDING TO FOREIGN
MINISTER, AT US REFUSAL GET AHEAD WITH FOUR-POWER TALKS.
IN ADDITION, SOVIET AMBASSADOR BASED HIS PESSIMISM ON
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STATEMENT HE ALLEGED SECRETARY MADE TO U THANT IN JANUARY 4
MEETING THAT US HAD FRONTIERS OTHER THAN JORDAN IN MIND
WHEN WE SPOKE OF "MINOR RECTIFICATION." (SINCE AZIMOV
ALSO RAISED THIS POINT WITH ME (BEIRUT TEL 347) I CAN ONLY
ASSUME HE IS SPREADING STORY PRETTY WIDELY AND WONDER IF
SOVIET DIPLOMATS ELSEWHERE MIGHT NOT ALSO BE TRYING TO
DENIGRATE US POSITION BY CITING THIS ALLEGED REMARK.
4. ABU HAMAD SAID EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR WAS CALLING NEXT
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AND OFFERED TO MAKE ANY POINTS TO HIM THAT WE WISHED. I
SUGGESTED HE URGE EGYPTIANS SEIZE ON ISRAELI PROPOSALS
AS: POINT OF DEPARTURE AND THAT THEY COME BACK WITH
SPECIFIC COUNTER- PROPOSALS. I ALSO HOPED LEBANESE WOULD
TRY AND HELP STEER EGYPTIANS AWAY FROM SC MEETING. ON
LATTER POINT, ABU HAMAD EXPRESSED OPINION RUSSIANS ARE
THE ONES WHO ARE PUSHING THE EGYPTIANS TOWARD SC MEETING
IN PART, PERHAPS, BECAUSE THEY ARE IRRITATED AT OUR
APPROACH TO FOUR-POWER TALKS AND FACT THAT UP TO NOW US:
HAS GAINED THE MAJOR CREDIT FOR GETTING JARRING MISSION
RESTARTED. FONMIN EXPRESSED COMPLETE CONFIDENCE THAT EGYPTIANS
SINCERELY WANT PEACE. HE SAID EVERY COMMENT FROM THEM
HERE AND IN CAIRO CONFIRMS THIS. (THIS IS UNANIMOUS
VIEW OF ALL LEBANESE I HAVE SPOKEN TO, INCLUDING SOME
WHO ARE BASICALLY VERY ANTI EGYPTIAN. FOR EXAMPLE, HEAD
OF RIGHT WING PHALANGE. PIERRE GEMAYEL, TOLD ME
YESTERDAY A LEADING EGYPTIAN RECENTLY SAID TO HIM THAT
WHILE US AND BRITISH IMPERIALISM STILL EXIST AND THEY MUST
BEWARE OF IT, so DOES RUSSIAN IMPERIALISM AND IT IS ONE HUNDRED
TIMES WORSE. GP-3.
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10 FOREIGN MINISTER SUMMONED ME 6 P.M. TO CONTINUE DIS-
CUSSION OF LAST NIGHT'S ISRAELI RAID. HE SAID POSSIBILITY OF
CONVENING SC HAD BEEN DISCUSSED WITH PRESIDENT FRANGIE
AND ALL ARGUMENTS AGAINST DOING SO WHICH I MADE TO SHAMMAS
THIS MORNING WERE CONVEYED TO HIM. PRESIDENT AGREED NOT TO
ASK FOR COUNCIL MEETING. HE DID SO BECAUSE OF LEBANON'S CON-
TINUED FERVENT DESIRE TO CONTRIBUTE TO SUCCESS OF JARRING
MISSION AND BECAUSE OF FACT WE WERE MAKING DEMARCHES TO ISRAELIS
TO DETER REPITITION SUCH ATTACKS ABU HAMAD CONFIRMED WHAT
SHAMMAS HAD SAID EARLIER THAT PREVAILING SENTIMENT IN
CABINET HAD BEEN TO FAVOR IMMEDIATE CONVOCATION OF SC
BUT PRESIDENT HAD OVERRULED THEM.
2. FOREIGN MINISTER SAID GOL REMAINS HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS
RAID REFLECTED ISRAELI INTENTION SABOTAGE JARRING TALKS.
HE THEN PROCEEDED PROVIDE ADDITIONAL DETAILS ABOUT
FEDAYEEN OPERATIONS FROM SARAFAND WHICH HE ACCURATELY
DESCRIBED AS COMING RIGHT OUT OF A JAMES BOND THRILLER.
OVER YEAR AGO, HE SAID ARMY INTELLIGENCE HAD WARNED FEDAYEEN
THAT A KNOWN ESPIONAGE ISRAELI AGENT, USING NAME SA'DIA WAS
ATTEMPTING TO INFILTRATE THEIR RANKS. FEDAYEEN REFUSED
TO BELIEVE MILITARY INTELLIGENCE, APPARENTLY CAPTIVATED BY
ELOQUENT ESPOUSAL THEIR CAUSE BY SA'DI SA'DI ALLEGEDLY
ENTICED FEDAYEEN AT SARAFAND TO ORGANIZE A LARGE-SCALE
FROGMAN OPERATION AGAINST ISRAEL. WHILE ISRAELIS REPORT
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ONLY ONE BOAT WITH 6-MAN TEAM LANDED, ACCORDING TO ABU HAMAD 5
FEDAYEEN VESSELS ACTUALLY HEADED FOR ISRAEL JANUARY 2 WITH
TOTAL OF 25 MEN. ONLY FIRST CRAFT LANDED AND WAS IM-
MEDIATELY PICKED UP BY ISRAELIS WHO HAD OBVIOUSLY LAID
TRAP. REMAINING FOUR VESSELS WHICH HAD HUNG BACK OUTSIDE
ISRAELI TERRITORIAL WATERS TURNED AND RAN SAFELY FOR HOME
WHEN THESE FACTS CAME TO ATTENTION OF LEBANESE MILITARY
AUTHORITIES, THEY ADVISED REMAINING FEDAYEEN IN SARAFAND BY
LETTER THAT THEY SHOULD ABANDON THEIR BASE THERE.
FEDAYEEN IGNORED LETTER. DURING LAST NIGHT'S RAID SADI
WAS SEEN AND HEARD BY FEDAYEEN AS PARTICIPANT IN ISRAELI
RAIDING PARTY WHICH FINALLY CONVINCED THEM HE WAS ISRAELI
AGENT AND THEIR WHOLE FROGMAN OPERATION HAD BEEN ISRAELI
PROVOCATION.
3. ABU HAMAD SAID THESE DETAILS BEING TREATED IN GREAT SECRECY.
HE SAID HE WAS FORCED TO CONCLUDE ISRAELIS HAD SPRUNG THIS
OPERATION NOW IN EFFORT TO FORCE LEBANESE GOVERNMENT INTO CALLING
SC MEETING WHICH WOULD JEOPARDIZE JARRING NEGOTIATIONS.
(I TRIED TO DISABUSE HIM OF THIS THESIS BUT DOUBT I CONVINCED
HIM. 1 GP GP-3.
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SUBJECT: JARRING MISSION AND LEBANON
1. FOREIGN MINISTER ABU HAMAD CALLED ME TO HIS OFFICE
JANUARY 14 TO DISCUSS JARRING MISSION. HE HANDED ME
EXPIS
COPY OF ISRAELI PAPER ON SETTLEMENT WITH LEBANON
(PAPER IDENTICAL WITH VERSION GIVEN EMBASSY TEL AVIV
BY GAZIT, TEL AVIV TEL 1521 WHICH JARRING HAD GIVEN
GHORRA IN NY. ABU HAMAD SAID GHORRA HAD CORRECTLY TOLD
JARRING HE COULD MERELY TAKE NOTE OF THE DOCUMENT AND TRANSMIT
IT TO HIS GOVERNMENT. (GHORRA REPORTEDLY FOUND JARRING
IN OPTIMISTIC FRAME OF MIND.)
2. FOREIGN MINISTER EXPRESSED SURPRISE ISRAELI'S SEEKING TO
ENGAGE LEBANON IN NEGOTIATING PROCESS IN SUCH FORMAL WAY
AND PARTICULARLY CONCERNED AT JAMES RESTON'S REPORT IN
NEW YORK TIMES WHICH ALLEGEDLY QUOTES GOLDA MEIR SAYING
READY TO CONCLUDE PEACE SETTLEMENT WITH LEBANON
BASED ON OLD INTERNATIONAL BACKGROUND. HE FEARED THIS
MIGHT BE EFFORT TO DIVIDE LEBANON FROM OTHER ARAB STATES.
3. FONMIN ASKED WHAT US VIEWS WERE ON ISRAELI PROPOSALS
AND I RESPONDED DRAWING ON SISCO'S COMMENTS TO SHARAF THAT
WE BELIEVE THEY SHOULD BE USED AS A STARTING POINT FOR
SERIOUS SUBSTANTIVE DISCUSSIONS.
4. FONMIN RECALLED LEBANON HAS TRADITIONALLY PREFERRED TO
KEEP IN BACKGROUND OF JARRING EFFORTS AND LET UAR AND JORDAN
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BE FRONT RUNNERS SINCE ISRAEL IS OCCUPYING THEIR
TERRITORY WHILE LEBANON HAD NOT BEEN INVOLVED IN '67 CONFLICT
AND IS NOT OCCUPIED. HE IS DISPOSED TO RETAIN LOW PROFILE
BUT SAID HE WANTED TO CONSULT ME ON INFORMAL BASIS BEFORE
GIVING RECOMMENDATION TO PRESIDENT FRANGIE SINCE HE
CONSIDERED MATTER EXTREMELY SERIOUS ONE AND WOULD ATTACH
GREAT IMPORTANCE TO OUR ADVICE IN FORMULATING
FINAL RECOMMENDATION. I SAID I WOULD LIKE TO REFLECT
AND SEE WHETHER MY GOVERNMENT HAD ANY ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND
TO PROVIDE.
COMMENT: REQUEST DEPARTMENT TAKE HARD LOOK AND PROS AND CONS
INVOLVING LEBANON MORE ACTIVELY IN NEGOTIATING PROCESS. ON
HASTY REFLECTION I BELIEVE DISADVANTAGES OF ENGAGING GOL
ON SAME BASIS AS UAR AND JORDAN OUTWEIGH ADVANTAGES.
OF COURSE, LEBANON COULD BE COUNTED ON AS AN ADDITONAL
MODERATE VOICE IN THE PROCESS. HOWEVER, BELIEVE WE CAN
ASSUME SUCH COUNSEL OF MODERATION WILL COME FROM
LEBANESE GOVERNMENT TO OTHER ARABS WHETHER OR NOT IT
FORMALLY ENGAGED ON CONTINUING BASIS WITH JARRING.
ADVANTAGES WOULD BE GREATER IF GOL HAD STRONG AND
IMAGINATIVE REPRESENTATIVE IN NEW YORK WHO COULD INFLUENCE
OTHER PARTICIPANTS. HOWEVER, ALTHOUGH GHORRA EXTREMELY
WELL DISPOSED TO US AND COMPLETELY MODERATE IN OUTLOOK HE
ALWAYS STRUCK ME AS BEING LIGHTWEIGHT AND COMPLETELY
DOMINATED BY EL-ZAYATT. EVEN IF PARTY TO NEGOTIATIONS,
I ALSO SUSPECT GOL AS MATTER OF OFFICIAL
POLICY TO LET UAR TAKE MAJOR LEAD. TRADITIONALLY,
OF COURSE, LEBANON LIKES TO HIDE BEHIND EGYPTIAN SKIRTS
WHEN IT COMES TO ANY DEALINGS WITH ISRAEL.
AS DEPT AWARE GOL DOES NOT HAVE PHYSICAL OR POLITICAL
STRENGTH OF EITHER JORDANIAN OR EGYPTIANS REGIMES TO TAKE
LEAD IN ADVOCATING HARD DECISIONS WHAT WILL BE INVOLVED
IN ACCEPTING BINDING PEACE COMMITMENTS. NATURALLY
LEBANON WILL HAVE TO BE INVOLVED AT THE END OF THE PROCESS
AND HAS A PARTICULAR STAKE IN DISPOSITION OF 250,000
PALESTINIANS NOW ON HER TERRITORY.
ACCORDINGLY, UNLESS DEPT SEES COUNTERVAILING REASONS,
RECOMMEND I BE AUTHORIZED GO BACK TO FONMIN AND SAY
WE CONSIDER WISEST APPROACH FOR LEBANON WOULD BE TO TELL
JARRING: (1) IT APPRECIATES HIS TRANSMITTAL OF ISRAELI
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PROPOSAL, (2) GOL WELCOMES FACT SUBSTANTIVE DISCUSSIONS
APPEAR IN TRAIN (3) HOWEVER, SINCE LEBANON, AS NON-
PARTICIPANT IN 1967 CONFLICT, DOES NOT HAVE SAME PROBLEMS
WITH ISRAEL AS OTHER ARAB NEIGHBORS IT PREFERS WITHHOLD
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COMMENTS ON TERMS OF PEACE SETTLEMENT UNTIL STATES MORE
DIRECTLY CONCERNED MAKE HEADWAY IN RESOLVING SOME OF
THEIR DIFFERENCES. GP = 3 °
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10 PAID INITIAL COURTESY CALL JANUARY 13 ON SOVIET
AMBASSADOR AZIMOV WHO HAS BEEN IN USSR MOST OF THE TIME SINCE
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MY ARRIVAL. DISCUSSION, WHICH WAS EXTREMELY CORDIAL CONe
CENTRATED ON MIDDLE EAST
20 I SAID WE WERE ENCOURAGED TO NOTE THAT JARRING WAS
STARTING OFF QUICKLY WITH SUBSTANTIVE DISCUSSIONS SINCE WE
BELIEVED IT IMPORTANT TO MAKE RAPID PROGRESS. AZIMOV
CONCURRED THAT SPEED IS ESSENTIAL SAYING SITUATION IN AREA
IS DANGEROUS AND EVERY EFFORT MUST BE MADE TO FIND A PEACE-
FUL SETTLEMENT "NO MATTER WHAT THE COST."
3° SOV AMB EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT CURRENT FIGHTING IN
JORDAN MIGHT OFFER EXCUSE TO "EXTREMIST ELEMENTS" TO DISRUPT
JARRING NEGOTIATION. HE DID NOT SEEK TO ATTACH BLAME TO ANYONE
FOR CURRENT FIGHTING AND CONCURRED IN MY SPECULATION SOURCE OF
DIFFICULTIES MIGHT BE PROVOCATEURS OF PFLP STRIPE WHO WISH
EXCES
SABOTAGE NEGOTIATION EFFORTS.
40 AZIMOV COMMENTED IN GENERAL THAT "UNFORTUNATELY, IN PARTS
OF ARAB WORLD THERE IS STILL NOT SUFFICIENT REALISM ABOUT THE
NEED FOR A SETTLEMENT BASED ON RES. 242."
5. AZIMOV MADE LOW KEY APPEAL FOR REACTIVATION FOUR-POWER
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EFFORTS IN NEW YORK, BUT VOLUNTEERED THAT HE FULLY UNDER-
STOOD CONCERN OF THE UNITED STATES AT THIS STAGE NOT TO GIVE
IMPRESSION OUTSIDE PRESSURE BEING BROUGHT TO BEAR ON ISRAEL.
60 SOVIET AMBASSADOR TWICE ASKED WHAT WAS SIGNIFICANCE OF
ALLEGED STATEMENT BY SECRETARY ROGERS TO U THANT IN HIS
MEETING JANUARY 4 THAT PROPOSALS FOR "MINOR RECTIFICATIONS"
WOULD NOT BE CONFINED TO JORDAN. HE SAID HE HAD IMPRESSION
COMMENT MAY HAVE REFERRED TO ISRAELI POSITION. I SAID I
COULD NOT ENLIGHTEN HIM ON THIS POINT (SINCE WE HAVE NOT
RECEIVED REPORT ON SECRETARY'S CONVERSATION) EXCEPT TO SAY IT
WAS WIDELY ASSUMED ISRAELIS WOULD BE ASKING FOR TERRITORIAL
CHANGES ON FRONTIERS OTHER THAN JORDANIAN BORDER. I ADDED
THAT AS FAR AS US POSITION CONCERNED, WE STOOD ON ROGERS PLAN
OF DECEMBER 1969 AND RECALLED US HAD NEVER SPELLED OUT IN
DETAIL WHAT WE MEANT BY "MINOR RECTIFICATIONS"
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SUBJ: ISRAELI-LEBANESE BORDER SITUATION
10 AT LUNCH JANUARY 8, I DISCUSSED PROBLEM INCREASED BORDER
TENSION WITH DEFENSE MINISTER SABA. I SAID GENERAL NOUJAIM
HAD TOLD ME SEVERAL TIMES LEBANESE ARMY TRYING TO IMPROVE
ITS PERFORMANCE IN CONTROLLING BORDER INCIDENTS BUT, REGRETTABLY,
WE SAW STEADY INCREASE AND ASKED TO BE INFORMED IN PRECISE
DETAIL WHAT GOL WAS DOING TO DETER FURTHER ATTACKS.
20 SABA SAID IN SOME EMBARRASSMENT THAT, WHILE ISRAELIS
WERE EXAGGERATING IMPORTANCE OF THESE INCIDENTS, IT IS
TRUE LEBANESE MILITARY PERFORMANCE IS NOT ALL IT SHOULD BE o
HE SAID IN EXPECTATION FATAH WOULD BRING MORE EXTREME ELEMENTS
UNDER CONTROL, LEBANESE ARMY HAD NOT BEEN TAKING MUCH INITIATIVE
OF LATE.
3. I SAID ALL INDICATIONS TO ME WERE THAT UNLESS GREATER CALM
RESTORED, GOVERNMENT OF LEBANON WOULD BE FACED WITH ANOTHER
SERIOUS ISRAELI RAID ON ITS TERRITORY AND URGED THAT GOL
ISSUE TIGHTER ORDERS TO ITS FORCES TO REDUCE FEDAYEEN
VIOLENCE ACROSS: THE BORDER.
40 SABA WAS DULY CONCERNED AND PROMISED RAISE MATTER WITH
PRESIDENT FRANGIE DURING MEETING SCHEDULED LATER TODAY.
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SALAM TOLD ME FOLLOWING
1 ° HIS TALKS WITH ARAFAT OVER WEEKEND WENT EXCEEDINGLY
WELL. ARAFAT WELL ALONG IN WORKING OUT ARRANGEMENTS TO
BRING OPERATIONS OF SYRIAN-BACKED SAIGA UNDER HIS
CONTROL AND NEW GOVERNMENT IN DAMASCUS FULLY SUPPORTING
HIM THIS REGARD.
2% ARAFAT GAVE ASSURANCE THERE WILL BE NO MORE CROSS-
BORDER FIRING FROM LEBANON INTO ISRAEL (ALTHOUGH CROSS-
BORDER OPERATIONS STILL PERMITTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH
CAIRO AGREEMENT) : SALAM CONFIDENT THIS AGREEMENT WILL
BE KEPT AS SOON AS ALL SAIGA ELEMENTS FINALLY BROUGHT
UNDER ARAFATOS CONTROL.
30 ARAFAT REASSURED GOL HE WOULD COOPERATE IN INSISTING
COMMANDOS RESPECT LEBANESE CIVIL LAW. THIS CONNECTION
FATAH HAS RECENTLY HANDED OVER FOUR COMMANDOS GUILTY OF
MURDER AND HAS GIVEN SALAM FREE HAND TO MOVE AGAINST
SMALL COMMUNIST-LED GROUP OF COMMANDOS IN BIBLOS.
40 SALAM TREMENDOUSLY PLEASED WITH IMPROVEMENT IN
INTERNAL SECURITY SITUATION SINCE ADVENT HIS GOVERNMENT
AND CONFIDENT THAT WITH WEEKEND'S AGREEMENT WITH ARAFAT,
GOL WILL NOW HAVE SITUATION IN COUNTRY GENUINELY UNDER
CONTROL.
5 % DISPITE FOREGOING SALAM FEARS ADDITIONAL ISRAELI
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ATTACKS ON LEBANON FOR PURELY POLITICAL REASONS.
HE ALSO CONVINCED, DESPITE MY ARGUMENTS TO CONTRARY,
THAT ISRAELI HELICOPTER= BORNE ATTACK ON YATER WAS
LAUNCHED TO DEMONSTRATE ISRAELI TOUGHNESS ON EVE OF
JARRING'S NEGOTIATIONS AND NOT REPT NOT BECAUSE THERE WAS
ANY REASON ABLE DEGREE OF PROVOCATION.
60 ALTHOUGH ARAFAT MOST CONCILIATORY IN DESIRING GOOD
RELATIONS WITH GOLD HE AND HIS
COLLEAGUES COMPLETELY ADAMANT INSOFAR AS THEIR VIEWS ON
PALESTINIAN SETTLEMENT CONCERNED. COMMANDO LEADERSHIP,
SAID ARAFAT, HE, WILL NOT SETTLE FOR ANYTHING LESS THAN ARRANGE-
MENT WHICH PROVIDES FOR LIQUIDATION OF ZIONIST CONTROL IN
PALESTINE. FOR THIS REASON, AND ALTHOUGH HE CONVINCED
EGYPTIANS SINCERELY WANT SETTLEMENT BASED ON SC RESOLUTION 242,
SALAM REMAINS PESSIMISTIC ABOUT PROSPECTS FOR PEACE. GP = 3 °
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1. IN LENGTHY LUNCHEON CONVERSATION JANUARY 4 REPORTED
SEPTEL, PRIME MINISTER SALAM TOLD ME HE HAD REVIEWED
LEBANON'S FUTURE MILITARY REQUIREMENTS THIS MORNING. HE
INDICATED GOVERNMENT HAD DECIDED PURSUE INITIAL REQUEST
FOR RECONDITIONED M - 4 1 TANK AND WOULD BE INFORMING Us
OFFICIALLY OF THIS IN NEAR FUTURE.
2. I TOLD HIM WE WERE READY TO COOPERATEE IN ANY WAY TO
EASE GOL POLITICAL PROBLEMS IN CONNECTION WITH ACCEPTANCE
US $5 MILLION GRANT WHEN FINALLY TENDERED. HE INDICATED
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MENT OF UNEF AND AN ENLARGED UNTSO ALONG CEASE-FIRE LINES
IN EGYPT AND SYRIA BEFORE BROACHING IDEA OF UN PRESENCE
ON RELATIVELY QUIESCENT LEBANON-ISRAEL BORDER. IN DUE
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1 ₽ FINAL WORD IN SECOND SENTENCE OF PARAGRAPH ONE IN
REFTEL SHOULD BE"CONDUCT" RATHER THAN "CONTACTS."
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REFS: LONDON 13163 AND 16167
1. PASSPORT OFFICE FURNISHES FOLLOWING INFORMATION
ON KHALED MAHMUD DIAB, 300 CULLEN LAKE SHORE DRIVE,
ORLANDO, FLA.
2. PASSPORT D 2244032 ISSUED WASHINGTON AUG. 29, 1973
TO REPLACE ONE ISSUED MAY 15, 1973 IN MIAMI PROBABLY
BECAUSE OF MENTION OF ISRAEL (POSSIBLY BIRTHPLACE)
THEREIN.
3. DIAB DESCRIBES HIMSELF AS ENGINEERING MANAGER
OR DIRECTOR. PURPOSE OF PRESENT TRIP IS EXPORT-IMPORT
BUSINESS PLUS VISITING PARENTS. POSSIBLE ITINERARY:
LEBANON, KUWAIT, SAUDI ARABIA, EGYPT, SUDAN, LIBYA,
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SUBJECT: BRIEFING PAPER FOR MR. SISCO'S NOVEMBER 13
MEETING WITH THE NAC ON THE MIDDLE EAST
1. THE MOST SEVERE PUBLIC STRAINS WITHIN THE ALLIANCE OVER
THE MIDDLE EAST CRISIS APPEAR TO HAVE PASSED SOME OF THE
ALLIES INDIVIDUALLY, AND SECRETARY LUNS FOR THE ALLIANCE
COLLECTIVELY, HAVE SOUGHT IN RECENT DAYS PUBLICLY TO
STRESS THAT FRICTIONS HAVE DISSIPATED. PRIVATELY,
IRITATION CONTINUES TO PERSIST AT THE US ATTITUDE TOWARDS
ALLIED CONTACTS. AT THE SAME TIME, NONE OF THE ALLIES
HAS ALTERED ITS MIDDLE EAST POLICY AND THE EC-NINE ON
NOVEMBER 6 ISSUED A MIDDLE EAST DECLARATION MAKING CLEAR
THAT THE EUROPEAN ALLIES CONTINUE TO APPROACH THE MIDDLE
EAST SITUATION FROM A DIFFERENT ANGLE THAN WE. IN
YOUR BRIEFING OF THE NAC, YOU MAY THEREFORE WISH TO
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ALLIED DISSATISFACTION,
2. ALTHOUGH MOST ALLIED GOVERNMENTS TEND TO BELIEVE THAT
THE US HAS LONG BEEN TOO BIASED IN ISRAEL'S FAVOR, THEY HAVE
NOT CONDEMNED US MIDDLE EASTERN POLICY AS SUCH INDEED, OUR
DEFENSE OF ISRAEL HAS EVOKED SOME SUPPORT AMONG GOVERNMENTS,
OPPOSITION PARTIES AND PUBLIC OPINION, PARTICULARLY
IN SUCH COUNTRIES AS BRITAIN, THE NETHERLANDS AND
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GERMANY.
3. THE FUNDAMENTAL ALLIANCE PROBLEM HAS ARISEN FROM
THE FACT THAT THE EUROPEAN ALLIES ASSESS THEIR OWN
NATIONAL INTERESTS IN AN ESSENTIALLY DIFFERENT WAY
FROM us.
(A) MOST ALLIED GOVERNMENTS DO NOT SHARE THE US
PERCEPTION OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI DISPUTE SOME ALLIES
HAVE CLOSER LINKS TO THE ARABS THAN TO ISRAEL, AND
FEW SHARE THE STRONG US POLITICAL AND EMOTIONAL
COMMITMENT TO ISRAEL.
(B) EUROPEAN DEPENDENCE ON MIDDLE EAST OIL HAS
GIVEN EUROPEANS A SENSE OF BEING HOSTAGE TO ARAB
POLICIES.
4. THE ALLIES ALSO HAVE FUNDAMENTALLY DISAGREED WITH
THE US REGARDING NATO'S ROLE IN THE CRISIS.
(A) IN THEIR VIEW THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH THE
ALLIANCE WAS ORGANIZED DO NOT APPLY TO THE MIDDLE
EAST.
(B) THEY BELIEVE THAT CLOSE SUPER-POWER IDENTITY
WITH RESPECTIVE MIDDLE EAST CLIENTS IS SELF-
DEFEATING AND INCREASES THE RISK OF EAST-WEST
CONFRONTATION,
(C) THEY APPEAR NOT TO BELIEVE THAT SOVIET ACTIONS
IN THE AREA THREATEN TO UPSET THE BALANCE OF POWER
IN FAVOR OF THE USSRI THEY BELIEVE THE US HAS
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OVERREACTED
5, DESPITE THE OUTCRY AT THE TIME BY SOME ALLIES, THE
CRISIS IN RELATIONS RESULTED LESS FROM INADEQUATE
CONSULTATION THAN THE EUROPEAN FEELING OF HAVING BEEN
IGNORED, WHILE BEING EXPECTED BY THE US TO SUPPORT
POLICIES IN THE FORMULATING OF WHICH THEY HAD HAD NO
VOICE.
(A) THERE WAS SOME SPECIFIC ANNOYANCE THAT THE
US HAD PLACED ITS FORCES AROUND THE WORLD ON
ALERT WITHOUT PRIOR NOTIFICATION, MUCH LESS
CONSULTATION.
(B) IN THE ALLIED VIEW THE US DEMANDED DIPLOMATIC
SUPPORT WITHOUT INFORMING THE ALLIES OF ITS OWN
DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS AND INTENTIONS.
6 , SOME OF THE ALLIES, PARTICULARLY THE FRENCH, ARE
PROFOUNDLY FRUSTRATED BY THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE
PLAYED AND WILL PROBABLY PLAY NO ROLE IN A CRISIS
AFFECTING THEIR OWN VITAL INTERESTS.
THE US APPROACH
7. AGAINST THIS BACKGROUND, IT WILL BE USEFUL FOR YOU
TO
8. ACKNOWLEDGE THAT DIFFERENCES HAVE EXISTED OVER THE
MIDDLE EAST SITUATION, THAT WE AND THE EUROPEANS
CLEARLY ASSESS THE CRISIS DIFFERENTLY AND THAT WE WILL
DO OUR BEST TO INFORM AND CONSULT WITH THE ALLIANCE
AS WE WORK FOR A MIDDLE EAST settlement.
9. set OUT THE RATIONALE FOR US ACTIONS SINCE OCTOBER 6.
(A) SINCE THE OUTBREAK OF HOSTILITIES, US AIMS HAVE
BEEN TO END THE FIGHTING SOONEST, BRING ABOUT A
CEASEFIRE IN CIRCUMSTANCES CONDUCIVE TO CONSTRUCTIVE
NEGOTIATIONS AND CIRCUMSCRIBE SOVIET INFLUENCE.
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(B) DURING THE INITIAL PHASE OF THE WAR, us WORKED
FOR A CEASEFIRE AND REFRAINED FROM RESUPPLYING
ISRAEL.
(C) WHEN THE CEASEFIRE WAS NOT ACCEPTED AND THE SOVIET
AIRLIFT CONTINUED, THE US HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO MATCH
SOVIET SUPPLIES. A VICTORY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
ACHIEVED THROUGH SOVIET ARMS AND DIPLOMATIC SUPPORT
WOULD HAVE DRASTICALLY SHIFTED THE BALANCE IN THE
AREA, ULTIMATELY MENACING WESTERN EUROPE AS WELL.
(D) FOLLOWING US DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY AND ISRAELI
MILITARY SUCCESSES, THE SOVIETS AGREED TO SUPPORT A
CEASEFIRE THROUGH UN AUSPICES.
(E) THIS CEASEFIRE BROKE DOWN, THE SOVIETS DISPATCHED
A NUMBER OF INCREASINGLY MENACING DEMARCHES WHILE
ALERTING SUBSTANTIAL AIRBORNE FORCES AND THREATENED
UNILATERALLY TO INTRODUCE SOVIET FORCES INTO THE
MIDDLE EAST IF THE US DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN A JOINT
EXQIN EXQIN
EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.
(F) IN THE US VIEW THE CONSEQUENCE OF A SOVIET
DEPLOYMENT OF FORCES IN AN AREA NOT CONTIGUOUS TO THE
USSR WOULD HAVE BEEN so GRAVE THAT THE US FELT THERE
WAS NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO PLACE US FORCES ON ALERT.
10. EXPLAIN HOW IN OUR VIEW THE PATTERN OF SOVIET
ACTION RAISES THE REAL RISK OF UPSETTING THE BALANCE
AND RADICALIZING THE MIDDLE EAST.
11. OBSERVE THAT IN THE us VIEW THE ALLIES DID NOT
RECOGNIZE THE GRAVITY OF THE THREAT--ULTIMATELY
AGAINST WESTERN EUROPE AS WELL--POSED BY SOVIET ACTION
IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND DID NOT ADEQUATELY SUPPORT THE
US DURING THE CRISIS.
12. STRESS THAT NATO NEVERTHELESS REMAINS THE CORNER
STONE OF OUR FOREIGN POLICY AND THAT WE WILL STRIVE
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TO IMPROVE CONSULTATIVE PROCEDURES WHERE THESE FAILED.
13. POINT OUT THAT WE CONTINUE TO CONSIDER DETENTE
IMPORTANT AND WILL CONTINUE TO TRY TO USE IT TO
REDUCE THE DANGER OF NUCLEAR WAR. IT WAS NOT OUR
INTENT AND WOULD NOT BE IN THE FUTURE TO ESTABLISH A
US-SOVIET CONDOMINIUM.
14. OUTLINE THE RESULTS OF THE SECRETARY'S VISITS TO
THE ARAB STATES AND THE BROAD US AIMS IN WORKING FOR
A MIDDLE EAST settlement.
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SUBJECT: LEBANON/ISRAEL
REF: BEIRUT 11884
1. AMBASSADOR KABBANI CALLED ON DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRE-
TARY ATHERTON AFTERNOON OCTOBER 7 ON INSTRUCTIONS TO
INFORM USG OF INCIDENT REPORTED REFTEL. KABBANI SAID
ISRAELIS HAD ASKED FOR ILMAC MEETING AT 6:00 PM, OCTOBER
6, AFTER SYRIAN PLANE HAD MADE FORCED LANDING AT RAYAK
EARLIER THAT AFTERNOON. KABBANI DESCRIBED ATTITUDE OF
ISRAELIS AS "VIOLENT AND ARROGANT. SAID ISRAELI SIDE
GAVE LEBANESE A PAPER WHICH STARTED WITH WORD
"ULTIMATUM" AND WARNED ANY AID LEBANON GIVES TO ARAB
STATES WILL BE CONSIDERED BY ISRAEL AS AGGRESSION, AND
ISRAEL WILL ACT ACCORDINGLY. KABBANI SAID GOL REJECTED
ULTIMATUM AND HAS INFORMED AMBASSADORS OF COUNTRIES
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PERMANENT MEMBERS OF SECURITY COUNCIL OF ISRAELI DEMARCHE.
2, KABBANI SAID PRESIDENT FRANGIE HAD EARLIER CALLED
CAIRO AND DAMASCUS AND ASKED WHAT HELP LEBANON COULD
OFFER. WHAT FRANGIE meant, KABBANI STRESSED, WAS
SOLELY HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE. SADAT HAD ASKED FOR
MEDICAL HELP, AND FRANGIE HAD SENT A LEBANESE DOCTOR.
KABBANI EMPHASIZED LEBANON DOES NOT INTEND TO TAKE PART
IN HOSTILITIES IN ANY WAY; IT CONSIDERS ITSELF BOUND BY
1949 ARMISTICE AGREEMENT. LEBANON SUPPORTS RIGHT OF ARAB
STATES TO GET BACK THEIR TERRITORY, AND RIGHTS OF
PALESTINIANS, BUT DOES NOT INTEND TO get INVOLVED IN
FIGHTING.
3, KABBANI RECALLED USG EXPRESSIONS OF SUPPORT FOR
LEBANON. SAID USG ASSURANCES OF SUPPORT ARE VERY
IMPORTANT TO LEBANON, PARTICULARLY IN LIGHT OF ISRAELI
ATTITUDE HE HAD RELATED.
4 , ATHERTON SAID WE UNDERSTAND DILEMMA AND DIFFICULTY
CURRENT SITUATION CAUSES LEBANON. WE APPRECIATE AND
VALUE ASSURANCE THAT GOL HAS NO INTENTION OF BECOMING
PARTY TO MILITARY CONFLICT; THIS IS VERY WISE COURSE.
ATHERTON SAID WE WERE AWARE OF ISRAELI DEMARCHE FROM
EMBASSY BEIRUT AND HAVE GOL REQUEST FOR HELP IN URGING
ISRAELI RESTRAINT UNDER CONSIDERATION, GIVEN PRESS OF
MANY MATTERS OF HIGH PRIORITY, INCLUDING THIS ONE,
ON SENIOR DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS, HE NOT IN POSITION TO
SAY MORE AT THIS TIME, EXCEPT THAT WE WOULD VERY MUCH
REGRET ANY MILITARY ACTION INVOLVING LEBANON. ATHERTON
NOTED THAT WE DO HAVE DIFFERENCE OF OPINION WITH VIEW
STATED BY KABBANI RE RIGHTS OF ARAB STATES TO TAKE
ACTION TO REGAIN THEIR TERRITORIES, IF BY THIS IT IS
MEANT MILITARY ACTION, SINCE USG SUPPORTS 1967 CEASEFIRE
AND NEGOTIATIONS.
5. KABBANI THEN RAISED QUESTION AS TO WHICH SIDE HAD
INITIATED HOSTILITIES, SAYING THIS WAS STILL UNCLEAR.
ATHERTON SAID THAT WHEN FIGHTING STARTED WE RESERVED
OUR JUDGMENT AS TO HOW IT STARTED AND HAVE CONTINUED TO
MAINTAIN THIS POSITION IN PUBLIC statements. HOWEVER,
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ATHERTON SAID HE COULD TELL AMBASSADOR CONFIDENTIALLY
AND FOR HIS GOVERNMENT'S INFORMATION ONLY THAT WE HAVE
STUDIED MATTER CAREFULLY AND ARE NOW QUITE PERSUADED
THAT EGYPTIANS AND SYRIANS CARRIED OUT A COORDINATED
ATTACK. THERE IS NO INDICATION THAT ISRAEL WAS PRE-
PARED FOR ANY ACTION, AND IT APPEARS ISRAELI FORCES WERE
CAUGHT BY SURPRISE. KABBANI RECALLED THAT IN DAYS PRE-
CEDING OUTBREAK OF FIGHTING THERE HAD BEEN PRESS REPORTS
OF ISRAELI BUILD-UP ON SYRIAN BORDER AND SAID SYRIANS
HAD BEEN VERY CONCERNED. ATHERTON SAID WE HAD CHECKED
THESE REPORTS AT TIME AND HAD FOUND THAT THERE WAS NO
ISRAELI MILITARY ACTIVITY OF ANY SIGNIFICANCE IN SYRIAN
BORDER PRIOR TO OCTOBER 6. KISSINGER
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REFS: (A) STATE 150091 (B) BEIRUT 9090
FOR AMBASSADOR FROM DAVIES
1. RECOGNIZE ASSIGNMENT JAMES MATTSON AS LABOR/POL
OFFICER VICE RICHARD SEARING, OF WHICH POST INFORMED BY
STATE 142754 NOT CONSISTENT WITH YOUR RECOMMENDATION
POSITION BE MOVED ON DEPARTURE INCUMBENT. SEARCH FOR
ALTERNATE LOCATION LABOR REPORTING OFFICER, however, HAS
NOT RPT NOT REVEALED OTHER SATISFACTORY CENTER FROM WHICH
THIS WORK CAN BE DONE.
2, AS LABOR DEVELOPMENTS IN AREA PROMISE TO BE OF
CONTINUING IMPORTANCE, HOPE YOU AGREE WITH US THAT POSITION
SHOULD BE CONTINUED AT BEIRUT. MATTSON IS AT PRESENT
CONSULTING IN DEPARTMENT IN PREPARATION FOR MID-SEPTEMBER
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SUBJECT: SC DEBATE ON LEBANESE COMPLAINT
1. FOR BEIRUT: AMBASSADOR SHOULD TAKE APPROPRIATE
OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS TO FOREIGN MINISTER NAFFA AND TO
PRESIDENT FRANGIE OUR APPRECIATION FOR EXCELLENT COOPERA-
TION WE HAD WITH GOL IN JUST CONCLUDED SC DEBATE. WE
WANT PARTICULARLY TO COMMEND AMBASSADORS KABBANI AND GHORRA,
WHO THROUGHOUT CONDUCTED THEMSELVES IN BEST TRADITION OF
LEBANESE-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP. WHAT WE HAVE JUST SEEN IS
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF effective, RESPONSIBLE AND MODERATE
STATESMANSHIP CHARACTERISTIC OF PRESIDENT FRANGIE'S
ADMINISTRATION.
2. FOR USUN: DEEPLY APPRECIATE YOUR FINE TEAMWORK.
MISSION'S PERFORMANCE WAS OF VERY HIGHEST PROFESSIONAL
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SUBJECT: US-GOL CONSULTATIONS RE SECURITY COUNCIL DEBATE
1. ASST. SECY. SISCO TELEPHONED LEBANESE AMBASSADOR KABBANI
MORNING AUGUST 13 TO SAY USG WANTS TO KEEP IN CLOSE CONTACT
WITH LEBANON REGARDING SECURITY COUNCIL DEBATE ON LEBANESE
COMPLAINT. SISCO SAID WE DO NOT SEE JUSTIFICATION FOR
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ISRAELI ACTION, AND WE WANT TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO
WORK TOGETHER WITH lebanon.
2. DURING CALL AT DEPARTMENT LATER SAME MORNING, KABBANI
ASSURED SISCO THAT AS IN PAST GOL WANTS TO CONSULT CLOSELY
WITH USG. KABBANI SAID HE HOPED TEXT OF RESOLUTION
ACCEPTABLE TO ALL SIDES CAN BE GOTTEN, TWO THINGS ARE
IMPORTANT TO GOL, KABBANI SAID: CONDEMNATION OF ISRAELI
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ACTION, AND MEASURES TO PREVENT RECURRENCE. KABBANI SAID
FACT THAT ISRAEL IS SAYING THAT IT WILL TAKE SAME TYPE OF
ACTION AGAIN IF IT CHOOSES MAKES IT IMPORTANT THAT MEA-
sures BE TAKEN TO PREVENT RECURRENCE. KABBANI SAID SOME=
THING MUST BE DONE TO INSURE SAFETY OF CIVIL AVIATION AT
BEIRUT AIRPORT WHERE DOZENS OF AIRCRAFT TRANSIT EACH DAY.
3. SISCO POINTED OUT THAT USG HAS BEEN IN FOREFRONT OF
TRYING TO LEAD INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO DEVELOP A CON-
sensus ON HIJACKING PROBLEM, BOTH IN ICAO AND IN UN AD HOC
COMMITTEE ON TERRORISM. USG HAS TAKEN POSITION THAT THERE
OUGHT TO BE ONE LAW AND THAT IT SHOULD APPLY TO ALL.
SISCO SAID WE DO NOT VIEW AS MITIGATING FACT THAT NOBODY
WAS HURT AND PLANE NOT DAMAGED IN AUGUST 10 INCIDENT.
NOTED, HOWEVER, THAT IN EXAMINING QUESTION OF TAKING
MEASURES AGAINST ISRAEL IN REGARD TO CURRENT INCIDENT ONE
HAS TO WEIGHT CONSIDERATION OF MEASURES THAT WOULD HAVE TO
BE TAKEN IN REGARD TO POSSIBLE FUTURE INCIDENTS. SPEAKING
FRANKLY, SISCO SAID, IT SEEMS PROBLEMATICAL THAT IT WOULD
BE POSSIBLE TO SUPPORT SC "MEASURES" WHICH WOULD SINGLE
OUT ISRAEL IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, NEED IS FOR MEASURES
OF GENERAL APPLICABILITY.
4. IN CLOSING SISCO ASSURED KABBANI THAT WE ARE APPROACH-
ING PROBLEM FROM POINT OF VIEW OF CLOSE US=LEBANESE
RELATIONS AND OUR SUPPORT FOR LEBANON'S POLITICAL
INDEPENDENCE AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY, WHICH GIVES
LEBANON SPECIAL IMPORTANCE IN MIDDLE EAST IN USG'S VIEW.
SISCO STRESSED IT VERY IMPORTANT FROM BOTH USG AND GOL
POINTS OF VIEW THAT USG BE ABLE TO SUPPORT WHATEVER
RESOLUTION IS DEVELOPED IN SECURITY COUNCIL, ROGERS
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SUBJI STAFF REDUCTION
REF: BEIRUT 8165
1. REFTEL RECOMMENDATIONS BEING DISCUSSED WITH ALL CON-
CERNED AGENCIES OR OFFICES. DEPARTMENT PRELIMINARY VIEW IS
THAT BEIRUT LOCATION NOT RPT NOT ESSENTIAL FOR POSITIONS
LISTED PARA 4 OR FOR GROUPS MENTIONED PARA 5, BUT IN SOME
CASES MAY OFFER ADVANTAGES OVER ALTERNATE SITES. PRELIM-
INARY COMMENTS BASED ON DISCUSSION TO DATE FOLLOW.
2. SY HOLDS STRONG OPINION THAT RSS MUST BE LOCATED
WITH RTC AND RMO₂ SY BELIEVES IT FEASIBLE RELOCATE
BUT TENDS TO AGREE WITH YOU ABOUT (1) USEFULNESS OF GROUPS
TO YOU UNDER EMERGENCY AND (2) FACT THAT FRAGILITY OF
SITUATION NOT RPT NOT so EXTREME AS TO REQUIRE REMOVAL
AT THIS TIME.
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3. USIA AGREES RAPA AND REG LIBRARIAN CAN BE RELOCATED
IF ESSENTIAL TO DO so BUT ASKS BUREAU RECOMMEND SUITABLE
ALTERNATIVES WHERE PRESENCE AND LOGISTICS MAY NOT BE
PROBLEM, THEY ARE THEMSELVES GIVING CLOSE AND SERIOUS
ATTENTION TO POSSIBILITIES. WE ARE LOOKING INTO RECOMMEN-
DATION ON GEOGRAPHIC ATTACHE.
4. MOVE ON ABOLITION LABOR ATTACHE AND AIR ATTACHE
POSITIONS REQUIRES COORDINATION WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS
WHICH UNDER WAY. WILL ADVISE.
5. HOPE BEIRUT AS BASE FOR OPERATION OF CIVIL AIR
ATTACHE CAN BE reassessed. WE see HIS LOCATION IN SUCH
A COMMERCIAL CENTER AS USEFUL IN SUCH WAY AS NO OTHER
CITY IN AREA CAN BE, CONTINUING PROSPECTS HIS PLAYING
ROLE IN U.S. AIRCRAFT SALES THOUGHT VERY IMPORTANT.
6. EXPECT PROVIDE MORE DEFINITE INFORMATION ON REDUCTION
SHORTLY.
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TAGS: MASS, LE, US
SUBJ: GOL REQUEST FOR MILITARY ASSISTANCE: 1973 FMS
REF: (A) BEIRUT 6423, (B) BEIRUT 5968, (C) STATE 096750,
(D) BEIRUT 5687
1. WE WOULD APPRECIATE CLARIFICATION OF GOL INTENTIONS RE=
GARDING UTILIZATION OF DOLLARS 10 MILLION FMS CREDIT FOR
FY 73, DURING PAST TWO MONTHS GOL HAS CITED TWO REASONS
WHY THIS CREDIT COULD NOT BE DRAWN UPON: FIRST WAS THAT USG
WOULD HAVE TO PAY INCOME TAX ON INTEREST FROM LOAN. HAS
THIS OBJECTION BEEN OVERCOME BY STATEMENT THAT USG IS NOT
PREPARED TO PAY SUCH INTEREST AND SUGGESTION THAT LEBANESE
FIND WAY TO PAY INTEREST THEMSELVES IF THIS A LEBANESE LEGAL
REQUIREMENT (REF C)? SECOND, POTENTIALLY MORE SIGNIFICANT,
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IMPEDIMENT TO USE OF FMS IS THAT "THERE ARE NO UNOBLIGATED
FUNDS REMAINING FROM 200 MILLION LEBANESE POUNDS AUTHORIZED
IN 1972 FOR FIVE YEAR PERIOD, I.E. GOL LACKS LEGAL BASIS
FOR FURTHER BORROWING FOR DEFENSE EXPENDITURES (REF A).
2. HAS EMBASSY DETERMINED TO ITS SATISFACTION THAT THIS
ENTIRE 200 MILLION LEBANESE POUND FUND HAS IN FACT BEEN
OBLIGATED? IF NOT, HOW MUCH REMAINS TO BE SPENT?
3. STATUS OF FY 73 FMS IS OF PARTICULAR CONCERN BECAUSE WE
ARE IN PROCESS OF PREPARING JUSTIFICATIONS FOR FUTURE FMS
CREDITS TO LEBANON. AS EMBASSY AWARE, WE ARE REVIEWING
THE DESIRABILITY OF ATTEMPTING TO HAVE ORIGINAL DOLLARS 5
MILLION PLANNED FOR FY 74 RAISED TO DOLLARS 15 MILLION.
IF GOL IS NOT PREPARED, OR IS LEGALLY UNABLE TO UTILIZE
73 CREDITS, WE ASSUME SAME LOGIC WILL APPLY TO 74 AND
SUBSEQUENT YEARS, A FACTOR WHICH MAKES JUSTIFICATION
DIFFICULT, PARTICULARLY IN VIEW OF PROBABLE SEVERE SHORTAGE
OF FMS FUNDS IN FY 74.
4, IN ADDITION, WE NOTE THAT GOL HAS AT LEAST 7.5 MILLION
AND POSSIBLY THE FULL DOLLARS 10 MILLION IN FMS REMAINING
FROM FY 1972. THIS residue, IF COMBINED WITH DOLLARS 10
MILLION FY 73 CREDITS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATION FOR
FY 74 WOULD PROVIDE LEBANESE WITH APPROXIMATELY SUFFICIENT
CREDIT TO PURCHASE ALL MILITARY EQUIPMENT - INCLUDING
A-4C SKYHAWKS - WHICH WE HAVE OFFERED TO DELIVER WITHIN
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SUBJECT: MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO GOL
REFERENCE: BEIRUT 8034
FOR AMBASSADOR
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1. DEPARTMENT PLEASED YOU WILL HAVE EARLY OPPORTUNITY TO
DISCUSS MATTERS OF MUTUAL INTEREST WITH PRESIDENT FRANGIE
ON JULY 12.
2. CONCERNING CLARIFICATION YOU REQUESTED REFTEL FOR USE
AT YOUR MEETING WITH FRANGIE, YOU MAY TELL FRANGIE THAT
A) GOL REQUEST FOR 155 SELF-PROPELLED ARTILLERY IS UNDER
URGENT REVIEW BY DOD AND THAT INSTRUCTIONS ARE BEING SENT
TO THE DAD BY SEPTEL TO PROVIDE LEBANESE ARMY WITH PRICE
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AND AVAILABILITY DATA ON 155'S AND ALSO ON M60A1 AND M48
MODEL TANKS AND TO EXPLORE FURTHER WITH LEBANESE THEIR
EXACT MILITARY REQUIREMENTS FOR THESE WEAPONS, B) ONCE
THIS PHASE OF US/LEBANESE ARMY EXCHANGES IS COMPLETED AND
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IF WE AND LEBANESE CONSIDER IT APPROPRIATE AND USEFUL, WE
WOULD BE WILLING TO CONSIDER FEASIBILITY OF LEBANESE ARMY
SENDING ARTILLERY AND ARMORED PERSONNEL TO US TO STUDY
AND DISCUSS THESE ISSUES FURTHER WITH A VIEW TOWARD MAKING
AVAILABLE TO GOL THE MOST SUITABLE TANK AND ARTILLERY
EQUIPMENT WITH SHORTEST POSSIBLE DELIVERY LEAD TIMES.
FYI. WE WANT TO EXPLORE FULLY WITH GOL IN BEIRUT FIRST
BASIC QUESTIONS INVOLVING SUITABILITY, PRICE AND AVAIL-
ABILITY OF THESE MILITARY ITEMS BEFORE MAKING FIRM
COMMITMENT TO ANY VISITS OF LEBANESE ARMY MILITARY
EXPERTS TO U.S. END FYI.
4. YOU MAY INFORM FRANGIE OF APPROVAL FOR SALE OF A-4 SKY-
HAWKS TO LEBANON. (SEE SEPTEL). ROGERS
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SUBJ: GOL REQUEST FOR MILITARY ASSISTANCE
REF: BEIRUT 5968
1. YOU SHOULD INFORM GOL THAT USG PREPARED FURNISH 16
A=4C SKYHAWKS FOLLOWING OVERHAUL WITHIN FOUR TO SIX
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MONTHS AT AN ESTIMATED COST OF DOLLARS 12.0 MILLION,
ALTERNATIVELY, 16 A-4B'S WITH ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
COULD BE FURNISHED WITHIN 12 MONTHS AT AN ESTIMATED COST
OF DOLLARS 9.2 MILLION (DIFFERENCE IN TIME IS DUE TO FACT
OLDER A-4B'S WOULD REQUIRE EXTENSIVE RECONDITIONING AND
ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT). TRANSACTION WILL BE ON SALES BASIS,
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TAGS: PFOR, LE
SUBJ: DIALOGUE WITH LEBANESE GOVERNMENT
FOR AMBASSADOR BUFFUM
1. THIS MESSAGE PROVIDES INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOU TO PURSUE
WITH GOL CONSULTATIONS FOREIGN MINISTER ABOUHAMAD
INITIATED WITH us LAST FALL ABOUT STEPS USG MIGHT TAKE
TO HELP LEBANON IN MAJOR CONFRONTATION BETWEEN GOL AND
FEDAYEEN. SINCE RECENT CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT AND APPOINT-
MENT OF NEW FOREIGN MINISTER, YOU AUTHORIZED, AT YOUR
DISCRETION TO CONVEY SUBSTANCE OF OUR THINKING TO
PRESIDENT FRANGIE, IN WHOSE NAME ABOUHAMAD WAS SPEAKING,
AND, IF AND WHEN YOU DEEM APPROPRIATE, TO NEW FOREIGN
MINISTER. CRISIS WHICH BEGAN IN EARLY MAY HAS NOW
SUBSIDED BUT PROSPECTS FOR STABILITY SEEM HARDLY BETTER
THAN THEY WERE BEFORE. CONCESSIONS WHICH GOL GOT FROM
FEDAYEEN ON MAY 17 ALREADY APPEAR TO BE LARGELY
THEORETICAL. WE HAVE REPORTS THAT FEDAYEEN ARE PREPARED
TO RESUME FIGHTING AS GOL INSISTS ON REMOVAL OF HEAVY
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WEAPONS FROM REFUGEE CAMPS. IN ATMOSPHERE OF UNEASY
TRUCE WHICH HAS PREVAILED SINCE MAY CLASHES THERE COULD
VERY EASILY OCCUR A NEW OUTBREAK OF FIGHTING LEADING
TO CONFRONTATION EVEN MORE SERIOUS THAN IN MAY WITH
ATTENDANT RISK OF SYRIAN INTERVENTION.
2, YOU SHOULD TELL PRESIDENT FRANGIE THAT WE HAVE HAD
VERY MUCH IN MIND THESE PAST MONTHS CONCERN ABOUHAMAD
EXPRESSED TO SECRETARY, ASSISTANT SECRETARY SISCO
AND AMBASSADOR BUFFUM LAST FALL REGARDING POSSIBLE CON-
FRONTATION BETWEEN GOL AND FEDAYEEN AND DANGER OF SYRIAN
INTERVENTION. WE ADMIRE COURAGE AND FIRMNESS SHOWN BY
PRESIDENT FRANGIE IN DEALING WITH DIFFICULT SITUATION
LEBANON FACING. LEBANON IS OF COURSE BEST JUDGE OF WHAT
IT NEEDS, BUT WE THINK GOL'S DEMAND THAT SOVEREIGNTY
AND AUTHORITY OF STATE BE RESPECTED IS NOT ONLY FULLY
JUSTIFIED BUT VITAL TO LEBANON'S CONTINUED PROSPERITY
AND EVEN ITS EXISTENCE. NATURALLY WE ARE VERY PLEASED OVER
IMPROVEMENT IN SITUATION WHICH HAS BEEN TAKING PLACE AND
HOPE COMPLETE RETURN TO NORMAL WILL BE POSSIBLE,
3, YOU SHOULD SAY USG HAS BEEN CONSIDERING A NUMBER OF
POSSIBLE COURSES OF ACTION IN REGARD TO CONTINGENCY OF
MAJOR SYRIAN ACTION AGAINST LEBANON, WHICH FOREIGN MINISTER
ABOUHAMAD FIRST RAISED WITH US LAST FALL. WE WOULD LIKE
TO SMARE OUR THINKING WITH PRESIDENT. AMONG POSSIBLE
STEPS USG MIGHT TAKE ARE:
A. PUBLIC STATEMENT REITERATING USG SUPPORT FOR
INDEPENDENCE AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF LEBANON,
B. SOME COROLLARY STEPS IN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN AREA
WHICH WOULD DEMONSTRATE CONCRETE SUPPORT FOR THIS POSITION.
WE WOULD WELCOME HEARING LEBANESE VIEWS ON WHAT THOSE
STEPS MIGHT BE.
C. HIGH=LEVEL APPROACH TO USSR WITH VIEW TO MAKING
CLEAR OUR OPPOSITION TO INTERVENTION IN LEBANON BY
OUTSIDE OR REGIONAL POWERS AND ELICITING SOVIET COOPERATION
IN PREVENTING SUCH INTERVENTION, AS GOL KNOWS, WE SPOKE
TO SOVIETS ABOUT RESTRAINING SYRIANS IN RECENT CRISIS.
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D. IN OUR JUDGMENT CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN ISRAEL AND
LEBANON MIGHT BE REQUIRED REGARDING POSSIBLE ISRAELI ROLE
IN DETERRING SYRIANS. WE WOULD BE READY TO PLAY A ROLE,
IF APPROPRIATE, IN FACILITATING SUCH TALKS.
E. CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN JORDAN AND LEBANON IN
SAME sense.
4. YOU SHOULD STRESS THAT THE FOREGOING ARE ENTIRELY
TENTATIVE, REPRESENTING SOME OBVIOUS AVENUES FOR POSSIBLE
EXPLORATION. THEY ARE NOT MEANT TO BE ALL-INCLUSIVE:
FOR EXAMPLE, USG WOULD ALSO GIVE SYMPATHETIC CONSIDERATION
TO LEBANESE REQUESTS FOR EMERGENCY ARMS RESUPPLY, AS WELL
AS TO LEBANESE ARMY'S LONGER RANGE NEEDS FOR EQUIPMENT AND
TRAINING. WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE LEBANESE REACTION TO
THESE IDEAS AS WELL AS GOL'S SUGGESTIONS. WE STAND READY
TO HOLD A CONTINUING DIALOGUE WITH GOL ON THIS SUBJECT
IF PRESIDENT so DESIRES.
5, IN CONVEYING FOREGOING, YOU SHOULD MAKE POINT THAT WE
HOPE GOL WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP IN MIND DESTRABILITY OF
DENYING USE OF LEBANESE TERRITORY TO BLACK SEPTEMBER
AND OTHERS WHO PRACTICE TERRORIST METHODS. RUSH
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1. SUMMARY: DR. CHARLES MALIK MET WITH SECRETARY JUNE 26
TO CONVEY MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT FRANGIE. MESSAGE WAS THAT
EBANON IS beset WITH FUNDAMENTAL THREATS TO ITS POLITICAL
INDEPENDENCE AND THAT PRESIDENT FRANGIE WANTED TO KNOW HOW
FAR THE US WAS WILLING TO GO TO SUPPORT LEBANON'S INTEGRITY
IN CERTAIN CONTINGENCIES. SECRETARY REITERATED US SUPPORT
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POSSIBLE TO LEBANON'S NEEDS, ESPECIALLY IN TERMS OF THE
GOL'S RECENT REQUEST FOR MILITARY EQUIPMENT. HOWEVER,
SECRETARY MADE CLEAR USG COULD NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION OF
THE LIMITS OF US SUPPORT IN CERTAIN CONTINGENCIES HYPOTHE=
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TICALLY. THE USG, THE SECRETARY SAID, WOULD CONSIDER THE
THREATS TO LEBANON AS THEY ACTUALLY DEVELOP AND WOULD
CONSULT CLOSELY WITH THE LEBANESE IN ORDER TO BE AS HELPFUL
AS WE CAN WITHIN THE LIMITATIONS UNDER WHICH THE USG MUST
OPERATE. END SUMMARY.
2. DR. CHARLES MALIK, FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER OF LEBANON,
HAD A MEETING AT HIS REQUEST WITH SECRETARY ROGERS ON
JUNE 26 AT THE DEPARTMENT. AMBASSADOR BUFFUM AND OFFICER
FROM NEA/ARN WERE present. MALIK STATED THAT HE HAD SEEN
PRESIDENT FRANGIE AND OTHER TOP LEVEL LEBANESE OFFICIALS
PRIOR TO HIS DEPARTURE FROM LEBANON AND THAT PRESIDENT
FRANGIE ASKED HIM FORMALLY TO SPEAK IN HIS NAME, MALIK
SAID FRANGIE, FOREIGN MINISTER ABOUHAMAD AND LEBANESE
ARMY COMMANDER GHANEM, WERE SINCERELY GRATEFUL FOR U.S.
POLITICAL AND MILITARY SUPPORT FOR LEBANON DURING LATEST
CRISIS AND THAT USG'S FRIENDSHIP AND UNDERSTANDING WERE
SINCERELY APPRECIATED. MALIK CONVEYED FRANGIE'S PERSONAL
THANKS FOR SECRETARY'S LETTER OF SUPPORT DURING MAY
CRISIS.
3. CONCERNING U.S. MILITARY SUPPORT FOR LEBANON, MALIK
SAID BOTH PRESIDENT FRANGIE AND GENERAL GHANEM HOPED USG
WOULD RESPOND PROMPTLY TO GOL'S REQUEST FOR MILITARY
EQUIPMENT AND THAT EVERYTHING POSSIBLE WOULD BE DONE TO
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CUT DOWN THE "RED TAPE" BARRING PROMPT DELIVERIES OF SUCH
EQUIPMENT. MALIK COMMENTED GOL APPRECIATED HELP OF THE
AMERICAN EMBASSY IN BEIRUT IN THE DRAWING UP OF THE LISTS
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OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT WHICH THE LEBANESE ARMY NEEDED.
SPECIFICALLY, MALIK SAID FRANGIE AND GHANEM HOPE THAT USG
WILL GIVE FAVORABLE CONSIDERATION TO THE LEBANESE REQUEST
FOR MILITARY AIRCRAFT AND TANKS.
4. MALIK, READING FROM notes, THEN SAID HE WOULD LIKE TO
GO TO THE LARGER ISSUES INVOLVING THE DANGERS THAT
beset LEBANON. MALIK SAID PRESIDENT FRANGIE BELIEVES
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THE FEDAYEEN CONSTITUTE THE GREATEST AND MOST PERMANENT
DANGER LEBANON FACES. THE FEDAYEEN ARE BETTER ARMED THAN
THE LEBANESE ARMY AND ARE RECEIVING ARMS FROM SYRIA AND
IRAQ WHICH ARE ULTIMATELY PROVIDED FROM SOVIET AND
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CHINESE COMMUNIST SOURCES. THESE ARMS ARE DISTRIBUTED
NOT ONLY TO THE FEDAYEEN BUT TO LEFTIST, RADICAL ANTI-
AMERICAN GROUPS IN LEBANON, SYRIA, DR. MALIK SAID,
PRESENTS THE SECOND GREATEST THREAT TO LEBANON. THE
SYRIANS DO NOT RECOGNIZE LEBANON'S INDEPENDENCE AND THEY
CONTINUE TO GRIND THE IDEOLOGICAL AXE THAT LEBANON SHOULD
BE ASSIMILATED INTO THE SYRIAN SYSTEM AND ENTITY.
PRESIDENT FRANGIE refuses, MALIK SAID, TO HAVE SYRIA DIC-
TATE TO LEBANON WHAT THE GOL'S INTERNAL POLICY SHOULD BE
AND WHO SHOULD BE THE LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER AND WHO
SHOULD BE NAMED TO THE LEBANESE CABINET. THE THIRD THREAT,
MALIK SAID, WAS COL. QHADDAFI'S ANTI-GOL POLICY WHICH WAS
BACKED UP BY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WHICH THE LIBYANS SEND
TO GROUPS IN LEBANON WITH THE AIM OF HAVING THE LEBANESE
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REGIME OVERTHROWN AND HAVING LEBANON BECOME A MUSLIM STATE,
THE FOURTH THREAT TO LEBANON STEMS FROM RADICAL, LEFT-WING
GROUPS WHICH HAVE INCREASED LARGELY BECAUSE OF THE GRADUAL
WITHDRAWAL OF U.S. INFLUENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
THESE GROUPS ARE LED BY THE LEFTIST DRUZE POLITICIAN
KAMAL JUMBLATT WHO, MALIK SAID, TS A STRANGE CHARACTER
WHO PROBABLY HIMSELF DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE WANTS. MALIK
LISTED THE OTHER THREATS TO LEBANON AS SOVIET AND COMMU-
NIST CHINESE ACTIVITIES IN LEBANON IN SUPPORT OF THE
FEDAYEEN AND LEFT-WING GROUPS, ISRAELI TERRITORIAL
INTENTIONS TOWARD SOUTHERN LEBANON, THE WIDESPREAD MORAL
CORRUPTION IN LEBANON, AND THE DELICATE CONFESSIONAL
BALANCE WHICH CAN BE DISRUPTED AND RESULT IN CIVIL STRIFE.
5. MALIK SAID LEBANON IS FORTUNATE TO HAVE PRESIDENT
FRANGIE IN POWER AT THIS TIME BECAUSE FRANGIE IS PREPARED
TO FACE AND OVERCOME ALL THE THREATS TO LEBANON'S
SOVEREIGNTY AND INDEPENDENCE. THE PRESENCE OF A STRONG
AND DETERMINED PRESIDENT IN LEBANON IS A NEW SITUATION.
FRANGIE HAS THREE MORE YEARS UNTIL THE END OF HIS MANDATE
AND, MALIK SAID, LEBANON SHOULD NOT MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY
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TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HIS RESOLUTE CHARACTER.
6. DR. MALIK SAID HE HAD COME TO THE MAIN SUBSTANCE OF
PRESIDENT FRANGIE'S MESSAGE: SPECIFICALLY, IF THE U.S.
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ORIENTED TO THE VALUES OF THE U.S. AND THE WEST, IN
GENERAL, PRESIDENT FRANGIE ASKS THE U.S. TO HELP LEBANON
IN PRESERVING ITS FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE. IN THIS
respect, PRESIDENT FRANGIE DEEPLY APPRECIATED SECRETARY
ROGER'S LETTER TO HIM DURING THE MAY CRISIS. THE
CRUCIAL QUESTION, MALIK SAID, WHICH FRANGIE POSES TO THE
USG IS HOW FAR IS THE USG PREPARED TO GO TO HELP LEBANON
RETAIN ITS FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE. THE GOL IS INFORMED
OF THE USG POSITION ON ISRAELI INTENTIONS TOWARD LEBANON.
HOWEVER, FRANGIE WANTS TO FIND OUT WHAT THE USG ITSELF
WOULD DO IN EITHER OF TWO FOLLOWING CONTINGENCIES: (A) IF
SYRIA INVADED LEBANON; AND (B) IF PALESTINIAN ACTIONS LED
TO THE IMMINENT COLLAPSE OF THE LEBANESE government.
ALSO, DR. MALIK SAID, PRESIDENT FRANGIE WISHES TO KNOW
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CIES FROM ARISING IN ADVANCE.
7. DR. MALIK THEN CONVEYED HIS OWN PERSONAL VIEW WHICH
HE SAID WAS ALSO THE VIEW OF PRESIDENT FRANGIE, THAT IF
LEBANON IS DESTROYED, OR RADICALIZED POLITICALLY, OR
ASSIMILATED INTO SYRIA, OR TAKEN OVER BY THE palestinians,
IT WOULD BE DISASTROUS FOR LEBANON PER SE AND WOULD NOT
BE IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE U.S. LEBANON'S ECONOMIC
DEPENDENCE ON SYRIA IS BECOMING A MAJOR CONCERN TO
LEBANON AND SOME LEBANESE ARE THINKING OF SCHEMES TO
LESSEN THIS DEPENDENT RELATIONSHIP ON SYRIA AND ARE EVEN
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TALKING ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF A DIRECT TERRITORIAL
CONNECTION BETWEEN LEBANON AND JORDAN TO EASE LEBANON'S
ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL RELATIONSHIP TO SYRIA, HOWEVER,
LEBANON CAN NEVER TRULY BE SECURE UNTIL THERE IS (A) PEACE
AND UNDERSTANDING AMONG ISRAEL, JORDAN, LEBANON AND SYRIA;
(B) ACCOMMODATION AND UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN ISRAELI CUL-
TURE AND ISLAMIC CULTURE; AND (C) UNDERSTANDING AMONG THE
THREE GREAT RELIGIONS OF THE AREA (CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM
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AND JUDAISM), IF A "LAND BRIDGE" CAN BE BUILT TO JOIN
THESE FORCES, MALIK SAID, THEN MANKIND WILL HAVE PASSED
FROM CONSIDERATION OF SURFACE PHENOMENA TO CONSIDERATION
OF THE HEART OF THE MIDDLE EAST'S PROBLEMS.
8 я SECRETARY ROGERS SAID HE WAS PLEASED TO HAVE THIS
OPPORTUNITY TO MEET DR. MALIK AND TO RECEIVE PRESIDENT
FRANGIE'S MESSAGE. SECRETARY SAID THAT COMING TO GRIPS
WITH FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES UNDERLYING A DURABLE PEACE IN THE
MIDDLE EAST WAS THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF ALL. THE USG, THE
SECRETARY SAID, HAS TRIED TO BRING ABOUT A MORE RATIONAL
CONSIDERATION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL AREA PROBLEMS. IN TERMS
OF ESTABLISHING A CEASEFIRE WE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL, THE
SECRETARY SAID, BUT UNFORTUNATELY WE HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESS-
FUL IN TERMS OF REACHING A TOTAL SOLUTION TO THE ARAB=
ISRAELI CONFLICT. OF COURSE, ONE MUST ASK ONESELF, THE
SECRETARY SAID, IF THERE IS ANY POSSIBILITY OF REACHING
A SOLUTION AS DR. MALIK DESCRIBED. WHEN ONE GOES TO THE
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MIDDLE EAST ONE sees FIRST-HAND THE DEPTH OF CONTROVERSIES
THAT HAVE LASTED FOR CENTURIES.
9 g CONCERNING THE U. S. RESPONSE TO LEBANON'S MILITARY
EQUIPMENT NEEDS, THE SECRETARY SAID WE ARE DOING ALL THAT
WE CAN TO ELIMINATE ANY RED RAPE HINDERING OUR PROMPT
RESPONSE TO THE LEBANESE. HOWEVER, WHAT WE CAN DO FOR
LEBANON IS NOT open-ended. WE HAVE TAKEN STEPS TO EXPE-
DITE THE DELIVERY OF SEVERAL IMPORTANT MILITARY ITEMS THAT
THE GOL HAS REQUESTED AND ARE EXAMINING ALL OUTSTANDING
REQUESTS FOR MILITARY EQUIPMENT SYMPATHETICALLY AND ON AN
URGENT BASIS. SECRETARY ROGERS SAID WE WANT TO BE AS
HELPFUL AS WE CAN TO LEBANON AND EMPHASIZED THAT WAS
PRESIDENT NIXONIS ATTITUDE, HIS OWN ATTITUDE AND THAT OF
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10. SECRETARY ROGERS TOLD MALIK THAT HE APPRECIATED THE
CLEAR AND ACCURATE EXPLANATION OF THE DANGERS AND PROBLEMS
LEBANON FACES, HOWEVER, SECRETARY ROGERS POINTED OUT THAT
OUR RELATIONS WITH THE SOVIET UNION AND COMMUNIST CHINA
ARE NOW MUCH BETTER THAN BEFORE AND THAT THESE IMPROVED
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RELATIONS CAN HELP REDUCE THE RISKS TO COUNTRIES SUCH AS
.EBANON. WE HOPE, SECRETARY STATED, THAT THE LEBANESE
ARMY/FEDAYEEN AGREEMENT OF MAY 17 CAN BE COMPLIED WITH.
SOME OF THE PROBLEMS FACING LEBANON FROM THE FEDAYEEN
THREAT CAN BE RESOLVED AS LONG AS PRESIDENT FRANGIE CON-
TINUES TO GIVE THE COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP HE HAS ALREADY
DISPLAYED. WHAT HAS BEEN LACKING IS THE CREATION OF A
STRONG GOVERNMENT IN LEBANON WHICH CAN MORE EFFECTIVELY
FACE UP TO THE FEDAYEEN THREAT. WE FULLY AGREE WITH THE
IMPORTANCE OF MAINTAINING LEBANON'S POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE
AND SOVEREIGNTY. LEBANON IS A NATION WHICH IS RESPECTED
IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND WE APPRECIATE THE
PROGRESS THE GOL HAS MADE IN BRINGING THE FEDAYEEN UNDER
MORE EFFECTIVE CONTROL.
11. SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSING THE QUESTION ON HOW FAR THE
J.S. IS PREPARED TO GO TO SUPPORT LEBANON, THE SECRETARY
STATED THAT WE CANNOT ANSWER THAT QUESTION HYPOTHETICALLY.
EVER SINCE THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION, THE SECRETARY
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SAID, WE HAVE DEMONSTRATED OUR CLOSENESS TO LEBANON. AS
SPECIFIC THREATS AND DANGERS DEVELOP, WE WILL CONSIDER
THEM AND CONSULT CLOSELY WITH THE LEBANESE IN ORDER TO BE
AS HELPFUL AS WE CAN TO LEBANON WITHIN THE LIMITATIONS
UNDER WHICH THE USG MUST OPERATE. AS FAR AS THE USG IS
CONCERNED, LEBANON REMAINS A CLOSE AND IMPORTANT FRIEND.
OUR POLICY, THE SECRETARY CONCLUDED, IS REFLECTED IN
AMBASSADOR BUFFUM'S ATTITUDE AND THAT OF OUR EMBASSY IN
BEIRUT.
12. DR. MALIK THANKED SECRETARY ROGERS FOR MEETING WITH
HIM AND STATED HE WOULD CONVEY THE SECRETARY'S REMARKS
TO PRESIDENT FRANGIE, ROGERS
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1. STATE 124050 GIVING PARTIAL USG RESPONSE TO LEBANESE
ARMS REQUEST BEING REPEATED YOU FOR YOUR BACKGROUND.
2. CARDINAL POINT IS, AS YOU TOLD ALAM IN CONVERSATION
REPORTED REFTEL, UNDESIRABILITY OF HAVING GOI ACT AS MIDDLE-
MAN. YOU SHOULD REITERATE THAT WE SEE NO POINT IN GOI
PROCURING EQUIPMENT FROM USG SIMPLY FOR RESALE TO GOL.
3, WE ARE PREPARED TO CONSIDER ON CASE-BY-CASE BASIS
TRANSFER BY IRAN TO LEBANON OF U.S. ORIGIN MILITARY EQUIP-
MENT ALREADY SOLD TO IRAN. IN THIS REGARD, FROM OUR
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ARMY IS NOT SERIOUSLY INTERESTED IN F=5 BUT WANTS A-4; WE
HAVE LEBANESE REQUEST FOR 16 A-4B OR C AIRCRAFT UNDER STUDY
AND HOPE BE IN POSITION TO REPLY TO GOL SHORTLY. RE TANKS,
MAIN problem FROM USG POINT OF VIEW IS THAT OF AVAILABILITY;
LEAD TIME FOR SUPPLY OF M-60S IS CURRENTLY TWO YEARS. THERE
ARE ALSO PROBLEMS RE AVAILABILITY M-48-A3. IF IRAN IS READY
TO PROVIDE LEBANON M60 TANKS ALREADY IN ITS INVENTORY WE
WOULD BE PREPARED TO CONSIDER SYMPATHETICALLY A REQUEST
FOR TRANSFER. (IF DESIRED, REPLACEMENTS BY USG FOR
EQUIPMENT IRAN MIGHT MAKE AVAILABLE TO LEBANON WOULD BE
SUPPLIED ON SALES BASIS AND UNDER NORMAL PROCUREMENT LEAD
TIMES.) SAME WOULD BE GENERALLY TRUE FOR OTHER ITEMS
ALREADY IN IRANIAN INVENTORY WHICH lebanese MIGHT REQUEST,
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SUBJECT: GOL REQUEST FOR MILITARY ASSISTANCE
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REQUEST TRANSMITTED REFTEL. ITEMS REQUESTED HAVE BEEN
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GROUPED ACCORDING TO AVAILABILITY BY CATEGORIES, AS FOLLOWS:
A a ITEMS IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE - THESE ARE THREE
MILLION ROUNDS OF .50 CALIBER AMMUNITION, 2,000 SETS OF
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B. ITEMS AVAILABLE WITHIN 3 TO 6 MONTHS - THESE ARE
60 M 113 A1 ARMORED PERSONNEL CARRIERS, 45 GUNSHIELDS FOR
APCS, TWO 52 FOOT SWIFT PATROL BOATS, 17,500 FIRST AID
POUCHES, 150 STARLIGHT SCOPES FOR M=16 RIFLES, 3 CENTRAL
OFFICE TELEPHONE systems, AND 4 UH=1H UTILITY HELICOPTERS,
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TOTAL COST ESTIMATED AT DOLS 5.2 MILLION.
2. YOU SHOULD INFORM GOL WE ARE PREPARED TO MAKE AVAILABLE
FOREGOING EQUIPMENT, ON SALES BASIS, WITHIN APPROXIMATE
TIME FRAMES INDICATED ABOVE. PACKAGE WOULD TOTAL AN ES-
TIMATED DOLS 7.8 MILLION.
3, RE A-4 SKYHAWKS, YOU SHOULD SAY WE ARE CONSIDERING
LEBANESE REQUEST AND HOPE TO BE IN POSITION TO RESPOND
SHORTLY.
4. YOU SHOULD TELL GOL WE WOULD LIKE TO PURSUE DIS-
CUSSION WITH THEM ON REMAINING ITEMS REQUESTED (REFTEL)
IN ORDER BETTER TO DETERMINE TACTICAL SUITABILITY AND
PRIORITIES IN LIGHT OF PRICE AND AVAILABILITY. LEBANESE
ARE AWARE OF LEAD TIME AND PRICE PROBLEM WITH REGARD TO
M60A1 TANK. M-48A5 TANK WITH 105 MM GUN WHICH LEBANESE
SAY THEY ARE READY TO ACCEPT IN ITS PLACE (BEIRUT 6123)
HAS NEVER BEEN PRODUCED IN U.S. EXCEPT IN PROTOTYPE. WE
MIGHT BE ABLE TO OFFER M-48A3 WITH DIESEL ENGINE, BUT
THIS MODEL HAS ONLY 90 MM GUN, WITH REGARD TO GOL'S RE-
QUEST FOR 155 MM SELF-PROPELLED ARTILLERY AND ADVANCED
ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT (M728 COMBAT ENGINEER VEHICLES AND
ARMORED VEHICLE BRIDGE LAUN(HERS) WE WANT TO EXPLORE WITH
GOL WHETHER THESE ITEMS REPRESENT BEST CHOICE IN TERMS
COST AND AVAILABILITY AND OF LEBANESE DEFENSE requirements.
WITH REGARD TO HELICOPTER ARMAMENT systems, WE HAVE NEVER
SUPPLIED THIS ADVANCED EQUIPMENT TO ANY COUNTRIES OF NEAR
EAST. CURRENT POLICY ALSO FORECLOSES SALE OF FLAME-
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unless ANKARA HAS STRONG OBJECTION, WE BELIEVE BEIRUT
SHOULD NOT REPT NOT MAKE REQUEST OF LEBANESE ATTORNEY
GENERAL TO CHECK TALONI ACCOUNT IN NARODNEY BANK. ROGERS
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SUBJECT: SISCO-DINITZ CONVERSATION JUNE 15
1. ASSTSEC SISCO SPOKE WITH ISRAELI AMB DINITZ MID-MORNING
JUNE 15@ SISCO SAID WE HAVE NOTICED A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF
"NERVOUSNESS" IN LEBANESE PRESS DURING LAST 24-48 HOURS.
USG PRESUMES THIS REFLECTS CONCERN ON PART OF LEBANESE
PRESS (AND NOT NECESSARILY GOLD THAT ISRAELIS MIGHT RETALI-
ATE FOR RECENT BORDER SKIRMISH DURING WHICH ONE ISRAELI
OFFICER WAS KILLED.
2. SISCO SAID USG REGRETS THIS INCIDENT, PARTICULARLY BE=
CAUSE LIVES WERE LOST, BUT HE WANTED TO PASS ON WHAT WAS
OBVIOUS--THAT ON EVE OF SUMMIT MEETING A COUNTERMOVE BY
ISRAELIS WOULD CREATE ADDITIONAL PRESSURE FOR SECURITY
COUNCIL ACTION THAT WOULD FOLLOW SUMMIT. THE BORDER
INCIDENT seems TO HAVE BEEN WORK OF SPLINTER GROUP OF FEDA-
YEEN WHO ARE TRYING TO UNDERMINE WHAT ISRAELIS AND USG BOTH
THINK IS BETTER AGREEMENT BETWEEN GOL AND FEDAYEEN THAN WAS
GENERALLY BELIEVED POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION, SAID SISCO, AN
ISRAELI COUNTERREACTION AT THIS TIME WOULD CREATE MANY PROB=
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LEMS FOR us IN OUR IMPROVING RELATIONS WITH LEBANESE. WE
HOPED ISRAEL WOULD TAKE ALL THIS INTO CONSIDERATION,
3. DINITZ SAID HE APPRECIATED SISCO'S STATEMENT AND ADDED
HE HAS RECEIVED NOTHING FROM ISRAEL TO INDICATE ANY ACTION
IS PLANNED. HE SAID HIS OWN INCLINATION IS TO BELIEVE THAT
LEBANESE PRESS REPORTS ARE EXAGGERATIONS. ROGERS
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SUBJ: LEBANESE REQUEST FOR MILITARY ASSISTANCE
REF: BEIRUT 6423
1. FYI - RE YOUR QUESTION REFTEL ABOUT LOAN OF MILITARY
EQUIPMENT TO LEBANON, DEPARTMENT IS EXPLORING POSSIBILITY
BUT THIS IS VERY COMPLEX MATTER INVOLVING BROAD QUESTIONS
OF LAW, POLICY AND PRECEDENT.
THERE seems AT THIS POINT LITTLE LIKELIHOOD THAT
APPROVAL FOR LOAN COULD BE OBTAINED. END FYI
2, OTHER QUESTIONS RAISED REFTEL ARE BEING ANSWERED BY
SEPARATE MESSAGE. ROGERS
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SUBJECT: LEBANESE REQUEST FOR MILITARY ASSISTANCE
REFERENCE: BETRUT 6423
1. WHILE WE WANT TO BE AS HELPFUL TO LEBANESE AS POSSIBLE
IN FILLING THEIR ARMS NEEDS, YOU SHOULD MAKE CLEAR THAT WE
CURRENTLY HAVE NO FUNDS FOR MAP GRANT AID WHICH COULD
BE DIVERTED TO LEBANON AND DO NOT EXPECT TO HAVE ANY IN
FORESEEABLE FUTURE. MAP PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN STEADILY CUT IN
RECENT years. IT IMPOSSIBLE TO PREDICT AT THIS STAGE OUT-
COME OF FY 1974 CONGRESSIONAL ACTION BUT EVEN IF CONGRESS
SHOULD PASS FULL ADMINISTRATION REQUEST (WHICH ON BASIS
PAST EXPERIENCE SEEMS HIGHLY QUESTIONABLE) THERE WOULD BE
ALMOST NO CHANCE OF DIVERTING MAP FUNDS TO LEBANON. PAS-
SAGE OF FULBRIGHT BILL OR SERIOUS CUT IN ADMINISTRATION
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BILL WOULD OBVIOUSLY MAKE SITUATION EVEN MORE DIFFICULT.
2- WE DO ANTICIPATE FMS CREDIT FUNDS, IN ADDITION TO $10
MILLION FOR FY 1973, WILL CONTINUE TO BE AVAILABLE FOR
LEBANON IN FY 1974 AND AFTERWARDS AND WILL DO OUR BEST TO
EXTEND HIGHEST LEVEL OF CREDIT POSSIBLE, CONSONANT WITH
LEBANON'S NEEDS. HOWEVER, SINCE ARMS REQUEST SUBMITTED BY
GENERAL GHANEM IN MAY (BEIRUT 5968) TOTAL AN ESTIMATED
DOLS 40 TO DOLS 45 MILLION, EVEN TAKING INTO ACCOUNT FY 1973
AND POSSIBLE FY 1974 FMS CREDITS THERE WILL BE A LARGE
BALANCE WHICH GOL WILL HAVE TO FINANCE FROM ITS OWN FUNDS
IF IT IS INTERESTED IN PROCURING FULL PACKAGE,
3. YOU AUTHORIZED TO PASS SUBSTANCE CABOVE PARAS)
TO GOL. LEAVE TO YOUR DISCRETION HOW BEST TO GET POINT
ACROSS BUT GOL SHOULD BE UNDER NO ILLUSION THAT THERE IS
ANY REASONABLE LIKELIHOOD OF U.S. ASSISTANCE OTHER THAN
FMS CREDIT (OF COURSE SUBJECT TO CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIA-
TION), NOT FOR LACK OF SYMPATHY OR UNDERSTANDING BY USG
FOR LEBANONIS PROBLEMS, BUT SIMPLY BECAUSE FUNDS NOT
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TAGS: MASS, LE, IR, US
SUBJECT: IRANIAN REQUEST FOR TRANSFER MILITARY EQUIPMENT
REFERENCE: TEHRAN 3812
1. YOU SHOULD DISCUSS WITH GOL AT APPROPRIATELY HIGH POLI-
TICAL LEVEL CHAMOUNIS REQUEST TO IRAN FOR TRANSFER OF
F-5A'S AND 155 MM GUNS AND SHOULD SEEK VERIFICATION THAT
CHAMOUN WAS IN FACT ACTING ON BEHALF OF PRESIDENT FRANGIE,
YOU SHOULD SAY THAT REQUEST TO IRAN APPARENTLY DUPLICATES
THAT MADE TO US BY GENERAL GHANEM IN MAY (BEIRUT 5968).
WE HAVE NO OBJECTION TO LEBANON'S PROCURING U.S. ORIGIN
MATERIAL FROM IRAN IF THERE IS REAL ADVANTAGE IN DOING so,
BUY WANT TO AVOID DUPLICATION AND UNNECESSARY THREE-WAY
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2, IF CHAMOUN WAS IN FACT ACTING AT REQUEST OF PRESIDENT
PRANGIE AND LEBANESE ARE INTERESTED IN FOLLOWING UP ON
CHAMOUN'S APPROACH, MATTER SHOULD BE DISCUSSED WITH GEN-
ERAL GHANEM AND HIS STAFF. SHOULD BE POINTED OUT THAT
IRANIANS HAVE INFORMED US (TEHRAN 3697) THAT THEY DO NOT
HAVE 155 MM GUN IN QUESTION IN THEIR INVENTORY BUT WANT TO
BUY IT FROM USG so AS TO RESELL TO LEBANON. THIS, OF
COURSE, WOULD ELIMINATE ANY ADVANTAGE IN PRICE (unless
IRANIANS ARE PREPARED TO SUBSIDIZE RESALE TO LEBANON)
OR EARLY DELIVERY TIME. FYI. FURTHERMORE, WE HAVE NOT YET
REACHED A DECISION ON ADVISABILITY OF PROVIDING LEBANON
155 MM HOWITZERS. END FYI. AS FOR F-5AS, IN ADDITION TO
QUESTION OF AVAILABILITY OF AIRCRAFT AS DETERMINED BY USG,
QUESTION 18 WHETHER THEY WOULD BE AS EFFECTIVE IN GROUND
SUPPORT ROLE, WHICH wt ASSUME IS LEBANESE ARMY'S MAIN
CONCERN, AS A=4S WHICH LEBANON REQUESTING FROM us.
3. YOU SHOULD ASSURE GENERAL GHANEM USG IS SYMPATHETIC
TO LEBAND'S ARMS REQUIREMENTS AND IS PROCESSING HIS
REGUEST IN THAT SPIRIT. WE EXPECT TO BE ABLE TO GIVE HIM
RESPONSE SHORTLY. IF HE WISHES AT SAME TIME TO PURSUE
PURCHASES OF U.S. EQUIPMENT FROM IRAN, WE ARE PREPARED TO
SEEK NECESSARY INTERNAL USG DETERMINATIONS TO PERMIT
TRANSFER, THOUGH IN CASES WHERE IRAN DOES NOT CURRENTLY
HAVE DESIRED WEAPON AND WOULD HAVE TO ORDER FROM USG so AS
TO RESELL TO GOL, WE WOULD NATURALLY PREFER TO MAKE SALE
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SUBJ: LEBANESE REQUEST FOR MILITARY ASSISTANCE
REF: BEIRUT 5968
1. BEFORE WE CAN PROCEED seek DETERMINATION RE GOL
EQUIPMENT REQUEST TRANSMITTED BEIRUT 5968 WE WILL NEED
ANSWER TO QUESTION POSED PARA 7 STATE 101892 RE FINANCING,
I.E., HOW DOES GOL PROPOSE TO DEFRAY COST OF ITEMS IT IS
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EXDIS
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TAGS: MASS, LE
SUBJ: LEBANESE ARMY REQUEST
REF: BEIRUT 6257
1. DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO LEBANESE ARMS SALES CASES
CAN BE SENT TO BEIRUT DAO FOR HANDLING WITH APPROPRIATE
LEBANESE AUTHORITY, BUT THIS WILL ENTAIL SOME DELAYS
AND VERY LIKELY SOME ADDITIONAL COMPLICATIONS. MOST
DESIRABLE METHOD, HOWEVER, IS TO HANDLE THESE CASES IN
WASHINGTON IN ACCORDANCE WITH ESTABLISHED PRACTICE. IF
PROBLEM IS INEFFICIENCY OF CURRENT LEBANESE MILITARY ATTACHE
(FYI - WE AGREE THIS HAS BEEN THE CASE END FYI) WE WOULD
URGE THAT GOL ASSIGN TO WASHINGTON CAPABLE OFFICER WHO IS
KNOWLEDGEABLE IN PROCUREMENT MATTERS AND HAS CONFIDENCE
OF GENERAL GHANEM. SINCE CURRENT ATTACHE IS IN ANY CASE
DEPARTING WASHINGTON IN JUNE, APPOINTMENT OF REPLACEMENT
COULD BE DONE ROUTINELY.
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2. WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR DISCUSSING THIS FURTHER WITH
FOREIGN MINISTRY ALONG ABOVE LINES. IF LEBANESE CONTINUE
STRONGLY TO PREFER TO HANDLE Y SALES CASES THROUGH USDAO IN
BEIRUT WE PREPARED TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS ACCORDINGLY, BUT
WE BELIEVE IT WOULD BE WELL WORTH GOL'S WHILE TO HAVE
FIRST-CLASS OFFICER HERE AS ATTACHE. RUSH
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SUBJECT; ASSASSINATION THREAT
REF: BEIRUT 6253
APPRECIATE BEIRUTIS RAPID response, WE WOULD LIKE TO
ATTEMPT IDENTIFICATION OF TOLONI THROUGH NARODNEY BANK BUT
PREFER THAT NO ACTION BE TAKEN UNTIL AFTER JUNE 3 DEADLINE.
THEREFORE, BEIRUT SHOULD HOLD ACTION UNTIL DEPARTMENT GIVES
GOAHEAD, PROBABLY NEXT week. RUSH
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SUBJECT: LEBANESE REQUEST FOR MILITARY ASSISTANCE
REF: BEIRUT 6123
APPRECIATE QUICK AND POSITIVE RESPONSE CONTAINED REFTEL.
YOU MAY INFORM GOL THAT DOD IS WORKING URGENTLY ON OVERALL
LIST OF REQUESTED MILITARY EQUIPMENT FOR EARLY DECISION
ON WHAT SPECIFICALLY CAN BE OFFERED TO GOL BASED ON COST
AND AVAILABILITY DATA. WE WILL TRANSMIT USG RESPONSE TO
LEBANESE REQUEST FOR MILITARY ASSISTANCE AS SOON AS co-
ORDINATED STATE-DOD DECISION IS MADE. RUSH
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SUBJ: ASSASSINATION THREAT ADDRESSED TO AMBASSADOR MACOMBER
DEPARTMENT RECOGNIZES IMPORTANCE OF MOVING QUICKLY AND DID
NOT RPT NOT MEAN IN SEPTEL THAT BEIRUT SHOULD REFRAIN FROM
TALKING TO LEBANESE AUTHORITIES PENDING INSTRUCTIONS IF
IN EMBASSY'S JUDGMENT DISCUSSION SHOULD BE INITIATED IMME-
DIATELY. RUSH
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2. YOU MAY ASSURE FOREIGN MINISTER ABOUHAMAD USG WANTS TO
DO EVERYTHING IT USEFULLY CAN TO ASSIST PRESIDENT FRANGIE
IN BRINGING FEDAYEEN UNDER CONTROL. MINIMAL DEMANDS
FRANGIE IS MAKING ON FEDAYEEN, AS OUTLINED TO CHARGE BY
ABOUHAMAD, SEEM REASONABLE AND MODERATE. LEBANESE ARE OF
COURSE BEST JUDGE OF WHAT THEY NEED AND OF WHAT CAN BE
ACHIEVED. BUT WE THINK GOL'S INSISTENCE THAT SOVEREIGNTY
AND AUTHORITY OF STATE BE RESPECTED IS NOT ONLY FULLY
JUSTIFIED BUT VITAL TO LEBANON'S CONTINUED PROSPERITY,
AND EVEN ITS EXISTENCE.
3. YOU MAY TELL ABOUHAMAD THAT WE STAND READY TOMAKE A
FURTHER APPROACH TO SOVIETS.
WE
CURRENTLY CONSIDERING HOW BEST TO TO IT. WE WILLBE
TALKING TO SAUDIS AND KUWAITIS IN SAME SENSE: WE ARE NOT
SURE WHAT WE CAN USEFULLY DO WITH ABU DHABI BUT WILL GIVE
POSSIBILITY FULLEST CONSIDERATION, WE WILL ALSO BE
EXEMS
DISCUSSING WITH TRANTANS CONTINGENCY ACTIONS THEY COULD
TAKE TO DISCOURAGE IRAQI INTERVENTION SHOULD FIGHTING
RESUME ON SIGNIFICANT SCALE IN LEBANON. WE UNDERSTAND
KING HUSSEIN HAS ALREADY SENT MESSAGE INDICATING DESIRE
TO BE HELPFUL AND HAS TAKEN AT LEAST SOME SMALL CONCRETE
STEPS THIS DIRECTION. WE WILL ALSO HAVE AN EXCHANGE OF
VIEWS
WITH JORDANIANS ON THIS MATTER.
4. WE WILL MAKE ENERGETIC EFFORT, THOUGH HOW MUCH
INFLUENCE SOVIETS, SAUDIS AND KUWAITIS WILL BE WILLING TO
EXERCISE ON FEDAYEEN IS PROBLEMATICAL.
5. WE WILL HAVE TO AWAIT RECEIPT FROM LEBANESE ARMY
OF PRECISE LIST OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION BEFORE MAKING
SPECIFIC COMMITMENTS, BUT YOU MAY TELL FOREIGN MINISTER,
THAT IN PRINCIPLE WE STAND READY TO FILL ANY
REASONABLE REQUESTS WE CAN IF
GOL WISHES A SHOW OF U. S. SUPPORT, WE ARE PREPARED TO
CONSIDER FLYING ARMS AND AMMUNITION DIRECTLY INTO
LEBANON, IF LEBANESE ARMY CAN ASSURE SECURITY. IF THIS
NOT POLITICALLY EXPEDIENT AND DESIRABLE, WE CAN EXPLORE
ARRANGEMENTS FOR DELIVERY AT SOME INTERMEDIATE POINT.
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6. WE ASSUME GOL IS CONTINUING TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH
ISRAELIS THROUGH ILMAC. REGARDING FOREIGN MINISTER'S
QUERY ABOUT TSRAELI INTENTIONS OUR ESTIMATE IS THAT
ISRAEL HAS NO DESIGNS ON LEBANESE TERRITORY AND DOES NOT
WANT TO BECOME INVOLVED MILITARILY IN INTER-ARAB CONFLICTS,
BUT WOULD feel ITSELF THREATENED IF EITHER SYRIA OR
FEDAYEEN SEEMED ON VERGE OF TAKING OVER LEBANON, WE
REALIZE THAT GOL DOES NOT WANT TO BE IN POSITION OF BEING
SAVED BY ISRAEL AND WOULD HOPE THAT THINGS WOULD NOT
COME TO THAT. HOWEVER, WE BELIEVE STATEMENTS MADE BY
ISRAELIS DURING RECENT PHASE AND MANEUVERS IN GOLAN
HEIGHTS HAVE HAD SOME SOBERING EFFECT ON SYRIANS AND
fedayeen. WE TAKE AT FACE VALUE ISRAELI PUBLIC STATEMENT
THAT AS LONG AS THERE YS NO OUTSIDE INVOLVEMENT IT IS A
LEBANESE PROBLEM, BUT IF SYRIA INTERVENES IT ALSO BECOMES
AN ISRAELI PROBLEM.
% FOR MOSCOW, JIDDA, tehran, KUWAIT, AMMAN AND ABU
DHABI: REQUEST SOONEST AND BY IMMEDIATE TELEGRAM ANY
RECOMMENDATIONS, SUGGESTIONS OR VIEWS REGARDING ANY
APPROACH TO HOST GOVERNMENTS TO WHICH YOU ARE ACCREDITED
AS REQUESTED BY ABOUHAMAD.
8. STRICTLY FYI: THE lebanese SITUATION WAS CONSIDERED
IN THE WSAG MAY 15, AND WE ARE FOCUSING ON A HIGH
PRIORITY CONTINGENCY BASIS ON WHAT OTHER THINGS THE USG
MIGHT DO IN THE EVENT OF A CONFRONTATION OF THE KIND
DESCRIBED BY THE LEBANESE FOREIGN MINISTER AND/OR OUTSIDE
INVOLVEMENT PLACING GOL IN JEOPARDY. IF YOU HAVE ANY
SUGGESTIONS IN CONNECTION WITH THIS HIGH PRIORITY STUDY,
PLEASE SEND THEM ALONG. AS INDICATED ABOVE THIS IS AN
INTERIM REPLY, AND UPON COMPLETION OF THIS STUDY WE HOPE
TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE YOU WITH A FULLER REPLY. END FYI.
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PLANNING PURPOSES.
2. FOR PLANNING PURPOSES POSSIBLE SEA EVACUATION MENTIONED
REFTEL A, WE NEED YOUR BEST CURRENT ESTIMATE OF ACTUAL
NUMBERS AMERICAN RESIDENTS AND TOURISTS AND OTHER POTENTIAL
EVACUEES WHO WOULD DEPART DUE TO PRESENT CRISIS. ROGERS
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SUBJ: SAFETY OF AMERICANS IN LEBANON
1. GIVEN POTENTIALLY VOLATILE SITUATION IN LEBANON, AND
IN ANTICIPATION OF PASSIBLY LONG PERIOD OF UNREST AHEAD
DEPARTMENT WOULD APPRECIATE HAVING EMBASSY'S VIEWS ON
THREAT TO EMBASSY EMPLOYEES AND OTHER AMERICAN CITIZENS: IN
LEBANON AND DESIRABILITY OF POSSIBLY THINNING DOWN USG
PRESENCE. IF YOU THINK SUCH STEP DESTRABLE. NEED YOUR
ESTIMATE OF TIMING AND OTHER OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS.
2. GOL SHOULD BE MADE CLEARLY TO UNDERSTAND, AT HIGHEST
LEVEL, THAT USG EXPECTS IT TO DO ALL IN ITS POWER TO
PROTECT AMERICAN INSTALLATIONS AND CITIZENS FROM DEMONSTRA-
TIONS AND ATTACK. ROGERS
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EXDIS
E.O. 11652: XGDS-3
TAGS: PINS, LE
SUBJECT: TERRORISM IN LEBANON
REF: BEIRUT 3435 (NOTAL)
FOR THE AMBASSADOR
DEPARTMENT ENDORSES YOUR TAKING UP TERRORISM WITH PRIME
MINISTER SALAM. IF YOU CONSIDER IT USERUL SUGGEST YOU ALSO
RAISE LEBANON-ISRAEL BORDER SITUATION. MARCH 24 BORDER
INCIDENT NEAR MARWAHIN INVOLVING CROSS-BORDER FEDAYEEN OPER-
ATION AND UNTSO REPORT OF DIMINISHED LEBANESE ARMY PRESENCE
IN SOUTH- CENTRAL SECTOR ARE CAUSE OF CONCERN. THIS AND
OTHER RECENT INCIDENTS IN LEBANESE-ISRABLI BORDER AREA SEEM
TO INDICATE SLACKENING IN LEBANESE EFFORTS TO KEEP FEDAYEEN
OUT OF AREA AND PREVENT CROSS-BORDER FEBAYEEN OPERATIONS,
POLICY WHICH HAS PAID OFF SO HANDSOMELY FOR GOL WITH
PEACE AND QUIET IN SOUTH LEBANON OVER PAST MONTHS. ROGERS
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REF: BEIRUT 3254
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SUBJ: CAMPAIGN AGAINST TERRORISM
REF: BEIRUT 2701
FOR THE AMBASSADOR
1. DEPARTMENT APPRECIATES YOUR EXCELLENT SUBSTANTIVE
SUGGESTIONS CONTAINED IN REFTEL CONCERNING REVIEW OF THE
TERRORISM PROBLEM. YOUR TELEGRAM IS BEING CIRCULATED TO
APPROPRIATE POSTS FOR THEIR COMMENTS AS PART OF OUR OVERALL
STUDY AND EFFORTS TO FACE TERRORISM THREAT MORE EFFECTIVELY.
2. AS YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE SUGGESTIONS YOU MADE ARE
ALREADY BEING CARRIED OUT. FIRST, WE HAVE UNDERTAKEN TO
GAIN WIDEST possible INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR THESIS THAT
STRONG DISTINCTION MUST BE MADE BETWEEN FEDAYEEN AND
PALESTINIAN PEOPLE AND THAT THERE IS NO LONGER ANY QUESTION
OVER THE LVNK BETWEEN BSO AND FATAH. WE HAVE ASKED OUR
POSTS IN EUROPEAN AND ARAB CAPITALS TO MAKE THIS INFORMA-
EXPIN
TION RE BSO-FATAH LINK AVAILABLE TO SELECTED OFFICIALS
(STATE 478471. SECOND, WE PREPARED TO CONSIDER
EXCHANGES OF INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION ON TERRORISM BOTH
BILATERALLY AND THROUGH INTERPOL WITH SELECTED ARAB GOVERN-
MENTS. THIRD, YOU WILL HAVE NOTED OUR INSTRUCTIONS CON-
TAINED IN STATE 44811 URGING ARAB GOVERNMENTS TO TAKE
ACTION TO STOP FLOW OF FUNDS TO RADICAL PALESTINIAN
ORGANIZATIONS AND TO DENY FEDAYEEN USE OF ARAB PASSPORTS
AND OTHER FACILITIES, FOURTH WE have INSTRUCTED OUR
MISSIONS IN WESTERN EUROPE TO APPROACH HOST GOVERNMENTS AT
HIGH LEVEL TO URGE further EFFORTS BE MADE TO DISCOURAGE
SUPPORT OR TOLERATION BY ARAB GOVERNMENTS OF ARAB
TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS (STATE 46941 NOTAL). ALSO WE HAVE
PROPOSED THAT NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL UNDERTAKE EARLY
FURTHER REVIEW OF PROGRESS TO DATE IN COMBATTING TERRORISM
AND OF POSSIBLE FURTHER STEPS. IN THIS RESPECT, WE HOPE
THAT further CONSULTATIONS IN NAC CAN PROVIDE FORUM FOR
REINFORCING EXCHANGE OF VIEWS ON NUMBER OF COUNTRIES'
INTERNAL SECURITY PROCEDURES TO COMBAT TERRORISM AS WELL
AS PROMOTE FURTHER EXCHANGE OF INTELLIGENCE AND
APPLICABLE TECHNOLOGY.
30 CONCERNING YOUR SUGGESTION THAT SECURITY PRECAUTIONS
NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
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BE EXPANDED DE at DEPT AND APPROPRIATE AGENCIES ARE REVIEWING
SECURITY MEASURES ON URGENT BASIS IN EFFORT TO DETERMINE
WHAT NEEDS ... TO BE DONE TO PROVIDE MOST EFFECTIVE SECURITY
FOR OUR personnel AND MISSIONS ABROAD ©
40 RE SUGGESTION THAT USG EXPEDITE DELIVERY OF MILITARY
EQUIPMENT, WE ARE VERY MINDFUL OF HOW HELPFUL THIS TYPE OF
ACTION WOULD BE IN PERSUADING LEBANESE TO MOVE MORE
VIGOROUSLY AGAINST FEDAYEEN AND ARE EXPLORING POSSIBILITIES.
PLEASE LET US KNOW OF SPECIFIC ITEMS OR PROGRAMS YOU WOULD
RECOMMEND, BEYOND THOSE PRESENTLY UNDER : / CONSIDERATION
5'o OTHER DETAILED 11 SUGGESTIONS REFTEL ARE ALSO UNDER
CONSIDERATION IN OUR OVERALL CAMPAIGN - TO COMBAT
TERRORISM. ROGERS
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EXDIS
E.O. 116528 ADS, XGDS-3
TAGS: PINS, LE ₽ US
SUBJECT: TERRORIST LEADERS IN LEBANON
REF: BEIRUT 14055: 264
FOR THE AMBASSADOR
10 UNLESS YOU PERCEIVE OBJECTION, DEPARTMENT WOULD LIKE YOU
TO RAISE AGAIN WITH GOL, AS YOU DID IN DECEMBER AND JAN.
FOLLOWING TERRORIST ATTACK ON EMBASSY (PER REFTELS), ISSUE
OF RESIDENCE OF TERRORIST LEADERS IN LEBANON. IN DOING so,
YOU SHOULD STATE YOU ACTING ON DEPARTMENT'S SPECIFIC IN-
STRUCTION.
2. YOU SHOULD RECALL REPRESENTATION YOU MADE TO PRESIDENT
FRANGIE DECEMBER 28 (BEIRUT 140051 AND YOUR REQUEST AT THAT
TIME THAT SALAH KHALAF AND OTHER TOP TERRORIST LEADERS
EITHER BE ARRESTED OR EXPELLED. YOU SHOULD NOTE THAT
FRANGIE AT TIME GAVE YOU NO ENCOURAGEMENT TO THINK THAT
ACTION WOULD BE TAKEN AGAINST KHALAF OR OTHERS AND WE KNOW
NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
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THAT KHALAF HAS SUBSEQUENTLY CONTINUED TO RESIDE AND WORK
IN LEBANON, WE ALSO KNOW FROM RELIABLE SOURCES THAT BSO
I
ACTION IN KHARTOUM WAS PLANNED IN BEIRUT PESONALLY BY
KHALAF® AS AMBASSADOR POINTED OUT TO PRESIDENT FRANGIE IN
DECEMBER, DANGER IS THAT LEBANON WILL BECOME KNOWN AS
CENTER FOR TERRORISM
30 YOU SHOULD SAY THAT IN VIEW OF BSO'S COLD BLOODED
MURDER OF TWO US DIPLOMATS IN KHARTOUM WE ARE SURE THAT GOL
WILL AGREE THAT KHALAF AND ALL OTHERS ASSOCIATED WITH BSO
CAN ONLY BE REGARDED AS CRIMINALS OF MOST DEPRAVED SORT.
USG AND AMERICAN PUBLIC WOULD FIND IT DIFFICULT TO UNDER-
STAND IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES® GOL'S CONTINUING TO AFFORD
KHALAF FREEDOM TO LIVE AND WORK IN LEBANON. ACCORDINGLY,
USG STRONGLY HOPES THAT LEBANON WILL TAKE STEPS TO
DISSOCIATE ITSELF FROM BSO PREFERABLY BY ARRESTING
KHALAF AND MEMBERS OF HIS GANG BUT AT VERY LEAST BY EX-
-
PELLING THEM. WE RECOGNIZE THT EXPULSION WOOLD NOT
PREVENT KHALAF AND BSO FROM FINDING OTHER HEADQUARTERS
FOR THEIR OPERATIONS BUT AT LEAST IT WOULD DEPRIVE THEM OF
USE OF LEBANON EXTENSIVE COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES. MORE
IMPORTANT HOWEVER, IT WILL PROTECT LEBANON'S REPUTA-
TION AS LAW ABIDING COUNTRY AND CENTER FOR MIDDLE EAST
TOURISM AND COMMERCE. ROGERS
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TAGS: PBOR, LE, US, IS
SUBJECT ISRAELI RAID INTO NORTH LEBANON
1 ° SUMMARY LEBANESE AMBASSADOR KABBANI CALLED ON ASST
SECY SISCO TO DISCUSS IMPLICATIONS OF FEB 21 ISRAELI RAID
INTO NORTH LEBANON. KABBANI STRESSED THAT DISTINCTION
MUST BE MADE BETWEEN ISRAELI MILITARY ACTIONS WHICH PRO-
VOKED BY FEDAYEEN OF CROSS BORDER OPERATIONS, AND ISRAELI
PREEMPTIVE RAIDS AIMED AGAINST FEDAYEEN PRESENCE IN LEBANON.
FEB 21 INCIDENT WHICH FALLS INTO LATTER CATEGORY, KABBANI
SAID, HAS CREATED NEW SITUATION IN LEBANON WHICH IS UNDER-
MINING GOL'S POLITICAL POSITION AND ABILITY TO RESTRAIN
fedayeen. SISCO EXPLAINED US POSITION IN DETAIL AND SAID
HE WOULD DISCUSS PROBLEM WITH ISRAELIS. END SUMMARY.
2. AMBASSADOR KABBANI ACCOMPANIED BY MINISTER SHAMMAS
CALLED ON ASST SECY SISCO MARCH 1 TO DISCUSS FEB 21
ISRAELI RAID INTO NORTH LEBANON AND ITS BROADER IMPLICA-
NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
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TIONS FOR LEBANON ©
30 KABBANI SAID LATEST ISRAELI RAID MUST BE VIEWED IN
CONNECTION WITH UNPROVOKED ISRAELI AIR STRIKES AGAINST
LEBANON ON OCTOBER 15, 1972, AND SUBSEQUENT ISRAELI PRO-
NOUNCEMENTS THAT VERY PRESENCE OF FEDAYEEN CONSTITUTES
PROVOCATION JUSTIFYING MILITARY RETALIATION. KABBANI
REFERRED TO CLOSE USG-GOL CONSULTATIONS SINCE SEPTEMBER
1972 ON FEDAYEEN SITUATION AND LEBANESE UNDERSTANDING
FROM WHAT ISRAELIS TOLD USG THAT ISRAEL WOULD REFRAIN
FROM MILITARY RETALIATION AS LONG AS LEBANON ISRAEL
BORDER REMAINED QUIET AND THERE WERE NO CROSS-BORDER
OPERATIONS. GOL, KABBANI SAID, UNDERSTOOD EXPLICITLY
THAT ISRAELI OBJECTIVE WAS NOT TO HAVE GOL LIQUIDATE
FEDAYEEN IN LEBANON, BUT TO EFFECTIVELY CONTROL LEBANON'S
SOUTHERN BORDER WITH ISRAEL. IT WAS WITHIN THIS CONTEXT
THAT GOL ENTERED INTO CLOSE CONSULTATIONS WITH US IN ITS
EFFORTS TO KEEP BORDER QUIET AND ASSURE THAT ISRAELTS
WERE FULLY AWARE OF GOL'S EFFORTS TO DO SO. GOL'S
DECISION NOT RPT NOT TO RESORT TO UNSC AFTER OCTOBER
INCIDENT WAS ALSO RESULT OF USG-GOL DISCUSSIONS AND US
ADVICE THAT UNSC DEBATE WOULD BE INOPPORTUNE AND WOULD
HAVE NO PRODUCTIVE RESULT.
40 KABBANI SAID HE SUSPECTED FEB 21 ISRAELI ATTACK ON
FEDAYEEN BASES IN NORTH LEBANON CAUSED MUCH GREATER
NUMBER OF CASUALTIES THAN GENERALLY REPORTED. HE CITED
A LE MONDE ARTICLE ACCORDING TO WHICH 95 PERSONS WERE
KILLED AND 25 WOUNDED AS CONTRASTED WITH GENFRALLY
ACCEPTED FIGURE OF 30 KILLED AND 20 WOUNDED. KABBANI
CHARACTERIZED FEB 21 ISRAELI RAID AS COMPLETELY UNPROVOKED.
GOL HAD THOUGHT ISRAELIS WERE SATISFIED BY EFFECTIVE
CONTROLS EXERTED ON FEDAYEEN IN SOUTHERN LEBANON.
KABBANI EMPHASIZED THAT GOL HAS DONE EVERYTHING POSSIBLE
TO KEEP BORDER AREA CLEAR OF FEDAYEEN KABBANI SAID
GOL'S POLITICAL POSITION IS NOT NOW AS STRONG AS IT WAS
BEFORE THE FEB 21 RAID. FEDAYEEN MAY NOW PRESS FOR
RENEWAL OF THEIR ACTIVITIES ON LEBANESE TERRITORY, ON
GROUNDS THAT GOL'S POLICY OF CONTROLLING BORDER TO AVOID
ISRAELI RETALIATION HAS FAILED. KABBANI POINTED OUT GOL
HAD AGAIN HEEDED US ADVICE NOT TO CALL UNSC MEETING ON
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FEB 21 INCIDENT. GOL,KABBANI SAID, UNDERSTOOD IMPORTANCE
OF PRESENT US EFFORTS TO TRY TO ACHIEVE SOME PROGRESS ON
MIDDLE EAST PEACE SETTLE AND DECIDED NOT TO EXACERBATE
SITUATION BY CALLING UNSC MEETING. HOWEVER, KABBANI
STATED THAT GOL'S POSITION IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE
DIFFICULT IN RESPECT TO LEBANESE PUBLIC OPINIONs OTHER
ARAB GOVERNMENTS, AND THE Fedayeen a IN THESE CIRCUM-
STANCES LEBANON, AS A SMALL COUNTRY, MAY IN FUTURE FIND
IT INCREASINGLY NECESSARY TO RESORT TO THE UN.
5 . SISCO STATED WE HAD GIVEN THE QUESTIONS RAISED BY
KABBANI LONG AND HARD THOUGHT AND THIS ISSUE WAS A MATTER
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OF REGULAR CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN GOL AND USG. SISCO SAID
WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ANSWER GOL'S SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ON
THIS ISSUE IN ONLY GENERAL TERMS. NEVERTHELESS US
OBJECTIVES ARE THE SAME AS THOSE OF GOL, I.E., THAT
LEBANON-ISRAEL BORDER SHOULD BE A BORDER OF QUIET® BUT
GOL SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT WE HAVE GREAT DIFFICULTIES IN
PARTICULAR AS CONCERNS OUR PUBLIC STANCE ON THESE INCI-
DENTS® SISCO SAID WE FEEL GOL AND LEBANESE ARMY HAVE
TAKEN INCREASINGLY MORE EFFECTIVE MEASURES To CONTROL
fedayeen. WE ALSO SEE THESE ISRAELI ACTIONS IN VERY AMBI-
VALENT TERMS. SISCO EXPLAINED THAT WE DO NOT APPROVE OF
THESE ISRAELI ACTIONS AND CONSIDER LINE BETWEEN LEBANON
AND ISRAEL THE ESTABLISHED BORDER. THUS, WE VIEW THESE
ISRAELI ACTIONS AS BEING DIRECTED AGAINST SOVEREIGN
LEBANESE TERRITORY. WE HAVE TRIED TO DO WHAT WE CAN
IN PRIVATE, TO LIMIT ISRAELI RETALIATION. HOWEVER, WHAT
MAKES SITUATION DIFFICULT FOR US, FRANKLY IS REALIZATION
THAT BOTH LEBANESE ACTIONS AND ISRAELI ACTIONS AGAINST
fedayeen HAVE HAD EFFECT OF REDUCING FEDAYEEN STRENGTH.
6. SISCO STRESSED WE HAVE NOT TOLD ISRAELIS WE CONSIDER
FEB 21 OR OTHER RAIDS TO BE A GOOD THING. IT COULD BE
POINTED OUT, SISCO REMARKED, THAT FEB 21 RAID WAS
SURGICAL OPERATION CONDUCTED AGAINST FEDAYEEN INSTALLA-
TIONS AND THAT GOL HAD NOT TO OUR KNOWLEDGE ELAIMED THAT
EVEN SINGLE LEBANESE CITIZEN HAD BEEN KILLED OR WOUNDED
(KABBANI AND SHAMMAS ACKNOWLEDGED THIS WITH A NODI, BUT
HE WOULD NOT EMPHASIZE THIS ASPECT SINCE WE ALL KNOW
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ISRAELIS COULD ERR IN FUTURE. IN TERMS OF PRACTICAL
RESULTS OF MAINTAINING A PEACEFUL BORDER BOTH LEBANON'S
AND ISRAEL'S ACTIONS ARE COMPLEMENTARY. SISCO ACKNOWLEDG=
ED 2 HOWEVER, THAT THIS ANALYSIS OBVIOUSLY DISREGARDS
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POLITICAL PROBLEMS WHICH INACTION IN WAKE OF ISRAELI
RAID CAUSES GOL.
70 SISCO MADE CLEAR USG DOES NOT ENDORSE OR APPROVE OF
THESE ISRAELI MILITARY ACTIONS, REGARDLESS OF THE FACT
THAT IN SOME CASES THEY DO HELP KEEP THE BORDER SITUATION
QUIET. SISCO REITERATED USG COMMITMENT TO LEBANON'S
TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY. WE WOULD BE PARTICULARLY CONCERNED
OVER ANY ISRAELI ACTION THAT TENDED TO JEOPARDIZE THE
TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AND POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE OF
LEBANON
80 AMBASSADOR KABBANI SAID GOL'S MAJOR CONCERN IS THAT
THE FEB 21 RAID HAS CREATED A NEW SITUATION. GOL
JUSTIFIED ITS RESTRAINTS ON FEDAYEEN BY STRESSING THAT
A TRANQUIL BORDER WOULD prevent ISRAELI MILITARY
RETALIATION AGAINST LEBANESE TERRITORY. THIS RATIONALE
HAS NOW BEEN DESTROYED BY FEB 21 RAID, KABBANI CLAIMED.
WHETHER VICTIMS OF THESE ISRAELI RAIDS ARE LEBANESE OR
PALESTINIAN, IMPORTANT FACT IS THAT THEY ARE LIVING IN
LEBANESE TERRITORY AND UNDER ITS SOVEREIGN CONTROL.
REFERRING TO FREEDOO PALESTINIANS ENJOY IN LEBANON»
KABBANI SAID, "WE CANNOT TURN LEBANON INTO A CONCENTRATION
CAMP." THIS IS ESPECIALLY CASE2 HE SAID, AS LONG AS THE
FEDAYEEN ARE NOT UNDERTAKING CROSS-BORDER OPERATIONS
INTO ISRAEL. AMBASSADOR KARBANI ASKED SISCO TO CONVEY TO
ISRAELIS GOL'S POSITION THAT A DISTINCTION MUST BE MADE
BETWEEN FEDAYEEN CROSS-BORDER OPERATIONS WHICH COULD BE
VIEWED AS A JUSTIFICATION FOR MILITARY RETALIATION» AND
PREEMPTIVE RAIDS AGAINST FEDAYEEN PRESENCE IN LEBANON
SISCO SAID WE UNDERSTAND GOL'S PROBLEM AND WILL DISCUSS
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SUBJECT: ISRAELI RAID ON NORTHERN LEBANON
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1. ASST. SECY SISCO TELEPHONED LEBANESE AMBASSADOR KABBANI
FEB. 23 TO RESPOND TO HIS INQUIRY CONCERNING POSSIBILITY GOL
CALLING UNSC MEETING RE FEB. 20-21 ISRAELI RAID ON NORTH
LEBANON (STATE 337141. SISCO REFERRED TO AMBASSADOR
BUFFUM'S DISCUSSION WITH FONMIN ABOUHAMAD (BEIRUT 2093) AND
STATED THAT AMB BUFFUM HAD MADE CERTAIN POINTS TO FONMIN
ON HIS OWN INITIATIVE AND HAD ASKED FOR DEPARTMENT'S IN-
STRUCTIONS WHICH ARE NOW BEING SENT. SISCO SAID HE WANTED
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2. SISCO TOLD KABBANI THAT OUR ADVICE WOULD BE TO HOLD OFF
AND NOT PURSUE THE ISSUE OF ISRAELI RAID ON NORTH LEBANON
IN A FORMAL WAY WITHIN UNSC. TIMING WAS WRONG AND THERE
WOULD BE NO PRACTICAL and RESULT EMANATING FROM UNSC MEETING.
SISCO ALSO POINTED OUT THAT REACTION FROM MIDDLE EAST
TO RECENT EVENTS, REGARDLESS OF DEEP PERSONAL FEELINGS, HAS
BEEN ONE OF RESTRAINT AND RESPONSIBILITY- UNSC MEETING ON
THIS ISSUE WOULD MAKE MATTERS MORE DIFFICULT.
3. REFERRING TO LIBYAN AIRLINE CRASH IN SINAI, SISCO SAID
THIS INCIDENT ONLY POINTS OUT NECESSITY OF GETTING ON WITH
JOB OF OBTAINING SOME FORWARD MOVEMENT ON PEACEFUL SETTLE-
MENT OF ARAB/ISRAEL CONFLICT AND NOTED HAFIZ ISMAIL
PRESENTLY IN us. SISCO COMMENTED WORLD REACTION TO AIR-
CRAFT DOWNING IS VERY CLEAR AND THAT MATTER WILL BE RAISED
IN ICAO. THEREFORE, THERE IS NO NEED FOR ANY ARTIFICIAL
STIMULATION OF THIS ISSUE IN UNSC SINCE WORLD OPINION
WILL MANIFEST ITSELF.
3. SISCO EXPRESSED DEEP APPRECIATION TO KABBANI PER-
SONALLY AND TO GOL FOR TAKING INITIATIVE IN CONSULTING
WITH USG ON PRIOR BASIS. SISCO STRESSED HE HOPED US
ADVICE WOULD BE NEEDED. KABBANI REPLIED THAT IN HIS
OPINION UNSC MEETING WOULD CERTAINLY NOT ACHIEVE ANY
PRODUCTIVE END. HE SAID ALSO SC ROUND WOULD NOT ADD ANY-
THING USEFUL. KABBANI UNDERTOOK CONVEY US views TO GOL.
4. SISCO LATER CALLED KABBANI AND ADDED ON OTHER POINT.
HE SAID RECENT EVENTS HAD STIMULATED A SEARCHING QUESTION-
ING AMONG AND BETWEEN ISRAELIS THEMSELVES NOT ONLY
ABOUT THE INCIDENT BUT ALSO ABOUT THE LONG RUN VIABILITY
OF THE PRESENT STATUS QUO. SUCH A SEARCHING, INTROSPEC-
TIVE SCRUTINY WOULD NOT BE FURTHER ENCOURAGED BY OUTSIDE
PROPAGANDA ATTACKS EMANATING FROM UNSC. KABBANI AGREED.
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1 * FULLY ENDORSE EXCELLENT PRESENTATION YOU MADE TO FONMIN
ABOUHAMAD (BEIRUT 20931. YOU SHOULD TELL ABOUHAMAD YOU
HAVE BEEN INSTRUCTED TO REITERATE VIEWS YOU EXPRESSED IN
EARLIER CONVERSATION AND TO URGE THAT LEBANON NOT RPT NOT
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2. WE WILL BE MAKING PARALLEL REPLY TO AMBASSADOR KABBANI
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3. FYI. FROM REMARKS OF LEBANESE EMBASSY PERSONNEL HERE
WE GET IMPRESSION THAT GOL BEGAN SERIOUSLY TO CONSIDER
CALLING SC MEETING ONLY AFTER ISRAELIS SHOT DOWN LIBYAN
AIRLINER, AND THAT LEBANESE SEE MEETING MAINLY AS
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OPPORTUNITY TO CASH IN ON WORLD CONDEMNATION OF ISRAEL AS
RESULT OF LATTER INCIDENT. HOWEVER IT NOW APPEARS
VIRGUALLY CERTAIN THAT THERE WILL BE NO SC MEETING ON THE
PLANE INCIDENT (AS LIBYANS ARE PLANNING INITIATIVE IN ICAO
INSTEAD.) IN VIEW OF POSITION YOU TOOK WITH ABOUHAMAD AND
LINE WE HAVE TAKEN HERE WITH AMB KABBANI, WE HAVE
IMPRESSION LEBANESE WILL NOT RPT NOT PRESS FOR SC MEETING,
AMONG OTHER REASONS BECAUSE OF EVIDENT NEGATIVE EFFECT
IT WOULD HAVE ON MOMENTUM NOW DEVELOPING ON MIDDLE EAST
CONSULTATIONS. END FYI.
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SUBJECT: ISRAELI RAID ON NORTHERN LEBANON
1 . AMBASSADOR KABBANI TELEPHONED DEPUTY ASSISTANT
SECRETARY ATHERTON FEBRUARY 22 TO INFORM DEPARTMENTITHAT
GOL CONSIDERING CALLING MEETING OF UNSC TO DEBATE
FEBRUARY 20-21 ISRAELI RAID ON FEDAYEEN BASES IN NORTH
LEBANON. KABBANI SAID HE WAS UNDER INSTRUCTIONS TO SEEK
USG VIEWS ON GOL RECOURSE TO UNSC IN ACCORDANCE WITH
LEBANESE FOREIGN MINISTER'S UNDERTAKING WITH ASSISTANT
SECRETARY SISCO TO CONSULT, IN ADVANCE, ON ISSUES OF
COMMON INTEREST BROUGHT UP WITHIN UN FRAMEWORK.
SPECIFICALLY HE ASKED IF USG WOULD SUPPORT GOL CALL
FOR UNSC MEETING AND IF USG WOULD SUPPORT GOL IN DEBATE
OF THIS ISSUE.
2. KABBANI SAID POLITICAL REPERCUSSIONS IN LEBANON OF
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ISRAELI RAID, COUPLED WITH ARAB PUBLIC REACTION OVER
CRASH OF LIBYAN AIRLINER IN SINAI, HAVE BECOME
SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH TO JUSTIFY UNSC MEETING AND CON-
DEMNATION OF ISRAEL.
3. ATHERTON REPLIED HE WOULD CONSULT IMMEDIATELY WITHIN
DEPARTMENT IN ORDER TO CONVEY OUR PRELIMINARY VIEWS TO
KABBANI AND GOL.
4. DEPARTMENT NEEDS IMMEDIATELY EMBASSY'S ASSESSMENT OF
DOMESTIC POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS ISRAELI RAID ON NORTH
LEBANON AND EXTENT OF POLITICAL PRESSURES ON PRESIDENT
FRANGIE TO PROTECT GOL'S POLITICAL FLANKS BY RAISING
ISSUE IN UNSC.
5 . FYI. OUR PRESENT THINKING ON RESPONSE TO KABBANI
IS: (A) WE CAN SEE NO REPEAT NO PRODUCTIVE RESULT FROM
UNSC DEBATE AT THIS TIME: (B) WE CAN MAKE NO REPEAT NO
ADVANCE COMMITMENT RE POSITION WE WOULD TAKE IN DEBATE,
BUT WOULD NOT WANT GOL TO BE UNDER ANY ILLUSION THAT WE
COULD SUPPORT RESOLUTION WHICH FAILED TO TAKE COGNIZANCE
OF FEDAYEEN TERRORIST ASPECT OF PROBLEM, (C) UNSC DEBATE
COULD NOT COME AT WORSE TIME AND COULD HAVE MOST ADVERSE
EFFECTS ON CURRENTLY ACTIVE USG EFFORTS TO PLAY CON-
STRUCTIVE ROLE IN SEEKING ACHIEVE SOME MOVEMENT TOWARD
PEACEFUL settlement OF ARAB ISRAELI CONFLICT: IN
ADDITION, WE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT ADVERSE EFFECTS FOR
GOL AND UNRWA RESULTING FROM DEBATE THAT WOULD
INEVITABLY CALL ATTENTION TO PROBLEM OF FEDAYEEN
PRESENCE IN REFUGEE CAMPS. END FYI.
6. REQUEST EMBASSY COMMENTS ON ABOVE PROPOSED RESPONSE
TO GOL.
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ISRAELI ATTACKS AGAINST LEBANON
1 - ASST. SECRETARY SISCO TELEPHONED LEBANESE AMBASSADOR
KABBANI OCTOBER 20 TO INFORM HIM THAT MR. ATHERTON HAD
REPORTED FULLY HIS OCTOBER 19 CONVERSATION WITH KABBANI
(SEE EARLIER MESSAGE SAME SUBJECT). SISCO ASSURED KABBANI
THAT WE UNDERSTAND HE WAS UNDER URGENT INSTRUCTIONS FROM
BEIRUT TO DETERMINE, ON CONTINGENCY BASIS, US POSITION IN
UNSC ON POSSIBLE FUTURE ISRAELI ATTACKS AGAINST LEBANON.
SISCO SAID WE WERE REFLECTING ON DIFFICULT QUESTIONS POSED
BY GOL. HOWEVER, SISCO COMMENTED, WE NOT REPEAT NOT IN
POSITION TO GIVE GOL CONCRETE ANSWERS AT THIS MOMENT.
MEANWHILE, HE WANTED KABBANI TO K KNOW THAT WE ARE CONTINUING
OUR DISCUSSIONS WITH ISRAELIS.
2 * KABBANI EXPRESSED HIS APPRECIATION TO SISCO FOR
FOREGOING INFORMATION.
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CONTINGENCY OF FUTURE ISRAELI ATTACK
1. DURING COURSE OF CALL ON DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY
ATHERTON, OCTOBER 19, LEBANESE AMBASSADOR KABBANI RAISED
SUBJECT OF ADVANCE USG/GOL CONSULTATIONS IN ANTICIPATION
OF ANOTHER UNPROVOKED ISRAELI ATTACK AGAINST LEBANON.
KABBANI SAID IT WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR GOL TO DO
NOTHING, IF ISRAEL ATTACKS WITHOUT PROVOCATION FOR THIRD
TIME WITHIN RECENT MONTHS. NEVERTHELESS, IT IS PROBABLE,
GIVEN HIGH-LFVEL ISRAELI POLICY statements, THAT ISRAEL
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SULT ON A PRIOR BASIS WITH USG ON FUTURE COURSES OF ACTION.
2. SPECIFICALLY, KABBANI SAID, GOL WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT
USG POSITION WOULD BE IN EVENT OF ANOTHER ISRAELI ATTACK,
ESPECIALLY IN REFERENCE TO U.S. POSITION IN UNSC. GOL
DOESN WANT TO PRESENT USG WITH A FAIT ACCOMPLI BY CALLING
FOR EMERGENCY SESSION OF UNSC AFTER ANOTHER ISRAELI ATTACK
ON LEBANON. USG AND GOL SHOULD SEEK TO AGREE ON COURSE OF
ACTION IN ADVANCE. FAILING AGREEMENT, USG SHOULD AT LEAST
UNDERSTAND WHY GOL MIGHT FEEL IT HAD TO GO SEPARATE
COURSE RATHER THAN HAVE THIS COME AS SURPRISE. MORE
IMPORTANT, GOL REALIZES THAT U.S. USE OF VETO IN UNSC WOULD
ONLY ENCOURAGE WHAT SEEMS TO BE NEW ISRAELI DOLICY OF
REPRISALS WITHOUT PROVOCATION. nevertheless, GOL'S
OPTIONS ARE NARROWING IN FACE OF FREQUENCY ISRAELI
ATTACKS.
3. ATHERTON SAID HE COULD DO NO MORE AT THIS POINT THAN
TAKE KABBANI'S QUESTION UNDER ADVISEMENT, BUT NOTED AS
PRELIMINARY COMMENT THAT IT VERY DIFFICULT TO GIVE ANSWER
TO HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION. HOWEVER, HE DID NOTE THAT
SYRIANS MADE SAME APPROACH AS LEBANON CONCERNING OCTOBER 15
AIR STRIKES--I.E. LETTER TO SC PRESIDENT BUT NO CALL FOR
SC MEETING. KABBANI COMMENTED THAT HAD SYRIANS GONE TO
UNSC, THEN LEBANON WOULD HAVE HAD TO RESORT TO SC ALSO
WHERE U.S. WOULD PROBABLY EXERCISE VETO THEREBY SIGNALLING
GREEN LIGHT FOR ISRAELIS TO STRIKE AGAIN. KABBANI SAID
LEBANESE WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN DISSUADING SYRIANS FROM
RESORTING TO UNSC. ATHERTON SAID LEBANON DID RIGHT THING,
AND KABBANI REPLIED THAT LEBANON DID NOT WANT TO PLAY INTO
ISRAELI HANDS.
40 KABBANI EXPLAINED HIS PERSONAL POSITION THAT IT
BECOMING MUCH MORE DIFFICULT FOR LEBANON TO REMAIN
INACTIVE IN WAKE OF ISRAELI STRIKES. LEBANON'S
POSITION BEING CHARACTERIZED AS EXTREMELY WEAK ONE AND
OTHER ARAB STATES URGING LEB NON TO GO BEYOND LETTERS OF
PROT=ST. U.S. PRESS TREATMENT OF USG APPROACHES TO GOI AND
GOL FOLLOWING OCT. 15 ISRAELI ATTACK PARTICULARLY WASHING-
TON STAR STORY ALLEGING USG HAD GIVEN NOD TO NEW ISRAELI
DOCTRINE- HAD NOT BEEN HELPFUL TO GOL IN DEALING WITH ARAB
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U.S. VETO® ON THE OTHER HAND IF LEBANON STAYS AWAY,
ISRAEL DOES NOT RISK BEING SUBJECTED TO INTERNATIONAL
CONDEMNATION.
5 ° KABBANI INFORMED DEPTOFF BY PHONE AFTER MEETING WITH
ATHERTON THAT HE RECEIVED INSTRUCTIONS FROM BEIRUT THAT
GOL WANTED TO HAVE QUESTION OF USG-GOL CONTINGENCY
PLANNING DISCUSSED AT HIGHEST LEVEL. KABBANI SAID GOL IS
PRESSING EMBASSY FOR A TIMELY ANSWER CONCERNING U.S.
ATTITUDE ON THIS QUESTION AND SPECIFICALLY ON TACTICS
WITHIN UNSC.
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IN LATTER'S OFFICE WHENEVER THEROS VISITS DAMASCUS. IN OUR
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EFFECT THAT NEXT STEP SEEMS TO BE UP TO GOL. DEPARTMENT
AGREES WITH THIS JUDGMENT. THEREFORE, SUGGEST YOU LAY
LOW ON THIS ISSUE FOR THE TIME BEING LETTING LEBANESE
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CONTACTS TO DEAL WITH BORDER PROBLEMS, WE ARE TAKING
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AND THEIR OBSERVATION POST INSIDE LEBANON. FYI: YOU
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SUBJ: CALL OF LEBANESE AMBASSADOR KABBANI ON ASST SECY SISCO
1 . LEBANESE AMBASSADOR KABBANI CALLED ON ASSISTANT
SECRETARY SISCO JANUARY 12 TO DISCUSS MIDDLE EAST PEACE
EFFORTS AND RECENT INCIDENTS ALONG LEBANESE BORDER. KABBANI
BEGAN BY STATING ISRAELI RETALIATORY RAIDS INTO LEBANONI
WERE DISTRESSING TO GOL SINCE LATTER FELT RAIDS OUT OF
PROPORTION TO INCIDENTS. SISCO NOTED THAT ISRAEL HADI
EXPRESSED CONCERN OVER FEDAYEEN SHELLINGS IN ILMAC FORUM
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PRIOR TO RETALIATORY RAIDS AND HAD STATED THAT SHELLINGS
MUST STOP OR ISRAEL WOULD RETALIATE. KABBANI SAID Lebanoni
WAS DOING ITS BEST TO CONTROL FEDAYEENI BUT ISRAELI
RETALIATORY POLICY CREATED INTERNAL PROBLEMS IN DEALING
WITH FEDAYEEN, ISRAEL SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT LEBANON
CANNOT CONTROL FEDAYEEN ACTIVITES ENTIRELY AND INCIDENTS ARE
BOUND TO OCCUR. SISCO NOTED THAT ISRAEL HAD SAID MANY TIMES THAT
IT WOULD TAKE NO ACTION ALONG BORDER AS LONG AS FEDAYEEN
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DID NOT CREATE INCIDENTS. BORDER HAD BEEN QUIET FOR A PERIOD
OF MANY WEEKS BUT SHELLING OF ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
HAD RECENTLY RESUMED. ISRAELI PHILOSOPHY IS THAT THEIR
RESPONSE MUST BE SEVERE ENOUGH TO TEACH FEDAYEEN A lesson.
KABBANI SAID HE UNDERSTOOD ISRAELI VIEWPOINT BUT SPECULATED THAT ONE
REASON ISRAELIS HAD REACTED IN SUCH A MANNER WAS BECAUSE ARAFAT
WAS SAID TO BE CONDUCTING OPERATIONS IN THE SOUTH AND ISRAELIS:
WERE HOPEFUL OF CAPTURING HIM. KABBANI NOTED THAT GOL
HAS HANDLED RELATIONS WITH FEDAYEEN WELLI OVER PAST
YEAR AND HAS TRIED TO CONVINCE FEDAYEEN THAT IT IS: IN THEIR
INTEREST TO AVOID INCIDENTS WITHIN LEBANON.
2. KABBANI SAID HIS MAIN REASON IN CALLING ON SISCO WAS
TO DISCUSS JARRING MISSION AND USG EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE INTERIM
SUEZ CANAL agreement. KABBANI ASKED THESE TWO
EFFORTS WERE COMPTABILE AND COMPLEMENTARY. IN RESPONSE
SISCO SAID TWO INITIATIVES ARE COMPLEMENTARY AND COULD PROCEED
MORE OR LESS SIMULTANEOUSLY. USG HAS NEVER CONSIDERED TALKS
ON INTERIM AGREEMENT AND OUR OWN ROLE THEREIN AS SUBSTITUTE
EITHER FOR JARRING MISSION OR OVERALL SETTLEMENT. WHATEVER
PROGRESS CAN BE MADE ON EITHER FRONT WOULD BE IN INTEREST OF ALLI
PARTIES. SISCO NOTED THAT WE HAD BEEN DISAPPOINTED AT
TIME OF GA MIDDLE EAST DEBATE THAT WE WERE ONLY ABLEI
TO ABSTAIN ON MIDDLE EAST RESOLUTION. WE HAD WANTED TO BE IN
POSITION TO VOTE AFFIRMATIVELY. WE THOUGHT THAT GA COULD
HAVE BEEN HELPFUL IN RELAUNCHING JARRING MISSION IF IT HAD
ADOPTED RESOLUTION MORE IN LINE WITH OAU REPORT. WE HAD TOLDI
EGYPTIANS AT THE U N THAT U S WOULD BE PREPARED TO VOTE
AFFIRMATIVELY IF ME RESOLUTION WERE TO FOLLOW PATTERN IN
OAU REPORT. THIS WOULD HAVE MEANT REFERENCE TO JARRING'S
FEBRUARY 8 MEMORANDUM BEING IN PREAMBULAR PARAGRAPHS
AND A CALL FOR RESUMPTION OF JARRING MISSION ON BASIS OF
RESOLUTION 242 IN PRINCIPAL OPERATIVE Paragraph. FORMULA
SUCH AS THIS WOULD ALLOW EGPYT AND ISRAEL TO POINT TO THAT
ASPECT OF RESOLUTION WHICH BEST SUITED THEM. EGYPT, HOWEVER,
HAD SAID THAT IT COULD NOT GO ALONG WITH OUR SUGGESTIONS. EGYPT
WAS DISAPPOINTED THAT RESOLUTION DID NOT RECEIVE GREATER
SUPPORT BUT IT SAID TO US THAT GA WAS BEHIND US AND
NOW WAS TIME TO GET ON WITH EFFORTS FOR PEACE.
3. SISCO SAID THAT JARRING HAD RETURNED TO NEW YORK JANUARY 11.
WE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT HIM AND HIS MISSION AND HOPE HE CAN
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FIND SOME WAY TO LAUNCH A SERIOUS DIALDGUE. WE ARE STRUCKI
BY FACT THAT BOTH SIDES ARE LOOKING FOR DIPLOMATIC ALTERNATIVES
RATHER THAN RESORTING TO FORCE. JARRING WILLI TALK
BOTH TO EGYPT'S AND JORDAN'S REPRESENTATIVES SINCE LATTER:
FEEL WOMEWHAT OUT OF PICTURE BECAUSE FOCUS HAS BEEN ON EGYPT-
ISRAELI FRONT. THIS PROCESS CAN PROCEED AT WHATEVER PACE JARRING
AND PARTIES DESIRE. WE BELIEVE JARRING HAS RESUMED THESE
CONVERSATIONS
PRIMARILY AT THE BEHEST OF EGYPT SINCE EGYPT WANTED
TO BE IN POSITION TO POINT TO AN ON- GOING NEGOTIATING PROCESS.
4.₱ TURNING TO INTERIM SUEZ CANAL AGREEMENT, SISCO SAID
THAT WHEN WE PRESENTED TO EGYPT SEVERAL MONTHS AGO OUR
PROPOSAL FOR NEGOTIATIONS IN CLOSE PROXIMITY WITH US
PLAYING A MIDDLE ROLE SADAT'S REACTION WAS POSITIVE. ISRAELI
REACTION WAS NEITHER POSITIVE NOR NEGATIVE, BUT
REQUSTED CLARIFICATIONS ON CERTAIN POINTS. SINCE THEN THERE
HAVE BEEN DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN US AND ISRAELIS OVER THIS MATTER.
OBJECT OF THESE DISCUSSIONS IS TO TRY TO OBTAIN AN AFFIRMATIVE
ISRAELI RESPONSE TO ENGAGE IN PROXIMITY TALKS. SISCO SAID HE
WAS HOPEFUL THAT A POSITIVE RESPONSE WOULD BE FORTHCOMING WITHIN
NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS. IF POSITIVE ISRAELI RESPONSE
IS FORTHCOMING WE WILL THEN SEE HOW EGYPT VIEWS MATTER. SITUATION
HAS BECOME SOMEWHAT MORE COMPLICATED OVER PAST several MONTHS
FOR BOTH SIDES. EGYPT HAS ADOPTED, BOTH
PUBLICLY AND PRIVATELY, POSITION THAT PROXIMITY TALKS
MUST BE LINKED TO POSITIVE ISRAELI REPLY TO JARRING'S
FEBRUARY 8 MEMORANDUM. IF ISRAELIS AGREE TO ENGAGE IN
PROXIMITY TALKS IT WILL PROBABLY BE WITH NO PRECONDITIONS. IT WILL
THEN BE UP TO EGYPTIANS TO DECIDE HOW TO PROCEED.
5. IN LAST TWO MONTHS U S POSITION ON INTERIM AGREEMENT HAS BEEN
AS FOLLOWS: WE REMAIN AVAILABLE TO BOTH PARTIES AND THIS
CARRIES WITH IT CERTAIN IMPLICATIONS IN TERMS OF INITIATIVE
ON OUR PART. IN REVIEWING OUR ACTIONS OVER PAST THREE YEARS,
USG HAS TAKEN ONE INITIATIVE AFTER ANOTHER. RESULTS
HAVE NOT BEEN ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY TO US OR TO OTHER PARTIES,
BUT SOME PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE. HOWEVER, PROXIMITY TALKS PROPOSALI
WILL HAVE TO BE PUT TO TEST
NOT BY US BUT BY ISRAEL AND EGYPT. IF WE ARE ABLE TO ACHIEVE
AN AFFIRMATIVE INDICATION ON PROXIMITY TALKS FROM ISRAEL WE
WILL PUT THIS TO EGYPT AND SADAT WILL HAVE TO DECIDE HIS
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POSITION, KNOWING THAT USG IS STILL MAKING ITSELF AVAILABLE.
SISCO EMPHASIZED THAT IT WAS A FALSE NOTION TO BELIEVE
THAT U S WOULD BE INACTIVE DURING 1972. WHEN AND IF WE GET TO
POSITION THAT WE GO TO EGYPTIANS IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WHATVER
OPPORTUNITY WE OFFER BE GRASPED. 10 IF IT IS NOT GRASPED THEN THIS
STRENGTHENS ARGUMENT THAT USG POSTURE SHOULD BE MORE PASSIVE IN
1972. USG WILL PLAY CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE IF WE ARE GIVEN OPPORTUNITY.
SISCO EMPHASIZED LEBANON CAN BE HELPFUL IN EXPLAINING THIS TO ARAB
EXBIN EXPIS
GOVERNMENTS SISCO NOTED THAT JUST AS THERE SHOULD BE NO AUTOMATIC
ASSUMPTION OF A LESS ACTIVE ROLE IN AN ELECTIN YEAR, THERE
SHOULD BE NO AUTOMATIC ASSUMPTION THAT USG WILL PLAY AN ACTIVE
ROLE, IT'S UP TO PARTIES PRIMARILY.
8. KABBANI SAID HE AGREED WITH W SISCO'S REMARKS BUT THAT
ISRAEL HAS ACTED IN SUCH A WAY AS TO CREATE DISSENSION
BETWEEN ARAB WORLD AND U S. ISRAEL HAS EXPLOITED PHANTOM
ISSUE TO CREATE DIFFICULTY BETWEEN U S AND ARAB COUNTRIES.
SISCO SAID HE UNDERSTOOD KABBANI'S POINT
OF VIEW BUT THAT USG HAS NO INTEREST WHATEVER IN FOCUSING
ATTENTION ON QUESTION OF PHANTOMS. SISCOWAS STRUCK BY FACT THAT
EVERYONE WAS PLAYING THIS ISSUE IN A MORE RESTRAINED MANNER
THAN IN PAST. THERE WOULD BE NO COMMENTS ON QUESTION OF
PHANTOMS FOR ISRAEL BEYOND WHAT WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN
SAID AFTER MEIR VISIT TO U S AND PRESIDENT'S RECENT COMMENTS.
SISCO SAID IT WAS INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT AN EGYPTIAN SPOKESMAN
HAD SAID THERE WOULD BE NO MORE OFFICIAL EGYPTIAN
STATEMENTS ON THIS ISSUE UNLESS USG GIVES CONFIRMATION
OF SUPPLYING PHANTOMS TO ISRAEL. GP-3. ROGERS
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QUOTE:
PRESIDENT NIXON WISHES TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO LET
PRESIDENT FRANGIE KNOW WHAT HE IS DISCUSSING DURING HIS CON-
SULTATIONS WITH THE HEADS OF SEVERAL ALLIED GOVERNMENTS: PRIOR
TO HIS TRIPS TO MOSCOW AND PEKING.
MOSCOW VISIT
THE PRESIDENT DURING HIS CURRENT CONSULTATIONS IS RE-
VIEWING THE GENERAL STATE OF RELATIONS WITH THE USSR,
PREPARATORY TO HIS VISIT TO MOSCOW IN MAY 1972. HE IS MAKING
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IT CLEAR THAT THE Us HAS NO INTENTION OF QUOTE DEALING
OVER THE HEADS UNQUOTE OF ITS FRIENDS AND ALLIES IN ANY
MEATTER WHERE THEIR SECURITY INTERESTS MIGHT BE AFFECTED»
THE PRESIDENT IS INDICATING DURING THE CONSULTATIONS
THAT SOME CONCRETE PROGRESS MIGHT BE MADE EITHER BEFORE
OR DURING THE MOSCOW VISIT IN SUCH BILATERAL AREAS AS
ARMS CONTROL AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS.
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PEKING VISIT
THE PRINCIPAL PURPOSE OF THE PRESIDENT'S VISIT IS THAT
THE PRC AND OURSELVES ACHIEVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF
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EACH OTHERS POSITIONS, AND THAT WE ESTABLISH A CONTINUING
MEANS OF REMAINING INFORMED ABOUT THESE POSITIONS. IN
ADDITION, HE HOPES THAT THE TWO SIDES WILL BE ABLE TO
AGREE ON AT LEAST THE BEGINNING OF EXCHANGES IN NON-POLITICAL
FIELDS so THAT OUR TWO PEOPLES WILL BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND EACH
OTHER BETTER.
THE PRESIDENT IS EMPHASIZING THAT NEITHER SIDE IS
UNDER ANY ILLUSIONS AS TO THE DEPTH AND COMPLEXITY OF THE
DIFFERENCES THAT SEPARATE US. HAVING BEEN TWO DECADES IN
DEVELOPING, THESE DIFFERENCES WILL NOT BE EASILY RESOLVED
NEVERTHELESS WE HOPE TO MAKE A BEGINNING TOWARD CLARIFYING
OUR POSITIONS AND TOWARD WORKING OUT THE REAL DIFFERENCES
THAT STAND BETWEEN US. TO THE EXTENT WE ARE SUCCESSFUL,
EXPIS
WE BELIEVE WE WILL HAVE HELPED REDUCE TENSIONS IN ASIA
AND THE WORLD, WHICH SHOULD BE OF BENEFIT TO ALLI NATIONS
THE PRESIDENT IS STRESSING THAT HE HAS THE INTERESTS
OF OUR FRIENDS ANDALLIES VERY MUCH IN MIND AS HE HEADS
TOWARD PEKING. HE HAS NO INTENTION OF CONCLUDING
AGREEMENTS AT THE EXPENSE OF in OTHER COUNTRIES: THE TALKS
WILL, IN FACT, FOCUS ON US=PRC BILATERALI ISSUES. GIVEN
OUR DIFFERENCES, THE QUESTION OF FORMAL DIPLOMATIC
RELATIONS WILL NOT ARISE® NOR WILL US TREATY COMMITMENTS
WITH OTHER COUNTRIES BE AFFECTED.
ECONOMIC ISSUES.
THE PRESIDENT IS EXTREMELY PLEASED THAT AGREEMENT
HAS BEEN REACHED ON THE REALIGNMENT OF EXCHANGE RATES
THIS AGREEMENT --WHICH IS THE BASIS FOR A RESTORATION
OF INTERNATIONAL MONETARY AND FINANCIAL STABILITY--IS
A MANIFESTATION OF COOPERATION AMONG THE MAJOR TRADING
NATIONS TO THE MUTUAL ADVANTAGE OF ALL IT IS, FURTHER,
EVIDENCE THAT ECONOMIC DIFFERENCES WHICH WE MAY HAVE
WITH OUR TRADING PARTNERS CAN AND WILL BE SOLVED ADMICABLY
IN A SPIRIT OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION. IT WOULD BE
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INCORRECT FOR CHINA, THE SOVIET UNION, OR ANY OTHER NA-
TION TO SEE SUCH ECONOMIC DIFFERENCES AS REPRESENTINGAN
OPPORTUNITY TO DIVIDE FREE WORLD NATIONS. END MESSAGE.
2 * USG DOES NOT INTEND TO MAKE DELIVERY OF MESSAGE
PUBLIC. WOULD APPRECIATE HOST GOVERNMENT ALSO MAIN-
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MESSAGE. (FYI-SIMILAR MESSAGES ARE BEING SENT TO
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REF: BEIRUT 11257
1 . DEPARTMENT APPRECIATES HOUGHTON'S ACCOUNT OF SALEH
APPROACH. OUWEIDA MAY HAVE SEEN SADAT AS HE CLAIMS, AND
SADAT MAY INDEED HAVE GIVEN HIM SOME ENCOURAGEMENT "TO SEE WHAT
YOU CAN GET FROM THE AMERICANS." WE SUSPECT OUWEIDA HAS:
CONVERTED FISHING LICENSE ALONG THESE LINES INTO FULL-BLOWN
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NEGOTIATING MISSION. WE ALSO DETECT STRONG A ODOR OF MOSLEM BROTHER-
HOOD IN PROCEEDINGS. WE RECOGNIZE THAT SADAT HAS HAD
CLOSE BROTHER HOOD CONTACTS THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER. HOW-
EVER EVEN SUPPOSING SADAT HAS GIVEN OUWEIDA SOME KIND OF
ENCOURAGEMENT TO GET IN TOUCH WITH US, WE QUESTION WHETHER
THERE IS ANY ADVANTAGE IN SETTING UP CHANNELI OF . COMMUNICA=
TION WITH SADAT THROUGH INTERMEDIARY WHO MAY HAVE POLITICAL
PREJUDICES AND OBJECTIVES OF HIS OWN. WE BELIEVE BEST
COURSE IS TO TURN THIS ONE OFF QUIETLY BUT FIRMLY, BUT
LEAVING OPENING FOR SADAT TO COME BACK TO US ON OUTSIDE
CHANCE THAT THIS IS BONA FIDE APPROACH
2. YOU SHOULD THEREFORE CONVEY FOLLOWING MESSAGE TO SALEH,
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INDICATING YOU ARE DOING SO UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM
DEPARTMENT.
3. WE APPRECIATE SALEH'S EFFORTS TO CONVEY TO US
MESSAGE FROM MESSRS. OUWEIDA AND AZOUNI. HOWEVER, AMBASSADOR
WALSH IS NOW IN US ENROUTE TO NEW ASSIGNMENT IN USA AND IT
WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO MEET WITH OUWEIDA AND AZOUNI.
USG HAS, MOREOVER, VERY RELIABLE AND CONFIDENTIAL LINES OF
COMMUNICATION TO PRESIDENT SADAT PRESENTLY IN EXISTENCE,
AND WE ARE CONCERNED THAT DEALING THROUGH OTHER CHANNELS
COULD LEAD TO CONFUSION. WE ARE, OF COURSE, READY TO
RECEIVE AND GIVE CAREFUL CONSIDERATION TO ANY COMMUNICATION
president SADAT WISHES TO CONVEY TO US THROUGH EXISTING
CHANNELS. IF PRESIDENT WISHES US TO DEAL WITH HIM THROUGH
OUWEIDA, WE WOULD BE PREPARED TO DO SO UPON THE
PRESIDENT'S INDICATING THIS DIRECTLY TO MINISTER
BERGUS IN CAIRO.
4. FOR CAIRO: THIS IS FYI ONLY AND WE ARE NOT ASKING
YOU TO TAKE ANY ACTION IN CAIRO AT THIS TIMEL
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1 . FYI. WE HAVE CAREFULLY REFLECTED ON HOW TO HANDLE MESSRS.
OWEIDAH AND AZOUNI IN LIGHT OF SADAT'S REMARKS TO BERGUS
DURING COOPER MEETING. SADAT HAS NOT INDICATED HE WISHED
THIS CHANNEL BE USED. FROM HIS OBLIQUE COMMENT MOST PLAUSIBLE
CONCLUSION SEEMS TO BE THAT OWEIDAH AND AZOUNI ON OWN INITIA-
TIVE WITH SADAT TALKED UP IDEA THEY HAD GOOD CHANNEL TO USG
(NAMELY, AMBASSADOR WALSH) AND NO OBJECTION ENTERED TO THEIR
PURSUING CONTACT TO SEE WHAT THEY COULD PRODUCE. FROM THIS WE
DOUBT THAT SADAT HAS GIVEN THEM ANYTHING NEW OR STARTLING TO
SAY THAT HE COULD NOT TRANSMIT TO US IN EXISTING CHANNELS
WITH RENEWED EFFORT TO GET TALKS STARTED ON INTERIM AGREEMENT
A POSSIBILITY IN NEAR FUTURE, WE ARE PARTICULARLY CONCERNED
NOT TO OPEN ANOTHER CHANNEL, THROUGH INTERMEDIARIES ABOUT
WHOM WE KNOW VERY LITTLE WHICH COULD LEAD TO CONFUSIONI AND
CROSS WIRES WHILE SERIOUS NEGOTIATIONS: ARE UNDER WAY. WE ARE
PERSUADED THAT IF SADAT REALLY WANTED US TO USE OWEIDAH AND COP
HE WOULD HAVE TOLD US SO. ANYTHING OWEIDAH AND AZOUNI MAY
SAY WILL LEAVE US WONDERING WHETHER IT CAME FROM SADAT OR WAS
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COOKED UP BY THESE TWO, LEAVING US IN POSITION OF HAVING TO
FIND OPPORTUNITY TO CHECK INFORMATION OUT WITH SADAT HIMSELF.
WE SEE LITTLE TO BE GAINED BY SUCH CUMBERSOME PROCEDURE AND TO
CONTRARY GOOD DEAL OF OPPORTUNITY FOR MISCHIEF- MAKING OR CONFUSION.
END FYI.
2. FOR BEIRUT: HOUGHTON SHOULD CONVEY FOLLOWIING MESSAGE
TO OWEIDAH AND AZOUNI, IF THEY STILL IN BEIRUT. WE HAVE HAD
OPPORTUNITY TO MENTION THEIR MESSAGE TO US DIRECTLY TO PRESI-
DENT SADAT. HIS COMMENT TO US WAS THAT HE HAD UNDERSTOOD
INITIATIVE FOR THIS APPROACH HAD COME FROM USG. USG HAS NOT
AUTHORIZED ANY SUCH INITIATIVE. WE ARE SATISFIED WITH THE CHANNELS
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OF COMMUNICATION WE HAVE DEVELOPED WITH PRESIDENT SADAT IN
CAIRO-- INCLUDING OF COURSE DIRECT CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN
PRESIDENT SADAT AND OUR MINISTER IN CAIRO.
3. FOR CAIRO: YOU SHOULD CONVEY FOLLOWING MESSAGE TO HAFEZ
ISMAIL. WITH RESPECT TO OWEIDAH AND AZOUNI, WE HAVE INFORMED
THEM THAT THERE APPEARS TO BE SOME MISUNDERSTANDING SINCE
IT WAS NOT REPEAT NOT US INITIATIVE TO ESTABLISH CONTACT
WITH THESE GENTLEMEN. WE ARE ENTIRELY SATISFIED WITH EXISTING
ESTABLISHED CHANNELS BETWEEN PRESIDENT SADAT AND USG.
HOWEVER, WE REMAIN READY TO GIVE OUR CLOSE CONSIDERATION TO ANY
MESSAGE PRESIDENT WISHES CONVEY TO US THROUGH WHATEVER CHANNEL
AND IF PRESIDENT INDICATES THAT HE WISHES US TO use OWEIDAH
AND AZOUNI FOR THIS PURPOSE, WE WILL BE PLEASED TO DO SO.
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MATTER OF INFORMING GOL OF WHAT USG HAS IN MIND RE MILITARY
ASSISTANCE TO LEBANON OVER COMING FIVE YEARS IS COMPLICATED,
AND SEELYE WILL BE PREPARED TO DISCUSS AND EXPLAIN TO AMBAS-
SADOR UPON ARRIVAL IN BEIRUT SHORTLY.
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NESE FOREIGN MINISTER ABOUHAMAD
SUMMARY
IN MEFTING WITH SECRETARY SEPT 8 LEBANESE FONMIN ABOU-
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HAMAD STRESSED IMPORTANCE TO SURVIVAL OF MODERATE SADAT
REGIME IN EGYPT OF EARLY INTERIM CANAL SETTLEMENT. ABOU-
HAMAD EXPRESSED VIEW THAT IF SADAT UNABLE SOON TO DEMON-
STRATE PROGRESS ON SETTLEMENT, HIS POSITION INTERNALLY
WILL RE SERIOUSLY WEAKENED. HE CONTENDED SOVS DO NOT LIKE
OR TRUST SADAT AND THAT SOV POSITION WOULD BE STRENGTHENED
IF CANAL SETTLEMENT NOT FOLLOWED UP BY OVERALL PEACE
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SETTLFMENT. SECRETARY EMPHASIZED US DETERMINATION TO
ACHIEVE CANAL SETTLEMENT AS FIRST STEP TOWARD OVERALL
SETTLEMENT. HE EXPRESSED HOPE THAT EGYPT WOULD SEE THAT
ADVANTAGES IN MOVING AHEAD ON INTERIM SETTLEMENT JUSTIFY
PLACING LESS EMPHASIS ON WORDS SUCH AS "TOTAL ISRAELI
WITHDRAWAL" AS PRECONDITION TO CANAL SETTLEMENT. SECRE-
EXPIS
TARY EXPRESSED BELIEF THAT EGYPT WOULD RESUME DIPLOMATIC
RELATIONS WITH US IF INTERIM SETTLEMENT COULD BE ACHIEVED
AND THAT IN THIS CIRCUMSTANCE SITUATION IN AREA WOULD
IMPROVE.
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1 . FOLLOWING MEETING WITH ASST SECY SISCO (SEPTEL) LEBANESE
FONMIN KHALIL ABOUHAMAD MET WITH SECRETARY ON SEPT 8 AND
CONTINUED TALK THROUGH WORKING LUNCHEON, ALSO PRESENT ON
EBANESE SIDE WERE AMB NAJATI KABBANI AND SUHAIL SHAMMAS,
DIR OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS, LEBANESE FOREIGN
MINISTRY.
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2. SECRETARY WELCOMED LEBANESE FONMIN TO WASHINGTON AND
EXPRESSED APPRECIATION FOR CORDIAL WELCOME WHICH HE HAD
RECEIVED IN LEBANON DURING HIS MAY VISIT. SECRETARY SAID
HE WAS IMPRESSED WITH WHAT HE SAW AND WAS PLEASED TO HAVE
HAD OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH LEBANESE LEADERS, INCLUDING
PRES FRANGIE AND PRIMIN SALEM.
3. ASST SECY SISCO COMMENTED THAT ABOUHAMAD HAD GIVEN
HIM VFRY INTERESTING ASSESSMENT OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
IN NEAR EAST. HE SUGGESTED THAT ABOUHAMAD MIGHT WISH
TOUCH ON SOME OF THESE POINTS WITH SECRETARY. ABOUHAMAD
SAID HE WOULD LIKE TO EMPHASIZE IMPORTANCE OF TIMING IN
MOVING TOWARD INTERIM settlement. SADAT NEEDS SUCH SETTLE-
MENT sOON IN ORDER MAINTAIN SUPPORT OF EGYPTIAN PEOPLE.
EXPIS
AS MODERATE, PRAGMATIC LEADER IT IN LEBANON'S AND USG
INTERESTS THAT SADAT REMAIN IN POWER. IN ADDITION, ABOU-
HAMAD STATED IT IMPERATIVE THAT INTERIM settlement RE
STEP TOWARD AND LINKED WITH OVERALL settlement. OTHER-
WISE ONLY SOVIET UNION WOULD BENEFIT THEREFROM.
4.0 ABOUHAMAD SAID THAT HIS RECENT TRIP AROUND AREA HAD
REVEALED CLEARLY THAT SECRETARY'S EARLIER VISIT HAD BEEN
NOT TO BE REPRODUCED ITHOUT UTHORIZATION C THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
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VIEWED AS AN IMPORTANT STEP BY ALL ARAB COUNTRIES, INCLUD-
ING THOSE NOT PARTICULARLY FRIENDLY TOWARD USG. SECRE-
TARY'S VISIT HAD DEMONSTRATED THAT USG SERIOUSLY INTE-
RESTED IN SETTLEMENT. ABOUHAMAD EXPRESSED HOPE THAT USG
WOULD CONTINUE ITS ACTIVE ROLE IN THIS REGARD AND WOULD
EXCL
SUCCEED. ABOUHAMAD COMMENTED FACETIOUSLY THAT "WHETHER WE
LIKED IT OR NOT" NAMES OF ROGERS AND SISCO HAVE BECOME
INTIMATELY LINKED WITH CURRENT HISTORY OF MIDDLE EAST.
5. SEPRETARY SAID HE WAS PLEASED TO HEAR THAT HIS TRIP
TO AREA WAS CONSIDERFD CONSTRUCTIVE. HE EMPHASIZED THAT
USG WOULD CONTINUE TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE
SETTLEMENT. HE APPRECIATED CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE LEBANONI WAS
PLAYING IN THIS REGARD. SECRETARY STRESSED NEED FOR MORE
ACTIVE NEGOTIATING PROCESS AND SAID THAT SEPARATE TRIPS
BY CONCERNED OFFICIALS TO COUNTRIES INVOLVED IN NEGOTIA-
TIONS TENDED TO INVITE PUBLICITY AND MADE IT DIFFICULT
TO PURSUE QUIET DIPLOMACY.
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6. SECRETARY ASKED ABOUHAMAD ABOUT LEBANON'S RELATIONS
WITH UAR. ABOUHAMAD REPLIED THAT LEBANESE-EGYPTIAN RELA-
TIONS ARE VERY CLOSE AND EXCELLENT. THERE IS MUTUAL CON-
FIDENCE AND COOPERATION. LEBANESE GOVT IS CONVINCED THAT
SADAT IS DOING HIS BEST AND DESERVES TO BE SUPPORTED. HE
CONTENDED THAT SOVS DO NOT LIKE OR TRUST SADAT. IF SADAT
IS UNABLE TO OFFER HIS PEOPLE SOON SOME PROGRESS ON A
SETTLEMENT AND HAS TO RELY ON speeches, HIS POSITION WILL
BE WEAKENED. IF CANAL SETTLEMENT IS REACHED SADAT WOULD
WIN POPULAR PLAUDITS FOR HAVING SUCCEEDED WHERE NASSER
FAILED
7. SECRETARY EXPRESSED VIEW THAT TOO MUCH EMPHASIS IS
PLACED ON WORDS. FOR EXAMPLE, ONE OF STUMBLING BLOCKS seems
TO BE INSISTENCE THAT ISRAEL AGREE IN ADVANCE TO "TOTAL"
WITHDRAWAL. WE THINK IF WE CAN GET PROCESS STARTED
C
WHERERY ISRAELIS WITHDRAW A DISTANCE, EGYPTIANS CROSS
CANAL, CANAL IS OPENED, EGYPT IS RUNNING CANAL AND JARRING
NEGOTYATIONS ARE RECOMMENCED, THIS WOULD GENERATE FAVOR-
ABLE CLIMATE AND BE OF GREAT ADVANTAGE TO EGYPT. IT WOULD
SEEM SHORT-SIGHTED TO ALLOW SUCH A DEVELOPMENT TO FOUNDER
AS A RESULT OF INSISTENCE ON THE USE OF CERTAIN WORDS
IN THE AGREEMENT. SECRETARY SAID THAT AN ISRAELI UNDER-
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TAKING IN CONNECTION WITH AN INTERIM SETTLEMENT TO COM-
MIT ITSELF TO "FULL AND TOTAL" IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSC RES:
242 SHOULD BE ENOUGH FOR THE TIME BEING.
8. ABOUHAMAD SAID HE AGREED THAT CERTAIN TERMINOLOGY SHOULD
NOT BF ALLOWED TO OBSTRUCT PROCESS OF MOVING AHEAD ON
INTERIM SETTLEMENT. HE AGREED THAT QUESTIONS OF NUMBERS OF
EGYPTIANS CROSSING CANAL s AND DISTANCE ISRAELIS WITHDREW
IN CONTEXT INTERIM SFTTLEMENT ARE NOT OF OVERRIDING IM-
PORTANCE PER SE--BUT THIS IS CASE ONLY AS LONG AS EGYPT'S
POSITION THAT ULTIMATELY THERE MUST BE TOTAL ISRAELI
EVACUATION OF SINAI IS NOT RPT NOT JEOPARDIZED. PERHAPS
SUCH ASSURANCES COULD BE PROVIDED IN SOME OTHER MANNER.
ABOUHAMAD CONTINUED BY NOTING THAT ARABS ARE EMOTIONAL
PEOPLE WHO DO ATTACH IMPORTANCE TO WORDS. FURTHERMORE,
ARAB SENSITIVITY TO TERMINOLOGY "TOTAL WITHDRAWAL" MUST
BE VIFWED IN CONTEXT OF HISTTORY OF ISRAELI-ARAB DISPUTE
WHERE ISRAEL HAS OVER PERIOD OF TIME TAKEN MORE AND MORE
ARAB TERRITORY.
9. SISCO SAID IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT OF FIRST IMPORTANCE TO
SADAT IN CONNECTION INTERIM SETTLEMENT WOULD BE GRAPHIC
PICTURES ON FRONT PAGES OF ARAB NEWSPAPERS SHOWING WITH-
DRAWAI OF FIRST ISRAFLI SOLDIERS FROM CANAL. THIS WOULD
GIVE SADAT TREMENDOUS KUDOS WITHIN EGYPT AND WOULD APPEAR
TO BE OF SUFFICIENT IMPORTANCE TO JUSTIFY SADAT'S ATTACH-
ING LFSS IMPORTANCE TO CERTAIN WORDS AT THIS MOMENT. SECRE-
TARY NOTED THAT SO OFTEN IN NEGOTIATIONS A GREAT DEAL OF
TIME AND EFFORT IS SPENT ON WORDS, BUT ONCE AGREEMENT CON-
SUMMATED CAREFULLY WORKED OUT WORDING BECOMES SUBSUMED IN
THRUST OF OVERALL AGREEMENT. IF EGYPT CAN GET INTERIM
SETTLEMENT LEADING TOWARD OVERALL PEACE SETTLEMENT, WHY
QUIBBLE AT THIS POINT OVER WORDS "TOTAL" OR "COMPLETE"?
10. AROUHAMAD NOTED THAT KING FAISAL OF SAUDI ARABIA HOLDS
VIEW THAT INTERIM settlement WOULD ONLY EHLP SOVS AND
ISRAELIS OVER LONG RUN. SECRETARY SAID HE DID NOT AGREE.
HE THOUGHT INTERIM SETTLEMENT WOULD REDUCE TENSIONS AND
WOULD FACILITATE RESUMPTION OF USG DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
WITH FGYPT AND OTHER ARAB COUNTRIES. THIS WOULD REIN-
FORCE BASIC ARAB LIKING FOR AMERICANS AND INTENSIFY ARAB
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DISTASTE FOR SOVS. SADAT WOULD GET FULL CREDIT FOR INTERIM
SETTLEMENT. ISRAELI IMPLEMENTATION OF PRINCIPLE OF WITH-
DRAWAL IN FORM OF INCIPIENT ISRAELI TROOP WITHDRAWALS WOULD
BE BIG PLUS. USG WOULD BE IN POSITION TO HELP SADAT IN
PRACTICAL TERMS. SECRETARY COMMENTED THAT ONLY ELEMENT
EXCLUS
THAT SEPARATES ARABS FROM US IS ISRAELI QUESTION. UNLIKE
sovs USG HAS NO INTENTION OF TELLING ARABS WHAT TO DO.
PROGR=SS ON INTERIM settlement WOULD BENEFIT BOTH LEBANON
AND Us. ISRAEL WOULD BE UNDER GREAT PRESSURE TO WITHDRAW
FURTHER. SISCO COMMENTED THAT ALSO ISRAELIS WOULD BE OPERA-
TING IN A LESS FAVORABLE STRATEGIC POSITION.
11 - ABOUHAMAD INDICATED HE WAS NOT ARGUING AGAINST IN-
TERIM SETTLEMENT BUT ONLY EXPRESSING CONCERN THAT IT
WOULD CREATE NEW ARMISTICE LINES WHICH WOULD BECOME PER-
MANENT IF NO FURTHER PROGRESS WERE MADE. ABOUHAMAD ASKED
SECRETARY WHETHER IN HIS VIEW INTERIM SETTLEMENT WOULD
REDUCE SOV INFLUENCE IN EGYPT. SECRETARY SAID WE HAD
EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE SO. ABOUHAMAD SAID THAT HE IS
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CONFIDENT EGYPTIANS WISH TO REDUCE SOV PRESENCE, BUT EX-
PRESSFD CONCERN THAT OTHER POLITICAL ELEMENTS IN AREA
WOULD FOCUS ON ABSENCE OF TOTAL WITHDRAWAL IN CONNECTION
WITH IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERIM SETTLEMENT AND ACCUSE
SADAT OF HAVING SOLD OUT. THIS MIGHT BE SEIZED AS OCCASION
FOR MOVING AGAINST SADAT so THAT "PARTIAL" GAIN TO SADAT
DERIVED FROM LIMITED SETTLEMENT WOULD BE NEGATED. secre-
TARY SAID THAT WE WILL NEVER GET AGREEMENT IF WE KEEP
LOOKING AHEAD AT ALL POSSIBLE DIFFICULTIES THAT MIGHT
EVENTUALLY OCCUR.
12. AROUHAMAD NOTED POSSIBILITY THAT EGYPT MIGHT DECIDE
TO KEEP CANAL CLOSED SINCE IN THIS FASHION IT WOULD RE-
TAIN BARGAINING COUNTER RE ACHIEVING OVERALL SETTLEMENT.
SECRETARY EXPRESSED VIEW THAT ISRAEL HAS MORE TO GAIN BY
CONTINUED CLOSURE OF CANAL. IT WOULD LIKE NOTHING BETTER
THAN TO KEEP CANAL CLOSED.
13. SECRETARY CLOSED CONVERSATION BY REITERATING USG DETER-
MINATION TO PROCEED TOWARD SETTLEMENT. HE SAID HE SPOKE
FOR PRESIDENT IN ASSERTING THAT WE DEFINITELY DO NOT RPT
NOT INTEND THAT AN INTERIM SETTLEMENT BE THE FINAL SETTLE-
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SUMMARY: IN WIDE-RANGING EXCHANGE ON US-GOL RELATIONS AND
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US-GOL BILATERAL RELATIONS AND IMPORTANCE OF LEBANON IN MIDDLE
EAST. ABOUHAMAD EXPRESSED UNHAPPINESS AT LACK OF MILITARY AND
ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE FROM THE WEST. FONMIN NOTED THAT INSPITE
OF ATTRACTIVE SOVIET ARMS OFFERS, GOL HAD DECIDED TO PURCHASE
MAJORITY OF ITS ARMS FROM US. GOL HAD RECEIVED APPROVAL FOR
FIVE-YEAR ARMS ACQUISITION PROGRAM BUT HOPED USG COULD HELP
OFFSET COSTS OF THIS PROGRAM. TURNING TO EVENTS The IN ARAB WORLD,
ABOUHAMAD FELT ENCOURAGED BY MODERATION OF NEW SYRIAN GOVERNMENT
AND BELIEVED CURRENTLY STRAINED SYRIAN JORDANIAN RELATIONS WOULD
BE PUT ON RIGHT TRACK ONCE HUSSEIN REACHED ACCOMMODATION WITH
FEDAYEEN. ABOUHAMAD EXPRESSED CONCERN OVER SADAT'S POSITION,
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BELIEVING THAT IF THERE IS NO PROGRESS TOWARD INTERIM SETTLEMENT,
SADAT'S POSITION WOULD BE IN JEOPARDY SISCO CONCURRED IN
LEBANESE ASSESSMENT OF EVENTS IN SYRIA AND NOTED WE AGREE WITH
LEBANESE VIEW ON IMPORTANCE OF ATTAINING INTERIM SUEZ CANAL
ARRANGEMENT. SISCO REVIEWED HIS RECENT TRIP TO ISRAEL AND
EXPRESSED VIEW THAT INTERIM SETTLEMENT WILL BE ACHIEVED BY END
OF THIS YEAR END SUMMARY &
1 - LEBANESE FOREIGN MINISTER KHALIL ABOUHAMAD, ACCOMPANIED BY
AMBASSADOR KABBANI AND SUHAIL SHAMMAS, CALLED ON ASST SECY
SISCO SEPTEMBER 8 TO DISCUSS EVENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. SISCO
BEGAN BE STATING THAT HE WAS STRUCK BY THE FACT THAT THE MIDDLE
EAST IN THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS HAD SEEMED MORE FLUID AND MORE
DEVELOPMENTS HAD TAKEN PLACE IN A CONCENTRATED PERIOD OF TIME IN
THE ARAB WORLD THAN IN RECENT YEARS. FOR EXAMPLE, THERE WERE
IMPORTANT INTERNAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UAR, COUP AND
COUNTER-COUP IN SUDAN DISSENSION BETWEEN UAR, SUDAN AND RUSSIA,
DIFFICULTIES JORDAN WAS HAVING WITH ITS ARAB NEIGHBORS, AND
SAOUDI ARABIA'S AND UAR'S EFFORTS TO EASE THESE DIFFICULTIES,
AND DEVELOPMENTS IN LIBYA® SISCO NOTED HE HAD NEVER SEEN PERIOD
WHERE ARAB WORLD WAS SO PREOCCUPIED WITH INTER-ARAB DEVELOPMENTS.
HE ASKED FOR ABOUHAMAD'S VIEWS
2. ABOUHAMAD BEGAN BY COMMENTING ON BILATERAL RELATIONS BETWEEN
US AND LEBANON AND THEN MOVED ON TO COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY COMMENTS.
ABOUHAMAD ASSURED SISCO THAT LEBANON'S POLICY IS TO BE OPEN TO
WESTERN WORLD AND HAVE CLOSEST COOPERATION POSSIBLE. HE
EXPRESSED HOPE THAT LEBANON'S IMPORTANCE WOULD NOT BE EVALUATED
BY ITS PHYSICAL SIZE. IT SHOULD BE VIEWED AS KEY TO MIDDLE EAST.
IT HAS IMPORTANT ROLF IT CAN PLAY IN THE POLITICS OF THE REGION.
ONE EXAMPLE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF LEBANON'S SUCCESS IN DEALING
WITH ITS MANY PROBLEMS IS WHAT IS HAPPENING IN SYRIA TODAY.
SYRIA HAS TRIED MANY DIFFERENT FORMS OF GOVERNMENT IN THE LAST
20 YEARS BUT IS NOW TRYING TO APPLY LEBANESE EXAMPLE. ABOUHAMAD
VIEWED THIS AS SIGN OF ENCOURAGEMENT.
3. HOWEVER, ABOUHAMAD SAID THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO REPROACH
WESTERN WORLD FOR NOT PROVIDING TYPE OF ASSISTANCE THAT LEBANON
MERITS® LEVEL OF SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE IS NOT COMMENSURATE WITH
LEBANON'S NEEDS. HE NOTED CONTINUING DEFICIT IN BALANCE OF TRADE
AND BALANCE OF PAYMENTS. IN ADDITION, LEBANON IN CONTRAST TO
MANY OTHER MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES HAD NO NATURAL RESOURCES EXCEPT
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ITS PEOPLE. HE NOTED LACK OF RESPONSE TO LEBANON'S REQUIREMENTS
FOR MILITARY EQUIPMENT. PARLIAMENT HAD JUST VOTED 200 MILLION
LEBANESE POUNDS APPROPRIATION FOR ACQUISITION OF MILITARY
EQUIPMENT. MINISTER OF DEFENSE SABA HAD VISITED WESTERN EUROPEAN
CAPITALS AS WELL AS MOSCOW. PRICES QUOTED IN WESTERN EUROPE FOR
ARMS WERE FOUND TO BE EXTREMELY HIGH. LEBANON HAD DECIDED TO
PURCHASE ARMS ON GOVERNMENT. TO GOVERNMENT BASIS IN HOPES OF
SAVING MONEY. HOWEVER, GOL WAS SURPRISED TO LEARN THAT ARMS
AGENTS FROM SAME COUNTRIES SABA HAD VISITED WERE OFFERING
REDUCTIONS UP TO 20 PERCENT LESS THAN PRICES OFFICIALLY QUOTED.
ABOUHAMAD CITED THIS AS EXAMPLE OF LACK OF RESPONSE FOR ASSISTANCE
FROM THE WEST. EASTERN EUROPE AND SOVIET UNION ON OTHER HAND
HAD OFFERED LONG-TERM CREDITS AND 2 PERCENT INTEREST RATE.
ABOUHAMAD SAID BASIC ERROR OF WESTERN EUROPE WAS THAT IT
CONSIDERED LEBANON SYMPLY AS BUYER OF ARMS, FORGETTING THAT
LEBANON NEEDED THESE ARMS FOR GOOD REASONS. SABA WILL BE
VISITING WASHINGTON WITHIN NEXT TWO OR THREE WEEKS AND HOPES TO
ENGAGE IN TALKS WITH US OFFICIALS ON LEBANON'S MILITARY
REQUIREMENTS-
4. ABOUHAMAD SAID THAT POLITICAL DECISION HAD BEEN TAKEN AT
HIGHEST LEVELS IN GOL TO EARMARK BULK OF 200 MILLION LEBANESE
POUNDS APPROPRIATION FOR PURCHASE OF ARMS FROM US OVER NEXT
FIVE YEARS. HOWEVER, FINANCIAL RESOURCES VOTED FOR THIS ARMS
PROGRAM WERE BEING DIVERTED FROM EQUALLY IMPORTANT PROJECTS
THAT LEBANON NEEDS FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT. SECURITY
REQUIREMENTS NECESSITATED THIS ABOUHAMAD EXPRESSED HOPE THAT
USG WOULD CONSIDER POSSIBILITY OF EXTENDING LEBANON ECONOMIC
OR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO HELP REPLACE FUNDS TAKEN AWAY FROM
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
5. ABOUHAMAD NOTED CHOSE RELATIONS BETWEEN US AND LEBANON.
HOWEVER. HE SAID CHALLENGE OF COMMUNISM IN ARAB WORLD COULD
BEST BE MET BY US OFFERING ITSELF AS THE MAJOR SOURCE OF ECONOMIC
AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT. SUCH ROLE ON PART OF US WOULD DRAMATIC-
ALLY CHANGE ITS IMAGE IN MIDDLE EAST FROM "SELLER OF PHANTOMS"
TO A NATION TRULY INTERESTED IN PRESERVING PEACE. ABOUHAMAD SAID
HE WAS personally CONFIDENT THAT SECRETARY ROGERS' VISIT TO THE
AREA AND SISCO'S VISITS HAD CONVINCED THEM THAT US HAS GOOD
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FRIENDS IN ARAB WORLD WHO WANT TO WORK WITH US. ABOUHAMAD
EXPRESSED HOPE THAT US WOULD ENCOURAGE THESE FRIENDS AND DO
WHAT IT COULD TO HELP THEM.
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6. FOREIGN MINISTER REGAN HIS SURVEY OF AREA BY TURNING TO
SYRIA. SINCE COUP IN SYRIA OF LAST YEAR THERE HAS BEEN
RAPPROCHEMENT BETWEEN SYRIA AND LEBANON. PRESIDENT ASAD
STRONGLY FAVORS CLOSE COOPERATION OF LEBANON. AT PRESENT TIME
SILENT STRUGGLE IS GOING ON WITHIN SYRIA BETWEEN ASAD AND B'ATH
PARTY. BEFORE COUP OF LAST YEAR BAATH PARTY WAS RESPONSIBLE
FOR POLICY PLANNING AND FORMER CHIEF OF STATE DR. ATASI WAS
MERELY AGENT OF PARTY. TODAY, HOWEVER, ASAD WANTS TO ASSUME
POWER FOR HIMSELF WITHOUT BAATH PARTY CALLING THE SHOTS.
ABOUHAMAD INDICATED THAT THIS TENSION BETWEEN ASAD AND BAATH
PARTY ACCOUNTED FOR ESCALATION OF TENSION IN RELATIONS BETWEEN
JORDAN AND SYRIA. BECAUSE OF THIS SILENT STRUGGLE WITHIN SYRIA,
ASAD HAD TO TAKE MEASURES VIS-A-VIS JORDAN so THAT HE WOULD
NOT RPT NOT BE WEAKENED INTERNALLY. HOWEVER MILITARY IN SYRIA
ARE REALISTS AND MORE MODERATE THAN CIVILIAN ELEMENTS OF BAAATH
PARTY. ABOUHAMAD MENTIONED THAT WIFE OF GENERAL TLAS, COMMANDER
OF SYRIAN ARMY, WAS COUSIN OF PRIME MINISTER WASFI TELL'S WIFE
TELL AND TLAS HAD GOOD PERSONAL RELATIONS AND HAVE BEEN ABLE
TO WORK OUT MOST DIFFICULTIES BETWEEN JORDAN AND SYRIA. DURING
RECENT FIGHTING BETWEEN JORDAN AND FEDAYEEN SYRIA HAD RESISTED
BEING DRAWN INTO FRAY® HOWEVER, ELEMENTS WITHIN SYRIA ACCUSED
TLAS OF REACHING TACIT AGREEMENT WITH TELL WHEREBY SYRIA WOULD
DO NOTHING IF JORDAN MOVED AGAINST FEDAYEEN. ASAD HAD TO TAKE
MEASURES AGAINST JORDAN IN ORDER TO CIRCUMSCRIBE PRESSURE BY
SYRIAN EXTREMISTS. HOWEVER, ABOUHAMAD SAID THAT IF JORDAN CAN
REACH SOME TYPE OF ACCOMMODATION WITH FEDAYEEN, ASAD WILL
SUSPEND ALL MEASURES WHICH SYRIA HAS TAKEN AGAINST JORDAN.
7 . ABOUHAMAD TURNED TO EFFORTS BEING MADE BY SAUDI ARABIA AND
UAR TO TRY TO WORK OUT SOME TYPE OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN JORDAN AND
FEDAYEEN. WORKING PAPER WHICH SAQQAF AND KHOULY HAD PRESENTED
TO KING HUSSEIN CONTAINED ONLY FOUR PRINCIPAL PROVISIONS,
AMONG WHICH WERE GOJ ADHERENCE TO CAIRO AND AMMAN AGREEMENTS AND
RESPECT FOR JORDAN'S SOVEREIGNTY THIS WORKING PAPER WAS ACCEPTED
BY HUSSEIN BUT HUSSEIN ATTEMPTED TO CLARIFY ITS VAGUENESS BY
ATTACHING EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM WITH WHICH SAQQAF AND KHOULY
AGREED IN SUBSTANCE. HOWEVER, ARAFAT DID NOT AGREE WITH HUSSEINS
INTERPRETATION AND PUT FORTH HIS OWN EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM.
ABOUHAMAD SAID THIS WAS WHERE SITUATION STOOD WHEN HE LEFT
LEBANON, BUT HE HAD IMPRESSION THAT FAVORABLE RESOLUTION OF
PROBLEM WOULD BE WORKED OUT THROUGH GOOD OFFICES OF UAR AND
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SAUDI ARABIA* KING FAISAL IS PERSONALLY TRYING TO FIND COMMON
INTERPRETATION WHICH ALL SIDES COULD ACCPET. IN AN ASIDE
ABOUHAMAD NOTED THAT FAISAL IS EMERGING AS THE ARBITER OF INTER-
ARAB DIFFERENCES AND IS GRADUALLY CONSOLIDATING THIS POSITION.
SADAT COULD HAVE ACTED AS CO-ARBITER BUT HE LOST HIS ROLE BECAUSE
OF HIS OPEN ATTACKS ON KING HUSSEIN. ABOUHAMAD'S IMPRESSION WAS
THAT HUSSEIN COULD NoT ACCEPT FEDAYEEN OPERATING IN ANY WAY
WITHIN JORDAN WHICH ENDANGERS JORDANIAN SOVEREIGNTY AND
INTEGRITY.
8 = ABOUHAMAD EXPRESSED HIS OPINION THAT FEDAYEEN ARE ESSENTIAL
ELEMENT FOR TRYING TO REACH PEACEFUL SOLUTION OF MIDDLE EAST
PROBLEM. HE BELIEVED THAT TOTAL LIQUIDATION OF FEDAYEEN MOVEMENT
COULD MAKE ISRAELI POSITION MORE RIGID AND DEMANDING. FEDAYEEN
MAY BE ONE OF THE FACTORS WHICH MAKES ISRAEL ADOPT MORE FELXIBLE
VIEWPOINT. HOWEVER, ABOUHAMAD WANTED TO DRAW CLEARCUT DISTINCTION
BETWEEN FATAH AND EXTREMIST GROUPS. HE SAID THAT IF ONE IS
FAMILIAR WITH INTERNAL MAKEUP OF FEDAYEEN, ONE WOULD BE PROMPTED
TO EXTEND SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE TO ARAFAT. IF ARAFAT WERE DUSTED
(AND THERE ARE INDICATIONS THAT HIS POSITION IS BECOMING MORE
TENUOUS), ONE COULD PREDICT ADVERSE RESULTS. LEBANON HAS NO
INTEREST IN SEEING ARAFAT OUSTED. ABOUHAMAD NOTED THAT FATAH
HAD STRONG WORKING RAPPORT WITH FAISAL
9. TURNING TO THE UAR, ABOUHAMAD SAID HE WAS VERY CONCERNED
OVER SADATS POSITION IF SADAT IS NOT ASSISTED BY MOVEMENT
TOWARDS PEACE BY END OF YEAR, SADAT'S INTERNAL POSITION COULD
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BE JEOPARDIZED. ABOUHAMAD COMMENTED THAT THERE WAS UNIQUE
OPPORTUNITY FOR PEACE UNDER "WISE, MODERATE AND PRACTICAL MAN
like SADAT." SADAT'S POSITION ON INTERIM CANAL SETTLEMENT,
ABOUHAMAD SAID, WAS NOT ONLY IN BEST INTERESTS OF UAR BUT ALSO
IN BEST INTERESTS OF LEBANON AND Us. INTERIM ARRANGEMENT WHICH
IS ISOLATED, SEPARATE AGREEMENT NOT WITHIN FRAME-WORK OF OVERALL
SETTLEMENT, WOULD CAUSE SADAT GREAT DIFFICULTY. ABOUHAMAD SAID
EXQIN
HE BELIEVED SUCH AN AGREEMENT WOULD MEAN INCREASE IN SOVIET
INFLUENCE. HOWEVER, INTERIM SETTLEMENT LINKED TO OVERALL SETTLE.
MENT WOULD BRING ABOUT DECREASE IN SOVIET INFLUENCE WHICH SADAT
WOULD LIKE TO SEE HAPPEN. LEBANESE HOPE WAS THAT SOME TYPE OF
INTERIM SETTLEMENT WOULD BE ARRIVED AT SOON AND WITHIN FRAMEWORK
OF OVERALL SETTLEMENT. SADAT SAID GOL BELIEVES THAT RUSSIANS DO
NOT TRUST AND ARE NOT HAPPY WITH SADAT. THIS IS ONE REASON WHY
ALL PARTIES CONCERNED SHOULD HELP HIM ALONG WITH SATISFACTORY
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AGREEMENT WHICH WOULD ALLOW HIM TO LESSEN SOVIET INFLUENCE.
IN CLOSING, ABOUHAMAD STRESSED THAT SADAT WAS UNDER TIME LIMIT
AND EFFORTS MUST BE TAKEN TO ACHIEVE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
10. SISCO RESPONDED THAT HIS VIEWS PARALLELED ABOUHAMAD'S TO
GREAT EXTENT FOR EXAMPLE, WE SHARE LEBANON'S ASSISSMENT WITH
REGARD TO SYRIA. IT IS CLEAR THAT SYRIA WISHES TO DO WHAT IT
CAN TO END ITS ISOLATION. SOME WEEKS AGO WE HAD RECEIVED A SEMI.
OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT, AND WE
HAD MADE CLEAR THAT WE ARE READY TO WORK TOWARD IMPROVEMENT
OF OUR RELATIONS WITH SYRIA. AT SAME TIME WE REALIZE THAT KEY
TO IMPROVEMENT OF US RELATIONS WITH ARAB COUNTRIES WHO BROKE
RELATIONS WITH US RESTS WITH CAIRO.
11. SISCO CONTINUED THAT WE CONCUR IN THE LEBANESE VIEW THAT
OBTAINING AN INTERIM SETTLEMENT IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO THE
CONTINUATION OF THE MODERATE SADAT REGIME. SISCO SAID THAT HIS
RECENT TRIP TO ISRAEL DEMONSTRATED THAT WHILE THERE ARE
CONTINUING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ISRAEL AND UAR REGARDING CANAL
SETTLEMENT AND WHILE THERE IS NEED FOR GREATER FLEXIBILITY ON
BOTH SIDES, OUR DIFFERENCES WITH ISRAEL RELATE LESS TO SPECIFIC
ELEMENTS OF CANAL SETTLEMENT THAN THEY DO TO OTHER BILATERAL
MATTERS. SISCO SAID HE HAD FOUND FLEXIBILITY IN THE ISRAELI
POSITION RE A NUMBER OF SPECIFICS, INCLUDING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
INTERIM SETTLEMENT AND OVERALL SETTLEMENT, CEASEFIRE, ZONES
OF WITHDRAWAL AND SUPERVISING MECHANISMS. WE HAVE NOT BEEN
BACK IN TOUCH WITH THE UAR ON THIS SUBJECT BECAUSE THERE ARE
OTHER ELEMENTS IN OUR BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL in WHICH
NEED TO BE RESOLVED. NEVERTHELESS SISCO EXPRESSED THE VIEW THAT
WE WILL GET AN INTERTM SETTLEMENT BY THE END OF THE YEAR. BOTH
SIDES HAVE STRONG AND COMPELLING REASONS TO AGREE. IN ISRAEL'S
CASE THE QUESTION OF ARMS IS A VERY DELICATE ONE AND AT MOMENT
THIS REPRESENTS THEIR GREATEST CONCERN. SISCO NOTED THAT US,
USSR, ISRAEL AND UAR ALL FAVOR INTERIM AGREEMENT.
11° FOREIGN MINISTER STRESSED IMPORTANCE THAT INTERIM SETTLEMENT
BE STEP IN DIRECTION OF OVERALL SOLUTION. OTHERWISE REOPENING OF
CANAL WITHOUT FURTHER MEASURES TOWARD PEACE SETTLEMENT WOULD
SERVE ONLY SOVIET INTERESTS. SISCO AGREED THAT LIMITED SETTLE-
MENT BY ITSELF IS CLEARLY INSUFFICIENT: AMONG OTHER THINGS IT
FAILS TO DEAL WITH PALESTINE PROBLEM AND ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL.
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ATTRACTION TO ISRAELIS IS THAT INTERIM SETTLEMENT WOULD BE
PRACTICAL TEST FOR PFACE. HOWEVER, ISRAELIS WILL NOT GO ALONG
WITH SETTLEMENT IF THEY REQUIRED IN ADVANCE TO COMMIT THEMSELVES
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1 - DEPARTMENT AGREES WITH AMBASSADOR BOZZINI'S RECOMMENDATION
CONCURRED IN BY EMBASSY BEIRUT THAT WE AWAIT FORMAL SYRIAN
NOTE ON DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITIES BEFORE SENDING BEIRUT EMBASSY
OFFICER TO DAMASUS. WE ALSO / CONCUR IN BEIRUT:S RECOMMENDATION
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2. FOR ROME: PLEASE CONVEY TO FOREIGN MINISTRY THAT DEPARTMENT
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IT - WOULD HOPE FOREIGN MINISTRY WILL INFORM BOZZINI AND MAIOLINI
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OFFICER BEGIN VISITING DAMASCUS UNDER AUTHORITY OF JUNE 22 NOTE
WE ASK THAT MAIOLINI CONVEY NOTHING IN WRITING TO KEILANY
AND SAY NOTHING ORALLY TO HIM ON VISITING CONSUL MATTER UNTIL
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DISCUSS FOREGOING WITH MAIOLINI AND BRIEF HIM RE APPROACH TO KEILANY.
RESPONSE SHOULD BE ENTIRELY ORAL AND NOT RPT NOT IN WRITING.
KEILANY SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE MERELY AWATING SYRIAN
WRITTEN RESPONSE TO USINT NOTE BEFORE GIVING FURTHER CONSIDERATION
TO VISITING CONSUL MATTER. ROGERS
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EXDIS
SUBJ: SYRIA: PROPOSED AMERICAN CONSULAR PRESENCE
REF: BEIRUT 6701
1. FOR BEIRUT: DEPARTMENT WELCOMES EMBASSY'S READINESS
TO PROVIDE COVERAGE FROM BEIRUT SO AS TO ESTABLISH US
PRESENCE IN and DAMASCUS AS RAPIDLY AS POSSIBLE. SCHEDULING
OF OFFICERS ON ROTATING BASIS WHENEVER POSSIBLE WOULD
SEEM PROVIDE REASONABLE BASIS HANDLING DAMASCUS WORKLOAD.
WE NOTE AND WELCOME SARG INDICATIONS THAT FULL DIPLOMATIC
IMMUNITIES WOULD BE EXTENDED TO VISITING AMERICAN OFFICER
THAT OFFICER MIGHT REMAIN TWO OR THREE DAYS AT A. TIME IN
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DAMASCUS AND THAT RELATED CONSULAR ACTIVITIES COULD BE
PERFORMED IN ADDITION TO VISA AND PASSPORT WORK.
2. ACCORDINGLY, EMBASSY SHOULD INSTRUCT MAIOLINI TO RESPOND
FAVORABLY IN WRITING TO SARG FOREIGN MINISTRY NOTE: NOTE
SHOULD SPELL OUT IN APPROPRIATE TERMS AS SUGGESTED IN
EARLIER CABLES OUR EXPECTATIONS WITH REGARD TO IMMUNITIES
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AMERICAN OFFICER WILL ENJOY IN SYRIA. NOTE SHOULD ALSO
INDICATE THAT RECIPROCAL FACILITIES AND IMMUNITIES IN
WASHINGTON WOULD BE ASSURED FOR VISITING SYRIAN CONSULAR
OFFICER FROM SYRIAN MISSION TO UN .
3. MAIOLINI SHOULD ORALLY EXPLAIN TO KEILANY THAT WHILE
USG HAD HOPED FOR IMMEDIATE ASSIGNMENT TO DAMASCUS OF
AMERICAN CONSULAR OFFICER, WE ARE ACCEPTING SYRIAN OFFER
AS ORIGINALLY MADE AS AN EARNEST OF OUR DESIRE TO IMPROVE
RELATIONS. VISITING CONSULAR OFFICER, WHOSE DIPLOMATIC
IMMUNITIES WE WISH TO HAVE IN WRITING, IS NOT ALTOGETHER
SATISFACTORY ARRANGEMENT FOR USG AND WE ARE HOPEFUL THAT
AMERICAN OFFICER AND SECRETARY CAN BE ASSIGNED TO DAMASCUS
IN RELATIVELY SHORT TIME. WE WILL APPRECIATE CONTINUING
CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN MAIOLINI AND KEILANY WITH A VIEW
TO FINDING BEST TIME FOR ASSIGNING OFFICER TO damascus.
4. FYI: AS RECOGNIZED BY EMBASSY, ASSIGNING EXPERIENCED
OFFICER TO BEIRUT FOR COVERAGE OF DAMASCUS CONSULAR WORK
presents: PROBLEMS FOR DEPARTMENT. IF OFFICER SHOULD ARRIVE
EARLY
IN BEIRUT, AND DAMASCUS ASSIGNMENT SHOULD BE LONG
DELAYED QUESTION WOULD ARISE OF FULL UTILIZATION OF
OFFICER'S POTENTIAL. WE ARE THEREFORE INCLINED FOR MOMENT
TO HOLD OFF ON READYING OFFICER FOR EARLY ARRIVAL IN
BEIRUT. RATHER WE PREFER WATCHING DAMASCUS developments
CLOSELY WHILE HAVING EXPERIENCED OFFICER READY TO MONE
ON SHORT NOTICE WHEN, AS KEILANY SEEMS To BELIEVE LIKELY,
PARTIAL PRESENCE CAN BE CONVERTED IN REASONABLY NEAR
FUTURE TO OFFICER ASSIGNED TO DAMASCUS. END FYI.
5. FOR ROME. EMBASSY REQUESTED DISCUSSI AT APPROPRIATE
level WITH ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY CURRENT STATUS OF
PROPOSED AMERICAN CONSULAR PRESENCE DAMASCUS WITH VIEW
TO ASSURING THAT VISITING AMERICAN OFFICER WILL POSEI NO
PROBLEMS FOR ITALIAN EMBASSY DAMASCUS OR FOREIGN MINISTRY
ROME. HIGHLY VALUED ROLE OF ITALIAN EMBASSY AS PROTECTOR
OF us INTERESTS IN SYRIA WILL CONTINUE UNCHANGED. VISITING
AMERICAN OFFICER WILL ACT UNDER AEGIS OF ITALIAN EMBASSY
AND AVOID ACTIONS WHICH MIGHT CALL INTO QUESTION ROLE OF
ITALY AS PROTECTING POWER.
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6. FOR BEIRUT: INITIATION OF VISITING CONSULAR OFFICER
ARRANGEMENT SHOULD BE DELAYED UNTIL (A) WRITTEN ASSURANCE
OF DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITIES IS IN HAND AND (B) ITALIANS: HAVE
INDICATED PROCEDURE PRESENTS NO PROBLEM FOR THEM.
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SUBJECT: ISRAELI COMMUNICATION TO GOVT OF LEBANON
REF: STATE 199794
1. AMBASSADOR TRANSMITTED ISRAELI ASSURANCES CONTAINED
REFTEL TO SECGEN OF LEBANESE FONOFFICE (SADAQA) MORNING
OF OCT 9. HE DREW SADAQA'S ATTENTION TO RAPIDITY WITH
WHICH SECRETARY, PERSONALLY, HAD TAKEN UP MATTER WITH
GOI FOLLOWING DEMARCHE BY PRIME MINISTER SOLH (BEIRUT
11884).
2. SADAQA WAS MOST APPRECIATIVE OF WHAT USG HAD DONE AND
WENT ON TO COMMENT ON HOW PLEASED AND IMPRESSED HE, PER-
SONALLY, AND FONMIN NAFFA HAD BEEN BY THEIR MEETING WITH
SECRETARY IN NEW YORK, AND BY ASSURANCES HE HAD GIVEN
THEM OF CONTINUING USG INTEREST IN LEBANON AND ITS
TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AND POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE.
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OBTAINED CONTAINED CLEAR IMPLICATION THAT GOL HAD RE-
SPONSIBILITY ON ITS SIDE PREVENT MILITARY ACTIVITY
AGAINST ISRAEL, AND WENT ON TO DISCUSS SERIOUSNESS OF
PRESENT FEDAYEEN ACTIONS (SEE SEPTEL).
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SUBJECT: CONSULTATION WITH LEBANESE
REF: STATE 199715
1. DURING MEETING WITH DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POLITICAL
AFFAIRS, ISMAIL, OCTOBER 8 ON ILMAC MEETING (SEPTEL),
I MADE ALL POINTS CONTAINED REFTEL, WHICH CONSTITUTES
HELPFUL GUIDANCE.
2. ISMAIL APPRECIATED MESSAGE AND PROMISED PASS ON
TO OTHER SENIOR OFFICIALS. (PM SOLH TELEPHONED HIM WHILE I
WAS THERE AND ISMAIL CONVEYED GIST AT THAT TIME).
3. ISMAIL SAID HE CONSIDERED PRESENT SITUATION OFFERS
US UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO RECOUP MANY OF OUR LOSSES
IN ARAB WORLD SINCE 1967 AND THOUGHT OUR POSTURE OF
CONCENTRATING ON MEANS OF STOPPING FIGHTING AND
GETTING SETTLEMENT, RATHER THAN APPORTIONING BLAME,
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SUBJECT: INVITATION FOR PRESIDENT FRANGIE
REF: STATE 61240
1. CONVEYED INTITION FOR STATE VISIT TO PRES FRANGIE
APRIL 9. HE ACCEPTED WITH PLEASURE AND ASKED I
CONVEY HIS DEEPEST APPRECIATION TO PRES NIXON. HE
LOOKS FORWARD WITH GREAT ANTICIPATION TO MAKING
PRESIDENT'S ACQUAINTANCE.
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2. WHEN I MENTIONED THAT THE DATE WOULD BE SET AT
MUTUAL CONVENIENCE HE SAID HE WOULD WELCOME AN INDICA-
TION FROM PRES NIXON AS TO WHAT PERIOD WOULD SUIT
HIM BEST.
3. ALTHOUGH WE DID NOT GET INTO DETAIL, WHEN I INFORMED
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HIM THAT STATE VISIT NORMALLY CONSISTED OF TWO DAYS
IN WASHINGTON AND FOUR DAYS ELSEWHERE (A-999,
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JANUARY 31, 1972) HE REPLIED, AS I EXPECTED, THAT HE
COULD NOT ABSENT HIMSELF FROM LEBANON FOR SUCH LONG
PERIOD. IN ADDITION, HE OBSERVED THAT WITH LARGE
LEBANESE COMMUNITY DISTRIBUTED AROUND U.S. HE WOULD
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FIND IT IMPOSSIBLE TO PICK AND CHOOSE AMONG THE MANY
HE KNEW WOULD WISH OFFER HIM HOSPITALITY. ACCORDINGLY,
HE PREFERS TO CONFINE HIS VISIT TO SHORT TRIP TO
WASHINGTON ONLY.
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COMMENT: FRANGIE WAS OPENLY DELIGHTED AT INVITATION
AND VERY CONSCIOUS THAT VISIT REPRESENTS HISTORIC
"FIRST" IN US-LEBANESE RELATIONS.
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TAGS: PINS, LE
SUBJ: TERRORISM IN LEBANON
1. DURING WEEKEND OUTING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER ABOU-
HAMAD, I MADE SAME PITCH AS RECENTLY WITH PRESIDENT
AND PRIME MINISTER RE NECESSITY OF LEBANON GETTING
RID OF KNOWN TERRORISTS.
2. ABOUHAMAD SAID GOVT FULLY IMPRESSED WITH DEPTH OUR CONCERN
THIS SUBJ. HE BELIEVED CLIMATE IS NOW RIPE HERE AMONG TOP
LEADERS, INCLUDING SAEB SALAM, TO EXPEL AT LEAST
SALAH KHALAF, WHOM WE HAVE IDENTIFIED AS KEY TERRORIST
LEADER. FOREIGN MINISTER SAID MAIN QUESTION TO BE
RESOLVED IS METHODOLOGY AND TIMING OF EXPLUSION SO THAT
IT WILL CAUSE AS FEW LOCAL REPERCUSSIONS AS POSSIBLE.
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3. WHILE HE DID NOT SAY so, IN INTERPRET THIS TO MEAN
GOVT WILL NEGOTIATE SALAH KHALAF'S EXPULSION WITH ARAFAT
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RATHER THAN TAKING HIM PHYSICALLY WHICH WOULD INVOLVE A FIRE
FIGHT SINCE THE MAN GOES ACCOMPANIED BY NUMEROUS ARMED
BODYGUARDS.
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4. IN COMMENTING ON PROBLEMS POSED FOR LEBANON IN TAKING
SRONG ANTI-FEDAYEEN ACTION, FOREIGN MINISTER NOTED WITH
SOME ANNOYANCE THAT IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN SIX MONTHS SINCE
HE RAISED QUESTION IN NEW YORK ABOUT WHAT US WOULD DO TO
HELP LEBANON IF THERE IS CONFRONTATION WITH FEDAYEEN AND THERE
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HAS BEEN NO RESPONSE. I OBSERVED THAT QUESTION HE HAD POSED WAS
OF UTMOST DELICACY AND FELT SURE IT WAS BEING GIVEN THE
THOUGHTFUL ATTENTION IT DESERVED.
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SUBJ: INVITATION FOR PRESIDENT FRANGIE
REF: STATE 56481
i. MOST PLEASED PRESIDENTIAL INVITATION FORTHCOMING.
2. SINCE EARLY VISIT NOT FEASIBLE, I SEE NO COMPELLING
REQUIREMENT FOR VISIT THIS FALL AS OPPOSED TO NEXT YEAR.
ACCORDINGLY, WOULD APPRECIATE RECEIVING AUTHORIZATION TO
EXTEND INVITATION TO PRES FRANGIE NOW FOR VISIT AT
MUTUALLY AGREEABLE TIME IN 1974. TRUST INSTRUCTION
WILL ALSO COVER HANDLING OF PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT OF
INVITATION.
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SUBJ: FRANGIE AND SECURITY SITUATION
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SUMMARY: PRESIDENT FRANGIE NOW GETTING SATISFACTORY
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COOPERATION FROM PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP RE SOUTH
LEBANON BUT UNSURE HOW LONG IT WILL CONTINUE. HE IS
INTENT ON MAINTAINING QUIET IN SOUTH; HE ALSO WANTS
IMPROVE EFFECTIVENESS OF GOL EFFORTS TO DEAL WITH
TERRORISTS BUT FINDS LATTER MORE DIFFICULT OF TWO
PROBLEMS. TO IMPROVE LEBANESE SECURITY CAPABILITY
HE HAS INITIATED STEPS DESIGNED TO INTRODUCE COMPULSORY
MILITARY SERVICE IN LEBANON DURING COMING YEAR. END
SUMMARY
1. FOLLOWING UP RECENT KORN VISIT AND OUR DISCUSSIONS
WITH FOREIGN MINISTER AND COMMANDING GENERAL RE
SECURITY PROBLEMS. I ASKED PRESIDENT FRANGIE OCTOBER 25
DURING HOUR-LONG TETE A TETE HOW RE SAW SECURITY
SITUATION EVOLVING. FRANGIE SAID FOR MOMENT HE IS
RECEIVING SATISFACTORY COOPERATION FROM PALESTINIAN
ORGANIZATIONS IN HIS PROGRAM TO RESTORE STABILITY
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ALONG THE SOUTHERN FRONTIER AND IN THE ARQUB. (BEIRUT
TEL 11539 CONTAINS ADDITIONAL DETAIL RE ARQUB.)
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HOWEVER, HE COULD NOT PREDICT HOW LONG SUCH COOPERATION
WOULD CONTINUE. HE FEARS THAT IN ADDITION TO PROBLEMS
OF INTERNAL FEDAYEEN RIVALRIES IN LEBANON THERE WILL
BE INCREASING EFFORT BY LIBYA AND SYRIA, INTER ALIA,
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TO PURSUE NATIONAL PLICIES AGAINST EACH OTHER THROUGH
CHOSEN ELEMENTS AMONG PALESTINIAN MILITANTS, WITH
LEBANON PAYING THE PRICE OF RESULTING FRICTION AND INCIDENTS.
2. I SAID WE WERE IMPRESSED BY SUCCESSES OF ARMY SO
FAR IN MAINTAINING QUIET ALONG THE SOUTHERN FRONTIER.
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PRESIDENT ASSERTED HE IS DETERMINED TO MAINTAIN
CONTROL OF BORDER. I STRESSED IMPORTANCE OF DOING so,
POINTING OUT MAJOR REASON WE WERE ABLE TO TAKE INITIATIVE
IN RECENT PRIVATE DEMARCHE TO ISRAELIS CRITICIZING THEIR
LATEST AIR RAID WAS FACT THAT LEBANON HAD ESTABLISHED
SUCH A GOOD RECORD RECENTLY IN QUIETING DOWN THE BORDER.
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3. FRANGIE CONFIRMED THAT HE IS DETERMINED TO IMPROVE
LEBANESE MILITARY CAPABILITIES TO MEET ITS FUTURE
REQUIREMENTS. IN PARTICULAR, HE HAS ALREADY INITIATED
CONSULTATIONS WITH POLITICAL LEADERS LOOKING TOWARD THE
INTRODUCTION OF COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE. SINCE
LEBANON HAS NEVER HAD CONSCRIPTION DURING LAST 300 YEARS,
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HE SAID THIS WILL TAKE SOME WORK, BUT HE IS CONFIDENT
THAT DURING COMING YEAR SUCH LAW WILL BE ENACTED. THIS
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CONNECTION, HE EXPRESSED CONCERN TO MAINTAIN TRADITIONAL
BALANCE OF CHRISTIANS AND MOSLEMS IN ARMED FORCES.
4. I REITERATED STRONG US INTEREST IN GOL DOING
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EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO DEAL WITH TERRORISTS OPERATING
ON ITS TERRITORY. HE POINTED TO WELL-KNOWN DIFFICULTIES
OF DEALING WITH CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS. THIS CONNECTION,
HE SAID THAT WHEN HE RECEIVED REPORTS FEDAYEEN WERE
RENTING SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF APARTMENTS IN DOWNTOWN
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BEIRUT HE PERSONALLY ORDERED EXAMINATION OF ALL RENTAL
CONTRACTS SIGNED BY ARAB OF ANY NATIONALITY TO SEE
WHETHER ANY FEDAYEEN WERE INVOLVED. RESULTS WERE
NEGATIVE. HE SAID, HOWEVER, TERRORISM PROBLEM
INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO COPE WITH, SINCE PALESTINIANS
HAVE ALSO ENLISTED SUPPORT OF NON-ARABS SUCH AS
EUROPEANS AND TURKS. HE INDICATED LEBANESE SECURITY
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IN PROCESS OF MODERNIZING ITS RECORD SYSTEM, WITH
USE OF COMPUTERS, BUT PROCESS WILL PROBABLY REQUIRE
TWO YEARS TO COMPLETE. PRESIDENT CONCLUDED BY
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SAYING HE WOULD WELCOME ANY AND ALL ASSISTANCE USG
MIGHT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE IN INTELLIGENCE FIELD TO IMPROVE
ITS PERFORMANCE.
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ZODIS
1. FOLLOWING UP ON FOREIGN MINISTER ABOUHAMAD'S TALK
WITH US AFTERNOON OCT 20 (REFTEL), LEBANESE ARMY
COMMANDER GENERAL GHANEM RAISED SAME EVENING QUESTION
OF POSSIBLE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN LEBANESE ARMY AND
FEDAYEEN. GHANEM SAID HE HAD MET WITH FOREIGN
MINISTER SUBSEQUENT TO OUR AFTERNOON MEETING AND
ASSURED HE ENDORSED WHAT FONMIN HAD SAID. GHANEM
STRESSED HIS DEEPEST CONERN IN EVENT OF CONFRONTA-
TION WITH SYRIA AND SAID HE MUST KNOW WHAT SPECIFIC
ACTION USG CAN TAKE TO NEUTRALIZE SYRIANS.
2. GHANEM SAID THAT AS REGARDS EQUIPMENT ARMY WOULD
NEED TO CONTROL AND EVENTUALLY CONFRONT FEDAYEEN
HE HAS TWO SPECIFIC AND URGENT REQUESTS. GHANEM SAID
ARMY AND GENDARMERIE URGENTLY NEED PACKAGE OF COMMUNICA-
TIONS EQUIPMENT, MOSTLY COMMUNICATIONS VANS TO IMPROVE
ARMY'S AND GENDARMERIE'S COMMUNICATIONS BUT ALSO JAMMING AND
INTERCEPT EQUIPMENT TO ENABLE ARMY TO DEAL WITH FEDAYEEN
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COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK (GHANEM SAID GOL NOW HAS NO
EQUIPMENT FOR JAMMING OR INTERCEPT OF FEDAYEEN COMMUNICA-
TIONS). GHANEM ESTIMATED THIS PACKAGE WOULD COST IN
NEIGHBORHOOD OF EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
HE SAID FINANCING IS SECONDARY PROBLEM AND INDICATED THAT
IF NECESSARY GOL WOULD BEAR COST. IMPORTANT THING, GHANEM
STRESSED, IS TO GET THIS EQUIPMENT TO LEBANON RIGHT AWAY.
WE ASKED FOR SPECIFIC LIST OF ITEMS AND GHANEM PROMISED TO
GIVE IT TO US SOONEST. GHANEM MENTIONED THAT A REPRESEN-
TATIVE OF AN AMERICAN ARMS SUPPLY FIRM CHE DID NOT HAVE NAME
AT HAND) WAS CURRENTLY IN BEIRUT AND HAD HELD DISCUSSIONS
REGARDING COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT WITH HIS STAFF.
3. GHANEM SAID OTHER URGENT ITEM IS TO HAVE RIGHT AWAY
EQUIPMENT IN FY 1971 MAP PACKAGE WHICH HAS NOT YET BEEN
DELIVERED. GHANEM SAID HIS STAFF HAD RECENTLY INQUIRED OF
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EMBASSY DATT AS TO WHEN LEBANON COULD EXPECT DELIVERY OF
THIS EQUIPMENT AND HAD BEEN INFORMED IT WOULD BE HANDED
OVER BY JULY 1973. THIS IS NOT SOON ENOUGH, GHANEM
STRESSED. TO BE ABLE TO FACE UP TO FEDAYEEN PROBLEM
ARMY MUST HAVE THIS MATERIAL IN HAND RIGHT AWAY.
4. GENERAL GHANEM SAID NIGHT SENSORY EQUIPMENT
WOULD ALSO BE VERY HELPFUL TO ARMY IN PREVENTING FEDAYEEN
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INCURSIONS. HE WAS VAGUE IN REGARD TO OTHER EQUIPMENT
ARMY MIGHT NEED BUT SAID HE WOULD WELCOME VISIT OF A
US MILITARY TEAM TO DISCUSS THIS QUESTION.
5. WE VOICED SATISFACTION WITH MEASURES TAKEN BY ARMY IN
RECENT WEEKS AND EXPRESSED STRONG HOPE THAT THESE WOULD
BE PURSUED WITHOUT LETUP. GHANEM SAID ARMY WOULD DO ITS
BEST BUT IN VIEW OF NATURE OF TERRAIN AND ARMY'S SMALL
SIZE AND POOR EQUIPMENT HE COULD NOT GUARANTEE COMPLETE
SUCCESS IN PREVENTING INFILTRATIONS ACROSS LEBANESE-
ISRAELI BORDER. WHILE ACKNOWLEDGING THAT ONE OR TWO
PERSONS COULD ALWAYS SLIP THROUGH, WE POINTED OUT THAT
ARMY COULD DETECT AND REMOVE ANY CONCENTRATION OF FEDAYEEN
IN SOUTH AND IT IS ESSENTIAL IT CONTINUE TO DO SO. GHANEM
AGREED.
6. WE ARE SENDING BY SEPARATE CABLE LIST OF STILL UN-
DELIVERED FY 71 MAP GRANT ITEMS. USG ABILITY TO MOVE THIS
EQUIPMENT OUT RAPIDLY FOR DELIVERY TO LEBANESE ARMY, AND
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QUICK RESPONSE RE AVAILABILITY OF COMMUNICATIONS EQUIP-
MENT WHEN GHANEM GIVES US HIS LIST, COULD WELL MAKE THE
DIFFERENCE IN HOW VIGOROUSLY LEBANESE ARMY PURSUE ACTION
AGAINST FEDAYEEN IN FUTURE. LIKEWISE, SPEED-UP IN
DELIVERY OF FY 72 FMS ITEMS WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL. WE
BELIEVE INFORMATION RE EQUIPMENT NEEDS OF LEBANESE ARMY
IS FOR MOST PART ALREADY AVAILABLE IN WASHINGTON AS
RESULT VISIT BY DOD THIEBARGER/PLUMMER TEAM THIS
PAST SPRING. PROBLEM, AS WE UNDERSTAND IT, IS TO
ASSIGN SUFFICIENTLY HIGH PRIORITY IN TERMS OF US
NATIONAL SECURITY TO DELIVERIES FOR LEBANON TO ASSURE
RAPID AVAILABILITY OF ITEMS.
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1. FONMIN ABOUHAMAD SAID OCT. 16 THAT DURING HIS RECENT
TRIP TO NEW YORK SECRETARY AND SISCO HAD INDICATED U.S.
WILLING TO PROVIDE MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO LEBANON.
HOWEVER, ACCORDING TO FONMIN, NO INDICATION GIVEN WHAT
FORM SUCH AID WOULD TAKE, E.G., EQUIPMENT, GRANT AID,
OR LOANS. ACCORDINGLY, HE NOW WISHED TO INQUIRE WHAT
SPECIFIC TYPE ASSISTANCE U.S. ENVISAGED.
2. I SAID IN ABSENCE REPORT ON SECRETARY'S TALK WITH
HIM I COULD ONLY REFER QUESTION TO DEPT FOR REPLY, BUT
POINTED OUT NORMALLY WE WOULD EXPECT GOVT CONCERNED TO
PROVIDE CONCRETE INDICATION OF WHAT IT WANTED FROM US.
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SUBJ: LEBANESE RESTRICTIONS ON FEDAYEEN
1. BASED UPON CONVERSATIONS OCT 5 AND 6 WITH RELIABLE AND
WELL-INFORMED SENIOR GOL OFFICIALS, (GOV OF SOUTH, LAHOUD,
DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF KANAAN, AND ASSISTANT C/S FOR INTELLIGENCE
BOUSTANI), SITUATION IN SOUTH LEBANON REMAINS AS DESCRIBED IN
OUR PREVIOUS TELEGRAMS. NONE OF OUR OTHER REPORTS CONTAINS
CONTRARY INFO.
2. FEDAYEEN ARE AT LEAST TEN AND PROBABLY THIRTEEN KILOMETERS
BACK FROM BORDER IN SOUTH, AND ARE OUT OF TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
THE LEBANESE ARMY ROADBLOCKS AND MOBILE CHECKPOINH REMAIN
NUMEROUS IN SOUTH AND ARKUB AND ARE SUCCESSFULLY PREVENTING
FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT WHICH FEDAYEEN PREVIOUSLY ENJOYED.
(ROADBLOCKS HAVE BEEN REDUCED OUTSIDE OF SOUTH SINCE STATE OF
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EMERGENCY LIFTED ELSEWHERE. SEE BEIRUT 10717). IN ARKUB,
MOST FEDAYEEN HAVE BEEN MOVED NORTH OF CHEBAA-HASBAYAH ROAD, AS
CALLED FOR IN SEPT 17 ARMY DIRECTIVES. NUMBER REMAINING SOUTH
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OF THIS ROAD IS UNDER ONE HUNDRED AND, AS IN SOUTH, OUT OF
VILLAGES. THERE ARE LARGE CONCENTRATIONS OF FEDAYEEN IN AND
AROUND TYRE AND SIDON, INCLUDING REFUGEE CAMPS, IN ABSENCE OF
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ANYPLACE ELSE TO GO. FEDAYEEN WHICH HAVE MOVED OUT OF SOUTHERN
ARKUB HAVE MOVED TO NORTHERN ARKUB AND BEKAA, WITH SOME
REPORTEDLY HAVING GONE BACK TO SYRIA.
3. REPORTEDLY FEDAYEEN ARE NOT RPI NOT PRESSING ARMY IN SOUTH AND
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ARKUB AND ARE RESIGNED TO LIVING WITH STATUS QUO FOR PRESENT, WHILE
LEADERS CONTINUE WORK ON LEBANESE POLITICAL LEADERS IN EFFORT
BRING ABOUT SOME RELAXATION OF RESTRICTIONS. THIS DOES NOT,
OF COURSE, MEAN THAT A FEW LIGHTLY-ARMED FEDAYEEN MIGHT NOT
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DECIDE INFILTRATE PAST LEBANESE ARMY CONTROLS AND START SOMETHING
WITH ISRAEL BUT THERE ARE NO PRESENT INDICATIONS EITHER OF GOL
WEAKENING AT POLITICAL LEVEL OR FEDAYEEN EFFORTS SLIP PAST
ARMY CONTROLS.
4. ARMY ATTACHE WILL TOUR SOUTHERN LEBANON OCT 9. WE WILL SUBMIT
FURTHER UPDATING OF OUR INFO ON SITUATION AFTER HE RETURNS.
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1. SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON SOVIET OFFER TO LEBANESE GOVERN-
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HE SAID WHILE I WAS FREE TO REPORT INFORMATION, HE
DID NOT WANT TO BE QUOTED AS SOURCE. I CAN ONLY
SPECULATE HE MADE THIS EXCEPTIONAL REQUEST EITHER
BECAUSE HE WAS NOT AUTHORIZED BY PRESIDENT AND PRIMIN
TO INFORM US OR BECAUSE THIS WEEK'S ANDERSON COLUMN
QUOTING A BEIRUT DESPATCH RAISES QUESTION ABOUT INTEGRITY
OF LEBANESE COMMUNICATIONS WITH US, OR BOTH.
2. ABOUHAMAD REFUSED TO BE DRAWN OUT ON REACTION OF
FRANGIE OR SALAAM TO SOVIET OFFER. I ASKED WHETHER LEBANESE
THOUGHT SOVIET MILITARY OFFER WOULD BE EFFECTIVE
DETERRENT TO FURTHER ISRAELI AIR STRIKES AND HE
REPLIED HE THOUGHT IT WOULD SERVE PRIMARILY AS A
SYMBOL OF SOVIET INTEREST IN LEBANON. HE CONCLUDED
FROM AZIMOV'S CONVERSATION, THAT SOVIETS ATTACH
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CONSIDERABLE IMPORTANCE TO BEIRUT AS GATEWAY TO MIDDLE EAST.
COMMENT: LEBANESE ARE TRADITIONALLY VERY LEERY OF
GETTING INVOLVED WITH RUSSIANS, AND COMING ON HEELS OF
EXPULSION SOVIET ADVISERS FROM EGYPT, I DOUBT THERE IS
L IKELIHOOD GOL WILL NIBBLE AT THIS BAIT EVEN THOUGH
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GOVERNMENT IS FEARFUL OF FUTURE ISRAELI ATTACKS AND
SMARTING BITTERLY FROM OUR VETO IN SC.
SOVIETS ARE NO DOUBT MAKING A MAJOR PLAY FOR LEBANON
PARTLY IN HOPES OF RECOUPING SOME OF PRESTIGE LOSS FROM
EGYPTIAN IMBROGLIO. ABOUHAMAD SAID SOVIETS HAVE BEEN
PRESSING HIM HARD TO VISIT MOSCOW AND HE MUST NOW
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ACCEDE TO REQUEST SINCE HE HAS JUST ACCPETED
INVITATION FROM CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO VISIT PEKING
IN NOVEMBER.
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1. TIME MAGAZINE'S ROME BUREAU CHIEF, JIM BELL,
CURRENTLY IN BEIRUT SINCE HIS OFFICE PROVIDES BACK-
UP SUPPORT FOR COVERAGE ARAB STATES AND ISRAEL.
SINCE HE IS OLD FRIEND, I ASKED HIM BACKGROUND OF
RECENT TIME STORY ON ALLEGED ISRAELI PEACE OFFER TO EGYPT.
2. HE SAID "PROVIDING IT GOES NO FURTHER," HE
WILLING TO INDICATE THAT SOURCES FOR STORY WERE
GENERAL ELIZUR, ALLON, AND EBAN. BELL SAID TIME'S
LOCAL CORRESPONDENT HAD REPORTED TO ROME HE HAD IMPORTANT
AND SENSITIVE STORY, SO BELL SUMMONED HIM TO ROME WHERE STORY WAS.
WRITTEN. HE CONSIDERED STORY SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE IT
CONSTITUTED FIRST TIME ISRAELI GOVERNMENT HAD BEEN
WILLING TO DRAW LINES ON A MAP (PRECISE COORDINATES WERE
PROVIDED). PLAN HAF BEEN AT LEAST ONE MONTH IN THE MAKING,
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ACCORDING TO BELL.
3. BELL SAID HE RECOGNIZED TIME WAS BEING USED FOR
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DOMESTIC POLITICAL PURPOSE SINCE LEAKAGE OF THIS STORY
APPEARED DESIGNED AS COUNTER TO RECENT STATEMENTS
MADE BY DAYAN ON PEACE SETTLEMENTM HOWEVER, AFTER
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MUCH SOUL SEARCHING, INCLUDING CONSIDERATION OF
POSSIBLE ADVERSE IMPACT ON ULTIMATE SETTLEMENT, BELL DECIDED
STORY BONA FIDE AND DESERVED PUBLICATION.
4. GIVEN BILL'S STRICTURES, REQUEST THIS BE HELD TIGHTLY IN
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NO OBJECTION TO HOLDING OFF INDORMING ITALIAN FONOFF.
WE UNDERSTAND MAIOLINI WAS PLANNING WIRE FONOFF TODAY IN
VERY GENERAL TERMS THAT MORE ACTIVE DISCUSSIONS ON ESTABLISH-
MENT US PRESENCE APPEAR TO BE TAKING PLACE. BELIEVE
THAT IS ADEQUATE COMPROMISE BETWEEN NECESSARY COURTESY TO
ITALIANS AND IMPORTANCE OF MAINTAINING SECURITY. XGDS 5B (4).
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SUMMARY: DCM HAD CORDIAL BUT BRIEF INTERVIEW WITH
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PRIME MINISTER KHPEIFAOUI SEPTEMBER 3 RE ASSIGNMENT
AMERICAN OFFICER AND SECRETARY USINT SECTION DAMASCUS.
DRAFT NOTE FORMALIZING ARRANGEMENT GIVEN PRIMIN FOR HIS
CLEARANCE. HE AGREED REPLY WITHIN WEEK. CHANCES OF
POSITIVE RESPONSE FIFTY-FIFTY. END SUMMARY.
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1. DCM MET BRIEFLY WITH PRIMIN KHLEIFAOUI SEPTEMBER 3
IN MRS. BOUSTANY'S PRESENCE. MRS. BOUSTANY WHO
HAD PRE-ARRANGED APPOINTMENT MET WITH PRIMIN FIRST AND
ARRANGED APPOINTMENT ON SPOT FOR DCM WHO ARRIVED SEPARATELY
AT PRE-ARRANGED TIME. MRS. BOUSTANY PREFERRED THAT MEETING
BE BETWEEN KHLEIFAOUI AND DCM ALONE BUT PRIMIN WANTED HER
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TO STAY.
2. KHLEIFAOUI WAS VERY CORDIAL ALTHOUGH APPEARED SOMEWHAT
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NERVOUS. AFTER INQUIRING ABOUT KHLEIFAOUI'S HEALTH AND
EXPRESSING STRONG USG'S INTEREST IN IMPROVING RELATIONS,
DCM STATED HE UNDERSTOOD PRIMIN HAD AGREED TO ASSIGNMENT
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OF AN AMERICAN OFFICER AND SECRETARY TO US INTEREST SECTION
ITALIAN EMBASSY DAMASCUS WITH RECIPROCAL ARRANGEMENT FOR
SYRIANS IN PAKISTAN EMBASSY, WASHINGTON. PRIMIN NODDED
HIS ASSENT. TO FORMALIZE ARRANGEMENT, DCM EXPLAINED USG
WISHED TO HAVE NOTE SENT VIA ITALIAN EMBASSY BUT FIRST, OF
COURSE, WANTED PRIMIN'S APPROVAL OF NOTE WHOSE TEXT WAS
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SIMILAR TO THAT SENT EGYPTIAN AND IRAQI GOVTS (STATE'S
124862). DCM THEN HANDED PRIMIN COPIES OF NOTE IN ENGLISH
AND ARABIC. KHLEIFAOUI READ NOTE QUICKLY, HAD
NO QUESTIONS, AND PROMISED TO MAKE DECISION RE NOTE WITHIN
ONE WEEK. DCM NOTED THAT CHIEF OF US INTEREST SECTION, DR.
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MAIOLINI, EXPECTED TO RETURN TO ROME ON TRANSFER IN APPROXI-
MATELY TWO WEEKS. SUGGESTED THAT RATHER THAN HAVE ITALIANS
REPLACE MAIOLINI, AMERICAN OFFICER COULD TAKE HIS PLACE. DCM
INDICATED THIS DID NOT MEAN AMERICAN OFFICER HAD TO BE AS-
SIGNED IN TWO WEEKS BUT THAT DEPARTURE MAIOLINI PROVIDED NATURAL
TIME FOR TRANSITION (STATE'S 157913). KHLEIFAOUI LISTENED
CAREFULLY BUT MADE NO SUBSTANTIVE COMMENT. DCM THEN ASKED
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PRIMIN IF HE COULD INFORM HIS GOVT THAT PRIMIN WOULD GIVE
ANSWER RE NOTE IN WEEK AND THAT THERE WERE NO PROBLEMS.
PRIMIN AGREED. IN DEFERENCE PRIMIN'S HEALTH AND IN KNOWLEDGE
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HIS APPOINTMENTS WERE LIMITED IN TIME AND NUMBER, DCM TOOK
HIS LEAVE.
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3. KHLEIFAOUI DID NOT REQUEST WHO AMERICAN OFFICER WOULD
BE AND CONSEQUENTLY DCM DID NOT TELL HIM. KHLEIFAOUI
ALSO DID NOT RAISE QUESTION OF DEBTS SO DCM DID NOT
EITHER. IN LIGHT USG POSITION ON IPC NATIONALIZATION,
DCM PARTICULARLY WISHED AVOID POSSIBILITY PRIMIN SEEKING
ASSURANCE EXIM WILLING PROVIDE FINANCE AMERICAN FIRMS BE
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AWARDED CONTRACTS BY SARG IF BOUSTANY DEBT SETTLED. THE
OBJECT WAS TO KEEP INTERVIEW AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE IN
ORDER NOT TO RISK RAISING ANY ISSUES WHICH MIGHT COMPLI-
CATE ULTIMATE DECISION.
4. EXCEPT FOR BEING NERVOUS, KHLEIFAOUI SEEMED IN GOOD
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SHAPE ALTHOUGH DIFFICULT MAKE VALID JUDGMENT AS DCM HAD
NEVER MET HIM BEFORE.
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5. COMMENT: DIFFICULT MAKE PROGNOSIS AS RESULT OF INTERVIEW
ALTHOUGH ON THE FACE OF IT THE PROSPECTS OF FAVORABLE
RESPONSE WOULD APPEAR GOOD. AMPLE OPPORTUNITY GIVEN PRIMIN
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DISCUSS PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN EITHER TIMING OR SUBSTANCE
RECIPROCAL ARRANGEMENT BUT HE DID NOT. THIS DOES NOT MEAN
THAT THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS WITH HIS COLLEAGUES ON THIS ONE
AS WE KNOW THERE ARE. MRS. BOUSTANY INDICATED TO DCM
SEPTEMBER 4 IN POST-MORTEM THAT KHLEIFAOUI HAD BEEN SOMEWHAT
UNCERTAIN IN HIS INTERVIEW WITH HER ABOUT PROS AND CONS OF
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GOING AHEAD WITH PROJECT AND NEEDED REASSURANCE. HE
HIMSELF WAS IN FAVOR BUT OBVIOUSLY HAD OPPOSITION AMONG
HIS MORE RADICAL COLLEAGUES. IT IS PERHAPS A MEASURE OF
THE SITUATION THAT DESPITE HER URGING, HE WOULD NOT SEE
DCM ALONE. SHE SEEMS TO GIVE A FAVORABLE RESPONSE A
FIFTY-FIFTY CHANCE.
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6. IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE THAT PRIMIN WILL GIVE POSITIVE
SUBSTANTIVE RESPONSE BUT IN DEFERENCE RUSSIANS AND INTER-
NAL CONSIDERATIONS MIGHT SUGGEST TIMING OF ASSIGNMENT BE
DELAYED A WHILE. WE ARE CONCERNED RE FONMIN KHADDAM'S
POSITION AS HE WAS ONE WHO REFUSED LAST YEAR SEND NOTE RE
DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES FOR OFFICER VISITING DAMASCUS THREE
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TIMES A WEEK FROM BEIRUT HANDLE CONSULAR AFFAIRS. KHLEIFAOUI
MUST HAVE CLEARED PROPOSAL WITH PRESIDENT ASSAD AND ONE WOULD
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THINK THAT HE WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN SUCH A FORTHRIGHT POSITION
WITHOUT REASONABLE EXPECTATION HE WOULD BE SUPPORTED.
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7. AS THERE IS POSSIBILITY THAT ASSIGNMENT AMERICAN OFFICER
MAY MATERIALIZE NEAR FUTURE, BELIEVE WE SHOULD NOW INFORM
HIGH-RANKING ITALIAN FONOFFICE OFFICIAL RE SITUATION WITHOUT
INDICATING KHLEIFAOUI POINT OF CONTACT. DOUBT IF THIS WILL
COME AS GREAT SURPRISE TO ITALIAMS, AS MAIOLINI HAS PRE-
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VIOUSLY REPORTED TO FONOFFICE CONVERSATION WITH SYRIAN
FONOFFICE OFFICIAL (ABOUT THREE WEEKS BACK) WHO COMMENTED
SOMEWHAT CRYPTICALLY THAT TIME FOR DISCUSSION OF ASSIGN-
MENT AMERICAN OFFICER MIGHT BE APPROPRIATE IN MONTH OR SO.
HE ALSO HAS SPECULATED IN REPORTS TO FONOFFICE THAT RECENT
VISITS AMBASSADORS YOST AND HART MIGHT HAVE INCLUDED DIS-
CUSSIONS ON THIS SUBJECT.
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MATTER CLOSELY PENDING FINAL DECISION. WE WILL BE DOING
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SUBJ: USINT DAMASCUS
REF: STATE 157913
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1. SINCE HOUGHTON/SEELYE LETTER AUGUST 18 WE HAVE LEARNED
THAT MAIOLINI'S DEPARTURE DELAYED ALTHOUGH WE DO NOT KNOW
HOW LONG. PRESUMABLY ITALIAN FOREIGN OFFICE IS HOLDING HIM
OVER IN ORDER TO HELP NEW ITALIAN AMBASSADOR GET SETTLED.
MAIOLINI AT THE MOMENT IS THE ONLY ITALIAN SUBSTANTIVE OFFICER
IN THE EMBASSY WITH ANY EXTENDED EXPERIENCE IN SYRIAN AFFAIRS.
WE IMAGINE HE WILL PROBABLY REMAIN INTO OCTOBER BUT WE WILL
KNOW DEFINITELY WHEN WE HAVE CHANCE TO TALK TO HIM PERSONALLY.
2. IN ANY EVENT HE IS LEAVING. WE SEE NO DIFFICULTY IN
PUTTING FORTH DEPARTMENT'S PROPOUAL REFTEL. OUR EFFORTS TO
SEE PRIME MINISTER KHLEIFAOUI HAVE BEEN HAMPERED BY HIS
RECOVERY FROM HIS OPERATION IN LONDON (BEIRUT 8856),
AND WE SUSPECT BY SOME SYRIAN HESITANCY IN LIGHT SOVIET/EGYPTIAN
RELATIONS AND GENERAL AREA SITUATION. HE IS BACK IN OFFICE
BUT HIS STAFF HAS BEEN LIMITING BOTH THE NUMBER AND DURATION
KHLEIFAOUI APPOINTMENTS.
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3. TO DATE MRS. BOUSTANY HERSELF HAS NOT BEEN ABLE
TO SEE HIM AND WE SUSPECT IN DEFERENCE TO HIS HEALTH HAS BEEN
RELUCTANT TO PRESS HIM. SHE IS TRYING TO OBTAIN APPOINTMENT
FOR DCM SUNDAY AT WHICH TIME WE PROPOSE TO SHOW KHLEIFAOUI
DRAFT NOTE (STATE 124682), WHICH ITALIANS WOULD SEND SYRIAN
FOREIGN OFFICE AFTER KHLEIFAOUI'S CLEARANCE AND IN GENERAL
TRY TO GET FINAL AGREEMENT FOR ASSIGNMENT OF OFFICER.
4. IF PRIME MINISTER ASKS, MAY WE GIVE SCOTES NAME AS
OFFICER TO BE ASSIGNED TO DAMASCUS?
5. DOES DEPARTMENT HAVE ANY FURTHER GUIDANCE?
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SUBJ: USINT DAMASCUS
REF: DEPT 129518; LONDON 6693
1. IN LATE AFTERNOON JULY 19, BEFORE LONDON REFTEL
RECEIVED, WE HAD TO GIVE MRS. BOUSTANY NAME OF LAMBRAKIS
AS CONTACT BECAUSE OF HER PLANNED DEPARTURE FOR
LONDON MORNING JULY 20. SHE HAS CARD OF INTRODUCTION
FROM PRATT TO LAMBRAKIS AS IDENTIFICATION.
2. FOR LONDON: (A) MRS. BOUSTANY HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO
OBTAIN LONDON HOTEL RESERVATIONS PRIOR DEPARTURE. HOWEVER,
SHE SAID SHE COULD BE REACHED THROUGH MR. JACK HOLMES OR
MISS POWELL, THOMAS STOREY (ENGINEERS) LIMITED, 8 SOUTH
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WARF LONDON W2, TELEPHONE 01-262-3456. WE WOULD APPRE-
CIATE LONDON'S INFORMING HER OF LAMBRAKIS-OPLINGER SWITCH.
(B) ON MODUS OPERANDI, WE INVARIABLY MEET HER OUTSIDE
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EMBASSY. SHE MAY WELL WISH CONTINUE THIS PRACTICE
ESPECIALLY SINCE SHE IS PLANNING TO CARE FOR PRIMIN
KHLEIFAOUI'S THREE SMALL CHILDREN SO AS TO PERMIT
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MRS. KHLEIFAOUI SPEND MORE TIME WITH HER HUSBAND. ALSO
SHE OBVIOUSLY WILL WISH TO CONTINUE KEEPING HER AMERICAN
EMBASSY CONTACTS AS DISCREET AS POSSIBLE. (C) SHE ALSO
TOLD US JULY 19 SHE MAY HAVE TO TRAVEL TO U.S. FROM LONDON
BUT HER U.S. VISA HAD JUST EXPIRED. WE HAVE NO OBJECT-
TIONS TO HER RECEIVING NEW VISA IN LONDON SINCE SHE IS
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OBVIOSILY "WELL AND FAVORABLY KNOWN" TO US. SHE RECEIVED
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3. FOR DEPT:
A. WE INFORMED HER SUBSTANCE DEPTEL 128892. SHE TOOK
NEWS PHILOSOPHICALLY ALTHOUGH OBVIOUSLY DISAPPOINTED.
B. SHE ALSO RAISED POSSIBILITY MEDICAL CARE FOR
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TO US BUT IN VIEW KHLEIFAOUI'S REFUSAL SOVIET OFFERS, WE HAD NOT
INITIATED SUCH PROPOSAL. SHE INDICATED SHE MIGHT DISCUSS
IT WITH KHLEIFAOUI ALTHOUGH SHE HAD NOT YET BROACHED IT TO HIM.
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1. MRS. BOUSTANY REQUESTED INTERVIEW WITH PRATT
17 AT WHICH SHE REITERATED HER INTENTION TO FOLLOW
THROUGH ON PRESENT OPERATION. SHE NOTED THAT SHE WAS
ENCOUNTERING EXPENSES AT A TIME WHEN SHE WAS SHORT ON
CASH BUT REEMPHASIZED ANY UNFAVORABLE RESPONSE TO
REFTEL FROM WASHINGTON WOULD NOT IN ANY EVENT CAUSE
HER TO BREAK OFF ONGOING DISCUSSIONS.
2. SHE HAD HOPED TO SEE KHLEIFAOUI PRIOR LATTER'S DE-
PARTURE TO LONDON BUT HE LEFT DAY EARLIER THAN PLANNED,
JULY 16 OR 17, THUS SHE MISSED HIM. HIS WIFE AND
THREE CHILDREN ARE JOINING HIM THERE SHORTLY. SHE
PLANS SPEND 10 DAYS IN LONDON BEGINNING JULY 20 AND EX-
PECTS TO SEE HIM THERE. PRATT ASKED SHE PASS TO KHLEIFAOUI
WORD OF USG WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT PROPOSED ASSIGNMENT OF
ONE OFFICER AND ONE SECRETARY TO USINT DAMASCUS. PROPOSED
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DRAFT FOR KHLEIFAOUI'S CONSIDERATION NOT PASSED SINCE WE
DEEM IT ADVISABLE THAT THIS DRAFT BE DISCUSSED FACE TO
FACE WITH HIM.
3. MRS. BOUSTANY ALSO ASKS FOR NAME RESPONSIBLE
OFFICER EMBASSY LONDON WHO CAN PASS TO US ANY MESSAGES
ARISING FROM HER CONVERSATIONS WITH KHLEIFAOUI.
4. ACTION REQUESTED: (A) DEPT BRIEF LONONDON TO EFFECT
THAT MRS. BOUSTANY SERVING AS INTERMEDIARY IN OUR DIS-
CUSSIONS WITH PRIMIN ON ASSIGNMENT US PERSONNEL TO
USINT DAMASCUS AND THAT ANY MESSAGES FROM HER BE
PASSED AS SECRET NODIS. (B) DEPT GIVE US NAME OFFICER
SHE SHOULD CONTACT AT LONDON. SGDS - 4.
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1. SUMMARY: A POSSIBLE COMPLICATION HAS ARISEN IN NEGOTIATIONS
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MRS. BOUSTANI HAS REQUESTED SOME FORM FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO
PRIME MINISTER KHLEIFAOUI TO INSURE WELFARE HIS FAMILY.
BOUSTANI CLAIMS REQUEST HER OWN AND KHLEIFAOUI NOT AWARE HER
ACTION. INSISTS ON RESPONSE FROM USG WHICH EMBASSY
RECOMMENDS BE NEGATIVE. END SUMMARY.
2. PURSUANT TO REFTEL, PRATT REQUESTED MRS. BOUSTANI ON
JULY 13 TO OBTAIN APPOINTMENT FOR HIM WITH PRIME MINISTER
KHLEIFAOUI. HOWEVER, SHE WAS SURPRISINGLY NON-COMMITTAL
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3. A FEW CONVERSATIONS BACK MRS. BOUSTANI REFERRED A
NUMBER OF TIMES TO THE FACT THAT GENERAL KHLEIFAOUI WAS AN
HONEST MAN, HAD NO INDEPENDENT RESOURCES AND WAS DEPENDENT ON
HIS SALARY. HE WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THE WELFARE OF HIS FAMILY
SHOULD ANYTHING HAPPEN TO HIM. THE CLEAR IMPLICATION WAS THAT
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THE U.S. GOVERNMENT MIGHT OFFER KHLEIFAOUI INSURANCE FOR
HIS FAMILY'S WELFARE IN FORM OF SOME TYPE OF FINANCIAL
ASSISTANCE. PRATT FUDGED THE ISSUE BUT WHEN HE SAW
MRS. BOUSTANI ON JULY 13 SHE ASKED HIM POINT BLANK IF HE HAD
A RESPONSE FROM THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO "HER REQUEST."
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CHARGE DECIDED THAT WE SHOULD FIND OUT FROM MRS. BOUSTANI
WHETHER HER REQUEST WAS A CONDITION FOR EITHER THE
ASSIGNMENT OF AN OFFICER OR A FURTHER MEETING BETWEEN PRATT
AND KHLEIFAOUI. CONSEQUENTLY, AT FIVE CLOCK ON FRIDAY
JULY 14 THE CHARGE AND PRATT MET WITH MRS. BOUSTANI.
AFTER EXPRESSING APPRECIATION FOR WHAT SHE HAD DONE TO DATE, THE
CHARGE ADVISED HER THAT IN MOVING AHEAD WITH THIS PROJECT, THE
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STATES CONSIDERED THAT AN IMPROVEMENT IN RELATIONS WAS IN THE
INTEREST OF BOTH COUNTRIES. THIS WAS AN IMPORTANT POINT AS
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UNLESS THERE WAS SUCH A MUTUAL DESIRE IT WAS DOUBTFUL THAT THE
ASSIGNMENT OF AN OFFICER WOULD SERVE ANY USEFUL PURPOSE.
IN THIS CONTEXT WE WERE SOMEWHAT CONFUSED BY A REQUEST SHE
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UNDERSTOOD THAT SHE WAS PROPOSING THAT THE UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT OFFER SOME SORT OF ASSISTANCE TO PRIME
MINISTER KHLEIFAOUI TO ENSURE THE WELFARE OF HIS FAMILY.
WAS THIS A CONDITION FOR EITHER A MEETING BETWEEN PRATT AND
KHLEIFAOUI OR FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF A U.S. OFFICER IN DAMASCUS.
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5. MRS. BOUSTANI QUICKLY RESPONDED THAT KHLEIFAOUI KNEW NOTHING
ABOUT THE PROPOSAL WHICH WAS HER OWN IDEA. KHLEIFAOUI WAS
A GOOD AND HONEST MAN AND SHE WANTED TO HELP HIM. HER
PROPOSAL WAS NOT A CONDITION FOR EITHER PRATT'S MEETING
WITH KHLEIFAOUI OR THE ASSIGNMENT OF AN OFFICER TO DAMASCUS.
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THE CHARGE RESPONDED THAT HE WAS RELIEVED TO HEAR THIS AS
SUCH A CONDITION WOULD SERIOUSLY COMPLICATE THE NEGOTIATIONS
AS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT DID NOT FAVOR ACTION OF THIS NATURE.
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MRS. BOUSTANI INSISTED, HOWEVER, THAT SHE WANTED A RESPONSE
WHICH THE CHARGE UNDERTOOK TO OBTAIN. HE ASKED IF IN
THE MEANTIME SHE WOULD OBTAIN AN APPOINTMENT FOR PRATT
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AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AS HE HAD A MESSAGE TO PASS ON TO THE
PRIME MINISTER. SHE INDICATED THAT SHE WOULD DO THIS BUT SAID
SHE HAD HAD SOME DIFFICULTY RECENTLY IN CONTACTING
KHLEIFAOUI AS HE HAD NOT BEEN IN HIS OFFICE. (FRIDAY IS
NON-WORK DAY IN DAMASCUS.) HOWEVER SHE HOPED TO SEE HIM
JULY 15, ESPECIALLY SINCE HE GOES TO LONDON FOR MEDICAL
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TREATMENT EARLY NEXT WEEK.
6. COMMENT: WE OBVIOUSLY STILL DO NOT KNOW WHETHER THE
REQUEST FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE COMES FROM KHLEIFAOUI OR
FROM MRS. BOUSTANI AS SHE WOULD HAVE MADE THE SAME RESPONSE
IN EITHER CASE. HOWEVER, WE ARE NOW IN A POSITION TO
RESPOND TO HER WITHOUT OSTENSIBLY REBUFFING KHLEIFAOUI.
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ALTHOUGH NOT NECESSARILY JEOPARDIZE OUR NEGOTIATIONS WITH
THE SYRIANS BUT WE QUESTION WHETHER THE NEGOTIATIONS ARE
WORTH PURSUING IF WE HAVE TO BUY OUR WAY IN. IT MAY BE
AS MRS. BOUSTANI MAINTAINS A PERSONAL SUGGESTION WHICH
WOULD FIT WITH HER LEBANESE CHARACTER. IT MAY ALSO BE
SIMPLY A MOVE BY KHLEIFAOUI TO SEE IF HE CAN OBTAIN A
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LITTLE INSURANCE FOR HIS FAMILY THROUGH THE DEAL. IF,
HOWEVER, HE HAS ACTUALLY CLEARED HIS NEGOTIATIONS
WITH PRATT WITH ASSAD, WHICH WE THINK HE MUST HAVE DONE IF
HE IS ON THE LEVEL, WE DOUBT THAT OUR REFUSAL TO PROVIDE
ASSISTANCE WILL IN ITSELF LEAD SARG TO REFUSE TO GO AHEAD
WITH THE PROJECT. WE ALSO ARE BEARING IN MIND THAT SECURITY
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OF SARG AND KHLEIFAOUI'S POSITION IS BY NO MEANS ASSURED.
7. CONSEQUENTLY WE RECOMMEND THAT WE BE AUTHORIZED TO INFORM
MRS. BOUSTANI AS SOON AS POSSIBLE THAT WE REGRET THAT THE
PROVISION OF SUCH ASSISTANCE TO AN INDIVIDUAL MEMBER OF THE
SYRIAN GOVERNMENT IS CONTRARY TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THE
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U.S. GOVERNMENT AND WE THEREFORE CANNOT ACCEDE TO HER REQUEST.
8. WE HAVE TRIED TO THINK OF APPROPRIATE WAYS IN WHICH WE
COULD HELP KHLEIFAOUI BUT HAVE NO SUGGESTIONS AT THE MOMENT.
WE THOUGHT OF OFFERING MEDICAL ASSISTANCE BUT AS HE HAS
ALREADY TURNED DOWN SUCH ASSISTANCE FROM THE RUSSIANS WE
DOUBT IF HE WOULD FEEL HE COULD ACCEPT MEDICAL HELP FROM US.
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9. FINALLY, AS WE CONSIDER (AND SHE CERTAINLY DOES) USG
YYS SOME OBLIGATIONS TO MRS. BOUSTANI FOR SERVICES RENDERED,
WE HOPE DEPT CAN FACILITATE ASSISTANCE REQUESTED
IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING TEL CONCERNING MRS. BOUSTANI'S INTEREST
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1. MRS. BOUSTANY REPORTED FOLLOWING TO PRATT IMMEDIATELY
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AFTER HER RETURN FROM DAMASCUS AFTERNOON JULY 1.
A. MRS. BOUSTANY SAW PRIMIN KHLEIFAOUI MORNING JULY I
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WHO INFORMED HER SARG HAD DECIDED ACCEPT ONE AMERICAN
DIPLOMATIC OFFICER TO BE PERMANENTLY RESIDENT DAMASCUS
AT BEGINNING AS PART OF ITALIAN EMBASSY WITH GRADUAL
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STAFF EXPANSION FEW MONTHS THEREAFTER. PRIMIN THOUGHT
FIRST TASK OF OFFICER SHOULD PRIMARILY BE TO WORK OUT
ECONOMIC ISSUES AT OPERATING LEVEL OF SARG BUT RAISING
MAJOR ISSUES WITH HIM THROUGH MRS. BOUSTANY--
AT LEAST AT BEGINNING. (NOT CLEAR AT THIS POINT WHETHER
US OFFICER WOULD BE AUTHORIZED HANDLE CONSULAR FUNCTIONS)
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MRS. BOUSTANY NOT SURE IF DECISION TO ACCEPT OFFICER
WAS MADE AT CABINET OR BA'TH PARTY REGIONAL COMMAND LEVEL
BUT SHE SAID PM HAD CLEARED IT WITH OTHERS.
B. ON TIMING: PRIMIN TOLD HER US ABSTENTION IN UNSC LAST
WEEK HAD MADE THINGS DIFFICULT AND A LITTLE MORE TIME WAS
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NEEDED BEFORE OFFICER COULD COME IN. ALSO PLANNING
FOR PRESIDENT ASSAD'S VISIT TO USSG IN COMING WEEK HAD
PRE-EMPTED ATTENTION (PRIMIN GOING ALSO). IMPLICATION
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WAS THAT SHORTLY AFTER HIS RETURN FROM USSR WOULD BE
APPROPRIATE TIME FOR US RESPONSE. MRS. BOUSTANY URGED
STRONGLY THAT USG SHOULD ACCEPT PROPOSAL AND BE PREPARED
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TO NAME OFFICER FOR THIS POSITION AT SAME TIME SO AS NOT
TO LOSE MOMENTUM ON THIS DEVELOPMENT.
C. ON SPECIFIC US-SARG BILATERAL ECONOMIC ISSUES, PRIMIN
SAID ACTION HAD BEEN GIVEN TO MINECON BUT HIS REPORT
HAD NOT BEEN RECEIVED AT PRIMIN OFFICE. MINECON HAD GONE
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TO ALGERIA PREVIOUS DAY. MRS. BOUSTANY HAD OPPORTUNITY
TO SEE FAMOUS KHLEIFAOUI TEMPER IN ACTION. HE WAS
CLEARLY EMBARRASSED BY HIS INABILITY TO PROVIDE ANSWER
PROMISED TO PRATT DURING JUNE 12 MEETING.
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2. RECOMMENDATIONS:
A. WE RECOGNIZE CHANCES LEAKAGE IN THESE DISCUSSIONS
INCREASING WITH SARG GOVT CLEARANCE PM'S DECISION.
NEVERTHELESS, WE DEEM IT STILL DESIRABLE CONTINUE TIGHT
NODIS SECURITY CONTROLS ON THESE DISCUSSIONS. CAT OUR
REQUEST MRS. BOUSTANY EMPHASIZED TO KHLEIFAOUI WE WERE
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NOT RPT NOT INFORMING ITALIAN EMBASSY ABOUT THESE DIS-
CUSSIONS AND WOULD AWAIT WORD FROM HIM WHEN IT WOULD BE
APPROPRIATE TO DO SO: PM GAVE ASSURANCES ON THIS POINT.)
B. BELIEVE WE SHOULD BE PREPARED MOVE AHEAD AS RAPIDLY
AS POSSIBLE. IN VIEW PRATT'S LONG FAMILIARITY SYRIA AND
ESPECIALLY US-SYRIAN ECONOMIC ISSUES (NINE CONSECUTIVE
YEARS -- FROM DAMASCUS AND BEIRUT VANTAGE POINTS), HIS
PERSONAL ACQUAINTANCE WITH KHLEIFAOUI, AND HIS PRESENT
AVAILABILITY WOULD MAKE IT LOGICAL FOR HIM TO BE NAMED
TO DAMASCUS IN BEGINNING FOR THIS DUTY.
C. RE DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITIES, WE CONSIDER THIS CAN BE
GIVEN LESSER PROMINENCE THAN WE DID IN 1971 EXCHANGE OVER
CONSULAR REPRESENTATION, FIRST BECAUSE OF HIGH LEVEL NATURE
OF SARG PROPOSAL AND SECOND BECAUSE WE THINK OFFICIAL
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STATUS OF AMERICAN OFFICER IN SYRIA COULD BE FORMALIZED
BY SARG ISSUANCE OF SYRIAN DIPLOMATIC IDENTITY CARD WHICH
IN ITSELF CARRIES ASSURANCES OF PERSONAL DIPLOMATIC IM-
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MUNITY. THIS WOULD GIVE US SUFFICIENT GUARANTEES TO BEGIN
OPERATIONS.
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3. WE CONSIDER IT MOST IMPORTANT TO GET FOOT IN DOOR
NOW, PARTICULARLY WHILE WE HAVE HIGH LEVEL EAR TO WHICH
WE CAN BRING ANY OPERATING PROBLEMS UNRESOLVABLE AT
LOWER ECHELONS.
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MEETING INTERNAL SKEPTICISM RE USG GOOD FAITH IN MAKING
CREDITS AVAILABLE IF CLAIMS SETTLED. WE REQUEST BY JUNE 29
SPECIFIC EXIM PC BE EXTENDED SUBJECT TO BOUSTANY CLAIM
SETTLEMENT.
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1. MRS. BOUSTANY REPORTED JUNE 26 ON HER CONVERSATION
PRECEDING DAY WITH PRIMIN KHLEIFAOUI WHO WAS EXCEEDINGLY
ANXIOUS TO SEE HER AND ASKED SHE MAKE SPECIAL TRIP
TO DAMASCUS. HE TOLD HER THAT HE IS ENCOUNTERING INTERNAL
OPPOSITION TO REGULATING U.S.-SYRIAN CREDIT PROBLEMS. HE
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SAID ATTITUDE OF OFFICIALS IS, "WHY BOTHER TO SETTLE; USG
MERELY STRINGING YOU ALONG: AND SETTLEMENT WILL NOT RESULT
IN CREDIT FACILITIES." HE FURTHER REITERATED HIS PROMISE
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TO HAVE REPORT ON U.S.-SYRIAN CREDIT PROBLEMS AND HAS SET
APPOINTMENT FOR MRS. BOUSTANY AT 1200 HOURS JULY 1 IN
DAMASCUS FOR FURTHER DISCUSSIONS WITH HER ON MATTER.
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2. COMMENT AND RECOMMEDATIONS: WE ARE NOT SURPRISED AT
THIS INTERNAL OPPOSITION, AND, IN FACT, PRATT HAD REFERRED
INDIRECTLY TO THIS IN HIS DISCUSSIONS WITH KHLEIFAOUI JUNE 12
WHEN HE NOTED ADVANTAGES TO SARG. FOR SETTLEMENT. THUS, WE
BELIEVE IT WOULD STRENGHEN OURS AND KHLEIFAOUI'S POSITION
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WERE WE ABLE TO GIVE TO MRS. BOUSTANY FOR PASSING TO HIM
SOME SPECIFIC INDICATION OF POSSIBILITIES OPEN TO SYRIA AS
RESULT SETTLEMENT OUTSTANDINGS. WE . ACCORDINGLY PROPOSE THAT
WE BE AUTHORIZED GIVE AS EXAMPLE OUR WILLINGNESS TO OFFER PC
DN GENERAL ELECTRIC-MITSUI USA REQUEST FOR PC COVERING GAS
TURBINES (STATE 63051), RETAINING, OF COURSE, CONDITION FOR
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BELIEVE, AS RESULT HER CONVERSATION, THAT PRIMIN ANXIOUS TO
MOVE AHEAD BUT FEELS TOO VULNERABLE WITHOUT HAVING IN HAND SOME
COUNTERVAILING EVIDENCE SUCH AS THIS PC WHICH HE CAN USE TO
OVERCOME HIS INTERNAL SKEPTICS.
3. IF DEPT OR EXIM PREPARED TO MENTION OTHER POSSIBLE PC'S
THIS WOULD BE ADDITIONAL HELP. WE ARE NOT PROPOSING CCC WHEAT
CREDIT OFFER AS WE DID IN 1970 AND 1971 BECAUSE SYRIA HAS GOOD
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CONVERSATION FURTHER. BELIEVE THEROS MEETING ATRASH AT
THIS TIME MIGHT CONFUSE AND POSSIBLY JEOPARDIZE TALKS
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SUMMARY: IN APPOINTMENT JUNE 12 ARRANGED THROUGH INTERMEDIARY
OF LEBANESE BUUCESSWOMAN AND LEGATT, WHO IS FRIEND
OF LATTER, ECON COUNSELOR PRATT DISCUSSED WITH SARG
PRIMIN KHLEIFAOUI IN DAMASCUS OUTSTANDING U.S.-SYRIAN
ECONOMIC ISSUES. KHLEIFAOUI'S RECEPTION OF PRAIT VERY
WARM AND CORDIAL. REVIEW OF OUTSTANDING ISSUES AND
PRESENTATION OF REASONS FOR U.S. POSITION RESULTED IN
KHLEIFAOUI'S ASSURANCES HE WOULD HAVE SUGGESTIONS FOR
SOLVING OUR OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS WITHIN TWO WEEKS. END SUMMARY.
ACTION REQUESTED: THIS FIRST MEETING WITH SENIOR SYRIAN
OFFICIAL AFTER FIVE YEARS' BREAK IN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
WAS A HIGHLY TENTATIVE AND GUARDED AFFAIR. WE CONSIDER IT
ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL THAT VERY FACT OF THIS MEETING, AS
WELL AS SUBSTANCE, MUST BE HELD TO THE STRICTEST OF NEED-
TO- KNOW CRITERIA. ANY PREMATURE LEAK COULD KILL THIS START
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LEBANESE BUSINESSWOMAN (PLEASE PROTECT)
WHO IS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH PRIMIN KHLEIFAOUI, HAS KEPT LEGATT WELL
INFORMED HER DISCUSSIONS WITH PRIMIN IN WHICH SHE URGED HE
SEEK CLOSER RELATIONS WITH WEST. PARTICULARLY U.S., ON
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS.
HER URGINGS LED SARG PRIMIN
AGREE TO APPOINTMENT WITH PRATT FOR JUNE 12 IN HIS DAMASCUS
OFFICE UNDER CONDITIONS OF STRICTEST SECRECY, E.G., PRATT
WAS CARRIED ON PRIMIN APPOINTMENT LIST ONLY AS VISITING
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TOURISM IN DAMASCUS AS COVER. HE TAKEN IMMEDIATELY TO
PRIMIN'S CONFERENCE ROOM UPON ARRIVAL, WITHOUT PASSING THROUGH
INTERMEDIARIES.
2. PRIMIN'S RECEPTION PRATT MARKED BY HIGH DEGREE CORDIALITY
AND FRANK INTERCHANGE OF VIEWS. PRIMIN LEFT CABINET MEETING
AND KEPT MINISTERS WAITING FOR OVER ONE HOUR WHILE HE TALKED
WITH PRATT.
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3. HE OPENED WITH USUAL REMARKS ABOUT NO QUARREL WITH AMERICAN
PEOPLE WHOM HE LIKED AND RESPECTED, BUT IT WAS USG POLICY IN
MIDDLE EAST THAT HE OPPOSED. HE SAID SYRIA WAS SMALL COUNTRY
AND DID NOT WANT TO BE SWALLOWED UP AND HAD TO PROTECT
ITSELF BEST WAY IT COULD. PRATT NOTED NEW STAGE WORLD
POLIITICS EMERGING, SYMBOLIZED BY PRESIDENT NIXON'S VISITS
TO PEKING AND MOSCOW. PRIMIN'S RESPONSE WAS THAT HE HOPED
U.S. AND USSR WOULD NOT COMBINE AND SWALLOW UP SMALL COUNTRIES.
THEN SAID HE THOUGHT MOSCOW MEETING LEFT BOTH
VIETNAMESE AND MIDDLE EASTERN PROBLEMS UNSOLVED. THRUST OF
THIS PRELIMINARY EXCHANGE WAS KHLEIFAOUI'S CLEAR IMPLICATION
SYRIAN SELF-DEFENSE WAS MAJOR REASON FOR CLOSE SYRIAN RELATIONS
WITH SOVIETS.
4. PRATT POINTED TO VARIOUS CREDIT OFFERS U.S. HAD MADE TO
SYRIA AS EVIDENCE U.S. POLICY NOT SO ENTIRELY ONE-SIDED AGAINST
SYRIA AS HE THOUGHT, CITING FIRST CCC CREDIT OFFERS FOR $25
MILLION WHEAT IN BOTH 1970 AND '71. PRIMIN APPEARED UNFAMILIAR
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THAT USG COULD OFFER BECAUSE LACK OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WHICH
PROHIBITED PL-480 AGREEMENTS.
5. RE EXIM OFFERS, PROBLEM OF BOUSTANY CLAIM RAISED AND HE WAS
GIVEN BRIEFING PAPER ON U.S. CREDIT OFFERS AND EXPOSITION OF
PROBLEMS (COPY POUCHED NEA/ARN). PRATT POINTED OUT ADVANTAGES
FOR SYRIA IN SETTLING THESE PROBLEMS, CITING ON ILLUSTRATIVE
BASIS HIS CONVERSATION WITH G.E. REP FEW DAYS EARLIER WHO
NEEDED EXIM CREDITS IN ORDER TO COMPETE ON SYRIAN PROJECTS, AND
NOTED TO HIM CREDIT TERMS WERE RECOGNIZED AS ESSENTIAL FOR ANY
BIDDING ON SYRIAN PROJECTS. THIS LED TO LONG DISCUSSION OF
VARIOUS DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN SYRIA. HIS PARTICULAR
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INTERESTS WERE IN FIELDS OF IRRIGATION, TELEVISION, AND
TOURISM. (WE NOTED PAN AM INTERNATIONAL HOTEL INTEREST.)
6. PRIMIN ASKED HOW TO SETTLE THESE ISSUES, ESPECIALLY
BOUSTANY CLAIM AND PL-480 INDEBTED NESS. PRATT, WHILE
MAKING CLEAR HE COULD NOT GUARANTEE WASHINGTON RESPONSE,
SUGGESTED SARG COME FORWARD WITH PROPOSALS ON HOW THESE
PROBLEMS MIGHT BE HANDLED; PERHAPS GOVERNOR CENTRAL BANK
ZODIS
MIGHT WORK ON PROBLEMS, EITHER DIRECTLY WITH U.S. REP OR
THROUGH INTERMEDIARY OF PROTECTING POWER. PRECEDENT OF
U.S. EGYPTIAN DEBT RESCHEDULING ALSO NOTED WHICH INTERESTED
HIM. HIS RESPONSE WAS THEN, "LET ME HAVE TWO WEEKS TO GET
YOU AN ANSWER AND BOTH THESE PROBLEMS WILL BE SOLVED."
KHLEIFAOUI CLOSED MEETING BY EXPRESSING HOPE PRATT WOULD
COME BACK TO SYRIA IN FUTURE.
7. PRIMIN ALSO MADE POINT
ASIDE
THAT IF HE THOUGHT IMPROVEMENT OF U.S. SYRIAN RELATIONS WOULD
BE IN BEST INTERESTS OF SYRIA, HE WAS PREPARED TO MAKE SUCH
DECISION WITHOUT REGARD TO CRITICISM HE MIGHT FACE.
SANITIZED
PER SEC. 3.3(b)(1)(6)
8. COMMENTS:
A. PRATT DID NOT RAISE DIRECTLY REOPENING AMERICAN STAFF
AT USINT SINCE THRUST OF CONVERSATION INDICATED THIS WOULD BE
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B. QUESTION OF $18,000 PAST DUE OBLIGATION ON AID
SILOS LOAN NOT RAISED BECAUSE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THIS LOAN WERE
SUFFICIENTLY THORNY TO LEAD TO POSSIBLE RECRIMINATIONS MARRING
THIS FIRST EXCHANGE.
C.
,
WHO SERVED AS INTERPRETER, LATER TOLD
PRATT THAT SHE HAD BEEN GREATLY WORRIED ABOUT RECEPTION HE
WOULD RECEIVE FROM PRIMIN IN VIEW OF HIS REPUTATION AS HARD
AND STERN TASKMASTER WITH SYRIAN OFFICIALS. BOTH SHE AND PRATT
SANITIZED
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WERE AGREEABLY SURPRISED BY WARMTH AND COURTESY OF RECEPTION.
PRIMIN MADE POINT OF THANKING HER ON DEPARTURE FOR HAVING
ARRANGED VISIT.
9. IMPRESSIONS OF KHLEIFAOUI: KHLEIFAOUI APPEARED SELF-
CONFIDENT AND MUCH IN CONTROL. HE IS HARD-WORKING, ENERGETIC
AND IMPRESSIVE IN HIS OUTSPOKEN, STRAIGHTFORWARD MANNER. HE
APPEARED THOROUGHLY FAMILIAR WITH EVEN MINOR DETAILS OF GOVERN-
NODIS
MENT PROJECTS. WE HAVE EARLIER RELAYED REPORTS THAT HE MIGHT
SOON BE OUT OF PREMIERSHIP BECAUSE OF HIS MARTINET ATTITUDE AND
INSISTENCE ON MAKING ALL GOVERNMENT DECISIONS. HOWEVER, AT NO
TIME DURING CONVERSATION DID HE GIVE ANY INDICATION HIS POSITION
INSECURE. WE THINK HIS WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT POLITICAL RISKS
OF MEETING AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC OFFICER (WHICH COULD BE USED AS
WEAPON TO UPSET HIM) REFLECTS, IN FACT, HIS CONFIDENCE IN HIS
ABILITY TO SURVIVE. GP-1.
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1. I QUERIED DR SADAQA ABOUT ALLEGED MARCH 12 MEETING
BETWEEN LEBANESE AND ISRAELIS. HE CHECKED AND FOUND
THERE WAS NO MEETING IN THE NORMAL SENSE OF AN ILMAC
MEETING. ALL THAT HAPENED WAS LEBANESE MILITARY TURNED
OVER TO ISRAELI MILITARY THE THREE CIVILIANS WHO HAD
WANDERED INTO LEBANON BY MISTAKE AS REPORTED MYTEL
2855. (NO WONDER ISRAELIS SAY "MEETING" WAS SUCCESSFUL).
GAZIT'S APPARENT EFFORT TO PARLY THIS INFO IMPRESSION
THAT MEETINGS GOING ON AS USUAL AND EVERYTHING JUST
FINE, IS DISINGENUOUS TO PUT IT MILDLY.
2. SADAQA HAS JUST PHONED BACK TO SAY GOL HAS NOW
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THREE ISRAELIS AT RAS NAQURA MARCH 12. CAPTAIN STATES
ONLY SUBJECT DISCUSSED WAS RETURN OF ISRAELIS, AND
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POINT. ISRAELIS REPORTEDLY EXPRESSED APPRECIATION
FOR THEIR EARLY RELEASE AND GOOD TREATMENT. IN SUM,
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FOR AMBASSADOR BUFFUM
SECRETARY HAS RECEIVED FOLLOWING ASSURANCE FROM THE ISRAELI
GOVERNMENT WHICH IT ASKED THAT WE COMMUNICATE TO GOL:
ISRAEL HAS NO INTENTION OF VIOLATING LEBANESE SOVEREIGNTY
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1. MATTER REFERRED TO REFTEL HAS BEEN TAKEN UP WITH
ISRAELIS BY SECRETARY.
2. YOU should NOT RPT NOT INFORM LEBANESE AT THIS TIME.
WE EXPECT TO HEAR BACK FROM ISRAELIS SHORTLY, AT WHICH
TIME YOU MAY BE AUTHORIZED INFORM LEBANESE OF OUR ACTION.
3. WE HAVE INFORMED UK HERE OF ABOVE, SINCE THEY TOO HAVE
RECEIVED A SIMILAR REQUEST. THEY HAVE INSTRUCTED THEIR
EMBASSY IN TEL AVIV TO EXPRESS HOPE ISRAELIS WILL EXERCISE
RESTRAINT IN REGARD TO LEBANON EVEN IF THERE IS PROVOCATION.
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SUBJECT: CONSULTATION WITH LEBANESE
1. WE WANT TO KEEP IN CLOSE TOUCH WITH GOL AS DEVELOPMENTS
OCCUR. WE KNOW YOU ARE IN CONSTANT CONTACT WITH TOP
GOL LEADERS. YOU AUTHORIZED TO MAKE USE OF FOLLOWING IN
YOUR CONVERSATIONS WITH PRESIDENT FRANGIE, ang PRIME MINISTER
solh AND OTHER SENIOR OFFICIALS.
2. WE BELIEVE IT IMPORTANT IN CURRENT SITUATION THAT USG
AND LEBANON REMAIN IN CLOSE TOUCH AND EXCHANGE VIEWS ON
DEVELOPMENTS AS THEY OCCUR. EVIDENCE IN OUR HANDS CLEAR-
LY INDICATES THAT FIGHTING BROKE OUT AS RESULT OF COORDI-
NATED AND SIMULTANEOUS AIR AND LAND ATTACKS BY ARMED FORCES
OF SYRIA AND EGYPT BEGINNING AT ABOUT 1200 GMT OCTOBER 6.
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HAND AND INFORMED USG. however, IT APPEARS THEIR ARMED
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COURAGEOUS. DECISION NOT TO ENTER FIGHTING SERVES
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BEST INTEREST BOTH OF LEBANON AND OF ARAB PEOPLE AS A
whole, AND WE ARE CONFIDENT THAT THIS IS WIDELY RECOGNIZED.
WE hope GOL WILL TAKE NECESSARY MEASURE TO INSURE THAT
LEBANESE TERRITORY IS NOT USED IN ANY WAY BY ELEMENTS
WHICH MIGHT WANT TO INVOLVE LEBANON IN HOSTILITIES, EVEN
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4. USG INTEREST AT THIS POINT IS NOT TO FOCUS ON ASSESS-
ING BLAME FOR WHAT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED BUT TO BRING AN
END TO FIGHTING AND loss OF LIFE. WE BELIEVE IT IS
ESSENTIAL TO REESTABLISH CONDITIONS NEEDED TO PURSUE NEW
COURSES OF ACTION TOWARD A POLITICAL SETTLEMENT IN THE
MIDDLE EAST. weeks IMMEDIATELY AHEAD MAY WELL BE DIFFI-
CULT. USG AND GOL WILL NEED TO STAY IN CLOSE CONTACT.
AS SECRETARY TOLD FOREIGN MINISTER NAFFA DURING MEETING
IN NEW YORK OCTOBER 5, WE ATTACH HIGHEST IMPORTANCE TO
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INDEPENDENCE AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY. KISSINGER
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1F: EIRUT 4089, STATE 61240
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1. MONTH OF FEBRUARY 1974 TENTATIVELY APPEARS TO BE
TIME ON PRESIDENT'S CALENDAR FOR FRANGIE VISIT. YOU MAY
SO INFORM FRANGIE AND ASK IF FEBRUARY WOULD BE AGREEABLE
TO HIM, BUT should EMPHASIZE PRELIMINARY AND TENTATIVE
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1. YOU ARE HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO EXTEND NOW AN INVITATION
FROM THE PRESIDENT TO PRESIDENT FRANGIE TO MAKE A STATE
VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES AT A MUTUALLY AGREEABLE TIME IN
1974. YOU SHOULD TELL PRESIDENT FRANGIE THAT THE PRESIDENT
LOOKS FORWARD WITH GREATEST PLEASURE TO MEETING AND HAVING
HIM AS A GUEST IN WASHINGTON.
2. IF THIS IS AGREEABLE TO PRESIDENT FRANGIE AND HE
ACCEPTS, WOULD APPRECIATE KNOWING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE WHAT
PERIODS WOULD BE MOST CONVENIENT FOR HIM. IN REGARD TO
PUBLICITY, WE PREFER NO ANNOUNCEMENT AT THIS TIME AND WE
WOULD WANT TO CONSULT WITH gol RE PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT WHEN
DATE FOR VISIT AGREED UPON PRESUMABLY LATER THIS YEAR.
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SUBJECT: INVITATION FOR PRESIDENT FRANGIE
1. DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN INFORMED BY WHITE HOUSE THAT PRESI-
DENT HAS AGREED IN PRINCIPLE TO INVITATION TO PRESIDENT
FRANGIE FOR THIS FALL IF WE CONSIDER IT ABSOLUTELY NECES-
SARY THAT VISIT TAKE PLACE THIS YEAR, BUT WOULD PREFER THAT
FRANGIE BE PROMISED AN INVITATION FOR A VISIT IN 1974. IN
LATTER CASE, YOU WOULD BE AUTHORIZED TO EXTEND TO PRESIDENT
FRANGIE NOW AN INVITATION FOR VISIT AT MUTUALLY AGREEABLE
TIME IN 1974.
2. FOREGOING IS FYI ONLY. DEPARTMENT WILL BE MAKING RECOM-
MENDATION TO PRESIDENT SOONEST. WITHOUT RAISING THIS MAT-
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SUBJECT: LEBANESE RESTRICTIONS ON FEDAYEEN ACTIVITY
1. DEPARTMENT HAS NOTED UPI PRESS REPORTS OCTOBER 3 FROM
BEIRUT CONTAINING STATEMENTS BY plo SPOKESMAN KAMAL NASSIR
THAT FEDAYEEN ELEMENTS WILL WITHDRAW FROM SOUTHERN
VILLAGES AND TOWNS AND THAT THERE ONLY A FEW FEDAYEEN
ELEMENTS IN CENTRAL SECTOR. WE WOULD APPRECIATE VERIFICA-
TION THRU EMBASSY CONTACTS OF ACTUAL SITUATION ON THE
GROUND IN LIGHT OF KAMAL NASSIR'S STATEMENTS.
2. WE ALSO SUGGEST THAT, IF FEASIBLE, DATT MAKE ARRANGE-
MENTS FOR ANOTHER FIRST HAND TOUR OF SOUTH CENTRAL SECTOR
IN LEBANON AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
3. FYI. WE WANT TO CONTINUE HAVING AS DETAILED AN
EXCHANGE AS POSSIBLE WITH THE ISRAELIS here CONCERNING THE
ACTUAL RESTRICTIONS AND CONTROLS PLACED ON THE FEDAYEEN IN
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COMMON DATA BASE AS PART OF OUR EFFORT TO KEEP THE SITUA-
TION ON LEBANESE/ISRAELI BORDER QUIET. EMBASSY/DATT
REPORTING TO DATE HAS BEEN EXTREMELY helpful IN THIS
REGARD. END FYI.
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1. UNLESS YOU HAVE OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS, WE WOULD PREFE
NOT RPT NOT TO INFORM HIGH-RANKING ITALIAN FOREIGN OFFICE
OFFICIAL JUST YET. WHILE WE FULLY APPRECIATE NEED TO AVOID
GIVING INADVERTENT OFFENSE TO ITALIANS, WE BELIEVE THAT
DAMASCUS TALKS AT SENSITIVE JUNCTURE WHOSE POSITIVE OUT-
COME WE WOULD NOT WISH IN ANY WAY TO ENDANGER BY POSSIBILITY
OF PREMATURE LEAK. IN VIEW OF PRIME MINISTER'S PROMISE TO
PROVIDE ANSWER BY SEPTEMBER 10, WE FURTHER BELIEVE THAT
THERE WOULD STILL BE SUFFICIENT TIME. TO INFORM ITALIANS
should REPLY PROVE TO BE AFFIRMATIVE.
2. YOUR REFTEL NOT RPT NOT BEING REPEATED TO ROME.
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1. RE HOUGHTON-SEELYE LETTER AUGUST 18 INFORMING OF
MAIOLINI'S DEPARTURE ON TRANSFER FROM DAMASCUS IN NEXT
FEW weeks, BELIEVE THIS MIGHT OFFER A GOOD PEG FOR AN
APPROACH TO SARG WITH A PITCH FOR ASSIGNMENT OF AN
AMERICAN OFFICER TO REPLACE MAIOLINI. POINT COULD BE
MADE THAT WITH MAIOLINI'S DEPARTURE IT WOULD BE THE
EASIEST AND MOST NATURAL THING TO PROCEED WITH PLAN TO
INSTALL US OFFICER IN ITALIAN EMBASSY DAMASCUS.
2. WE LEAVE IT TO YOUR JUDGMENT WHETHER TIME IS RIPE
NOW FOR such A MOVE. WE DO NOT WANT TO FORCE A NEGATIVE
SYRIAN RESPONSE, BUT IF IT should BE POSSIBLE BY TAKING
THIS INITIATIVE TO BRING SARG TO TAKE FINAL STEP IN
GIVING AGREEMENT FOR ASSIGNMENT OF AN AMERICAN OFFICER
IN DAMASCUS, WE WOULD NOT WANT TO MISS THE OPPORTUNITY.
3. WE ASSUME BEST CHANNEL FOR DOING THIS WOULD BE TO GO
TO KHLEIFAOUI, EITHER THROUGH MRS. BOUSTANY, OR IN HER
COMPANY. WE would HAVE NO OBJECTION TO AN EMBASSY OFFICER
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ACCOMPANYING MRS. BOUSTANY FOR DISCREE? TALK WITH
KHLEIFAOUI, AS PRATT DID IN JUNE, IF you THINK THIS WOULD
BE USEFUL.
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SUBJECT: USINT DAMASCUS
REF: BEIRUT 7693
1. WE AGREE WITH YOUR RECOMMENDATION IN PARA 7 REFTEL AND
AUTHORIZE YOU TO REITERATE TO MRS. BOUSTANI THAT SUCH
ASSISTANCE WOULD BE CONTRARY TO PRINCIPLES OF U.S. GOVERN-
MENT.
2. MEANWHILE, WE FOLLOWING UP WITH COMMERCE CONCERNING
MRS. BOUSTANI'S INTEREST IN OBTAINING AGENCY REPRESENTATION
FOR BIDDING BY AMERICAN FIRM ON LEBANESE INTERNAL
SECURITY FORCES TELECOMMUNICATIONS TENDER.
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July 11, 1972
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5:29 p.m.
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO AMEMBASSY BEIRUT 4815
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SECRE T STATE 124682
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SUBJ: USINT DAMASCUS
REF: BEIRUT 7246, 7311
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1. WE ENCOURAGED BY developments REPORTED IN REFTELS AND
WISH TO COMPLIMENT EMBASSY--AND PARTICULARLY NORMAN PRATT--
FOR EXPERT HANDLING OF THIS MATTER. WE ARE PREPARED TO
MOVE promptly AND IN DOING so BELIEVE WE should REGULARIZE
KHLEIFAOUI UNDERTAKING. SINCE KHLEIFAOUI APPEARS TO HAVE
CLEARED ARRANGEMENT INTERNALLY (BEIRUT 7246), BRINGING
UNDERTAKING OUT INTO OPEN SHOULD PRESUMABLY CAUSE HIM NO
problem. IN ANY CASE, WE BELIEVE IT NECESSARY FOR SARG
FOREIGN MINISTRY TO BE IN ON ACT AT AN EARLY DATE.
2. ACCORDINGLY, WE PROPOSE THAT you SUBMIT INFORMALLY TO
KHLEIFAOUI FOR HIS CONSIDERATION FOLLOWING DRAFT TEXT OF A
NOTE WHICH AT APPROPRIATE POINT WE would WISH SUBMIT TO
SARG FOREIGN MINISTRY THROUGH THE ITALIANS. WE ASSUME THAT
PRIME MINISTER would PASS WORD TO FONMIN BEFOREHAND IN
ORDER TO PAVE THE WAY. IT should BE MADE CLEAR TO
KHLEIFAOUI THAT TEXT IS SIMILAR TO AGREEMENTS WE HAVE MADE
WITH THE IRAQIS AND EGYPTIANS, AMONG others. YOU MAY ALSO
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promptly. INFORM KHLEIFAOUI THAT WE ARE PREPARED TO ASSIGN OFFICER
3. TEXT OF PROPOSED DIPLOMATIC NOTE follows: QUOTE: THE
EMBASSY OF ITALY, REPRESENTING THE INTERESTS OF THE GOVERN-
MENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN SYRIA, WISHES TO INFORM THE
GOVERNMENT OF SYRIA THAT THE UNITED STATES IS PREPARED TO
ASSIGN ON THE BASIS OF RECIPROCITY ONE OFFICER WITH
DIPLOMATIC STATUS AND ONE NON-DIPLOMATIC CLERICAL EMPLOYEE
TO THE STAFF OF THE EMBASSY OF ITALY IN SYRIA. AT THE
SAME TIME THE UNITED STATES AGREES TO THE ASSIGNMENT BY
THE GOVERNMENT OF SYRIA OF ONE OFFICER OF EQUIVALENT STATUS
AND ONE NON-DIPLOMATIC CLERICAL EMPLOYEE TO THE STAFF OF
THE EMBASSY OF PAKISTAN IN WASHINGTON. END QUOTE.
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4. FYI. WE HAVE TAKEN NOTE OF EMBASSY'S RECOMMENDATION
RE OFFICER ASSIGNMENT, BUT ARE DEFERRING DECISION FOR
MOMENT. WE ALSO NOTE KHLEIFAOUI UNDERTAKING TO PERMIT
GRADUAL STAFF EXPANSION AT LATER STAGE. END FYI.
EXEMPT FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION E.O. 11652
EXEMPTION CATEGORY 5B (4)
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S E C R E T STATE 117273
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SUBJ: DIALOGUE WITH SARG PRIME MINISTER KHLEIFAWI
REF: BEIRUT 7003; BEIRUT $462
1) DEPARTMENT INTRIGUED BY APPARENT WILLINGNESS OF KHLEIFAW
TO PURSUE DISCUSSION INITIATED WITH PRATT THROUGH MRS.
BOUSTANY. WE SHARE BEIRUT'S ENTHUSIASM FOR CONTINUING
DIALOGUE.
2) UNFORTUNATELY, WE ARE UNABLE TO PROVIDE AT THIS TIME
ANY INDICATION FOR USE OF MRS. BOUSTANY OF WHAT IF ANY
BENEFITS TO SYRIANS MIGHT FLOW FROM SETTLEMENT OF DEBT.
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DEBT.
3) ONE NEW COMPLICATING FACTOR (WHICH SHOULD NOT RPT NOT
BE COMMUNICATED TO MRS. BOUSTANY OR TO SARG) IS THAT OF
IPC NATIONALIZATION. USG POSITION ON IPC IS NOT SETTLED
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AND CANNOT BE WITHIN TIME FRAME YOUR NEEDS. OBVIOUSLY
THERE IS RISK OF COUNTERPRODUCTIVE IMPACT ON KHLEIFAWI shoul
HE ACT ON ASSUMPTION THAT BOUSTANY CLAIM IS sole OBSTACLE TO
US FINANCING, ONLY TO LEARN THEREAFTER THAT POTENTIAL UN---
RESOLVED IPC COMPENSATION ISSUE IS FURTHER BARRIER. THIS
IS ANOTHER REASON WHY WE CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT ARM MRS.
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BOUSTANY WITH INDICATION OF POSSIBILITIES OPEN TO SYRIA
REQUESTED YOUR 7003.
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4) MEANWHILE, WE WONDER WHETHER ELEMENT NEEDED TO WIN
SYRIANS over IS INDEED ANOTHER CONDITIONAL OFFER OF PROJECT
FINANCING. IF SARG IS CLEARLY AWARE OF WHAT WE HAVE AL-
READY DONE IN THIS REGARD, IT SHOULD NEED NO FURTHER PROOF.
IF KHLEIFAWI SERIOUSLY INTERESTED AND POLITICALLY SECURE
ENOUGH TO SEE WHERE DIALOGUE MIGHT LEAD, IT seems TO US
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HE SHOULD BE ABLE TO OVERCOME "SKEPTICS" WHO CONTEND THAT
PAYMENT. OF TINY BOUSTANY CLAIM IS UNACCEPTABLE CONDITION
PRECEDENT. IF BASIC PROBLEM IS POLITICAL RISK, IT IS
HARDLY LIKELY THAT RENEWED PC'S CAN OVERCOME IT.
5) THEREFORE, UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES WE BELIEVE BEST THING
FOR MRS. BOUSTANY TO DO WHEN she MEETS PRIME MINISTER
KHLEIFAWI ON JULY 1 IS TO REITERATE USG INTEREST IN DOING
BUSINESS WITH SYRIA ON COMMERCIAL FRONT, INCLUDING WILLING-
NESS TO EXPLORE POSSIBILITY OF CREDIT IN PARTICULAR CASES.
IT SEEMS TO US SHE MIGHT TURN ARGUMENT AROUND AND SUGGEST
KHLEIFAWI TEST USG BY UNDERTAKING TO. PAY BOUSTANY CLAIM,
AS HE SUGGESTED HE would DO IN FIRST MEETING REPORTED IN
BEIRUT 6462.
SUBJECT TO GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION SCHEDULE OF E.O. 11652.
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R 250018Z AUG 71
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TO RUESBE/AMEMBASSY BEIRUT 1351
INFO RUESKG/AMEMBASSY AMMAN 9495
RUESAD/AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV 0603
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RUEHMO/AMEMBASSY MOSCOW 5731
RUDTC/AMEMBASSY LONDON 2538
August 24 8:18 1971
RUFNCR/AMEMBASSY PARIS 3203
RUEIVC/USINT CAIRO 8907
RUEHDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 9629
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SUBJ: BRIEFING ON SISCO TRIP TO ISRAEL
1. AMBASSADOR KABBANI OF LEBANON CALLED ON DEPUTY ASST.
SECY. ATHERTON AUGUST 24 TO DISCUSS SISCO TRIP TO ISRAEL.
ATHERTON SAID THAT SISCO HAD PUT FORTH NO FORMAL PROPOSALS
BUT HAD SUGGESTED SPECIFIC IDEAS ON KEY ISSUES FOR INTERIM
ARRANGEMENT FOR ISRAELIS TO CONSIDER. WE PLAN TO CONTINUE
DISCUSSIONS WITH THEM BETWEEN NOW AND BEGINNING OF GENERAL
ASSEMBLY. WE REALIZE THAT TIME IS IMPORTANT AND THAT SADAT
FEELS HE NEEDS SOMETHING CONCRETE BY END OF THIS YEAR.
ATHERTON NOTED THAT INTERIM ARRANGEMENT CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED
IF BOTH SIDES show SOME FLEXIBILITY AND MODERATE THEIR
POSITIONS. WE HAVE MADE INTERIM REPORT TO SADAT ON DIS-
CUSSIONS AND HAVE INFORMED HIM THAT WE HAVE NOT RPT NOT
YET REACHED STAGE FOR MORE CONCRETE DISCUSSIONS IN CAIRO.
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SADAT'S REACTION TO OUR REPORT WAS CALM AND UNDERSTAND-
ING.
2. OUR IMPRESSION IS THAT ISRAEL WANTS INTERIM suez CANAL
ARRANGEMENT IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, REALIZING THAT PRESENT
SITUATION CANNOT LAST INDEFINITELY. AS MONTHS PASS,
DANGER OF RENEWED SHOOTING INCREASES. GOI SEES IN CANAL
ARRANGEMENT WAY OF DISENGAGING MILITARY FORCES WHILE
WORKING ON LARGER QUESTIONS OF OVERALL SETTLEMENT. OUR
VIEW IS CLEAR ON INTERIM SETTLEMENT. WE BELIEVE IT WOULD
REDUCE RISK OF HOSTILITIES AND BE STIMULUS TO OVERALL
SETTLEMENT. INTERIM ARRANGEMENT MUST BE UNDERSTOOD ON
THESE TERMS AND NOT BECOME NEW STATUS QUO.
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3. KABBANI EXPRESSED SKEPTICISM THAT ISRAEL WAS TRULY
INTERESTED IN INTERIM ARRANGEMENT. HE BELIEVED ISRAEL
WOULD STALL, THINKING THAT TIME IS ON THEIR SIDE. DURING
THIS PERIOD THEY WOULD CONTINUE TO CREATE FACTS IN JERU-
SALEM AND BUILD SETTLEMENTS IN OCCUPIED TERRITORRIES.
HE NOTED THAT SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS ARE COMING TO
THE FORE IN ISRAEL. SINCE CEASEFIRE OF LAST YEAR.
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ATHERTON SAID MANY PEOPLE IN ISRAEL REALIZE THERE MUST BE
PEACE IN ORDER TO DEAL EFFECTIVELY WITH THESE problems.
IT SEEMS TO US THAT MOST FRUITFUL AVENUE OF APPROACH AT
THIS TIME IS INTERIM ARRANGEMENT. ATHERTON put GREAT
STRESS ON CREATION OF NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL ATTITUDE AND SAID
THAT SUEZ CANAL ARRANGEMENT COULD ACHIEVE THIS BOTH WITHIN
ISRAEL AND THE UAR. CLOSING, ATHERION SAID WE PLAN TO
CONTINUE TO BE ACTIVE AND HOPE TO LAY FURTHER GROUNDWORK
before THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION IN SEPTEMBER. WE ARE
CAUTIOUSLY hopeful ABOUT PROSPECTS FOR INTERIM agree-
MENT. ROGERS
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