Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

the OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE DECLASSIFLE E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 WASHINGTON State By DEZ NLT, Date 9-11-85 Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 December 30, 1952 SECRET SECURITY INF ORMATION SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS EGYPT Our Charge in Cairo, McClintock, who is proceeding to London to participate in the forthcoming US-UK talks on Egypt has described his plans to three members of General Naguib's Military High Committee. He told the Egyptians that the visit of US officials to London and the desire of the British Govern- ment to discuss the overall defense problem was additional proof of the serious intent on the part of the United States and Britain to achieve positive results which would be mutually beneficial to Egypt as well as the Western powers. Discussing the Sudan, the Egyptian officers were most skeptical as to British motives. They have a pathological distrust of the British administration in the Sudan and fear that during the projected three year period of liquidation of the present Sudan Government, the British would so excite the primitive southern Sudanese that they would opt for secession and possible annexation to the adjoining British colonies. The US representa- tive explained that the British were not as Machiavellian as the Egyptians supposed and that the UK had made concession after concession in a sincere endeavor to reach a meeting of the minds on the Sudan. He urged that the Egyptians were within striking dis- tance of achieving their strategical objective -- ultimate British withdrawal from the Sudan -- and that it would be folly for them to break off negotiations on the three "sticking points" concerning the southern Sudan on which the British Cabinet had taken a firm position. Our Charge suggested several means by which the gap on those issues might be bridged. SOVIET Embassy Moscow has reported a venemous review UNION in the magazine "Communist" of Ambassador Kennan's book on US foreign policy. The Soviet outburst has shocked members of the friendly diplomatic corps as a vicious at- tack on a respected colleague and, by implication, on the govern- ment he represents. Our representatives comment that the rela- tively long postponement of the attack following the book's appear - ance and its exclusion from the USSR has apparently been utilized to devote much work and thought to the production of a masterpiece of vituperative reaction to the alleged cold war campaign against the Soviet Union cited by Stalin in his recent New York Times interview. SECRET SECURITY INF ORMA ION