Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NLT (Naval Aide)22 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 July 10, 1951 By DED NLT, Date 9-5-85 IOP SECRET SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS IRAN We have instructed Ambassador Grady to call on Mosadeq again as soon as possible to urge upon him the President's proposal to send Mr. Harriman to Iran. (Mosadeq ignored this point when Grady originally presented the President's message to him.) We have also suggested to Grady that he should, in his discretion, urge: re- consideration by the Iranian Cabinet of the reply to the International Court of Justice. We believe that even if ICJ recommendation is rejected irrevo- cably by the Iranians, Harriman's visit could perform a constructive role. SPAIN Ambassador Griffis has commented on Embassy London's report yesterday that the British Cabinet had decided to urge the US Government to abandon its policy to associate Spain more closely with the West. Griffis says that if the British protest to us should prevent the arrival of the high-ranking Defense representative for preliminary dis - cussions, which we have planned for mid-July, the Spanish will realize that we have bowed to British and French pressure; our success in any future approach to Spain might be prejudiced; and our constantly improving relations with Spain would be injured. Griffis says that if the Department and De- fense should decide later to defer to the British and French viewpoints, which he feels would be a grave mistake, this could always be done after negotia - tions with the Spanish Government start, on the basis that Spanish demands were too high. Griffis urges that the high-ranking Defense representative should arrive promptly, as scheduled. GREECE-TURKEY Embassy Paris has been informed by a Quai d'Orsay official that the French Foreign Office is continuing to give careful attention to the matter of admitting Greece and Turkey to the NAT, but that no decision will be reached until the new government is formed and the Cabinet approved the position. Foreign Office opinion is that the choice is between admission to the NAT or the formation of a Mediterranean pact. In other words, the situation cannot be allowed to drift. The French officials are currently studying the matter from the point TOP SECRET