DECLASSIFIED w/ portions exempted
E.O. 12958 (as amended) SEC 3.3
MR # 09.29, #1
(illegible text) 3/9/04; (illegible text) 20/30/09
By (illegible text) NARA, Date 10/10/09
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SECRET/NODIS/XGDS
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
- PARTICIPANTS:
- President Ford
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Secretary of State and Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Lt. General Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs - DATE AND TIME:
- Monday, August 26, 1974
- PLACE:
- Oval Office
Kissinger: The Kurds are conducting a guerrilla war inside Iraq. If Iraq weren't tied down, they could put more into Syria. [Described the program.]
The danger is the Kurds will collapse. Redacted text - redacted text - redacted text - redacted text - redacted text - redacted text - redacted text - redacted text - redacted text - redacted text - redacted text
President: What does this do to our argument about supplying out of active units?
Kissinger: The numbers aren't that significant.
President: Let's go ahead.
Kissinger: The Iranians have asked about sending troops in. The CIA guy is opposed. We said it is their decision -- I favor it but I hate to be on record because of all the leaks.
President: I read that the Iraqi army is unhappy. Are the Kurds reliable?
CLASSIFIED BY HENRY A. KISSINGER
EXEMPT FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION
SCHEDULE OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 11652
EXEMPTION CATEGORY 5 (b) (1,3)
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SECRET/NODIS/XGDS
