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:
- Saturday, August 24, 1974
9:20 - 10:04 a. m. - PLACE:
- The Oval Office
Kissinger: Brent will call Annenberg.
We have set September 18th for your UN speech. You will be the only one that week.
President: Okay. Give me a draft speech.
Kissinger: On the Greece-Turkey situation. We got Clerides to talk to Denktash. Then he went to Athens. We don't know whether this is posturing or whether Clerides now won't talk to the Turks.
We must keep the Soviets out of the negotiations. We must try to keep the UN conference from happening or make sure that nothing comes from it.
We must show the Greeks they can't use the Soviet Union against us. We must tell Karamanlis.
It is important to keep the Greeks with the West, but it must not be the French being the scavengers riding on an anti-American wave in Greece. I hope that the French will cooperate in keeping it out of the Security Council. We must tell the Greeks that the status quo works against them. We can't use our influence against the Turks unless the Greeks stop their anti-Americanism.
CLASSIFIED BY Henry A. Kissinger
EXEMPT FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION
SCHEDULE OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 11652
EXEMPTION CATEGORY 5 B 3
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