Office of the Historian

674.84A/2–250: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Embassy in Israel 1

top secret
Washington, February 3, 1950—7 p. m.

52. Ur 70 Feb 2.2 Dept notes you plan informal protest re Hador leak. Dept desires you orally inform FonOff Dept very much regretted learn that this info, so important from viewpoint future Israeli-Egyptian relations and conveyed to FonOff by Emb on top secret basis, shld have become public knowledge. Add that Dept fears leak may have same harmful effect upon possibility Israeli-Egyptian talks as similar revelations Lausanne and Lake Success3 early last spring had upon PCC negots and possibility separate informal talks between Israeli and Arab dels at Lausanne.

Acheson
  1. This telegram was repeated to Cairo for information.↩

  2. Not printed; this message was actually addressed to Ambassador Caffery as telegram 18 and was repeated to the Department as No. 70. It stated that Ambassador McDonald shared Ambassador Caffery’s disturbance as conveyed to the Department in his telegram 93, January 29, p. 709, and that he would informally protest to the Israeli Government, “since Hador is Mapai Party organ and often voice Prime Minister.” (674.84A/2–250)

    Ambassador McDonald informed the Department on February 6 that he had given the message in telegram 52 to Mr. Eytan the previous day and that he had previously made informal protests to Foreign Office officials (telegram 79 from Tel Aviv, 674.84A/2–650).

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  3. The old Sperry Gyroscope plant at Lake Success in Long Island was used by the Security Council and Committees of the General Assembly for their meetings. Flushing Meadows, also on Long Island, was the locale of the plenary sessions of the General Assembly, on the site of the World’s Fair of 1939.↩