167. National Security Study Memorandum 248

Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Scowcroft tasked the Departments of State and Defense and the CIA with conducting a brief study of U.S. policy options, and underlying assumptions, regarding future relations with Ethiopia.

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, Brent Scowcroft Daily Work Files, Box 70, Chronological File B. Secret. Hyland signed the memorandum for Scowcroft.

168. Airgram A–86 From the Embassy in Somalia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Nairobi Embassy Files: Lot 79 F 186, Box 6, POL-Somalia 1976. Secret. Repeated to Addis Ababa, Cairo, Jidda, Moscow, Nairobi, Paris, Rome, and Sana.

169. Memorandum of Conversation

Kissinger and French Foreign Minister Louis de Guiringaud discussed the future of French Territory of the Afars and the Issas (FTAI), also known as Djibouti, as it approached independence.

Source: National Archives, RG 59, Records of Henry Kissinger, 1973–77, Entry 5403, Box 19, Nodis Memcons. Secret; Sensitive; Nodis. The meeting took place in the Ambassador’s Residence.

170. Study Prepared by the Ad Hoc Inter-Departmental Group for Africa

The study pursuant to NSSM 248, U.S. Policy Toward Ethiopia, assessed U.S. interests in the Horn of Africa and presented issues on which policy decisions needed to be made.

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, NSC Institutional Files, Box 49, IF/NS File for the President, U.S. Policy Toward Ethiopia. Secret. Sections IV-VI and the tabs are not published

171. Memorandum From Robert S. Smith of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Hyland)

Smith summarized agency comments on the NSSM 248 Study and provided recommendations on a policy decision in preparation for a December 22 Senior Review Group meeting.

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, NSC Institutional Files, Box 49, IF/NS File for the President, U.S. Policy Toward Ethiopia. Secret. Sent for action. Tab A, Talking Points for the Meeting, and Tab B, Major Judgments of the Study in Response to the NSSM, were not attached. Tab E, Agency Comments, is attached, but is not published. Tab C is Document 167. Tab D is Document 170. The Senior Review Group met on December 22 at 3 p.m., but no minutes were prepared. (Ford Library, NSC Institutional Files (H-Files), Box H-091, Senior Review Group, Ethiopia 12/22/76)