Office of the Historian

99. Memorandum From the President’s Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Scowcroft) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger)1

Washington, January 28, 1974.

George Shultz said that Hisham Nazer, head of the Saudi Planning Organization and running the oil organization in Yamani’s absence, has requested that John Dunlop come over to meet with him. He knows Dunlop well from Dunlop’s meetings with him on planning, especially human resource planning, before Dunlop entered the Government. He is requested to come sometime in early March, and Dunlop assumes he wishes to talk about economic planning in general and probably what to do with all the oil money.

Shultz requests your views. I think there are problems with him going, especially prior to the lifting of the embargo and the restoration of production. After that is accomplished, I don’t see any particular difficulty.

Let him go __________

No trip __________

Hold off for now __________

  1. Summary: Scowcroft relayed a query from Secretary of the Treasury Shultz to Kissinger regarding a request from Hisham Nazir that labor economist and Director of the Cost of Living Council John T. Dunlop meet with him in Saudi Arabia.

    Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Kissinger Office Files, Box 139, Country Files, Middle East, Saudi Arabia (1). Confidential. Kissinger wrote next to the “Let him go” option: “Only after embargo is lifted can we consider trip. Nazer should be so informed.”

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