Office of the Historian

162. Letter From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (Lowenstein) to Secretary of State Kissinger1

Washington, October 9, 1975.
Mr. Secretary:

In connection with your meetings tomorrow with Foreign Minister Antunes, you may want to review the attached status report on our political action program in Portugal—prepared when Carlucci was here on consultations.

There have been no changes since then in the major outlines of the program and no significant problems in implementation. We expect a new status report from Carlucci shortly.

The Socialists have not picked up our offer to help—Carlucci believes Soares was at least temporarily deterred from doing so because of the Leslie Gelb story in the Times.

Our offer of assistance to the Antunes group, made before the present government came into office, has not been picked up—other than Antunes’ request for help on the refugees.

James G. Lowenstein

  1. Summary: Lowenstein discussed the status of the covert action program in Portugal.

    Source: National Archives, RG 59, Records of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Entry 5403, Box 15, Misc Docs, Tels, etc., 1975. Secret; Sensitive. Attached but not published is an undated status report.

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