----· I ff I SPECIAL COORDINATION CO MITTEE E ETING I I I I December 28 1979 9 00-9 45 a m White House Situation Time and Place om Iran and Afghanistan Subject Participants CIA Admiral Stansfield Turner Frank Carlucci The Vice President State Warren Christopher David Newsom Harold Saunders White House Stuart Eizenstat Lloya Cutler Hedley Donovan Zbianiew Brzezinski Da 'id Aa ron Defense Secretary Harold Brown W Graham Claytor OMB JCS General David Jones eneral John Pustay John 'Thite Justice Attorney General Ben j amin Civiletti John Shenefield Energy Secretary Charles Duncan SUM MA Y NSC Gary ic k Domestic Issues Onlv Political-Military Issues Only OF CONCLUSIONS Domestic Issues 1 Energy Secretary Duncan and r So loMon revie 1ed yesterday's contacts with Shell a n d BP hose coMnanies are inclined to accept a $30 per barrel orice f rom Iran The companies suqqested more firm ouidance as to what wou l d b e considered a sianificant departure froM the 0PFC rice Secretary Duncan prooosed a eeting today vi t h Ene rciv Treasury and State to neveloo more exT lici t n uidance ·1hich could hold down the rice escalation He noted that L ib y was prooosinq a $34 50 price which eant th a t t e differential between the Saudi price $24 would be More than t e n doll rs Mr Solomon noted that this may be the oroper mo ent to try to establish a consumer cartel to oopose the oro lucer c rtel view December 21 1999 Classified and Extended bv Zbioniew Reason NSC l lJ f b SEC - - -·T 2 on p r down H n n n or t ha h s d c s brin ing n ·n l r i n th p n h n bl x _n ur forts if w h th sup r nd oo p ion k v nat · ns such s th J p n s Br · ish rm - ns F n h ML Duncan aore bu t cauti n d th t w will b 1 ter o n t accusation of pr ventinq th oil co pani s rom purchasing d ouate supp li s p rticul rly if t h ere are shortages and g as 1 ·nes The sec a reed th t we had no alt e rna tive to attemotina to ho ld down the p rice The Eneroy Treasury State qroup wi ll pur sue this in their meeting today APPROVE DISAPP OVE 2 Tri als The Attorney General noted t hat the SCC should be prepared to deal with the issue o f OSsible leoa_ representation for t e hostages in the near future There was still a difference of ooinion about whether o r not we should provide counsel Mr Christopher said that in h£s judgment there was no reason to believe that we are closer to trials now than we were several days ago but he did no object to discussing the representation issue The sec a oreed that this issue would be ra ised a t the next meetina K 3 Next Steps There was a brief discussio n of o r strategy after the question of UN sanc tio ns is se ttled ­ agreed that sanctions would not bring Ir an to its knees a we had to be prepared for additio n al steps we could take a when Mr Cutler noted that we could cut of f a ll i mport s Iran The U S constitutes 30-40 % of the Irania n mark et car pets as well as a few other items such as pis tachio u s The SCC agreed that a total embarao on all Iranian pr '-ts would not be a major economic blow to Iran but that i sh- be considered in the context of a package o possible we can take in the next stage Political- ilitarv Issues Intelliqence Find in • Th or UD n tit • as an SCC T to onn lly c nsid r h n l 1i l ' _ - on A h ni n wh · h w s th 1 c 1 3 1 ' ' l r 1 ' Th SC I 1n 1 · n ci h ' r 11 ' ' a ppr 91 T f i h nd th 1t l ' ' 1 I I I • ' I I ' '' th Pr - J ' I APPf J' E 'I' I I I J P I 1 V l · 1 t • • • L r n t • - u n 11 - 11 • l l 1 JV • i l l l r l V j n rd · 1 L -1 - c rn • t lh rlf th n 1 · · r fJ l ·I 1 fl lr r· 'I 0 rl t l i h rt _ l r •J · i A n w - • r n r h h m e n Dr Brz zin s ki J w m k more sense i f i were on v situatio n in Afghanistan is v e y u s n kn w wh at mav haopen next and we c oul r u se es off Mr Aaron oointed out tha t v e arP c·1 be as sisting rebel forces wh en that be co es -r 0 ·1 ' u put in jeopardy our peoole in Kabul Mr S 2 r c e r s n te that we are reducing our people from 35 to 32 a - of ose remaining are arine Guards so ou r or e s e ce s alre ady ery low Mr Newsom p oin ted out that we h a res s - e brea in g relat ions _ It woul d be more si q ni ficant ·lt h es 2 to our information of what is ooino on inside Afahan · s tr ewsom pointed out that the Soviets may be the re ti e If we break relations what excus e wo uld r ve s back in r Christopher noted that we could wit peop e but no t formally br e ak relati on s 'SJ r Brzezins ki said we shoul d strongly condem act · s b t d e s h ould recoanize t h t th re is ca o abou i t except to bu ild int er n ti o n ski sa ict th t h e c bl t oth s r en o r o h r o Sov · c no - 0 r r _j r • J - ' _ -• r 1 _ r j w r J ·d Y1 D l r j • y J• I r ' I w 1 i i I I C iI I I l _r· T'r I ' ' o 11 1 c1 1'1 I 1 l f I l s n J J l · 0 1 r· fl J - -' I c c c -- ' ' '· - 4 i - the Soviet activities in Afahanistan have chanaed the situation and reauired a resolution o the hostage situation Mr Newsom said that the T estern ambassadors in Tehran planned a hiqh level aoproach today oerhaos to Behesti Admiral Turner said that the Afqhan situati0n orovides a possible reason for a chanqe but we would have to be prepared to offer some kind of concession as a face-saver for the Iranians if we were to exnect them to resoond He wondered if we could offer to hold off on sanctions as a quid The SCC found that interesting but recoqnized that a package approach could only be made to Khomeini directlv and there was no qood candidate to carry such a messaqe The Iranians have formally rejected Waldheim as an intermediary and he could not in any event make the Soviet arauMent This issue would have to be discussed more fully in the NSC meetina which was to follow at 10 00 --s J _ -- - -- • SE S SENSITIVE _ ' Finding Pursuant to Section 662 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 As Amended Concerning the Operations in Foreign Countries Other Thun Those Intended Solely for the Purpose of Intelligence Collection ' SCOPE Afghanistan DESCRIPTION Provide lethal military equipment either directly or throu h third countries to the Afghan opponents of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan Provide selective training conducted outside of Afghanistan in the use of such equipment either directly or via third country intermediaries