Date: December 28, 1972

Time: Unknown between 12:39 pm and 2:20 pm

Location: Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for Richard M. Helms.

The President’s telephone call to Helm’s, December 26, 1972

-Helms’ schedule

-Trip to Mexico

-Purpose

-Helms’s possible conversation with John B. Connally

-Connally’s trip to Saudi Arabia and Algeria

Helms’ ambassadorship to Iran

-Assignment

-Analysis of Middle East oil situation

-US and European companies’ relations with governments

-Middle East governments’ stability

-Energy crisis

-Duration

-Western Europe, Japan, US

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

[National Security]

[Duration: 23 s]

[Subject: Middle East]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Helms’ ambassadorship to Iran

-Assignment

-Study

-Timing

-Visit to Middle East countries

-Middle East governments’ stability

-US-Middle East relations

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