LIG MEETING RE HANDLING OF SALT AGREEMENT WITH THE CONGRESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000100020011-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2012
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: June 12, 1972
• Content Type: MFR

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OLC 72-0709
12 June 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: LIG Meeting re Handling of SALT Agreement with the Congress
1. Today Mr. Bruce Clarke, D/OSR, and I attended the above meeting
at 1600 hours in the Situation Room in the White House. The meeting was
chaired by Clark MacGregor and participants included the following:
White House
General Al Haig
Tom Korologos
Richard Cook
Colonel Richard Kennedy
John Lehman
Lt. Col. Jack M. Merritt
Helmut (Hal) Sonnenfeldt
State
Marshall Wright
Charles Brower
Defense
Rady Johnson
George Dalferes
ACDA
Spurgeon Keeny
2. MacGregor opened the meeting by making the following points:
a. Overall responsibility for getting congressional
approval and support for the SALT agreement rested with
his office and the LIG group would be meeting frequently
over the next three weeks in order to expedite this effort.
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b. All testimony regarding verification will be cleared
with the Verification Panel.
c. The package containing the text of the agreement and
supporting material including the statement of understanding
will be delivered to the Congress on 13 June.
d. While it had been hoped that the Armed Services Committees
could have exercised jurisdiction over at least some aspects of
congressional action regarding SALT, this has proved impossible
and jurisdiction will be exercised by the Foreign Relations and
Foreign Affairs Committees.
e. However, the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy will
probably sit in on Senator Foreign Relations Committee hearings
on the subject. Senate Armed Services plans hearings after the
Domocratic Convention.
f. The Foreign Relations Committee tentatively plans to
schedule Rogers, Laird, Jerry Smith, and Moorer as Adminis-
tration witnesses the latter part of this week. They probably
will then call Johnny Foster, Helms and Schlesinger next week--
may be as early as Monday.
g. It was indicated that most of these hearings would be
open, but we emphasized that any testimony by Mr. Helms
would have to be in closed session.
h. General Haig is preparing a "scope sheet" to guide
the testimony of each of the Administration witnesses.
i. All testimony must be submitted to the Verification
Panel 24 hours before delivery. This means that if we are to
observe the "24-hour rule" for providing advance copies to
the Committee, this clearance must be 48 hours before the
witness actually appears.
j. The Administration is relying almost exclusively on
Senators Stennis and Scott to carry the ball on the Senate side.
MacGregor describes Stennis' attitude as excellent.
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k. Each witness will be provided with an agreed fact sheet
containing all the relevant numbers regarding warheads, submarine
missile tubes, etc. to insure against any apparent inconsistencies.
1. Congressional relations officers from the various
departments will monitor the testimony of their witnesses and
keep MacGregor's office informed of any flaps or difficulties
that arise.
/JOHN M. MATJRY
Legislative Counsel
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