MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD FROM L. K. WHITE

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2005
• Sequence Number: 99
• Publication Date: April 9, 1969
• Content Type: MFR

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9 April 1969
Morning Meeting of 9 April 1969
DD/I related that he has reviewed NSSM No. 16, "U. S. Trade
Policy, " due for NSC consideration today. He noted that preferential
treatment to developing countries and the question of nontariff barriers
are apt to be the two points around which most of the NSC meeting will
revolve.
DD/I noted completion of a memorandum on the current Commu-
nist threat in Laos. After a briefing on its main points, the Director
asked that it be distributed.
Carver noted that the U. S. air attache in Laos has again reported
NVN use of helicopters.
Maury related that Congressman Craig Hosmer has asked for a
briefing on the ABM and that the briefing is scheduled for tomorrow.
Houston called attention to the item on the Ervin bill in yester-
day's Washington Star. He reported that he will be in touch with the
Civil Service Commission to clarify their position on the bill.
Bross called attention to today's New York Times itemby Ben
Welles referring to the Wood study. He noted that a copy of the Wood
study was provided to Senator Symington.
DD/S&T related that Robert Naka will be named Deputy Director,
NRO effective 1 July and that he will be designated as Deputy Under
Secretary of the Air Force.
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In response to the Director's question, the DD/S&T related
that distribution of the recent memorandum on the SS-9 was limited
to those recipients named in the memorandum itself.
DD/P provided the Director with a memorandum on the Peruvian
situation.
*The Director called attention to an OSR publication, Military
Highlights from Strategic Research, dated 27 March 1969. He noted
*Extracted and sent to action officer
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,,-,-- ti _ - J..,~ltn 1-1:1w;iii, whr_?rc rnrdcrn fa-
-L chilies e:ist, would cost ap-
es
with a secret 1,200- a^e most of all, over the risks the United States amends to!'or more over the same period.
study describing alternative that United States responsi- honor its treaty conlnlitnlents. To relinquish all United)
United States defense strate- bility for defending bases in aiEven such developments inl,States facilities in Japan and
an emergency may involve a . military technology as the hu; e )Okinawa and replace them i on
Ries for the coming decade ? sa;/, Guam. Wake. Hawaii on
new Vietnam-tvnn art..,,? C-5A air-carpi plain anA
At home, there is mounting ishnt the same division to the I' i J'
By BENJAMIN WELLCS debate over the - Those who have had access;IUnitcd States-administered Pa-
specialtoThese%- YorkTimes yearly costs to the study describe its broad!)title trust t
WASHINGTON, Aril S- of keeping troops and bases conclusions as follows:
The April over the personnel ']There is little likelihood ofl`hals or Canili^ r :;, where i agre dx to turn sht o
tied up in manning them and,, Y
Cngress earl or substantial cuthacksl,bult, might cicot $f;00-millio i
In overseas bas
wrc. accent senatorial Rues- ,'Cal-ixvertu warsmps do )/Tiled acaces.
bases that each strategy tinning of Secretary of State not eliminate the need for sub- `illio cost approximately $10-
would require. stantial numbers of overseas billion over 10 years. Of this,
The survey, completed by William P. Rogers and other. bases and skilled personnel. the d bemnees say, add team of 30 senior civiliby high Administration figures on. r?; To relinquish distant Vases would be needed. to add air-
possible commitments in renc- and concentrate forces nearer craft eprrUrs and other ships
and military experts just be-. gotiation of United States base -or even within-the coati- to keep United States naval
.ore the Nixon Administra' nental United States might power in the Pacific unim-
rights in Spain is one illustra-
p t t cost paired.
'lion took office, finds that more than ken inn hem where
Lion of the growing concern and J In the European zone the
almost a quarter of a century controversy here. they are, on Vases long sinceafter World War II the United A Foreign Relations subconl-; paid for. estimate is that to relinquish
States maintains 429 major mitten headed by Senator Stuart' The fate of the survey-the the Polaris submarine base at,
first of its kind. in 11 years- Rota, Spain-the only other one;
and 2,972 minor overseas mil- ton. Democrat of Niis-i
SYming is a platter of conjecture in in Europe is at Holy Loch, Scot-I
itary bases, staffed by a mil." sour!, is preparing for hearin: s: land-would cost on the origins and extensions 5450-millions
Administration circles. Some
lion men, scattered around of United g officials suggest privately that over 10 years. Unl ess the Unit
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the globe. States military coin-' mitments overseas. After even its 52-page summary may cd States were willing to risk
pro disa ear unread into the ar-;dowering its nuclear deterrent
These bases, according to tracted argument the Senator, pp in the Mediterranean, the loss
`the study, cover 4,000 square persuaded Defense Secretary awaits the review President of Rota would submarines
adding
Melvin R. Laird to furnish a
Nixon two or more Polaris ris submarines
As well as Hawaii and Alael:a copy of the survey despite ef- has ordered the Deputy
retaining the same military ca_,." the nolltlcal retainaoility_.
hinh11 ye? rs-butlalsol pability in relation to the Com-.lof bases, plus the likely costs
and if quirforohoweionbaand thattsitth a
Whether, in the missile o0 o fice,. Pacific-would be high if tide, bases, and where; the likeli-
stressed not only that it was) United States insisted also onlhooc of enemy destruction and
are, the Defense Department -the most thorough examination' f ..
stall of Henry A. Kissinger, na- racxara, to prepare by August. ?`?""y "?iwew11 rdsC .oast
tion to the servicemen are tional security adiser to the Inescapable Conclusion Ports and thitestudy
500,000 dependents and 250,- In preparing t the study, ,the
t
President, and by' Nixon ap-. Whatever its fate, those wiho Wood-McClintock team an-
000 foreign employes. The pointecs in the Pentagon. have read the report say tllat!alyzed military capabilities re?
annual cost of keeping the Defense experts, noting that one conclusion is inescapable:.quired to support each of sev-
bases functioning is $4-billion 'the survey had been completed The costs of any United Stateseral alternative strategies;
to $5 billion. a month before the Nixon. pullback-particularly in theiwhich strategies requiredwhich
Administration t k f
several options.
"The team offered the Gov.'
-,..VCial ur rviaine,, chanical maintenance." Approx
-and producing mounting de- and others have called recently irnately half the over-all cost,
bate-in Congress and among for the abandonment pf Unitedi or $2.5-billion, represents a
the public. States control over Okinawa' drain on the United States po-
There is no indication at and for its reversion to Japan. sition in international pay-
There this would af
ect the un-
f
meats
.
this point that the Adminis- disputed right of the United To
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ernment a sort of strategy blue-
plate special-so much for
steak, less for frankfurters,
more bases if you wanted
caviar, etc.," an informant said.
Others explained that the
several ---
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egies
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au .wiled wi
the wort)) At-, -1.1111~u
as a basis for policy, i other weapons on Okinawa for )antic Treat Organization in'ranged to from help all-out rise int olive
and it has begun its own, . protection of the Western Pa- Western Europe, for instance,!
possibly duplicative, review title is unclear. costs $1.5-billion annually in; outset of any crisis to almost
of the whole question. Alternative Strategies dollars. That figure takes ac- but not quite an isolationist,.
The original survey, which., The study already completed `,count of the annual paymeflput I Fortress America" posture. No.
by the West German Goversingle strategy 10 months and 85 000 sets forth alternative strategies mended; b gY workable was s were
nient to help offset the dollaoptions were,
miles of travel to re are, for the decade ending in 1978;
P P anA :C:,, n_ ~Arain Tho r^e!' of a,., A..:. forward.
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.concludes. that- there can he would be needed-or "tailored"
no radical redaction in bast -to fit each strate,...^_y,
requirements without a coin- The study, still classified
parable reduction in defense secret, was prepared at the
incurred mainly in the Pacific,
largely owing to the Vietnam
war.
One of the most striking cal-
'You Still Need Some Bases'
"Even taking the most re-
strictive view of United States.
resnnncihil:N..~ ?.....,., s
commitments to allies. ? direction of the Johnson Ad- cuiauons to emerge from the lies," said an informant,-"you)
Critics of the overseas ministration by Gen. Robert J. Wood-McClintock study is re-would still need some overseas
bases point out that they are Wood, United States Army (re- ported to be' the estimated Costs?,bases like the Azores or Green.
tired), a former chief of the of withdrawing military mate-
focal points of anti-American military-aid program, and Rob- riel and manpower from for.iwland or arning." Iceland to give early
agitation among people nor- ert M. McClintock, a senior ward bases while, at the same During -the nineteen-fifties,
mally pleased to have United Foreign Service officer and for- time, maintaining full combatj. fficials recalled, as the Air
States protection but not mer Ambassador to Argentina siren th against potential en- Force shifted from B-52 bomb?
and Lebanon. Their team con emits. ere to intercontinental ballistic
eager to hear screaming jets Silted of Defense and State De- The study is said to have missiles, the Pentagon began
or have their homes shaken
Mound that over 10
p, rtment civilians and military i years the yielding overseas real estate;
by rumbling tanks or their off! ee,,~~S, ~; G~~? s~ gqist Q h~t~ ,yam i onhnhand, for
daughters eyed by exl~ptPiWY&146d~ei~pL~YaYi1'fs~2fbd Yeh~if 4~fh~ioreign bases
a e, cu I e* T1~
by two-thirds.
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The proces. accelerate
after President Kennedy dis- ?
covered that the Pentagon still
controlled 6,700 "bases" of
varying size, 2,230 of them
overseas. By early 1955, Dc-
fense Secretary Robert S. Mc-
Namara, at the insistence of
Presidents Kennedy and John
son, had closed at least 59 for-
eign bases at an annual saving
of at least $140-million. United
States servicemen overseas
then numbered 500.000.
President Johnson's decisions
in July, 1965. to build up in,
Vietnam reversed the trend.'
Whether it will start down
again once the Vietnam war is
resolved remains to be seen.
"You've got to remember
that we have two types of
bases." said a leading expert.
recently. "There are the big
base complexes in NATO and in
the Pacific tied to our major
treaty commitments. If we pull
out we diminish the credibility
of our deterrent."
The second type, he said, is
the special-purpose base, for
early warning, for monitoring
missile or nuclear experiments,;
or for eavesdropping on elec-
tronic communications. Bases
such as those in Ethiopia, Mo-
rocco, Turkey, Iceland, Green-
land and the Azores, or the,?'-
Wheelus Air Force base in Lib-:
ya, where NATO pilots practice'
bombing, are gradually being,
eliminated as. earth satellites
and other new techniques
emerge.
Nonetheless, according to, .
some who have seen the Wood-
McClintock study, it concludes
,that the United States will con- ' . V
'tinue for the foreseeable future
!to need a number of major base '
complexes and attached person-
nel, as. follows.
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CSC T's i'l` EGYOS5
'years of service. Appropriate-
ly the bill's number will be
?HR-10000. It's all been cleared
with the House leadership.
When Congress left for its
?Easter recess the latest House
bill to be sponsored was
i o o HR-9997.
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1 By JOSEPH YOUNG'tocome.
Star Staff Writer
The Civil Service Commis- The CSC also apparently is Cotter's a p p o i n t m e n t
sion shows signs of dropping prepared to accept the bill's brought a protest from James
its strong opposition to the provision that establishes a ( Rademacher, president of the
Ervin bill of rights for govern- board of employes rights,
ment employes. which would hear employe
Top CSC officials indicate ''complaints of invasion of pri-
that the bill would be accepta- -.vacs and violation of constitu-
a few modifications. the power to take' corrective the appointment of an outsider
The Senate approved the bill action in these cases. to a job that always has been
last year but it died in the ' * * * * filled through promotion from
House when the Johnson ad- RETIREMENT BILL SUP- within is a blow to the postal
ministration strongly opposed PORT - Twenty-four -of the 26 merit system. "If this is indic-
it. Sen. Sam Ervin, D-N.C., members of the House Civil. alive of what PMG Blount in-
has re-sponsored the bill this Service C o m'm i t t e e have tends to use for a merit sys-
year. joined in sponsoring the omni- tem in the postal service, Con-
. - Indications are that the Nix- bus retirement bill that has gress might well want to take
ion administration is more re- been approved by its Retire- a look into the matter," Rade-
ceptive to the measure. Thus, ment subcommittee. , macher said.
its chances of enactment this In addition to improving the
year seem much better. financing of the civil service p R"0 S P E C T I V E EM
The CSC appears ready to retirement fund, the bill would PLOYES - Sen. Gale McGee,
buy the bill if several provi- liberalize employe annuities
sions are dropred. One would. with such features as compu- D-Wyo., chairman of the Sen-
allow an employe to have an tation of annuities on a high-.; ate Civil Service Committee,
attorney or'other representa- three-year average salary in-? . has sponsored a bill to author-
tive with hin- at every stage of stead of the present five, and : ize government agencies to
a disciplinary proceeding, credit of unused sick leave for pay expenses related to the
even if it merely involves a higher annuity purposes. recruitment of prospective
reprimand 'for being tardy. The only two members not federal employes.
The other provisior would give joining in sponsorship of the . McGee said that, under pre-
an employe- the right to take bill were Republican Reps. H. sent law, when a prospective
court action even before he R. Gross of Iowa and Edward government employe travels
exhausts administrative reme- Derwinski of Illinois. ' for an interview the interview-
'dies. - CHIEF POSTAL INSPEC-'; ing agency is not permitted to
Otherwise, the CSC appar- ? TOR - William J. Cotter, 48, pay any of the expenses.
ently favors the bill, which a Central Intelligence Agency "The proposed legislation is
would prohibit agencies from official, has been sworn in as another step in the long jour-
invading employes' rights of chief inspector of the postal ney of recruiting and retaining
'privacy and forbid the govern , service'. Cotter also has been the best possible personnel for
ment to inquire into the se an FBI agent. . the f e d e r a 1 government,"
lives of its employes, their fi- A p p o i n t e d deputy chief McGee said.
nancial affairs except in spe-: 'inspector was James Conway, * * * *
cial cases where employes 51, a postal career employe AWARD WINNER - Miss
have-positions involving finan- since 1938 and inspector- Katherine A. Niemeyer, in
cial matters, and their politi- in-charge of the San Fi'anciseq charge of the 200-bed Veterans
cal'or religious beliefs. region suice_1966._~._,.:__ __ ?_.__ _? Administration Restoration
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Center Hospital in
ange, N.J., has been selected
the winner of the first annual
Outstanding Handicapped Fed-
eral Employe of the Year
award. The presentation was
' made by Vice President Spiro
Agnew.
Miss Niemeyer, 43, should
.prove an inspiration to all gov-
ernment workers. Confined to
a wheelchair since'she was 18,
she has steadily worked her
.way up through the career
ranks.
APT - Rep. Arnold Olsen,
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$10,000 a year salary after five
HE FEDERAL SP LIGHT
National Association of Letter
Rademacher says he has
nothing personal against Cot-