MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-281-2-20-5
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 2, 2012
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: February 21, 1975
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM
THE . WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS:
The President
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Secretary of State and
Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs
Amb. Donald Rumsfeld., Assistant to the President
John 0. Marsh, Jr., Counsellor to the President
Lt. General Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant to
the President for National Security Affairs
DATE AND TIME: Friday, February 21, 1975
4:04-4:46 p.m.
PLACE: The Oval Office
The White House
President: The question is how to plan how to meet the investigation on
the CIA. It was my thought that I shouldn't urge it, you shouldn't, none
of us should.
Rurnsfeld.: There will be six months to a year of a lot of work involving
a number of agencies. This is not paydirt, but a damage-limiting operation
for the President. We need a focal point here.
Kissinger: I agree.
Marsh: There is another aspect. We're being hit with privileged resolutions. ?
Obviously we need someone to corral this Silberman.
The President might bill him for CIA, or vice versa.
Rurnsfeld: The Attorney General, Ruckelshaus, Areeda, or someone from
outside, preferably a Democrat.. Goodpaster.
Kissinger: Silberman would be a good Director of CIA.
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2.
[Marty Hoffman, Bill Hyland, and George Vest were also mentioned.
The decision was for Silberman under a policy group of Kissinger,
Schlesinger, Colby, the Attorney General and Marsh. 3
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