MEMO TO DICK CHENEY/BRENT SCOWCROFT FROM JACK MARSH/BILL HYLAND

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• Publication Date: December 6, 1975
• Content Type: MEMO

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December 6, 1975
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MEMORANDUM FOR: DICK CHENEY
BRENT SCOWCROFT
FROM: JACK MARSH/BILL HYLAN
hold basis since Congressman McClory has met with us con-
cerning the information and is desirous at this time that other
Members of the Committee not be aware of his activity in this
regard.
The following information should be treated odA very close
2. Attached is a series of documents which have been sanitized
for declassification purposes. A request has been made by
the House Select Committee for approval of their declassifi-
cation for further Committee use. This request is now pending
before the NSC. You should be aware that in addition to
Committee staff who have been working on this project, thus
far only Congressmen Pike and McClory are believed to be
aware of these documents.
3. The documents the Committee has picked relate to highly
sensitive subjects. This limited selection does not objectively
portray or explain the SALT-hold procedures so that the
conclusion reached on first examination by a person without
background leads to conclusions that could be very adverse
insofar as we are concerned. In fact, Bob McClory called
late yesterday to express grave concerns and he visited with
me personally at the White House this morning to further
outline his views. After a meeting with myself, Friedersdorf,
Buchen and Hyland, he left with a much better understanding
of the situation although I do not feel he is completely satisfied.
May contain Congressional
material.
4. From McClory we learned of a likely Committee effort to try
to move this subject into the public sector probably early this
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week. Over the weekend, we understand staff are attempting
to interview Cline, Proctor, de Poix and probably others to
obtain information. McClory believes that Pike will ask the
Committee on Tuesday to request their approval for declassi-
fication and publication which would be subject to the President's
certification unless such permission was previously granted.
Although this subject is not relevant to the contempt citation,
nevertheless it can be troublesome from the standpoint of
creating an unfavorable environment when the House considers
the citation on Thursday, unless we take steps to offset this
one-sided presentation.
5. Those of us who have been working on this here feel it is
essential to develop a concise and orderly presentation for
each of the instances cited in the attached documents. This is
necessary to not only bring the matter into proper perspective,
but to rebut the allegations as they now appear in isolated form.
Hyland and a number of members of his staff have been working
continuously since we learned of this to pull together the facts
and other memoranda necessary to prepare this type of pre-
sentation.
6. Further, we feel that it is necessary to move the first of the
week into the public forum with a broader SALT verification
statement supported by more detailed backup which can be
provided on a sensitive basis to the Pike Committee and other
appropriate Committees of the Congress. In this regard, you
may wish to accelerate the SALT white paper which
is nearing completion.
7. We are also pressing for a briefing of the Select Committee
by Duckett in order that they can have at hand the total
picture rather than be influenced by a limited selected
presentation as reported by these documents.
8. In addition to the events that are underway in preparation
for a House vote on Thursday, it is my view that we should
be prepared to brief key Congressional leaders on the SALT-
hold matter in order to minimize as much as possible this
issue.
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9. The Hyland group has been tasked to have available for use
early Monday morning a paper which develops fully the SALT-
hold matter.
10. Although we are dealing with a matter that relates to the House,
nevertheless on this particular issue we must also be prepared
to move quickly to the Senate and brief key Senate leaders to
offset any public criticism that might come from that body.
11. Because of the sensitivity of this subject, we feel phone con-
versations should be minimal, if at all.
In the meantime, we would appreciate any help and guidance you might
have.
NOTE: The letter to Pike from Buchen which you approved has been
delivered to his office with copies to the offices of other
Committee Members. It was changed as per your instructions.
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4 December 1975.
t1r_ A. Searle Field
Staff Director
Select Committee on intelligence
House of I epres:.ntatives
Washing ton, D. C. 20515
Attention: Rus!, ford'
copies be transmitted to your Staff orifices.
at, CIA Headquarters on 4 December. He has aslced than:
Attached are some docurr. nLs .4,:hich '111r.- Pushrcr i read
The documents in which 11'r_ Rush-fora had the greatest
Donald,_ . Greer,-
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Review Starr
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Some of these documents concern a USID Steer ins
? Group meeting on S='.T T held 24 October 1972; Another
docurent dated 1 ;:o :*ember 1974 is a l.iz t of SALT related
items requiring action by. Dr. Kissinger.
published as an intelligence Teport to 4.ne app u 1c:~ .
Soviet silo holes. For, your in=fo ration, the item was
interest deal with a "hold," item dealing with 57- specj
dustourers on 8 August 191-3.
.Sincerely,
AttGchnents
As stated.
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OFFICE OF THE DD/1
24 October 1972.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Meeting of USIE Steering Group
on SALT, 24.October 1972
case in point' was a draft report dealing with
Item 1 .
At today's meeting of the USIB Steering
Group on SALT, we discussed the need for
limiting the disser lunation of its reports. The
.. The draft trarnsm ittai. memo fr?m the
DCI to Kissinger says further dissemination
is -being withheld, but that the DCI could
supply copies for the Verification Panel if
Kissinger thinks it appropriate.
I emphasized that the members o`'the
Steering Group should hold the information
until the DCI heard from Kissinger. In
response to that, Ray Cline said that he must
keep people like Rogera Johnson ir_=o;med
about ^1l substantive findu:-s of the Steering
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Group when such findings are made.. de Poi-.z
said that he vas in c. similar position.
General Vialt?2r3 said gnat he realized that we
tall lira in the re.-a world" indicating so-ne
sort of concurrence.
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Subject: Meeting of USIB Steering Cxroup
on SALT, 2,1 October 1072
Pay Cline wlso asked that he be informed
about any new is formation bear%r g on SALT
that we might be withholding front publication,
e, g? Item 2 He
said that he would i.eep this sort of iri orniatior
to hLnself until, it was released. I said that
I would firLd out if this could be done.
Ed Proctor
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NOTE FOR THE IZE- CORD
SUBJECT: Dissemination o.i" 72i~c~rm?^if~
This morning I told the Director about
the discussion concerning dissernination of
reports from the Steering Group for SALT.
I told him that. both Cline and de Poi x felt
that they had to inform their- principals -about
findings of the Steering Panel before dis--?
semina ticn might be authorzzed by ' i s i~7 er
The Director's response was that -%, e si,ou1d
put things through the St`.eer ir'ig oa -el
mec iaJnism. only when we thou :~t it v;ould do
no harm to have the information releas edd .
He said that we should.try to keep things that
were not ready for releas? within (a building)
until we were ready to hatthe word spread
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all over town.
I also related Cline's request for alerts
to hold items conracted frith SALT.. He said
that I should not respond to this request.
. , My
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