LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL MEMO FOR THE RECORD RE: LEGISLATIVE INTERDEPARTMENTAL GROUP MEETING RE CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFINGS ON SALT

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2001
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 16, 1972
• Content Type: MFR

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16 June 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Legislative Interdepartmental Group Meeting re
Congressional Briefings on SALT
1. Today, Mr. Bruce Clarke, D/OSR, and I attended the above
meeting at 0915 hours in the White House Situation Room. In the absence
of Mr. Clark MacGregor, who was tied up in a Cabinet meeting, John
Lehman presided. Other participants included:
White House
Tom Korologos
Richard Cook
Marshall Wright
Charles Brower
Defense
George Dalferes
Zane Finkelstein
Spurgeon Keeny
William Hancock
AEC
Thomas Clark
USIA
Charles Ablard
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2. Mr. Lehman opened by asking whether the Director would be
prepared to speak in open session on verification. I said definitely not,
pointing out the very troublesome precedent this would establish and the
difficulty of discussing anything meaningful about verification on an
unclassified basis. Several others present agreed, pointing out that
sanitized testimony on verification would be so weak as to be counter-
productive.
3. In the ensuing discussion a great deal of discussion was devoted
to the wording of the Joint Resolution in support of the SALT agreement.
Three versions were examined--those introduced by Senators Fulbright,
Mansfield and Boggs.
4. When asked what the Director would say in his testimony next
week, Mr. Clarke and I explained that no final text had been prepared and
none could be until we had gotten further guidance from the Foreign Relations
Committee as to precisely what they wished covered. We said we presumed
such guidance would be provided in a meeting with Bill Ashworth, of the
Foreign Relations Committee staff, but all we knew definitely to date was
the Committee wanted to be updated on Soviet strategic weapons. We said
,we assumed that verification would certainly be brought up in one way or
another.
5. It was suggested that regardless of the coordination of the
substance of the Director's testimony, at least a simple prepared statement
should be coordinated among the various agencies concerned which the
Director could give in explaining the degree of reliance which can safely
be placed in national means of verification.
6. In conclusion we were asked to obtain,and make available to the
agencies involved, a copy of the transcript of the Director's testimony as
soon as possible after his appearance on Tuesday, 20 June 1972.
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