CONVERSATION WITH THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, 13 JANUARY 1978.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R003300010011-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: January 17, 1978
• Content Type: MFR

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17 IAN 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Conversation with the Secretary of Defense,
13 January 1978
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3. We discussed the NIE. I obtained a copy from them of
paper on this subject. The only change that I believe
Secretary Brown still feels is necessary in our paper is with regard
to force posture assumptions. He wants to make sure Howard Stoertz
and are in agreement on the U.S. force levels. Specifically,
Secretary Brown did not believe they were showing Q coming in at, all 25X1
in the 1978-87 time frame, but he was not categoric on this. We must
get Howard and 0 to be sure we are in agreement here. We must
change our charts if there is a difference on U.S. forces.
4. Secretary Brown asked if there is any way he could help with
our "morale" problem. I?asked him if he would be good enough to come
out and spend a couple of hours at the Agency in a round table
discussion-type group perhaps giving a small talk. He said he would
be pleased to do that once he was through his first large spate of
Congressional testimony. He directed Admiral Hanson to work with us
on the time and date. I would like to ask Frank Carlucci and Jack Blake
to consider the best way to take advantage of this fine opportunity
and nice offer. It seems to me something larger than the luncheon
round table we have held for other Cabinet officers might be useful here.
Going all the way to the bubble seems a bit much, but perhaps a
smaller auditorium. Perhaps we also should look at a specific agenda
with three or four topics, letting Secretary Brown talk for four or
five minutes on each extemporaneously and then engaging in a dialogue.
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