CONVERSATION WITH SECRETARY OF STATE 10 MARCH 1977

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• Publication Date: March 11, 1977
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1 I MAR 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Conversation with Secretary of State
10 March 1977
1. The Secretary of State requests that we have someone work
with Hal Saunders to establish a document concerning the relationship
.between the Regional Assistant Secretaries of State and INR.and CIA.
This document would be analogous to the one we have been negotiating
between Chiefs of Station and Ambassadors.
2. The Secretary of State agreed that he would be working out
ways to get us additional sensitive political cables.
4. We agreed that we would look at ways to determine whether
specific clandestine collection activitie should be reviewed by
the SCC. We both agreed, that it would beesirable to establish
rules that were so restrictive that we would have unnecessary
exposure.
5. Secretary of State indicated that there are times when
CIA sends studies to Congress, some of them unclassified, with
foreign policy implications. Occasionally these studies resulted
in questions to the State Department from the,Congress. We should
work out some way to alert the State Department. in advance and/or
coordinate the delivery of these arguments.
6. Secretary of State also said that he had been informed
that occasionally we had press backgrounders at the CIA and that
these often resulted in the press men coming to State Department
claiming that the facts given by the CIA were different than the
facts the State Department claimed it was basing its policy on.-
7. We discussed today's meeting of the SCC on SALT with
particular reference to the verification problems. I told the
Secretary that I would come to the Saturday meeting with a sug-
State Dept. review completed
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gestion as to possible new approaches for the verification of
cruise missiles. The idea would be to find some measure between
outside inspection and current verification techniques which we
could propose at least as a bargaining chip.
8. I informed the Secretary of State about our meeting with
the President and his indication of a strong desire to be involved
in the process of establishing intelligence requirements. We both
agreed this was a highly desirable thing. I agreed that we would
take the lead in this by developing a draft set ofpriorities, which
we would work with both State and Defense on before taking up to
the President. The Secretary and I both agreed, however, that
once this had been worked out we probably would have to have a
meeting with SecDef, SecState, DCI, and possibly others.
9. Secretary of State reported that he had received the word
that CIA would be working under an NSC Directive to collect infor-
mation on human rights activities around the world. I informed
him that that was an erroneous interpretation of comments I had
made to press the previous morning. What I said was simply that
I wanted to be'sure we were feeding to the President any reports
of adverse reaction by free world leaders to the Administration's
stand on human rights issues. I simply was indicating that I did
not want the President to receive only favorable information if
unfavorable information also existed. I assured the Secretary
that we were not starting some new program to collect information
about the way in which other countries are performing themselves
in the human rights field.
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