MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD FROM L. K. WHITE

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• Publication Date: July 18, 1969
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
Morning Meeting of 18 July 1969
DD/I briefed on yesterday's meeting of the Review Group on the
SALT package. He noted that John J. McCloy was there with Gerard
Smith, who hopes to obtain the President's guidance on this matter
before the latter's departure for Asia on Tuesday. He reported that a
Senior Verification Panel has been established and is scheduled to
meet on Monday. The Panel will include the Director, Deputy Secretary
Packard, and probably U. Alexis Johnson.
Godfrey noted that as yet there is no cease-fire in the "soccer
war" but that one is anticipated, hopefully by noon today.
Carver reported that most of his time with Secretary Laird yes-
terday was spent discussing the Vietnam infiltration problem and the
Vietnamization of the war.
Maury pointed to the item in today's Washington Post on Senator
Symington's request for a second closed-door session of the Senate
within the next week to ten days. He asked whether it would be all
right to provide him with the same treatment given Senator Jackson
plus a copy of the fact sheet should he call and request data. The
Director made it clear that we should not volunteer to provide the
fact sheet should the Senator call and asked to be consulted in the event
the Senator does call.
Bross related thati has been asked by the
Under Secretary of the Air Force to provide him with informal views
on the Froehlke report.
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On AIIM in Secret
By Warren Unna
Washington Post Staff Writer
The Senate held an unusual 53/4-hour secret session
yesterday during which opponents and backers of the
Administration's anti-ballistic missile program disclosed
classified Pentagon material in an effort to persuade the
few remaining uncommitted Senators.
"Attendance was excellent, attention was rapt but very
few, if any, minds were'
changed," Senate M a j o r i t y
Leader Mike Mansfield (D-
Mont.) declared as the mara-
thon wound up just before 6
P.M.
Mansfield, a leading ABM
opponent, said even before the
closed-door debate began that
"the odds are slightly favora-
ble, but it is still a toss-up" on
whether the Administration
gets its requested ~authoriza-
tion for preparing to deploy the
ABMs on two'initial sites in
Montana and North Dakota.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
(D-Mass.), Democratic whip
and another leading ABM op-
ponent, was equally bearish:
"In a matter which is as close
as this I should think the per-
suasive powers of the Presi-
dent are important."
Here is what reportedly hap-I
pened behind the Senate's
closed doors:
Sen. Stuart Symington (D-
Mo.), who originally requested
the secret session, began it by
producing charts based on in-
formation he had obtained
from the Pentagon. He said
these showed that the Soviets
could easily step up their
offensive missile proauction to
overwhelm any ABM deploy-
ment the United States might
undertake to intercept oncom-
ing Soviet missiles.
Symington was assisted in
his argument by other ABM
opponents, Sens. Albert Gore
(D-Tenn.), Charles Percy- (R-
Ill.) and J. W. Fulbright (D-
Ark.).
Next came the Senate's lead-
ing ABM advocate, Sen. Henry
M. Jackson of Washington, a
Democrat whom President
Nixon originally wanted as his
Secretary of Defense.
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charts, bigger than Syming- 1 Yesterday's session appar-
ligence Community" under-I spoke of calling up compro-
lined the ' Administration's mise amendments for a vote
argument that the United by next week. But after the
S+a+AQ Tn,,rt en ro.A ,,,;+% , session Mansfield said that
ballistic missile are "people
who don't believe in America,
in free enterprise, people who
are against our way of life."
the Senate would approve the
Nixon Administration plan to
deploy the ABM "by two or
three votes."
Thurmond, who sat in onj At the conclusion of the
yesterday's closed Senate de-j meeting, held at the Hamp-
bate on deploying the ABM, I c' re Motor Inn in Langley
Park, Prince Georges, Jay
told 300 Prince George s
Young Republicans, "If you
knew the latest intelligence
Morris, Y o u n g Republican
president, argued in vain
against a motion approving
the ABM. The motion passed
by about a 3-to-1 vote ratio.
ABM because the Soviets are called up next week, "I am ing forward and everything
stepping up their offensive afraid" there will be no vote there wouldn't be any ques-
capabilities. that soon. tion in your mind.
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than 200. feel the same way.
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"I went in as a hawk. I'm still defensive weapon - is being
previous estimates and de-
Nix-
= a hawk. I haven't heard anv- used just to try to stop Nix-
Sen. Wallace F. Bennett (R- fighters and bombers.
ators-that Soviet missile pro. Utah), an ABM backer, said:
than "This poor little ABM -
duction was now highe
estimated by Mansfield at an From here on in it's going to United States, twice as many
unusual high of 92 or 93 Sen- be repetition in the record." submarines and is building
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eight a year previously re- son (D-N.M.). There also is
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