CONVERSATION WITH SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, 21 FEBRUARY 1980 (U)

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• Publication Date: February 22, 1980
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Conversation with Secretary of Defense,
21 February 1980 (U)
1. The Secretary raised the question of the untransfer of the
nuclear monitoring items from the Defense program to the NFIP. He is
reluctant to go through the working out of an MOU. I told him no,
that we needed some indication of our right to access to this data.
He agreed to send us a note from him. I said that was all right.(S/NF)
2. We had a long talk about NIE 11-3/8 and the "net assessment"
aspects of it. The Secretary is not willing to give the= tudy his
endorsement. There is also a similar but different PA&E stu y. He
thinks they are both reasonable but both have assumptions that are
questionable.
Ori inally, he suggested we leave out our quasi-dynamic analysis
and th dynamic analysis. I described to him what we have now done
in terms o putting both of them in and comparing them. His objection
to that is he doesn't want it to appear that thEnalysis has his
endorsement.
We left it that he and his people would review what we have
just done in terms of laying out the three forms of making a comparison
of thEand NIE materials. He did very definitely state that in
his view our quasi-dynamic analysis of the last two years is not a net
assessment and he indicated that we had clearly not pretended that it
was one. I believe, based on that, that we should be ready, as an
alternative, just to delete everything concerning the _analysis and
leave the NIE as an update to last year's with a quasi-dynamic analysis
only.
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I urgently need what I have requested fro in
terms of the reasons that our analysis and the na ysis o not
agree on the one conclusion. If we could explicate, as a result of
that comparison, which assumptions led to this variance in conclusion,
it might be quite illuminating. It's just the kind of reason that it's
worth doing several different forms of analysis. (Advance copy of this
paragraph passed to NIO/SP.) (S/NF)
3. The Secretary raised the issue of their memo to Dr. Brzezinski
on the He said he had received a reply from
Brzezinski saying we were doing it all. I'm not sure I have seen that.
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sent word down that we needed to make a formal reply to Brown's memo.
That is now somewhat overtaken here. We've got to move more rapidly
whenever we get this kind of pressure from DoD or they'll be off and
charging before we know what is happening. (S/NF)
4. I discussed the deputy to Zelimer. They have withdrawn Robertson.
.They have an Air Force brigadier named Winn and they've ordered the Navy
to come up with another nomination. I made my own suggestion and we
discussed it at some length. They indicate they will look at it and
come back to me. (U)
5. I'd urgently like to get the Secretary a
(NIO/USSR advised telephonically.) (S/NF) .
6. I didn't get to
not come up. (S/NF)
topics did
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