LETTER TO CASPER WEINBERGER FROM ORRIN G. HATCH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00363R000902020026-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2008
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: April 15, 1983
• Content Type: LETTER

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April 15, 1983
The Honorable Caspar Weinberger
The Secretary
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Washington, D.C.
Dear Cap:
As you know, we were the only two members of the Senate
Budget Committee to support President Reagan's defense budget
request last week, and we did so without any help or direct
contact from the White House or the Defense Department. We
believe the defense budget can be further increased this year
only if the best case is put forward at the right time in the
legislative process.
We would like to meet with you for thirty minutes in the
next few days to discuss one key argument for an increased
defense budget that we believe will be powerfully persuasive
but which you have not yet made. You came very close to making
the case in the interview you gave Judy Woodruff last Wednesday,
April 6 on THE TODAY SHOW on NBC t.v. when she asked you if
there were any SALT violations by the Soviet Union, and you
replied, "There may be violations, indeed. And this would
not be the first time."
We would like to review with you our own specific state-
ments about Soviet SALT violations to be sure that we are in
agreement about the best way to pursue a public campaign to
increase the defense budget.
Please let us know if Monday afternoon or Tuesday afternoon
would be convenient for you by having your staff telephone
224-3164.
Warmest personal regards,
A
Steve Symms c Orrin G. Hatch
Vice-Chairman Vice-Chairman for
Foreign Policy
A-603 SENATE ANNEX, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20610 e [phone]
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