SEO--TELEPHONE CALLS FROM GENERAL COLIN POWELL AND SECRETARY GEORGE SHULTZ, 24 OCTOBER 1988

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 11, 2013
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: October 24, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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24 October 1988
SUBJECT: SEO--Telephone Calls from General Colin Powell and
Secretary George Shultz, 24 October 1988
1. General Powell called to say he had had an early
morning conversation with Secretary Shultz, who asked that the
passage in his memorandum to the President requesting authority
to seek funding through the lines of the Intelligence Community
be withdrawn. He said that John Whitehead had returned from
Europe and they had had a conversation and he believes that
he--Shultz--overestimated the total cost of reconstruction. He
wanted authority to go ahead and destroy the remainder of the
building and do the architectural engineering work for the new
building. General Powell said that he told Secretary Shultz
that he had prepared for mailing to him a memorandum following
his briefing with "the Boss" to the effect that the President
supported the general principle of deconstruction and
reconstruction but wanted to hold in abeyance the issue of
funding.
2. General Powell reiterated his feeling that we were on
dead center with respect to the SEO matter, but agreed with my
earlier estimate that it might be well to let Secretary Shultz
mull on this matter a little further.
3. Later in the morning, Secretary Shultz called with the
same basic information about the Moscow Embassy. He said they
had sufficient funding to proceed in a reprogramming way with
the deconstruction and reconstruction. He indicated he thought
that the basic cost to the State Department would be about half
the original estimate, taking into account expenditures
normally covered by other agencies for their own work.
. 4. I told Secretary Shultz that I would support the
deconstruction and plans for reconstruction.
William H. Webster
Director of Central Intelligence
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