'I'M THE PRESIDENT'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100140005-4
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: June 29, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APP ARED NEW YORK TT S
ON PAGE 29 1-m 1973
by Martin Schramm of Newsday was:
Senator Clark. the plan called for
others around the Administration did,
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15Y Wiliam Jarire the C.I.A. Director had even talked to
Senator Clark about it."-
President,.": Mr:. Carter felt: ierues-2 dent's covert operations chief goiran
sary to? say in his latest press confer-_,y the super-dove Senator whose amend-
ence; 'I make the decisions:: ?' '~ " '?Y. went hamstrings our ability to counter
This plaintive note came in response.. Soviet-Cuban aggression in Africa,.
to a growing feeling in the nation that.: p sting the Senator with a plain. o.
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n arms through a third?couttisy'
the man who occupies the oval office `. sen
does not occupy the Presidency: Never4{zze Pusideat.tellsui ?`I :hail no
curity: Council beenL so?profound, and; ESSA;YT 4'=B1
the President's natural, inclination, to
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i t-chard-line, speeches'one week and;:'.: tended to send weapons, to-Angola! d
opressconferencrsihenext..., rt--dycrindirectly.'-...zr
Even, more - disturbing thaxt l this- The truth.is.that the Special Coosd
wide-swinging-.vacillatioaois-the???eviz ,.cation: Committee (Brzezinski,V
deuce- from- the press, conference thar? Brown Turner
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. the President is, unaware of:what.is` a,t i eould- be done iir?ingola; "trtwo
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mostsensitiveloreign affairs matters ,. to. approach.Sena tar Clar),- The C:.*.
For.; example, . members:; ot: Mi?.:.; - chief,, took ~.w one-page;. 12sentemce
Brzeai}ski's 'N.S.C_ staff'-iiavebeen' ptvposal.with-dins-:TheSenator. tE42t
questioning the approvaFot the sale of ` me he. assumed at the.time that.ribe
advanced-technology- oil-drilling President ha& been aware.ofjt
equipment to- the- Soviet Union.-. "If proposal..'`' , .._. _ .
they want. us to bail them out of their Believ
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, energy. problem," one hard-liner told : now insists he read about this plan in
Richard Burt of The New-York limes. the newspapers,' with abooluiely no
"we should force them. to pay a .price." .... foreknowledge, and -assumed afte'
The "price" would be, linked. to*the . the fact-o. that his Director of Cent T
willingness of the Soviets to. curb their Intelligence was just trying to find;e%t
takeover of Africa if we see no re Fhetaeaningof:the Clarkamendmeala,.
strains there from them: then they'll` - ? - -
- get no high-quality drill bits-produced? -rues :what. was Stanfield Turni#
by Dresser Industries off' Texas' front. doing,withwritten indirect-aid?plahti*
:., hand, in Senator Clark's.offica? Plan-
us- This- tit for-tat-pressnre,- which is-
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the only language. tough minded Sovi-g rogu eepha?: Or,did -the. Ps,
and horror by CyrVancz.'.s State. De the. presentatiotr bf; the plan- to'tFie
partmeat< M f"~ Senatorithinkthat keeping- the Presi-
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widelyl?owain Washington, to tieour called"
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technology-,sales. io. Soviet conduct, Yn both,the techtiorogy`linkage ate;
Mr .Carter drew"a-blaal"'I ve not i
the indirect-aid zo
heard that proposal you describe;" heT P 1? eitherPti's
'told theincredalousreportera_Hetheri 5`dent`'Carter--,not. telling:-the, tiliU1
enunciated a policy-,which , tf' _ about being. tota11y, unaware of theca ?
true;ts. "-'two hawkishplans; or..he really
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an indieaaenr.ofhI his-competenceas a
negotiator:. "We've' never held out. the.:.: not ]mow what is going on in the W
House: When he claims he "never
P Per`oC increased or decreased teitplated" indirect aid-to oppone?d
trade if they.did ordid not 6 3 certain
thing that we thought was best" .;":? of Moscow's Angola puppet -despite
With his own N.S.C actively propos-.-.?;, proof that such a plan was presented in
log such long-overdue pressure-both-!` his name to a key senator by his tGF
within the Adatinistratioac and to Teo: aides then he is either devious
porters the President ol.theUnited". dangerous lyuninfotsned;' .:. .. .t.
States - professes that he: has:."not-not.*'.,`That is why he has to assure us,
beard thatproposal:.'Hard tobelieve>... the-President. I' mike the dect-
startling,hasto do with avisittoCapi.#I to hfmself,everytime he changes40.
tol Hillmade b y . Stanfield T u r n e r ; Di :."'- tnind; aadevenJImmy Carter must bq'
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