YOUR MEETING WITH THE PRESIDENT'S FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY BOARD (PFIAB)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-453-4-10-3
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2011
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: February 8, 1974
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
BRENT SCOWCROFT
Your Meeting with the President's
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
(PF LAB )
The PFIAB last met with yeemosavd the President on October 4, 1973.
At that meeting the President asked the Board to provide its recommen-
dations on two issues: (1) how best to spend federal energy R&D funds;
and (2) to assess the adequacy of the current U.S. Naval force' posture.
The Board recommendation on energy R&D, prepared by Johnny Foster
and Ed Teller, was forwarded to the President through the NSC last week
(copy with covering summary at Tab D).
On the study of U.S. Naval forces, Admiral Anderson took the approach
of conducting personal visits to our major naval installations in the U.S.
and abroad where he discussed the threat and our ability to cope with it
with U.S. Navy and Allied Commanders. In December the Admiral
forwarded a preliminary report in a letter to the President (Tab C) in which
he stated that the dimension of the problem was far more serious than the
President had envisioned and called for a major_cerrnrnitment under the
President's leadership to restore U.S.,Necv-a-1 supremacy. Last week
Admiral Anderson reported that tho-fandy had been completed and that he
recommended a meeting with,13