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MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
06/26/1975
ASSASSINATIONS. FOREIGN LEADERS
CHURCH COMMIITEE
COLBY, WILLIAM E.
FORD, GERALD R.
KISSINGER, HENRY A.
SCOWCROFT, BRENT
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MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS:
DATE AND
PLACE:
The President
Dr. Henry A. Kiosinger, Secretary of State and
Aøsiotap&to-thePreeidentfor National•.security-.
Affair s
Lt. GeneralBrent Scowcroft, DeputyAs
to the President for NationalSecurity Affairs
Thursday, June 26, 1975
The Oval Office
The White House
The only problem with my press conference Mel Laird.
Kissinger: Thatraisesaproblem. Wehaveabsolutelynodisciplinein
thegovernment. Lynnsayshehasthesameproblemin thedomesticarea.
Schlesingeris nowOnaSALTviolationkickagain.Nowheig talkingabout
masSiveSovietmissile deployments. WestartedMIRVdeploymentsfive
yearsago. Mel'sarticle [in Reader'sDigest]wasmischievous.Hesaye
the Communists are coming after us in Portugal.
President: It isn't their fault. Weare hamstrung.
Kissinger: Weare buildingupproblemsfor a SALTagreement.They
are unyielding on cruise riis5i1e and Backfire.
President: Is Defense now saying not to count cruise missiles?
Kissinger: Up to 3000 kilorneters, yes. That would be a farce • ——it would
just shift the strategic competition from ballistic to cruise missiles. We
haveoffered a banOnship—launchedcruise missiles andnot air—launched
ones.
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Here is what we have shipped to Israel since April.
[He hands the President a list, which he reads. I
President; If they are going to be intraneigent, We are going to have to
go public. We have no choice.
Max Figher came in and said they are trying to yield and just
trying to find a way. We can't wait. They have already •crewed it up
doing it before which We wanted in 't_whilethe
heads were-down.
Here is the letter we have revised it just a little.
[The President reads the letter.
President: Can Rabin gay that he did respond to my telephone call?
We can take that mat. He didn't change. that looks
petulant.
President; We could say "We have had no change in your psition.
We don't need to do that. It a dig and would lead to a
peripheral argument.
_ Kissinger:
President:
5 i 5singer:
President:
k(issinger:
pr esident:
The rest Looks fine.
Shall we get Dinitz in there?
Sure.
Shan we have Javitg in for five
How about Ribicoff?
you want to lay it out for him.
How about that letter on Soviet MFN?
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[The President reads the draft letter.]
Let's get it up there today.
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Efisqinger: Volpe wants to begin discussions with the Communists In Italy.
Ere'ident; I don't understand that.
It is a case Of localities: be hard not to include the
Communists in the government. but we don't want to play.
1 agree.
Your meeting on the Turkish embargo thigmorning your
talker has option EO in a Greek aid sweetener.
[He reads the •President the Brademas ercept th the Greek
Ambas ador.
With this group, ghotdd I tell them what I propose and urge
them to proceed and ask them what they think?
Kissinger: The waiver something you are willing to do for ulern; it is
not for us.
We are having another Church problem. They are now asking for
everything related to the six assassination areas it is all the NSC
processes.
President • We are not going to do it. Who is the problem? Kills?
NO. Hillg ig fine. Colby is the insoluble problem.
I was at a dinner with Strauss. He said you would win in '76.
MCGOVern told me the game thing.
It was not a bouyant Democratic group last night. On Church,
the major thing to say iB that he is going at a difficult period. that the old
idea that they are part Of decision making structure is past. He
shouldn't blow it up.
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