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File scanned from the National Security Adviser's Memoranda of Conversation Collection at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SECRET/NODIS/XGDS
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS:
President Ford
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
General George Brown, Chairman of the JCS
George Bush, Director of Central Intelligence
Brent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
DATE & TIME:
Monday - February 16, 1976
3:45 p.m.
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12958 Sec. 3.6
PLACE:
The Oval Office
state Dept. Guidelines
MR01-101, 27; OSDltr 3/2/04
dal NARA, 7/20/04
President: This morning I met with Fred Ikle. Henry and Brent were
there. Fred had a couple of minor points.
I decided on the deferral option. This paper was worked out in a meeting
with Don, Henry and Brent last night. This will be a two-part treaty, and
we will have an interim agreement with a terminal date of January 1979.
[He reads the entire note aloud. Attached. ]
Rumsfeld: Has this been given to Dobrynin?
President: Yes, it was given to him at 11:15, with a personal two and a
half page note from me to Brezhnev.
Brown: There is one new thing here -- a review of the cruise missile range
threshholds. What is that?
Rumsfeld: That was to protect against the possibility that we may move
into special verifiability problems.
President: It was a DOD proposal.
FORD a OERALO LIBRARY
Rumsfeld: I think that is the reason.
ASSIFIED BY GrenT Scuwcroft
EXEMPT FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION
SEGRET/NODIS/XGDS
SCHEDULE OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 11652
EXEMPTION CATEGORY
AUTOMATICALLY DECLASSIFIED 5(B)(3) ON ImpToDet
SECRET/NODIS/XGDS
- 2 -
Scowcroft: That's right.
Brown: The Chiefs will be with you on this, Mr. President. We worked
up this same basic package three days ago. The JCS are on record.
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
SECRET/NODIS/XGDS
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
Presidential Libraries Withdrawal Sheet
WITHDRAWAL ID 018364
REASON FOR WITHDRAWAL
National security restriction
TYPE OF MATERIAL
Note
DESCRIPTION
Brent Scowcroft's notes from meeting
with Ford, Rumsfeld, Brown, and Bush
CREATION DATE
02/16/1976
VOLUME
1 page
COLLECTION/SERIES/FOLDER ID
031400807
COLLECTION TITLE
National Security Adviser. Memoranda of
Conversations
BOX NUMBER
17
FOLDER TITLE
February 16, 1976 - Ford, Rumsfeld, JCS
Chairman General George Brown
DATE WITHDRAWN
06/16/2004
WITHDRAWING ARCHIVIST
GG