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File scanned from the National Security Adviser's Memoranda of Conversation Collection at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
Presidential Libraries Withdrawal Sheet
WITHDRAWAL ID 018578
REASON FOR WITHDRAWAL
ÇNational security restriction
TYPE OF MATERIAL
ÇMemorandum of Conversation
TITLE
Kissinger and Defense Secretary
Schlesinger
CREATION DATE
08/09/1973
VOLUME
2 pages
COLLECTION/SERIES/FOLDER ID
031400056
COLLECTION TITLE
National Security Adviser. Memoranda of
Conversations
BOX NUMBER
2
FOLDER TITLE
August 9, 1973 - Kissinger, Schlesinger
DATE WITHDRAWN
08/19/2004
WITHDRAWING ARCHIVIST
GG
sanitized 4/27/04
10/13/09
DECLASSIFIED in part
Authority MR Appeal NLF 04-06 #2
MEMORANDUM
By so NARA, Date 10/13/09
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SEGRET/NODIS/XGDS
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS:
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
Dr. James R. Schlesinger, Secretary of Defense
Major General Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant
to the President for National Security Affairs
DATE AND TIME:
Thursday, August 9, 1973
3:30 p.m.
SUBJECT:
French Nuclear Discussion
Kissinger: What we want is something which makes Galley drool but
doesn't give him anything but something to study for a while. I will
brutalize Galley. Is that doable? Lead them on without giving up anything --
we want to get a handle on them without knowing it.
The British are behaving shitty. If they know we have another option,
they might buck up. The Brits helped draft the nuclear agreement and now
won't help defend it.
[Told about the "instructed Danish representative" and the Brimelow
brief to the Nine. ]
If they want to play this game, we don't want to use them to funnel
information to the Nine.
Schlesinger: We have a British team here to talk about cooperation on
Polaris matters. We can stop talking to them or move them out of the
building.
CLASSIFIED BY Henry A. Kissinger
EXEMPT FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION
SEGRET/NODIS/XGDS
SCHEDULE OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 11652
EXEMPTION CATEGORY 5 (B) (1, 3)
AUTOMATICALLY DECLASSIFIED ON Imp. to det.
SECRET/NODIS/XGDS
-2-
Kissinger: Let's stop talking on Polaris, but don't move them out. Just
tell them Polaris is complete, we have a new Secretary and he's reviewing
policy and nothing is agreed on Poseidon.
Schlesinger: One thing which scares the British is a special relationship
between the U.S. and the Germans.
Kissinger: And putting Britain and France on the same nuclear basis
would get the point across.
Can Foster prepare a good briefing? We can talk about it at the
end of the next week.
LIBRARY ,
SEGRET/NODIS/XGDS
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
2
Presidential Libraries Withdrawal Sheet
WITHDRAWAL ID 018579
REASON FOR WITHDRAWAL
ÇNational security restriction
TYPE OF MATERIAL
ÇNote
DESCRIPTION
Brent Scowcroft's handwritten notes
from Kissinger and Schlesinger meeting
CREATION DATE
08/09/1973
VOLUME
3 pages
COLLECTION/SERIES/FOLDER ID
031400056
COLLECTION TITLE
National Security Adviser. Memoranda of
Conversations
BOX NUMBER
2
FOLDER TITLE
August 9, 1973 - Kissinger, Schlesinger
DATE WITHDRAWN
08/19/2004
WITHDRAWING ARCHIVIST
GG