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MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON March 4, 1969 TOP SECRET/EXDIS MEMORANDUM FOR MR. KISSINGER CC: COLONEL HAIG FROM: Richard V. Allen put SUBJECT: Submission of Base Study to Senator Symington Pursuant to the Allen/Halperin memornadum attached, these developments have taken place: 1. I called Bill Baroody to determine whether the study has in fact been transmitted to Senator Symington. It has not. Baroody suggested that I talk with Bryce Harlow, which I subsequently did. 2. Harlow explains that he is under a strict Presidential mandate to cooperate with properly constituted committees of Congress, and that this mandate includes making available studies, papers, records, etc. Ehrlichman participates in this effort toward cooperation with the Congress. 3. Harlow suggested that a meeting be called Thursday morning; present would be Ehrlichman, Harlow, Baroody, Allen and Haig. The purpose of the meeting would be to decide the issue, or to work out acceptable alternatives. My suggestion, hatched on the spur of the moment, was to give to Senator Symington (if, indeed, we are to give him anything) a purely factual description of current basing arrangements, ie., a completely sanitized version of the major base study. I also explained to Harlow my view that the request from Symington was made with reference to his

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