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NEWS
AMERICAN
SECURITY
COUNCIL
from OPERATION ALERT
Coordinated By The American Security Council
For Release: Wednesday, September 23, 1970
Contact: John M. Fisher, Pres.
American Security Council
1101 17th Street, N. W
Washington, D. C. 20036
202-296-4587
American Security Council Launches Operation Alert to Warn
That Soviets Now Top U.S. In Strategic Military Strength
WASHINGTON, D. C. -- The United States has become the Number 2 power in
strategic military strength, the American Security Council reported today.
Council President John M. Fisher, said that the Soviet Union is now ahead of the
United States in strategic missile megatonnage by 10, 330 to 1, 730 and in overall stra-
tegic weapons by 3, 500 to 2, 260.
This blunt warning was issued today as the Council launched its Operation
Alert - a nationwide voter education program. Invitations to participate in Operation
Alert are now being mailed by the Council to more than 2,000,000 voters, both Democrats
and Republicans, and to 3000 civic organizations.
The Operation Alert report features results of three just-completed Council projects:
one - an analysis of the U.S.S.R. vs. U.S.A. strategic military balance, two - a National
Security Issues Poll-an opinion survey showing that the great majority of Americans favor
the security of strategic superiority; three - a National Security Index on the voting
record of every member of the present Congress.
Fisher explained the principal purposes of Operation Alert as follows:
1.
To warn Americans that their country is no longer first, but a fast-slipping
second in strategic military power.
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
2
2. To inform Congress and the Administration that the Council's National Security
Poll emphatically indicates that the bulk of the American people want the
United States to be Number 1 in strategic military power.
3
To urge voters to make national security the priority issue in the 1970 elections
by first considering the candidates' positions on these issues.
4.
To let President Nixon know that most voters want "Peace Through Strength" and
will back him against the "Disarmament Lobby" in regaining military superiority
over the Soviet Union.
Fisher said that the purpose of the National Security Issues Poll was to determine if
Americans really agreed with the large coalition of Senators and Congressmen who are
forcing further reductions in defense spending. Their pressure has led to a continuing
unilateral disarmament, a reduction of 40% in U. S. megatonnage in the past five years.
During the same period, the Soviets have increased their megatonnage by 400%.
The Council's Poll, Fisher said, clearly shows that the American people strongly
disagree with this disarmament lobby
The Poll, which drew replies from 115, 599 persons from every state was conducted
through letters to opinion leaders and through straw polls conducte d by 203 newspapers
across the nation.
According to Fisher, the range of results from different groups on three key Poll
questions was: from 82. 07% to 93.53% of Americans believe the United States should
maintain military strength greater than that of the Soviet Union and Red China, 76. 77%
to 89. 85% believe this country "should have a national objective of victory in Vietnam",
and 78. 53% to 93. 53% consider the Safeguard ABM System "necessary for the defense of
the United States"
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
3
Fisher explained that the Council's National Security Index was prepared by comparing
the Poll results with the national security voting record of each Member of Congress.
Twenty-eight Senators are listed in the Operation Alert report as receiving a
National Security Index of 100%, while eighteen received a zero rating.
These seven Senators up for re-election scored 100%; Dodd, Fannin, Fong, Hruska,
Murphy, Scott and Stennis.
These six Senators up for re-election scored zero: Goodell, Hart, Kennedy, Proxmire,
Tydings and Williams (N.J.).
Fisher said that each of the 2, 000, 000 voters invited to participate in Operation Alert
is being asked to involve others. Beyond that, the American Security Council plans to
i ntensify its voter education program through full-page ads in more than 200 newspapers
and in television spots in prime time.
The American Security Council is a non-profit research and educational association
concerned solely with issues affecting the national security of the United States. Founded
in 1955, it is a broad-based bi-partisan organization working with Republicans and
Democrats, liberals and conservatives, labor and business, educational institutions
and religious groups throughout the United States.
-30-
The American Security Council
- 1101-17th St. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036 Tel. 296-4587
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
1
OPERATION ALERT
The United States is now Number
Two in Strategic Military
Power. Most Americans believe that we should try harder.
MISSILE
MISSILE
BUT a large coalition of Senators and Congressmen is try-
MEGATONNAGE
MEGATONNAGE
USA
USSR
ing to reduce our strength further.
Operation Alert is a multi-organization voter education program. Its purpose is to alert American
voters to the reality that the United States is falling behind the Soviet Union in nuclear weapons so fast that the 1970
elections may be their last chance to vote for "Peace through Strength."
National security issues are so important that all voters should carefully consider the national
security positions of each candidate in the 1970 elections. The inside fold shows a National Security Voting Index for
each member of Congress.
The American Security Council is a non-profit research and education association dealing exclusively with
national security problems.
All concerned Americans are invited to cooperate in this educational program.
Operation Alert is being coordinated by:
American Security Council
1101 17th Street
Washington, D.C. 20036
NATIONAL STRATEGY COMMITTEE
(partial listing)
CHAIRMAN
G. DUNCAN BAUMAN
A. B. McKEE, JR.
ROBERT W. GALVIN
Publisher, St. Louis Globe-Democrat
President, Forest Lumber Company and
Chairman of the Board, Motorola, Incorporated
ADMIRAL ROBERT L. DENNISON, USN (Ret.)
Imperial Valley Lumber Company
CO-CHAIRMEN
Former Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic
DR. ROBERT MORRIS
ADMIRAL H. D. FELT, USN (Ret.)
THE HONORABLE ELBRIDGE DURBROW
President, University of Plano
Former Commander-in-Chief, Pacific
Former Ambassador
DR. NICHOLAS NYARADI
DR. WILLARD F. LIBBY
PATRICK J. FRAWLEY, JR.
Director, School of International Studies
Director, Institute of Geophysics, UCLA
President, Frawley Enterprises
Bradley University
GENERAL BERNARD A. SCHRIEVER, USAF (Ret.)
VICE ADMIRAL ELTON WATTERS GRENFELL, USN (Ret.)
DR. STEFAN T. POSSONY
Former Commanding General,
Director of International Studies,
Former Commander, Atlantic Submarine Fleet
Air Force Systems Command
Hoover Institution, Stanford University
GENERAL PAUL D. HARKINS, USA (Ret.)
DR. WILLIAM J. THALER
GENERAL THOMAS S. POWER, USAF (Ret.)
Former Commanding General,
Chairman, Physics Department, Georgetown University
U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
Former Commander, Strategic Air Command
GENERAL NATHAN F. TWINING, USAF (Ret.)
BRIG. GEN. ROBERT c. RICHARDSON, USAF (Ret.)
CLIFFORD F. HOOD
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Former President, United States Steel Corporation
Schriever & McKee Associates, Inc.
LOYD WRIGHT
DR. MONTGOMERY H. JOHNSON
ADMIRAL FELIX B. STUMP, USN (Ret.)
Past President, The American Bar Association
Physicist, Philco-Ford Corporation
Former Commander-in-Chief, Pacific
MEMBERS
JAMES S. KEMPER, JR.
DR. EDWARD TELLER
President, Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company
Nuclear Scientist
GENERAL PAUL D. ADAMS, USA (Ret.)
Former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Strike Command
WILLIAM H. KENDALL
REAR ADMIRAL CHESTER c. WARD, USN (Ret.)
DR. HAROLD M. AGNEW
President, Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
Former Judge Advocate General, U.S. Navy
Director, Weapons Division,
THE HONORABLE WILLIAM F. KNOWLAND
DR. KENNETH WATSON
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
President and Publisher Oakland Tribune
Professor of Physics,
LT. GENERAL EDWARD M. ALMOND, USA (Ret.)
VICE ADMIRAL FITZHUGH LEE, USN (Ret.)
University of California at Berkeley
Former Chief of Staff to General Douglas MacArthur
Former Commandant of the National War College
GENERAL ALBERT C. WEDEMEYER, USA (Ret.)
BENNETT ARCHAMBAULT
Chief U.S. Strategist, World War II
THE HONORABLE CLARE BOOTHE LUCE
Chairman of the Board, Stewart-Warner Corporation
Former Ambassador
DR. EUGENE P. WIGNER
PROFESSOR JAMES D. ATKINSON
Physicist, Princeton University
ADMIRAL BEN MOREELL, CEC, USN (Ret.)
Department of Government, Georgetown University
Former Chief of Civil Engineers, U.S. Navy
MAJOR GENERAL W. A. WORTON, USMC (Ret.)
Retired President, American Library of Information
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
STRATEGIC MILITARY BALANCE - U.S.S.R. vs. U.S.A.
September 1970
U.S.S.R.
U.S.A.
Delivery System
Delivery Vehicles
Megatonnage
Delivery Vehicles
Megatonnage
(Approximate)
(Approximate)
Early Model ICBMs
220 SS-6s, SS-7s, SS-8s
1,100
54 Titans
270
Small ICBMs
800 SS-11s, SS-13s
800
1,000 Minutemen
1,000
Large ICBMs
300 SS-9s
7,500
0
0
Orbital Bombardment System
Developed, probably opera-
30-100 each
0
0
and Fractional OBS
tional, number unknown
Sub Launched Ballistic
280 SSN-6s, Serbs and Sarks
200
656 Polaris
460
Missiles
Sub Launched Cruise
300 Shaddocks
30
0
0
Missiles
Intermediate and Medium
700 SS-4s, SS-5s and SS-14s
700
0
0
Range Ballistic Missiles
Heavy Bombers
200 Bisons and Bears
Variable
550 B-52s
Variable
Medium Bombers
700 Badgers and Blinders
Variable
0
0
Totals*
3,500
10,330
2,260
1,730
*(Megatonnage totals do not include Heavy or Medium Bomber payloads or Orbital Bombardment System Warheads.)
SOURCES OF STRATEGIC
U.S. STRENGTH OVERSTATED
BALANCE FIGURES
While there are differences between various sources as to
methods of counting strategic strength, the fact is that the
The figures shown here have been compiled from a wide
total U.S. strength is greatly overstated in this strategic
range of public sources such as speeches and testimony
balance chart because these are peacetime figures. Since
by Secretary of Defense Laird;* congressional committee
United States strategic planning is based on deterrence,
reports; annual issues of the Military Balance of the Insti-
with no real U.S. first strike capability, the more realistic
tute for Strategic Studies, London; Department of Defense
measure of the U.S. power is that which might be
releases; Jane's Fighting Ships, 1970-71, etc.
left after a Soviet first strike. Thus, the U.S. side of the
The Institute for Strategic Studies and Time** magazine
balance should be reduced by 50 to 80 percent.
both list Soviet medium bombers in the strategic balance.
For example, Secretary Laird estimated that when the
The ASC agrees that they should be included because
Soviets have 420 SS-9's They could probably destroy 95
these are comparable in range and payload to the B-47,
percent of our Minuteman force." At the present rate of
the B-58 and the FB-111, all of which have been classified
deployment, the Soviets will reach this level before the
as "strategic bombers" by the Pentagon. The Soviet Badg-
first U.S. ABM sites are operational in 1974 or 1975.
ers and Blinders (medium bombers) can bomb the United
States, either with air refueling or on one-way missions.
Since the Strategic Air Command is no longer keeping
B-52's on "airborne alert," the U.S. strategic bomber
Soviet Intermediate Range and Medium Range Ballistic
force is vulnerable to attack by submarine-launched bal-
Missiles are included in the strategic balance by both the
listic missiles from the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and
Institute for Strategic Studies and by Time** magazine.
the Pacific Ocean. The reason for this is that SAC would
The ASC agrees because they are targeted on the heart
have less than fifteen minutes, after missile launch, to get
of NATO and on the U.S. forces in Western Europe.
its planes off the ground.
Submarine-Launched Cruise Missiles (SLCM) are included
Also, at least twenty of the forty-one Polaris submarines
in the strategic balance because they can be used against
are in port or dry dock at any one time and thus highly
coastal targets in the United States. The practical differ-
vulnerable to attack by submarine-launched cruise or
ence between the SLBM and the SLCM is that the 300-500
ballistic missiles.
mile range SLCM must be delivered further by submarine.
Contrary to some recent reports, MIRVs do not change
No megatonnage figures are shown for bombers because
the over-all strategic balance. MIRV systems on both
of the many different possible bomb loadings which can
sides are roughly comparable number-wise. Moreover,
vary with range and nature of target. Although the U.S.S.R.
MIRVs reduce the total megatonnage payload of an in-
has more bombers, the U.S. has a substantial advantage
dividual missile.
in total bomber payload capacity.
The growing imbalance surely makes the U.S. more
* Especially April 20, 1970 speech
May 4, 1970
vulnerable to blackmail in crisis situations. As the im-
balance grows, the Soviets may also be tempted to con-
sider a first especially since they are deploying
very expensive first strike weapons such as the SS-9.
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
STRATEGIC MILITARY BALANCE
SOVIET UNION NOW AHEAD OF UNITED STATES IN STRATEGIC
MILITARY POWER - GAP WIDENING FAST
There has not been an arms race; the Soviets have been
As noted in the military balance chart, the U.S.S.R. is
running forward at full speed all by themselves.
ahead of the U.S. in total number of strategic nuclear de-
livery vehicles by 3500 to 2260 and can launch a missile
U.S. House Armed Services Committee
attack against the United States six times as powerful in
Military Procurement Authorization Report.
total megatonnage as any the United States could mount
April 24, 1970
by missile.
Since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the United States
Thus, in the space of five years-from 1965 to 1970
has been unilaterally disarming by cutting back on both
the Soviet Union has virtually quadrupled the total mega-
numbers of strategic weapons systems and on deliverable
tonnage in its strategic offensive force
In that same
megatonnage. As soon as the U.S. started cutting back,
period the United States
reduced its megatonnage
the U.S.S.R. started all out to achieve strategic military
by more than 40%
superiority.
Secretary of Defense Melvin E. Laird
As the ASC's National Strategy Committee pointed out in
Associated Press Annual Luncheon
its June, 1967 strategic balance report, prepared at the
April 20, 1970
request of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee:
"The preponderance of evidence points to the con-
In the case of ballistic missile submarines, the Soviets
clusion that the Soviet Union is succeeding in its
have assigned priority to surpassing our U.S. Polaris
massive drive toward strategic military superiority and
fleet
We know they are patrolling in areas off the
that the United States is cooperating in this effort by
coast of the United States, presumably with each bat-
slowing down its side of the arms race."
tery of 16 missiles targeted on our cities.
In this 1967 report, the National Strategy Committee con-
cluded that by 1971 the U.S.S.R. could be as far ahead of
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
the U.S. as the U.S. was ahead of the U.S.S.R. in 1962.
Congress of the United States
Report on Naval Nuclear Propulsion
Secretary Laird has made strenuous efforts to alert Amer-
Program.
Released July 16, 1970
ica to the hard realities of our declining strategic strength.
He now seems to be gradually correcting the erroneous
public view, projected by Secretaries McNamara and Clif-
"Those of responsible opinion in the United States are
ford, that "all is well" on the strategic front.
worried about the military posture and budget of the
U.S. Navy, which is considered to be inadequate to meet
However, Secretary Laird hasn't yet convinced many
world-wide national and international commitments
members of the U.S. Senate and has had to reduce his
While the USA has been severely reducing her Navy, the
budget
requests in order to get them appropriated. Even
Soviet Union continues maritime expansion at a rapid
so, the Senate has been reducing the defense budget
rate
It seems that once in her stride there is no
further and has been just barely approving the requests
stopping the Soviet Union in her naval progress
The
for a limited Safeguard ABM defense against enemy
missiles.
[spectacular] expansion of Soviet maritime power was a
military phenomenon of the 1960's which looks like ris-
As Vice President Spiro T. Agnew said on August 20,
ing to a flood tide in the 1970's
1970, "In the current fiscal year the expenditures for de-
Raymond V.B. Blackman, Editor
fense, as a percentage of the Gross National Product, will
Jane's Fighting Ships, 1970-71
be the lowest since 1950."
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES POLL
In a true democracy, decisions on such vital matters as
Poll. The response of the 42,946 who did both is shown
military preparedness should reflect the will of the people.
under "A" below.
Therefore, we must ask, "does the trend toward uni-
The response of the
45,456 who participated in the Poll,
lateral disarmament represent the will of most Americans,
but did not become
members of the Advisory Board is
or the will of special interest pressure groups?"
listed under "B" below.
In seeking the answer to this question, the American
From July 1 to August 31, 1970, 203 newspapers in 44
Security Council conducted a National Security Issues Poll
states published the Poll. These newspapers ranged in
size from the St. Louis Globe Democrat and the San
with a final total of 115,559 participants.
Francisco Examiner to small town newspapers. The re-
sponse of 27,197 readers is shown under "C" below.
From March 1 to August 31, 1970, the Council invited
opinion leaders representing the full range of domestic
It is clear from the results of this Poll and the results of
political viewpoint to serve on its National Voter Advisory
other polls that most of the American people want the
Board and to participate in the National Security Issues
security of military superiority and oppose isolationism.
NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES POLL RESULTS
AGREE %
DISAGREE %
UNDECIDED %
A
B
C
A
B
C
A
B
C
1. The Safeguard anti-ballistic missile defense system (ABM) is
93.19
78.53
80.39
1.26
11.47
10.58
5.55
10.00
9.03
necessary for the defense of the United States.
2. The United States should maintain military strength greater
93.53
82.07
84.75
2.07
10.73
9.85
4.40
7.20
5.40
than that of the Soviet Union and Red China.
3. Communists and other revolutionaries should be permitted
1.20
9.69
4.79
97.77
88.28
92.66
1.03
2.03
2.55
to teach in tax-supported educational Institutions.
4. Communists and other revolutionàries should be permitted
.58
4.78
1,32
99.00
93.05
96.04
.42
2.17
2.64
to hold sensitive positions in defense facilities.
5. The United States should have a national objective of victory
93.46
80.64
80.04
2.47
11.09
11.53
4.07
8.27
8.43
in the cold war.
6. The United States needs a "Freedom Academy" to train
73.09
56.91
47.25
6.61
16.46
26.40
20.30
26.63
26.35
leaders for new forms of nonmilitary conflict.
7 The U.S. should help the people of Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
71.95
57.10
52.97
9.85
20.80
28.48
18.20
22.10
18.55
Cuba and other captive nations in their struggle for freedom.
8. The United States should have a national objective of victory
89.85
76.77
78.16
3.18
13.70
14.09
6.97
9.53
7.75
in Vietnam.
9. The United States should give economic aid to foreign gov-
2.07
8.87
5.41
93.05
85.57
89.99
4.88
5.56
4.60
ernments even if they are Communist or pro-Communist.
10. The United States should extend diplomatic recognition to
10.27
20.85
21.74
76.35
66.55
66.88
13.38
12.60
11,38
Red China.
A. National Voter Advisory Board-42,946 members.
B. Mail poll-45,456 participants.
C. Newspaper poll-27,197 readers.
NATIONAL VOTER ADVISORY
BOARD
(partial listing of 42,946 members)
Walter R. Beardsley, Chairman, Miles Laboratories, Inc.
Richard A. Goodson, President,
Sister Natalie Palagyi, Superior General,
Dr. H. Russell Beatty, President, Wentworth Institute
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Sisters of Social Service
Arch N. Booth, Executive Vice President,
J. Peter Grace, President, W. R. Grace and Co.
J. Milton Patrick, Immediate Past National Commander,
Chamber of Commerce of U.S.
Elisha Gray, Chairman of the Board,
American Legion
The Honorable Spruille Braden, Former Ambassador
Whirlpool Corporation
The Honorable William D. Pawley, former Ambassador
Dr. Frank R. Brown, Dean, Hood Theological Seminary
The Honorable Durwood Hall, U.S. Congressman
Admiral Arthur W .Radford, USN (Ret.),
The Honorable Joel Broynill, U.S. Congressman
Robert P. Hanrahan, Superintendent of Schools,
former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
L. B. Burger, Chairman, Westinghouse Air Brake
Cook County, Illinois
Dr. Robert G. Rayburn, President,
Dr. Cordas C. Burnett, President, Bethany Bible College
Z. C. R. Hansen, Chairman & President,
Covenant Theological Seminary
Henri G. Busignies, Senior Vice President,
Mack Trucks, Inc.
Archbishop Nikon Rklitzky,
International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation
Dr. Charles P. Hogarth, President,
Russian Orthodox Church
James Cagney, Actor
Mississippi State College for Women
The Hon. James Rothstein, Majority Leader of the
Colonel John T. Carlton, USAR, Executive Director,
John M. Houchin, President,
South Dakota House of Representatives
Reserve Officers Association of the U.S.
Phillips Petroleum Company
Frank 0. Sherrill, President,
Joseph A. Carrera, Senior Vice President,
Dr. John A. Howard, President, Rockford College
S & W Cafeterias, Inc.
Bank of America
Claude A. Jessup, Chairman,
Sister Irene Socquet, S.S.A., President,
Sylvan C. Coleman, Chairman,
Continental Trailways Bus System
Anna Maria College for Women
E. F. Hutton & Company, Inc.
Speaker Ernest N. Johnson,
Robert C. Sprague, Chairman,
Dr. David S. Collier, Director,
Speaker of North Dakota House of Representatives
Sprague Electric Company
Foundation for Foreign Affairs, Inc.
Robert L. Jones, President, The Copley Press
Ezra J. Stone, Actor, Writer, Director
Bing Crosby, Actor, Singer
Dr. Walter H. Judd, former member of Congress
Jerome A. Straka, Chairman, Chesebrough-Ponds, Inc.
The Honorable Peter Dominick, U.S. Senator
Charles H. Kellstadt, Chairman,
Dwight H. Swanson, President,
William L. Davis, Jr., President,
General Development Corp.
lowa Power & Light Company
Emerson Electric Company
Donald B. Lourie, Chairman of the Board,
The Honorable Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator
The Honorable Thomas Dodd, U.S. Senator
Quaker Oats Company
William K. Todd, President, Rockford Morning Star
Gaylord Donnelley, Chairman of the Board,
Dr. Charles W. Lowry, President, Foundation for
Dr. A. P. Torrence, President,
R. R. Donnelley & Sons
Religious Action in the Social & Civil Order
Tennessee A & I State University
Mrs. Cathryn L. K. Dorney, Executive Director,
Edgar F. Luckenbach, Jr., President,
George W. Waters, Executive Vice President,
American Education Association
Luckenbach Steamship Company
American Express Company
James c. Ellsworth, Senior Vice President,
Dr. John P. Maurer, President, Southeastern University
John Wayne, Actor, Producer
United California Bank
Daniel D. McCracken, Chairman,
Monsignor Nicholas H. Wegner, Director, Boys Town
The Honorable Paul J. Fannin, U.S. Senator
Computer Professionals Against ABM
William H. Weldon, Publisher,
Shelton Fisher, President, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
H. C. McDonald, President,
News Tribune Corporation
Bishop A. L. Fletcher, Little Rock Diocese
Eugene, Oregon, City Council
Colonel T. R. Wert, USMCR (Ret.), Executive Secretary,
Mother Jane Frances,
Roger Milliken, President, Deering-Milliken Inc.
Marine Corps Reserve Officers Association
Motherhouse of the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart
Dr. John D. Millett, Chancellor, Ohio Board of Regents
George S. Wheaton, Chairman, Dillingham Corporation
Dr. Carl A. Frische, President,
The Honorable John M. Murphy, U.S. Congressman
Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson, President,
Sperry Gyroscope Company
Reverend David Nettleton, Sr., President,
Brigham Young University
Roland E. Fulton, President,
Faith Baptist Bible College
Dr. Benjamin C. Willis, Retired Superintendent of
Employers' Association of Greater Chicago
Arthur C. Nielsen, Sr., Chairman,
Schools, Chicago, Illinois
Dr. Vernon F. Galliano, President,
A. C. Nielsen Company
The Reverend Victor R. Yanitelli, Sn., President,
Nicholls State College
Saint Peter's College
Affiliations shown for purposes of Identification only.
The Honorable Sam Yorty, Mayor, Los Angeles
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
September 18, 1970
MEMORANDUM TO CHUCK COLSON
That national security index is
excellent material -- can you send one to
Bill Safire, Bryce Harlow and Martin Anderson -- -
for the Vice President's campaign tour.
Thanks.
Pat Buchanan
and 9/18/70
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
September 17, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR AL HAIG
Thought you would be interested in the attached. Perhaps you would
like to have someone attend.
Charles W. Colson
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
September 17, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR:
Tom Huston
Jeb Magruder
Lyn Nofziger
What can we find out about this?
Charles W. Colson
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
PROPOSAL FOR A WEEKEND OF NATIONAL REFLECTION ON:
"WHAT IS NATIONAL SECURITY", OCTOBER 16-18, 1970
Attached hereto is a copy of captioned proposal
which sets forth the background on the need for this activity.
This proposal calls for "a weekend of national inspection and
introspection on the question, 'What is National Security?'"
It advances the idea that national security encompasses such
questions as domestic security, security of individual communities
as well as foreign policy and the military industrial complex.
This document also notes there is a need to make the 1970
Congressional elections a real test.
The proposal envisions using the media for documentaries
and notes that "corporate resources will be solicited and utilized."
Possible topics for documentaries would include such items as
transition of the economy to domestic oriented operations rather
than military, the National Security Council, the Central
Intelligence Agency and a myriad of subjects dealing with costs
of government and military projects.
This proposal was distributed by one Ed Helm, 521B
2nd Street, N. E., Washington, D. C., 2002. His phone number
was listed as (202) 544-6783. He also let it be known that he
could be contacted at (202) 628-7061, extension 225. This
individual's full name is Edward G. Helm. Helm is a graduate
student at the University of Maryland and his home address is in
care of his father, George E. Helm, '1145 Mid-Ocean Circle Drive,
Sarasota, New York.
Helm also noted that one Marsha Scott could also be
contacted for information regarding this proposal at telephone
number 225-4846 or (202) 628-7061, extension 284.
It is noted that the telephone number 225-4846 is
that of Senator J. William Fulbright, at the United States Senate.
Telephone number 628-7061 is that of the Georgetown University
Law School, 506 E Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. It has been
determined that Helm is not a professor or legal intern at this
institution, but that calls have been referred to him at the
Georgetown Law Journal office although he is not known there.
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Proposal for a Weekend of National Reflection on:
"What is National Security", October 16-18, 1970
Regarding Marsha Scott, this individual may be identical
with a person of the same name born on June 27, 1947, in Lake
Village, Arkansas. She attended Colorado Woman's College, Denver,
Colorado, from September, 1965, to May 27, 1966, at which time
she was dropped from the roles for academic reasons. In 1968,
she was employed as a clerk in the Little Rock, Arkansas, office
of Senator Fulbright. As of December, 1968, she became an
Assistant Clerk, United States Senate, Foreign Relations Committee,
Washington, D. C.
Enclosure
- 2 -
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
September 17, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR JIM KEOGH
The information enclosed here might be of some value to you and
your people. I have more copies, if you want them.
Charles W. Colson
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September 17, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR JEB MAGRUDER
This information might be useful. Do you have any ideas on distri-
bution?
Charles W. Colson
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September 17, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR PAT BUCHANAN
This might come in handy for some of the Vice President's speeches.
Chuck Colson
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September 17, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR BRYCE HARLOW
This might come in handy for some of the Vice President's speeches.
Charles W. Colson
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September 17, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR LYN NOFZIGER
This might come in handy as you try to identify the good guys from
the bad guys.
Charles W. Colson
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DRAFT 8/70
OPERATION ALERT PHASE I
PURPOSE
The purpose of Operation Alert is to warn the American voters that the United
States is now number 2 in strategic military power and that the 1970 elections
may be the last chance they have to influence the outcome of the Soviet-U. S.
confrontation.
The Soviet Union has at least 2416 strategic missiles (ICRMs, IR/MRBMs, SLBMs
and SLCMs) carrying about 10,326 megatons. The United States has 1710 strategic
missiles for a total of 1729 megatons. The Soviets are continuing to deploy
missiles while the U. S. has not done so for at least three years.
President Nixon is greatly handicapped in trying to meet this threat because
a large, highly organized coalition of Republican and Democratic Congressmen
is working to reduce the U. S. defense budget and to surrender in South Vietnam.
For example, the "Members of Congress for Peace Through Law" has actively
sought reduction of the defense budget and an "amendment to end this war" by
unilateral withdrawal from Vietnam by June 1971.
There
are
28
Senate
and
70
House members.
The "Amendment to End the War Committee" composed of 25 U. S. Senators is
promoting the "Amendment to End the War" to terminate all U. S. military
operations in South Vietnam by December 31, 1970 and full withdrawal by June
20, 1971.
This Committee has raised over $500,000 for a nationwide radio-TV-newspaper
advertising campaign to sell the surrender concept and to raise more money.
It already has a staff of 40.
It is vitally important that the American voter be told both 1)how desperate
our strategic situation is becoming and 2) which candidates for Congress in 1970
are working for unilateral disarmament and for surrender in Vietnam.
The American voter will not knowingly support either a second best military
posture or surrender in Vietnam, but does not yet realize that these are at
stake in the 1970 elections. This election may be the last opportunity for
the American voter to influence the outcome of the confrontation with Com-
munism.
The American voters would elect pro-preparedness men to the Senate and House
if:
1. They understood that the U. S. is now number two.
2. They had a score card identifying which U. S. Senators and
Representatives have voted against strategic preparedness.
3. Pro-preparedness candidates make "peace through strength" their
major campaign issue.
VOTER EDUCATION CAMPAIGN
Operation Alert is planned as the means through which many national and local
organizations cooperate to accomplish the above purpose.
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2.
The first step in the campaign is the development of a compact folder which
tells:
1. The current strategic military balance.
2. Poll results showing that the overwhelming majority of Americans
want military superiority.
3. How members of Congress have voted on national security issues
as compared to poll results.
4
Listing of members of Congress who belong to the "Members of
Congress for Peace through Law" and the "Amendment to End the
War Committee".
The campaign would be kicked off with the release of this folder. The press
release will feature the National Security Issues Poll which the American
Security Council has been conducting since March 1970. This Poll will show
the national security views of:
1. Over 40,000 opinion leaders across the country who have joined the
American Security Council's National Voter Advisory Board.
2. The readers of newspapers across the country. A total of 285 newspapers'
have accepted the American Security Council's invitation to run the
National Security Issues Poll.
3. Americans who have participated in other public opinion polls - an
analysis of these polls by pollster, Dr. Richard Smolka.
OPERATION ALERT will also reach and activate concerned citizens through:
1. Series of luncheons across the country featuring distinguished
Americans who will "lay it on the line" as to our poor strategic
posture and who is responsible for it. These luncheons would be
organized by local chapters or affiliates of the cooperating
organizations. As many as possible of these would be held on the
same day, probably October 27.
2. Radio, TV and newspaper interviews of these distinguished citizens
and other experts on national security.
3. Full page ads offering folder and seeking financial support.
4. Radio and TV spots telling of the threat, offering folder and seek-
financial support.
5. Direct mail distribution of folder to politically aware citizens
urging use and distribution of booklet and seeking financial support.
The American Security Council's National Voter Advisory Board will
be especially active in the distribution of the booklet. Target
distribution via direct mail - 5,000,000 folders.
The American Security Council's experience has shown that the
booklets can be distributed by direct mail on a self-supporting
basis because Americans do respond to the Council's requests on
issues like this. The American Security Council has both the ex-
pertise and the reputation to do this.
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3.
For example, the 1,000,000 letters the American Security Council
sent out in 1969 with a summary of the National Strategy Committee's
report on the ABM together with a "write your Senator and Congress-
men" appeal, more than paid for themselves.
6.
Distribution of booklet by cooperating organizations and through
political party machinery target - 10,000,000 folders.
7. Urging political candidates to make "peace through strength" a key
election issue.
It should be understood that this campaign is not intended as support of either
the Republican or the Democratic party. The net effect will be to support the
candidates of either party who are pro-preparedness and who are opposed by
candidates who are weak on this issue.
The American Security Council's plan for a National Security Index on Senators
and Congressmen has been a matter of great concern to the ultra left. For
example, James Wechsler, Editor, New York Post, devoted a full column to
attacking it.
The far left Institute for American Democracy devoted most of its May newsletter
to an attack on the American Security Council's Poll and Index. It interprets
the purpose of the Index to be the elimination of "seven liberal senators".
Here are a few quotes from the Institute for American Democracy blast:
"Incumbents getting a low 'Security Index Rating' from an
outfit as prestigious as the American Security Council can
find this a handicap.'
"If any organization is the symbol of and spokesman for the
military-industrial complex, it is the American Security
Council."
"It pursues its propaganda objectives with advertising agency
precision and, in the American competitive tradition, plays
to win."
PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT
All person contacted through operation alert will be asked to sign a petition
to the President of the United States asking him to follow a policy of "Peace
through Strength" and to regain strategic military superiority over the U.S.S.R.
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Estimated Costs
Operation Alert - Phase I
A.
Basic Coordination Costs
Directors of organizational relations*
$4000
Speech writers
5000
Director of Press Relations*
4000
Media Directors - ad promotion*
4000
Secretaries
4200
Rent
2000
Telephone
5000
Printing*
2500
Travel
5000
Office supplies, postage, miscellaneous
office expenses
1500
Furniture and equipment rental*
500
Reserve for contingencies - 15% of above
5655
$43,355
* Cooperating organizations will be asked to loan additional
manpower, typewriters and office equipment and to do
printing, etc.
B.
Press Relations
In addition to the Director of Press Relations, it is
recommended that a public relations firm be engaged
$5000
Computer letters to editors and publishers, printing
of press releases, newsletter for editors, postage,
etc
$5000
$10,000
The public relations firm will support the basic staff
in arranging radio, TV and press interviews of key
Operations Alert people.
C.
Newspaper ads
Target: full page ads in 200 newspapers
Ad preparation
$1500
Direct mail promotion to:
1. newspaper publishers urging them to carry ads on
cooperative basis - i.e. getting paid for the ad out of
receipts from ad only. (They will probably get less than
their usual page rates)
2. key individuals urging them to sponsor ads in their
local papers
$2500
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Cost of servicing replies from cooperative ads
5000
Ads at regular rates
New York Times
8400
Los Angeles Times
5424
Chicago Tribune
5160
Washington Evening Star
3070
Washington Post
3831
Washington Daily News
1200
32,065
$41,065
D.
Direct Mail
Target: 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 computer letters to
alert concerned citizens
Cost: about $170 per thousand depending upon list rental
$850,000 to $1,700,000
Committments have already been made for printing, list rentals,
etc at the 2,000,000 level.
Contributions and loans will be sought so that the additional
3,000,000 to 7,000,000 can be financed.
Since it is expected that these letters will pay for themselves*
the loans will be made on the basis that all money returned from
the mailing paid for by a loan will first be applied to repaying
the loan. But, the person making the loan will expect payment only
from the returns. Since there is a risk involved, the loaner will be
paid a 10% bonus for the use of his money when enough money comes back
to do so. This is equivalent to an interest rate of 120 percent
because the turn around time for the money will be only 30 days.
Also since this makes the loan a strictly business deal, any loss can
be treated as a business loss.
* assuming a 2 percent return with an average contribution of
$12.00, the returns will be $240 per thousand, or $70 per
thousand above the cost.
E.
Television Spots
Development of 90 second spot commercial featuring a
nationally known personality such as Bob Hope
10,000
Tests of spot on local stations. If spots pay for
themselves, major money will be sought to finance very
intensive use of spots with money being repaid from
returns.
10,000
$20,000
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February 8, 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR:
ROB ODLE
FROM:
CHARLES W. COLSON
Is there anything that you can quietly do about the attached?
I have not and will not acknowledge the letter.
Attachment (am Security Council letter
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
February 8, 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR:
ROB ODLE
FROM:
CHARLES W. COLSON
Is there anything that you can quietly do about
the attached?
I have not and will not use the letter.
Attachment ( American Security Council ltr 1/30/71)
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
S
WASHINGTON
December 10, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR
MR. COLSON
R
FROM
ROBERT C ODLE, JR
Post Office has promised to keep us up-to-date on the ASC problem.
They will be as kind as they can within the context of the law.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
February 9, 1970
MEMO From: FOR Ken CHUCK BeLieu Jun COLSON
This is the letter we discussed on the phone today.
Suggest you may wish to follow up with Fisher and
also with the Vice President (if you think such is
appropriate. )
Joan- file
Attachment
we Security american
+ file with ABM
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February 9, 1970
Dear John:
Thank you for your thoughtful letter of February 6.
Your help on ABM was vital last session and we
will need it again.
I'll see what we can do to follow up on your
request to the Vice President.
Sincerely,
Kenneth E. BeLieu
Deputy Assistant to the President
Mr. John M. Fisher
President
American Security Council
1101 17th Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20036
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AMERICAN
SECURITY
AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL
EXECUTIVE OFFICES AND RESEARCH CENTER: 123 North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606 312-263-2784
JOHN M. FISHER
WASHINGTON BUREAU: 1101 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 - 202-296-4587
PRESIDENT
February 6, 1970
NATIONAL STRATEGY COMMITTEE
CHAIRMAN
ROBERT W. GALVIN*
Chairman of the Board, Motorola, Incorporated
CO-CHAIRMAN
ADMIRAL H. D. FELT, USN (Ret.)
Mr. Ken BeLieu
Former Commander-in-Chief, Pacific
CO-CHAIRMAN
The White House
DR. WILLARD F. LIBBY
Director, Institute of Geophysics, UCLA
CO-CHAIRMAN
Washington, D. C. 20500
GENERAL BERNARD A. SCHRIEVER,
USAF (Ret.)
Former Commanding General,
Air Force Systems Command
Dear Ken:
CO-CHAIRMAN
DR. WILLIAM J. THALER
Chairman, Physics Department,
Georgetown University
We are most grateful for President Nixon's kind letter regarding
CO-CHAIRMAN
GENERAL NATHAN F. TWINING, USAF (Ret.)
our support of the Safeguard ABM.
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
CO-CHAIRMAN
LOYD WRIGHT
Past President, The American Bar Association
GENERAL PAUL D. ADAMS, USA (Ret.)
I am grateful for the role you must have played in generating
Former Commander-in-Chief,
U.S. Strike Command
this exceptional letter
DR. HAROLD M. AGNEW
Director, Weapons Division,
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
LT. GENERAL EDWARD M. ALMOND, USA (Ret.)
It appears that the ABM issue will be fought again and that other
Former Chief of Staff to
General Douglas MacArthur
basic elements of our national security posture will be seriously
BENNETT ARCHAMBAULT*
Chairman of the Board,
threatened in the months and years ahead.
Stewart-Warner Corporation
PROFESSOR JAMES D. ATKINSON
Department of Government,
Georgetown University
G. DUNCAN BAUMAN
Accordingly, we plan a small seminar of the key financial support-
Publisher, St. Louis Globe-Democrat
PETER BRUCE CLARK
ers of the American Security Council and the Institute for American
President and Publisher, The Detroit News
CHARLES S. CRAIGMILE*
Strategy to discuss major programs to better carry out our
Retired Chairman of the Board,
Belden Corporation
"historic role" during the 1970's. This will be held at the Freedom
ADMIRAL ROBERT L. DENNISON, USN (Ret.)
Former Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic
Studies Center March 12-14, 1970.
THE HONORABLE ELBRIDGE DURBROW
Former Ambassador
HENRY DUQUE*
Partner-Adams, Duque & Hazeltine
I have invited Vice President Agnew to speak to these financial
PATRICK J. FRAWLEY, JR.*
Chairman of the Board,
leaders on their responsibilities in the field of national security.
Eversharp, Incorporated
FRED M. GILLIES*
I've enclosed a copy of my letter.
Retired Chairman of the Board,
Acme Steel Company
VICE ADMIRAL ELTON WATTERS GRENFELL,
USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, Atlantic Submarine Fleet
We'd appreciate any help you can give us in getting the Vice
GENERAL PAUL D. HARKINS, USA (Ret.)
Former Commanding General,
President or some other administration spokesman for this
U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
CLIFFORD F. HOOD*
important occasion.
Former President,
United States Steel Corporation
DR. MONTGOMERY H. JOHNSON
Physicist, Philco-Ford Corporation
Sincerely,
JAMES S. KEMPER, JR.*
President, Lumbermens Mutual
Casualty Company
WILLIAM H. KENDALL*
President, Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company
THE HONORABLE WILLIAM F. KNOWLAND
John Fisher
President and Publisher, Oakland Tribune
President
VICE ADMIRAL FITZHUGH LEE, USN (Ret.)
Former Commandant of the National
War College
GENERAL CURTIS E. LeMAY, USAF (Ret.)
Former Air Force Chief of Staff
VICE ADMIRAL R. E. LIBBY, USN (Ret.)
Former Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
DR. STEFAN T. POSSONY
MAJOR GENERAL DALE 0. SMITH,
REAR ADMIRAL CHESTER C. WARD,
THE HONORABLE CLARE BOOTHE LUCE
Director of International Studies,
USAF (Ret.)
USN (Ret.)
Former Ambassador
Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Headmaster, The Graham-Eckes Schools
Former Judge Advocate General, U. S. Navy
A. B. McKEE, JR.*
GENERAL THOMAS S. POWER,
ADMIRAL LEWIS L. STRAUSS, USNR (Ret.)
DR. KENNETH WATSON
President, Forest Lumber Company and
USAF (Ret.)
Former Chairman, U.S. Atomic
Professor of Physics,
Imperial Valley Lumber Company
Former Commander, Strategic Air Command
Energy Commission
University of California at Berkeley
ADMIRAL BEN MOREELL, CEC, USN (Ret.)
BRIG. GEN. ROBERT C. RICHARDSON,
ADMIRAL FELIX B. STUMP, USN (Ret.)
GENERAL ALBERT C. WEDEMEYER, USA (Ret.)
Former Chief of Civil Engineers, U. S. Navy
USAF (Ret.)
Former Commander-in-Chief, Pacific
Chief U.S. Strategist, World War II
DR. ROBERT MORRIS
Schriever & McKee Associates, Inc.
DR. A. B. SUTTLE
DR. EUGENE P. WIGNER
President, University of Plano
IRA G. ROSS
Vice President, Research,
Physicist, Princeton University
DR. NICHOLAS NYARADI
President, American Ordnance Association
Texas A&M University
MAJOR GENERAL W. A. WORTON, USMC (Ret.)*
Director, School of International Studies
VICE ADMIRAL W. A. SCHOECH, USN (Ret.)
DR. EDWARD TELLER
Retired President,
Bradley University
Former Chief of Naval Material
Nuclear Scientist
American Library of Information
*Members of the policy board representing member companies.
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FREEDOM STUDIES CENTER
OF THE INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN STRATEGY
FREEDOM STUDIES CENTER
BOSTON, VIRGINIA 22713
703-825-1776
February 6, 1970
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Karl R. Bendetsen, Chairman of the Board
U.S. Plywood-Champion Paper, Inc.
The Honorable Spiro T. Agnew
Willard W. Brown
President, University Circle Research Center
Vice-President of the United States
The Honorable Thomas J. Dodd
United States Senate
The White House
Lady Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton
Harold F. Falk, Chairman and President,
Washington, D. C. 20500
The Falk Corporation
John M. Fisher, President and Chief Executive
Officer, Institute for American Strategy
Patrick J. Frawley, Jr., Chairman of the Board,
My dear Mr. Vice-President:
Eversharp, Inc.
The Reverend Roman Galiardi, O.S.B.
President, St. Procopius College
*Robert W. Galvin, Vice President, IAS
Our key financial supporters are joining with their counter-
Chairman of the Board, Motorola, Inc.
Fred M. Gillies, Retired Chairman of the Board
parts in the American Security Council for a March 12-14
Acme Steel Company
The Honorable Mills E. Godwin, Jr.
planning session to finalize the broad outlines of our programs
Governor of Virginia
General Barksdale Hamlett, USA (Ret.) President,
for the 1970's. We've timed it to follow the March 11 Republican
Norwich University
Robert P. Hanrahan, Superintendent of Schools
Congressional dinner because some of them will also be attending
Cook County, Illinois
George R. Hearst, Jr.
that function.
Publisher, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
The Honorable Craig Hosmer
U. S. House of Representatives
The Honorable Walter H. Judd, M.D.
We invite you to address these financial leaders on the respon-
Former Member, U. S. House of Representatives
James S. Kemper, Jr., President
sibilities of the private sector in the field of national security.
Kemper Insurance Companies
*Charles. H. G. Kimball, General Counsel, IAS
Partner, Ashcraft, Olson, Beach, Kimball,
Alexander & Edmonds
It would be most appropriate for you to address them because
General Howard T. Markey, Vice President, IAS
Partner, Parker and Carter
1) you serve on our Advisory Board and 2) President Nixon has
The Honorable Karl E. Mundt
United States Senate
just commended the American Security Council for its "historic
Captain Clarence Perry Oakes, Secretary
Institute for American Strategy
role" in this field.
The Honorable Ray Page,
Superintendent of Public Instruction
State of Illinois
Dr. Arthur L. Peterson, President, The American
I've enclosed a copy of President Nixon's letter, a brochure
Institute for Foreign Trade
Henry Regnery, Treasurer, IAS
describing the Freedom Studies Center (its old enough that you
Chairman of the Board, Henry Regnery Co.
Henry Salvatori, Retired Chairman of the Board
are still listed as Governor of Maryland) and a copy of a recent
Western Geophysical Company of America
Dr. A. L. Schilling
Washington Evening Star article on the Freedom Studies Center
President, North Central College
Gerald J. Schipper, M.D.
which was picked up by the Associated Press and printed by many
John G. Sevcik,
President, Burton-Dixie Corporation
other newspapers.
D. French Slaughter, Jr.
Partner, Button, Stratton and Slaughter
John Slezak, Chairman of the Board,
Kable Printing Company
Respectfully,
Dr. Kelvin Smith, Retired Chairman of the Board,
Lubrizol Corporation
D. A. Sullivan, Retired Conference Chairman,
Institute for American Strategy
Fisher
Frank Vignola
President, Vignola Furniture Company
William W. Weldon, Publisher
John M. Fisher
News Tribune Company, Inc.
General Lawrence H. Whiting, Vice President, IAS
President
Vice Chairman of the Board,
American Furniture Mart
Dr. Benjamin C. Willis
Retired General Superintendent, Chicago Schools
JMF/rbu
General Robert E. Wood, Retired Chairman of the
Board, Sears, Roebuck and Company
James 0. Wright, Chairman of the Board
Badger Meter Manufacturing Co.
Enclosures
*Officers and Members of the Executive Committee
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AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL
123 North Wacker Chicago, Illinois 60606
AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL
Mr Ken BeLieu
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20500
HAND DELIVER
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Lobby Report 7
such regulation for six years; the Senate bill would bar it
of 1965 (PL 89-73), cleared by the House for the Presi-
indefinitely.
dent's signature on Sept. 3. (1969 Weekly Report p.
The Tobacco Institute would have preferred a volun-
1784, 1253, 1188, 555)
tary withdrawal of cigarette commercials on radio and
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). (Repre-
television, Kloepfer said, rather than the prohibition on
sents 90,000 members.) The ACLU opposed provisions of
such ads beginning Jan. 1, 1971, as specified in the Senate
most of the crime bills to be presented by the Nixon Ad-
version of HR 6543. The cigarette manufacturers had re-
ministration or in Congress; none cleared Congress in
quested an antitrust exemption to allow them to withdraw
1969. Specifically, it opposed the organized crime bill
all broadcast advertisements simultaneously (1969 Weekly
(S 30), the "no knock" provision of the drug control bill
Report p. 2616, 1056, 441)
(S 3246), and the District of Columbia crime bills con-
Toy Manufacturers of America. (Represents 325
cerning preventive detention and criminal law changes
manufacturers.) The group concentrated in 1969 on the
(S 2600, S 2869). The group favored extension of the
Toy Safety Act (S 1689-PL 91-113), signed Nov 6. The
existing Voting Rights Act (PL 89-110) over the Admin-
Act was designed to increase protection for children from
istration's bill (HR 4249), although it backed several of
toys which contained thermal, electrical or mechanical
the positions in the President's voting rights package.
hazards. The group asked that specific standards be set
The group also opposed various bills and amendments
as a guide for industry. (1969 Weekly Report p. 2183, 586)
dealing with campus demonstrations. The group opposed
United States Savings and Loan League. (Repre-
a provision added by the House to the military construc-
sents 5,000 savings and loan associations.) The league
tion authorization bill to bar demonstrations on federal
was successful in lobbying efforts for two major pieces of
property (HR 13018-PL 91-142); the Senate dropped the
legislation passed in 1969. The mortgage credit bill (S
section, and conferees upheld the Senate position. (Weekly
2577-PL 91-151) supported by the league included a
Report p. 51, 36; 1969 Weekly Report p. 2693, 2613, 1181)
provision to increase to $20,000 the savings and loan
insurance accounting ceiling, a provision adjusting the
American Security Council. (An independent or-
cost of account insurance to the same cost level as that of
ganization sponsored by business and private contribu-
banks, and a provision to make available $4 billion in
tions and interested in a strong military and foreign
backup support for the Treasury Department to support
policy.) The council in 1969 was in the thick of the Con-
mortgage lending. The league failed in its attempt to
gressional debate over the antiballistic missile (ABM) sys-
have approved a Federal Home Loan Bank secondary
tem (S 2546-PL 91-121). The organization had supported
mortgage market authority and failed to obtain for sav-
a ballistic missile defense for several years and in 1969 is-
ings and loan associations trustee power in handling
sued a widely discussed book, The ABM and the Changed
estates. The group also lobbied successfully for provisions
Strategic Military Balance, which supported the ABM.
in the Tax Reform Act of 1969 (HR 13270-PL 91-172)
Some 20,000 copies of this publication were distributed to
including a measure maintaining special bad-debt deduc-
Members of Congress, journalists, Pentagon officials and
tions and liberalizing rules for savings and loans desiring
council members. The contents of the book were widely
to qualify for those deductions. A league representative
used in the Congressional debate and quoted in full-page
said the group had not prevented higher taxes from being
newspaper ads supporting the ABM during the debate. The
imposed on savings and loans, but that taxes under the
council also supported the project and other military pro-
proposal adopted were not as high as those under some
grams on a daily radio program it distributed. A leading
other proposals would have been. (1969 Weekly Report
commentator on the radio show was former Rep. Walter H.
p. 1721, 1493, 1491, 1340, 1135, 1130, 434)
Judd (R Minn. 1943-63). (See 1969 Weekly Report p. 845.)
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA). (Rep-
Citizens
resents 75,000 members.) Although the ADA did not
succeed in freezing funds for the antiballistic missile
American Association of Retired Persons. (Repre-
(ABM) system in the military procurement authorization
sents 1.8 million retired persons.) The association was
bill (S 2546-PL 91-121), its spokesmen felt that the
concerned primarily with Social Security legislation in
ABM battle served as the opening wedge in "unmasking"
1969. It supported successfully the 15-percent increase
military spending to Congressional criticism. The ADA
in Social Security included in the Tax Reform Act (HR
supported the two-year authorization for the Office of
13270-PL 91-172), as well as additional measures which
Economic Opportunity (S 3016-PL 91-177) and the na-
were eliminated by Congress from the final legislation.
tional commitments resolution (S Res 85). It opposed the
The association unsuccessfully sought an updating of
nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. to the Supreme
retirement income tax credit authorization included
Court and the Administration voting rights bill (HR 4249).
originally in S 2968, introduced by Sen. Abraham Ribi-
(1969 Weekly Report p. 2682, 2613, 2608, 2310, 1432)
coff (D Conn.), and another Ribicoff bill (S 2969), to
enable elderly persons who had not qualified for Social
Citizens Committee for Postal Reform. (A new
Security by January 1969 to receive Medicare benefits.
group formed in 1969 to press for postal reform as em-
Also unsuccessful was a campaign to have the cost of pre-
bodied in the Administration bill (HR 11750).) The House
Post Office and Civil Service Committee voted in October
scription drugs included in Medicare expenses and to
increase the minimum Social Security premium to $120 a
against the corporation plan, but by the end of 1969
month. The association also supported a provision per-
had not completed marking up another reform bill (HR 4).
mitting FHA financing of mobile homes, included in the
A spokesman for the committee said the group was "not
mortgage credit bill (S 2577-PL 91-151) cleared Dec. 19
unhappy" about the reform bill even though the corpora-
for the President's signature, and an extension (HR 11235-
tion section was not included in it. (1969 Weekly Report p.
PL 91-69) and amendments to the Older Americans Act
1992)
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Dear Mr. Fisher:
In surveying the events of the past year it is clear that the
passage of the legislation authorizing a Safeguard ABM system
was of monumental importance in maintaining our vital national
security posture. The American Security Council played a
major role in achieving that victory.
It was altogether in keeping with the historic role of your organi-
zation in supporting programs which assure an adequate defense
for the nation. I want you to know that your group's understanding,
commitment to the national security and its active support are
sources of great strength to me as Commander-in-Chief. I am
deeply appreciative of the important work which you have done.
With best wishes,
Sincerely,
Mr. John M. Fisher
Executive Director
American Security Council
1101 Seventeenth Street, NW.
Washington, D.C. 20036
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