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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 018404
REASON FOR WITHDRAWAL
National security restriction
TYPE OF MATERIAL
Memorandum of Conversation
TITLE
Ford, Rumsfeld, and Scowcroft
CREATION DATE
04/06/1976
VOLUME
2 pages
COLLECTION/SERIES/FOLDER ID
031400855
COLLECTION TITLE
National Security Adviser. Memoranda of
Conversations
BOX NUMBER
18
FOLDER TITLE
April 6, 1976 - Ford, Rumsfeld,
Scowcroft
DATE WITHDRAWN
07/23/2004
WITHDRAWING ARCHIVIST
GG
Sanitize 7/19/04
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
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MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
MR01-101, # 42; OSD ltr 3/2/04
dal MARA Date 7/19/04
PARTICIPANTS:
President Ford
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Brent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
DATE AND TIME:
Tuesday, April 6, 1976
9:20 - 10:15 a. m.
PLACE:
The Oval Office
Rumsfeld: Thailand. I think our press coverage should be that we are
proceeding as before, and not fall all over ourselves.
Scowcroft: I agree.
President: Fine.
Rumsfeld: Here is an article about Soviet pilots in Cuba. They are
operating not as trainers. We can't deny it.
President: How are we coming with the Cuban contingencies?
Scowcroft: We had a meeting yesterday. There will be more on Monday.
President: When will I see it?
Scowcroft: The end of next week.
Rumsfeld: How should we deal with this article?
Scowcroft: How about saying there are some Soviet pilots in Cuba
periodically. We have noticed more recently. We are watching to see
what if any significance it may have.
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2.
Rumsfeld: You check the intelligence and let's talk. That sounds
okay.
President: You two work it out.
Rumsfeld: Dismantling SS 7 and 8 silos. [Discussion of what we can do. ]
President: My inclination is a note from me to Brezhnev. But we need
to move fast.
Rumsfeld: [Describes status of Sixth Fleet for Lebanon-contingencies.
President: I want to see anything significant we get from Dean Brown.
Scowcroft: Brown hasn't reported anything significant since Henry
talked to you yesterday.
Rumsfeld: The
are interested in AWACS and in increases in the
intelligence flow.
There was a conference here in town. The consensus
was
could go communist within a few months. We all have
said we didn't see how an Italy with communists in the government could
participate in NATO. The question is what we can do.
President: Why not? If that is what we should do, then we should at
least go to the Congress. For us to sit on our hands just because of
Congress would be irresponsible.
Rumsfeld: Structure a debate in NATO that a communist government
means automatic suspension from NATO. If we lost
SECRET/NODIS/XGDS
GERALD R. FORD LIBRARY
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
Presidential Libraries Withdrawal Sheet
WITHDRAWAL ID 018405
REASON FOR WITHDRAWAL
National security restriction
TYPE OF MATERIAL
Note
DESCRIPTION
Brent Scowcroft's handwritten notes
from meeting with Ford and Rumsfeld
CREATION DATE
04/06/1976
VOLUME
2 pages
COLLECTION/SERIES/FOLDER ID
031400855
COLLECTION TITLE
National Security Adviser. Memoranda of
Conversations
BOX NUMBER
18
FOLDER TITLE
April 6, 1976 - Ford, Rumsfeld,
Scowcroft
DATE WITHDRAWN
07/23/2004
WITHDRAWING ARCHIVIST
GG