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    "ocrText": "MEMORANDUM\n13\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nSECRET -- GDS\nJune 21, 1978\nMEMORANDUM FOR ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI\nFROM:\nPaul B. Henze\nSUBJECT: Evening Report\nDaily Activities:\nIntelligence-related Activities: Followed up on yesterday's\nSCC,\ncalled working group meeting on Soviet\nnationalities for this Friday morning; prepared Summary\nConclusions of yesterday's SCC (kept it very lean).\n(S)\nHorn: Reviewed upcoming Reader's Digest article on Horn\nwhich Dimi Panitsa brought -- it was pretty overdone and\nunnecessarily critical of the Administration; I hope I\npersuaded him to moderate (or kill) it. (C)\nAmbassador Fred Chapin called to say he was disturbed at\nfact that DOD is going ahead with plan to send military\nsurvey team to Somali 2nd week of July -- he thinks it\nshould be held up; I am taking this up with State and DOD;\nteam should not be sent without full review of all its\nimplications. (S)\nWorked on Kenya military report -- there is disagreement between\nState and DOD over advisory presence, which DOD feels is\nnecessary (and I think is psychologically desirable, on\nsmall scale, as demonstration to Kenyans that we want to\nhelp them and let it be known that we are doing so) and\nState, which seems to feel that we should have no military\npresence at all in Kenya. I still detact a marked lack of\nenthusiasm in State for the Kenya program in all respects. (S)\nBY Bob NARA, DATE 2/28/08\nGTC: Helped Madeleine in preparations for tomorrow's\nNLJC-98-192\nper 9/8/04 NSC\nPresidential session with Greek Americans. Okayed Presidential\nSANITIZED\nmessage to Karamanlis on Greek earthquake (in Thessaloniki\n-- widespread medium-serious property damage; little in way\nof lost lives or drastic property damage). (U)\nRadios: Found on checking into Jack Anderson column on VOA\ncensorship of Katyn story that it is all too true; at fault\nis deputy chief of VOA's Polish desk, said to be a very\nlimited man. Peter Strauss had had twelve protest calls\nSECRET -- GDS\nHenze Report -- June 21, 1978\n-2-\nfrom members of Congress by mid-morning! He has promised\ninvestigation and corrective measures. Moynihan is parti-\ncularly irate. Doubt that you need to get into it directly\nat this point, but a couple of congressmen should have called\nyou as a result of effort I launched in response to your\noriginal request.\n(C)\nLunched with Leonard Marks, just back from BIB Munich meetings.\nHe reported that Rita Hauser behaved as enfant terrible,\nagitating for doing away with RFE and drastically changing\nRL. Markoe also advocated abandoning RFE, maintaining it\nis a waste of money -- he is apparently smarting under FTC\nsuit against Listerine which his company (Werner-Lambert)\nproduces. Quinn, Pell's man on BIB, was on all sides of\nevery issue. Gronouski, still recovering from his 12\nbroken ribs (!) had more on his hands in Munich than he\nwanted -- but according to Leonard, except for Rita and\nMarkoe, the meetings went well and RFE/RL is in better\nshape, with Ralph exercising strong influence, than it has\nbeen in for years. Leonard had a lot of political observa-\ntions and comments on present state of u.S. foreign relations\nwhich I will pass on to you at some convenient time. He wants\nyou to know that he is strongly behind you in current contro-\nversies. (e)\nReceived letter from Bill Griffith from Tokyo with series of\ncapsule observations on his travels so far. Says he has also\nwritten you.\nSignificant Information:\nPM Ecevit has sent very warm letter to President Carter\n-- Turks told our Embassy in Ankara he personally reworked\nforeign ministry draft and took the letter very seriously.\nIt is clear that he feels he has special rapport with the\nPresident. He arrived in Moscow today on visit, but no\nnews of that yet. (e)"
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