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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: 6 Meeting with Mr. Helms re
4 o'clock onecember Mr. Helms convened aCol. White, Carl Duckett. Larry Houston and, in theGeneral Bacalis, Mr. Parangosky, and related his meeting atof the Budget concerning therograms.
Mr. Helms stated that the meeting at the BOB was attended by Mr. Schultze, Mr. Vance, Dr. Hornig and in addition to himself several BOB people including Messrs Fischer and Thomas.
putote concerning options Messrs Vance,Dr. Hornig voted for option three, to terminate the OXCARTHelms voted for option two. i. e. the eventual sharing betweenthe Air Force of theleet. Mr. Helms stated thatCommittee probably will convene again
to address the question of mothballing inasmuch as he, Mr. Helms.
questioned the ability to mothball since he was lead to believe by his
(CIA) people that mothbaUing may really mean scrapping the fleet. Mr. Helms
stated that he was rather surprised at the vote of his colleagues.
Mr. Duckett related the fact thatew days ago came up with some
hard information about theeing inoorer posture than wo
had imagined and that this information was received under the table after
the completion of the Fischer-Benington-Parangosky report.
BOB isetter concerning the results ofmeeting for the President. BOB hopes to have suchprepared by Friday of thisopy of which will be sent to Helmsetter prepared for his signature to theas he dissented from the vote taken. Mr. Elelms wantsetter which addresses itself to CIA staying in business for option two. Heell reasoned case which willnot just parts of the issues. He suggested we start offetter by
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saying that "you will beetter from the Bureau of the Budget concerning OXCART and before you lake anyant to bring CIA's views to the President's attention".
Helms wants the copies of the letter to be sent to
Mr. Moyers, Mr. Rostow, and Mr. Clark Clifford. He envisages his letter being attached or submitted together with the BOB paper to the President. During the meeting he talked to Mr. Moyers on the phone soliciting his counsel on how to get his letter properly before the President in order to insure that the BOB letter is not delivered without Mr. Helms views being made known at the same time.
Mr. Helms asked those assembled to render all help necessary toroper letter prepared.
After the meeting Col. White offered the services, if needed, of Mr. Hank Knoche to help withetter in view of the fact that he was free and had experience in preparing papers for higher authority.
I statedould like about two days to prepare OSA drafts after which such drafts would be circulated and assistance solicited at thai time. Following thisisited Carl Duckett's office at which time he offered guidance on the preparation of the letter along these lines:
it be short,rief history of Iheon when we reached readiness, the fact that weand that therogram has not yet demonstrated
utty fashion security and any other topics.
some reference to the fact that the countrycapability with trouble spots all over the world and it wouldunfortunate to give up the capability at this time.
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a3ol. Shelton, additionaits were being massagea. a
7. Following this meeting OSAask forcecome up with two option proposals for consideration. Theconsistedthe one hand and MessrsT
on the other hand.
critique with most of the above mentioned together with The results of these critiques wer
incorporated in the two draft papers that emerged andecember. Inand |^
ishird (headin) version which we will keep in our back pocket.
JOHN PARAKCjySKY Acting Director of Special Activities
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