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Mr. Cutler and the Vice President brought the subject back
to the release of the Gaither Panel report. Mr. Cutler continued to
express_his violent opposition to the issuance of any written summary
or sanitized version. On the other hand, the Vice President emphasized that what had been published about the contents of the Gaither
report was fantastically worse than what the Gaither report actually
said. Moreover, most of the recommendations of the Gaither report
had, appeared in Chalmers Roberts' story in The Washington Post. It
seemed to the Vice President that making public the recommendations
of the Gaither report would pose no particular problem. Our real
concern is with the timetable aspect of the report. It would, he
agreed, be dangerous to make the timetable public, because of its
effect on our allies es' well as on other nations.
The National Security Council:
a.
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Noted and discussed the comments and recommendations
by the respective departments and agencies on the Report to the President by the Security Resources Panel
of the ODM Science Advisory Committee (NSC 572), as
contained in NSC 5724/1 and summarized at the meeting.
b.
Noted the President's directive that the Department of
Defense report to the National Security Council on the
feasibility and desirabLlity of particular military
measures, additional or supplemental to those covered
by the Department of Defense comments mentioned in a
above, further to improve U. 5. capability to deal
with the Soviet threat (especially the estimated So-
viet ICBM capability); the scope and timing of such
reports to be presented to the Council in accordance
with a schedule developed by the Depertment of Defense
in consultation with the Special Assistants to the
President for National Security Affairs and for Science and Technology.
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c.
Noted that the President would discuss separately, with
the Secretaries of State and Defense, the Chairman,
Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Chairman, President's Board of Consult-
ants on Foreign Intelligence Activities, the recommen-
dation on strategic warning and intelligence contained
in paragraph IV-B of NSC 5724.
d.
Deferred, until the next Council meeting, discussion
of the comments and recommendations by the respective
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