91. Aide-Mémoire

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, Kissinger Reports on USSR, China, and the Middle East Discussions, Box 1, USSR Memcons and Reports, November 23–24, 1974, Vladivostok Summit. Secret. A handwritten note reads: “Handed to Amb D. by Sec. Kissinger at 10 a.m. 12–10–74.” Kissinger met Dobrynin on December 10 from 9:21 to 10:02 a.m. (Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Kissinger papers, Box 439, Miscellany, 1968–1976, Record of Schedule) No substantive record of the meeting has been found. Kissinger initialed both pages of the aide-mémoire.

92. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Scowcroft) to Vice President Rockefeller

Source: Ford Library, NSC Institutional Files, Box 9, NSC Meeting, 1/29/75, SALT. Top Secret; Sensitive.

93. National Security Decision Memorandum 285

Source: Ford Library, NSC Institutional Files, Box 57, NSDM 285, Instructions for the SALT Talks in Geneva, 1/31/75. Top Secret; Sensitive. Copies were sent to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Director of Central Intelligence. Sonnenfeldt and Lodal drafted the NSDM, which they sent under a covering memorandum to Kissinger, January 29. (Ibid.) On February 5, Kissinger sent the NSDM to Ford, who initialed his approval. The instructions were sent to the delegation in telegram 27482 to USDEL SALT TWO Geneva, February 6. (Ibid., National Security Adviser, Presidential Subject File, Box 22, SALT, State Department Telegrams, NODIS from SecState)

94. Minutes of a Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, NSC Meetings File, Box 1. Top Secret; Codeword. The meeting took place in the Cabinet Room.

95. Memorandum From the Counselor of the Department of State (Sonnenfeldt) and Jan Lodal of the National Security Council Staff to Secretary of State Kissinger

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, Presidential Subject File, Box 19, SALT (10)–(21). Secret; Sensitive. A handwritten note from Sonnenfeldt at the top of the page reads: “The Secretary should see before press briefings, Thursday, 3/27.” Another handwritten note in an unknown hand reads: “Gen[eral] S[cowcroft] discussed w/ Lodal by phone a.m., 3/31.”

96. Memorandum From the Counselor of the Department of State (Sonnenfeldt) and Jan Lodal of the National Security Council Staff to Secretary of State Kissinger

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, Presidential Subject File, Box 19, SALT (10)–(21). Secret; Sensitive.

97. Note From the United States to the Soviet Union

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, Kissinger Reports on USSR, China, and Middle East Discussions, Box 1, USSR Memcons and Reports, May 19–20, 1975–Kissinger/Gromyko meetings in Vienna (2). Secret. The note was sent to Dobrynin by Scowcroft under a covering letter of May 10. (Ibid.)

98. Memorandum From the Counselor of the Department of State (Sonnenfeldt) and William Hyland of the National Security Council Staff to Secretary of State Kissinger

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, Kissinger Reports on USSR, China, and Middle East Discussions, Box 1, USSR Memcons and Reports, July 10–11, 1975–Kissinger/Gromyko, Geneva (1). Top Secret; Sensitive.

99. National Security Decision Memorandum 301

Source: Ford Library, NSC Institutional Files, Box 60, NSDM 301, Instructions for SALT Talks in Geneva, 7/2/75. Top Secret; Sensitive. Copies were sent to the Director of Central Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

100. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to President Ford

Source: Ford Library, NSC Institutional Files, Box 5, Verification Panel Meeting, 7/24/75–SALT. Top Secret; Sensitive. Lodal drafted the memorandum for Kissinger on July 16 and sent it under a covering memorandum that explained it would help prepare the President for his Helsinki meeting. Kissinger did not initial the memorandum, but it was included as Tab E to Kissinger’s briefing materials for the Verification Panel meeting, July 24. (Ibid.) The unsigned memorandum was also included as Tab F to Ford’s briefing materials for the NSC meeting scheduled for July 25. (Ibid.)

101. Minutes of a Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, NSC Meetings File, Box 2. Top Secret; Sensitive. The meeting took place in the Cabinet Room.

102. Editorial Note

103. Minutes of a Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, NSC Meetings File, Box 2. Top Secret; Sensitive. The meeting took place in the Cabinet Room.

104. National Security Decision Memorandum 303

Source: Ford Library, NSC Institutional Files, Box 61, NSDM 303, Instructions for SALT Talks in Geneva. Top Secret; Sensitive. Copies were sent to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Director of Central Intelligence. On August 13, Molander and Sonnenfeldt sent Schlesinger’s comments on a draft of this NSDM to Kissinger, under a covering memorandum in which they explained the Secretary of Defense’s two objections. To meet Schlesinger’s first objection Kissinger approved the recommendation to “redraft the NSDM to provide for an indefinite delay in tabling the proposed ban on cruise missiles above 600 km range carried on aircraft other than heavy bombers.” Kissinger wrote “crazy” in the margin of the paragraph in which Molander and Sonnenfeldt stated that Schlesinger wanted to “change the cruise missile definition in paragraph 2 to read ‘nuclear-armed’ rather than ‘armed.’” (Ibid.)

105. Minutes of a Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, NSC Meetings File, Box 2. Top Secret; Sensitive. This is apparently a transcript of a tape of the meeting. According to the President’s Daily Diary, the meeting took place in the Cabinet Room from 3:46 to 5:35 p.m., and the following people attended: President Ford, Rockefeller, Kissinger, Sisco, U. Alexis Johnson, Schlesinger, Clements, Duckett, Colby, Brown, Ikle, Rumsfeld, Scowcroft, and Lodal. (Ibid., Staff Secretary’s File, President’s Daily Diary)

106. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: National Archives, RG 59, Records of the Office of the Counselor, Lot File 81D286, Box 6, SALT, July–October 1975. Secret; Nodis. Drafted by Kelly. All brackets are in the original. The meeting was held in the Secretary’s office. According to an unidentified note in the margin: “JK[elly] says HS[onnenfeldt] does not need to see.”

107. Memorandum From the Counselor of the Department of State (Sonnenfeldt) and Jan Lodal of the National Security Council Staff to Secretary of State Kissinger

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, Kissinger–Scowcroft West Wing Office Files, Box 21, SALT, Chronological File. Top Secret; Sensitive.

108. Note From the United States to the Soviet Union

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, Kissinger Reports on USSR, China, and Middle East Discussions, Box 1, USSR Memcons and Reports, September 18–21, 1975–Talks with Gromyko. No classification marking. A handwritten note indicates that Gromyko was given this note on September 21 during his meeting with Kissinger in New York; see footnote 2, Document 107.

109. Memorandum From Secretary of State Kissinger to President Ford

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, Kissinger–Scowcroft West Wing Office Files, Box 33, USSR, Gromyko File, 9/21/75–9/25/75. Secret; Sensitive.

110. Memorandum From Denis Clift of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Scowcroft)

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, Presidential Subject File, Box 20, SALT. Secret; Sensitive. Sent for information. Scowcroft wrote the following comment at the top of the page: “It is certainly an option to be examined.” On November 3, Scowcroft replaced Kissinger as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, leaving Kissinger to serve only as Secretary of State. Ford announced this and several other significant Cabinet-level personnel changes, including the nomination of Donald Rumsfeld to replace Schlesinger as Secretary of Defense, in a press conference that day. (Public Papers: Ford, 1975, pp. 1791–1793)

111. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Scowcroft) to President Ford

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, Presidential Subject File, Box 20, SALT (22)–(33). Secret. A stamped notation reads: “The President has seen,” and the memorandum bears Ford’s initials.

112. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Scowcroft) to Secretary of State Kissinger

Source: Ford Library, NSC Institutional Files, Box 6, NSC Meetings, SALT, 12/19/1975. Top Secret; Sensitive. Scowcroft did not initial the memorandum. The memorandum was in the briefing material for Kissinger for the Verification Panel meeting of December 19.

113. Minutes of a Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, NSC Meetings File, Box 2. Top Secret; Sensitive. The meeting took place in the Cabinet Room. All brackets, except those inserted by the editor to indicate omissions from the text, are in the original.

114. Minutes of a Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, NSC Meetings File, Box 2. Top Secret; Sensitive. The meeting took place in the Cabinet Room.

115. Note From the United States to the Soviet Union

Source: National Archives, RG 59, Records of Henry Kissinger, Lot File 91D414, 1973–77, Box 15, Misc. Docs, Tels, Etc. 1975 (Folder 6). Secret. A handwritten note at the top of the first page indicates that Kissinger handed the note to Dobrynin at 6:30 p.m. on January 14 at the Department of State. No record of their meeting has been found, but Kissinger described the meeting to President Ford the next day. For the memorandum of conversation of that January 15 meeting, see Foreign Relations, 1969–1976, Vol. XVI, Soviet Union, August 1974–December 1976, Document 244.

116. Minutes of a Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, NSC Meetings File, Box 2. Top Secret; Sensitive. The meeting took place in the Cabinet Room.

117. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Scowcroft) to President Ford

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, Kissinger Reports on USSR, China, and Middle East Discussions, Box 1, USSR Memcons and Reports, January 21–23, 1976, Kissinger Moscow Trip (1). Top Secret; Exclusively Eyes Only.

118. Message From Secretary of State Kissinger to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Scowcroft)

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, Trip Briefing Books and Cables of Henry Kissinger, Box 28, Kissinger Trip File, January 20–25, 1976–Moscow, Brussels, Madrid, TOHAK (1)–(3). Secret; Sensitive; Eyes Only. The memorandum of conversation of this meeting, which was held in Brezhnev’s Kremlin office from 5:02 to 6:30 p.m., is Document 251 in Foreign Relations, 1969–1976, Vol. XVI, Soviet Union, August 1974–December 1976.

119. Minutes of a Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, NSC Meetings File, Box 2. Top Secret; Sensitive. The meeting took place in the Cabinet Room. In message Tohak 15, January 21, Scowcroft told Kissinger that the President read the report of his first meeting with Brezhnev and “observed that Brezhnev appeared to be taking the negotiations very seriously and noted that he was even making specific counterproposals, extreme though some of them might be.” Scowcroft reported that Ford called for an NSC meeting at 5:30 p.m. “to state his concurrence with your plan of action.” (Ibid., Trip Briefing Books and Cables of Henry Kissinger, Box 28, Kissinger Trip Files, January 20–25, 1976–Moscow, Brussels, Madrid, TOHAK (1))

120. Message From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Scowcroft) to Secretary of State Kissinger

Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, Trip Briefing Books and Cables of Henry Kissinger, Box 28, Kissinger Trip Files, January 20–25, 1976–Moscow, Brussels, Madrid, TOHAK (2). Top Secret; Sensitive; Exclusively Eyes Only; Via Black Patch.