105. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Scowcroft) to Secretary of State Kissinger, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, Attorney General Levi, and the Director of Central Intelligence (Bush), Washington, January 18, 1977.1 2

SUBJECT:

  • NSDM 335 (Army Special Field Office in Berlin)
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THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

January 18, 1977

MEMORANDUM FOR

THE SECRETARY OF STATE

THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

The Attorney General has drawn attention to the fact that NSDM 335 concerning the intelligence collection operations of the Army’s Special Operations Field Office (SOFO) in Berlin raises some serious legal issues.

In order to clarify this situation, the special study group of your representatives that produced the initial study on which the President’s decisions were made should be reconstituted. This group should review all aspects of the original study and NSDM 335 in light of the Attorney General’s letter and provide its recommendations by February 15, 1977.

[signed]

Brent Scowcroft
  1. Source: Ford Library, National Security Council, Institutional Files, Box 67, NSDM 335, Army Special Operations Field Office in Berlin (3). Secret. NSDM 335 is Document 102. Scowcroft’s summary of the initial study of the Army’s SOFO in Berlin is Document 101. Attorney General Levi’s January 7 letter is Document 103.
  2. Scowcroft requested a reexamination of the legality of reforms to the Army’s Berlin Special Operations Field Office intelligence collection activities as outlined in National Security Decision Memorandum 335.