201. Notes of a Meeting1
Meeting Participants
- The President, Secretary Shultz, Senator Baker
Personnel—Amb. & ACDA. My views should have special weight.
Next year ahead. Three areas of possible achievement. Others are areas of guarding (?-sp).2
1) USSR & Arms Control
2) Central America
3) Middle East
Immediate attention.
Soviet & Arms Control. Preparing for Shevardnadze meeting. We vulnerable in absence of movement on START. Without START, INF is naked. Soviets can proliferate strategic weapons. Can hit INF targets with strategic.
Through your discussions in R. you have:
[Page 879]Agreement to warheads of 6,000
Probably 4,800 ballistic missiles
Good bomber counting rule
Agreement cut by ½ ground based ballistic missiles
Have problem of mobiles to resolve.
Should have additional sublimit, but Crowe opposes SLBM. He would choose 4,800.
Need find way to address SDI problem if going to get START agreement.
P.—I am in favor of working START, but if we get INF. We immediately go to work on strategic. Having achieved the other—me & Gorbachev get together.
G.S.—That is right. Real breakthroughs come in Summit meetings.
F.C. insists on mandate to change G.S. Moscow positions. P. agrees.
[Omitted here are discussions not related to START.]
- Source: Reagan Library, Carlucci Files, Secretary Shultz (08/14/1987—11/03/1987) [Meeting w/ President—Notes]. Secret. Drafted by Carlucci. Carlucci’s original handwritten notes are ibid. According to the President’s Daily Diary, the meeting took place at the Century Plaza Tower at 2 p.m. and lasted approximately 20 minutes. Reagan had been based at Rancho del Cielo since departing Washington on August 13; he spent the night of August 27 in Los Angeles and returned to Rancho del Cielo on August 29. He returned to Washington on September 6. (Reagan Library, President’s Daily Diary)↩
- In the original handwritten notes, “guarding” is spelled “garding.”↩