HKMWBUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Meeting with the President
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PRESENT: President Ford Brent Scowcroft George Bush
We did not discuss the current intelligence items in the President's brief. The President raised two issues with me:
reporting on coups. This was in direct linead had. xplained to theno leaks had come from the coup, that in our coup reporting
in the Peru case we had wanted it on the streets since it was widelv known in Peru that therealance between time sensitive coups and others, and that we are coming up with recewmendations on this but that itudgment call. He asked for no action, simply said he wanted to raise the matter because of his talk with Nelson Rockefeller.
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2. The tankews median Lebanon. ead to him from the cable on this.
I told him we are keeping my trip to Europe very quiet but that apparently reporter Schecter of Time had asked Brent wtiias goingWe're going to look carefully the trip.
Insked him if he was going to be there Satu because I'd like to get John Newcombe to come down and hit at the White House; he indicated that he would not be there.
George Bush
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