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President Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was about to replace the Ford Administration's NSSMs (National Security Study Memoranda) with PSMs (Presidential Study Memoranda)-until he realized it might be awkward trying to pronounce that particular acronym. Brzezinski quickly rechristened the reports PRMs (Presidential Review Memoranda), and voila, a new acronym was born-pronounced prims-and certain soon to become among Washington's best-admired bureaucratic mots...
Brown-Beasley's charges, which he has backed with letters, memoranda and other documents, revolve around several projects in the Office of Fiscal Services. They include...
Copies of Central Intelligence Agency memoranda, which The Crimson received last year after requesting agency files under the Freedom of Information Act, show that the CIA maintained Crimson clippings in their files. Included in the files was an article exposing the CIA's headquarters at 545 Tech Square, and another article telling how two Harvard students helped Ramparts magazine reveal the CIA's subsidization of the National Student Association...
...establishment of the position followed a series of memoranda from Walsh to the force calling for tighter discipline among patrol members...
...unfortunately cryptic foreword, the authors explain that The Final Days is based on interviews with 394 people. "Some persons spent dozens of hours with us and volunteered information freely; one person was interviewed seventeen times." They go on to say that "many supplied us with contemporaneous notes, memoranda, correspondence, logs, calendars, and diaries." So far, so good...