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Whatever formal authority he was given, North was adept at expanding on it. One of his techniques: when a presidential finding was issued authorizing a covert operation, North would exploit a bureaucratic mechanism known as a "memorandum of notification" to spell out the meaning of the vaguely worded finding. By drafting these memos, North was able to tailor the ways and means of the operation according to his own designs. If he got a memo approved, as he often did, he would then put together an interagency working group to plan how to carry out the mission...
Your story on the debate over two replacement aircraft carriers for the Navy ((NATION, April 27)) inaccurately reported my position. The article, quoting an October memorandum, implied that I did not support the two-carrier concept. Such a conclusion is simply not correct...
...October memorandum to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, I furnished my views on the Navy initiative to accelerate aircraft-carrier acquisition by four years. Looking at the carrier proposal in isolation, I noted that it was fiscally sound, but I suggested that we consider the larger picture, as well as the full spectrum of the Navy's programs, before making a final decision. This was done, and my concerns were satisfied...
...State Department memorandum at the time showed that the State Department reacted partly in a favorable way to Huntington's "study" as when the memorandum states: "We agree with much of his analysis of the present situation..." But the State Department also expressed a serious reservation, namely, "There is a major point in the study about which Huntington is not clear: nowhere does he suggest how or when' elimination of the Vietcong forces and the retreat of the North Vietnamese regulars can be brought about to establish the preconditions which he describes...
...There is definitely a renewed interest on the part of the Congress and the press in part because of Iran-Contra and in part because of the Poindexter memorandum," Shattuck said yesterday...