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...agreement would be reached within hours, one of Carter's first requests was that Linowitz phone the news to Jerry Ford up in Vail. At least three times Carter personally talked to Ford on the phone, then sent Linowitz, General George Brown, and former Ford Aide Brent Scowcroft on a 6½-hour journey to Ford's chalet in the Rockies. Jerry has now joined enthusiastically in the battle for the treaty...
...last week the genial Brent Scowcroft, Ford's national security adviser, was on the phone to the Pentagon. Did the Army engineers, he asked, create a fake mushroom cloud for a re-enactment of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima put on in Texas by a bunch of antique-airplane buffs? The Japanese were outraged. It turned out, to Scowcroft's relief, that Army engineers were not involved. But for a few perilous moments it appeared that the White House might have another illegitimate foundling on its doorstep...
...Deep Throat by the White House test include Counsel Leonard Garment; Chief of Staff Alexander Haig Jr. or, more likely, someone close to him; Speech Writers Raymond Price, Patrick Buchanan, Benjamin Stein, Franklin Gannon and David Gergen; Haldeman Aide Lawrence Higby; Telecommunications Director Clay Whitehead; National Security Aide Brent Scowcroft; and Domestic Adviser Kenneth Cole Jr. An outside possibility is John Sears, who retained excellent White House sources after his departure as a Nixon counsel in 1969, and whose cigarette-smoking and Scotch-drinking habits, while common enough, correspond to those attributed to Deep Throat...
...upgraded and renamed the Operations Advisory Group. It will include the Secretaries of State and Defense instead of their deputies. The Director of Central Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will also belong. The President's assistant for national security affairs-now Brent Scowcroft -will continue as chairman. Attorney General Edward Levi and Budget Director James Lynn will attend meetings as observers. The Attorney General will be responsible for prosecuting any criminal abuses that arise in the course of an agency's operations; the Budget Director will review the budget proposals for the agencies...
...futile effort to keep the U.S. from cutting off secret arms aid, Kurdish General Mustafa Barzani gave three valuable Oriental rugs and a gold and pearl necklace to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Wife Nancy when they were married in 1974. Brent Scowcroft, the President's national security adviser, said that actually one rug and one necklace had been received and both had been promptly turned over to the White House, as required...