No Objection To Declassification in Full 2013 11 15 NL9-12-48-7-11-7 - - ------ - '-- ------- ------- -·- --------- ------MEMORANDUM THE WtUTE HOUSE OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM WASIUNGTOS TOP SECRET ' · INFORMATION t October 3 1979 1- ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI MEMORANDUM FOR I 0 l· - I· · WILLIAM E • ODOM FROM SUBJECT SIOP Changes and Tactical Warning TS This morning at 4 00 a me the NMCC placed me in a Missile Threat Assessment Conference Call One of three radars on the West Coast indicated -- with high confidence -- that an SLBM had been launched and would impact 150 NM off the Oregon coast Technically the ODO in the NMCC should have initiated a NUCFLASH conference call bringing you Harold Brown and General Jones into the net They considered it but in the meanwhile the absence of a second radar confirming the track and the time of impa t slipping by convinced the ODO not to raise the NUCFLASH conference TS - It is a very chilling experience to pick up the phone and hear NORAD repeating we have high confidence in the system and· wonder how to use the remaining four or five minutes · A few week$ ago the PARCS system reported a positive track -·- hi gh confi- · dence It was accurate It was tracking a decaying space object the J-3 reported later TS -I I provide this as background for another memo on SIOP matters which I shall give you for the Friday· lunch with Harold Brown I believe you can see why I am a little disturbed5 I am comforted however by the fact that our WHCA switch works They alert me at the lowest warning level which occurs two or three times a year We could have put you and the President on the line instantly but you would have had only the uncertain data on which no confident decision could have been made TS 7 j i - I TOP SECRET Review on October 3 1999 Extended by Z Brzezinski Reason for Extension NSC l 13 e -- - 'It • - ··- ' • ' ••• ·-· -·--- - · - · · · - · ' • - • • --· ' i i • • ' No Objection To Declassification in Full 2013 11 15 NLC-12-48-7-11-7 ' I t I j j i I _ ' -----···· - ·_ - ¾ · l I -···--· - -- It c _ _ • ll -•· e No Objection To Declassification in Full 2013 11 15 NLC-12-48_--7-11-7 - i No Objection To Declassification in Full 2013 11 15 NLC-12-48-7-11-7