No Objection To Declassification in Full 201 11 _1_§_ N -C_ 12-28_-i-18-5 -- _ - - MEMORANDUM THE WHITE -HOUSE WASHINGTON October 28 1977 xx TOP SECRET SENSITIVE 7118 MEMORANDUM FOR ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI FROM WILLIAM ODOM SUBJECT Your Monday Meeting With Harold Brown The following- Hems in n iy area are on Harold Brown I s agenda Revi$ed SIOP format The example General Jones showed you enroute to SAC last Saturday is very close to-the version that Harold Brown will bring for discussion on Monday If I can get a copy for you in advance I shall do so Counter-Terrodsm You are already aware of the plan to send a DOD team to study Colonel Weggener's operation And you know of Warren Christopher's Senior Advisory Group at State and the plan for me and Heyward Isham to go to Bonn As you perhaps know now DOD does have troops and staff support earmarked and trained for counter-terror operations We also have a limited but effective capability for locating nuclear explosive devices Precisely what aspect of these matters Harold Brown will choose to emphasize is unclear but I personally sense a danger in expecting to find a panacea in the German counter-terror techniques The so-called flash grenades apparently blinded the commandos as well as the terrorists Enticing the_ terrorist to come to the same location near the cockpit first before the assault was'the key to their success LNOs 1 RNOs Reportedly this will be a discussion of the briefing paper at Tab I the one you took on the SAC trip I am doing a separate memo for _ you on LNOs RNOs based on among other things a discussion with _G_eneral Jones on the return trip from SAC He certainly is not in love with either LNOs or RNOs For this discussion I believe the best position is to see them as useful staff exercises but not products for actual Presidential choice The real issue if the President wants a number of options short of the SIOP variants is the speed with which lesser strikes i e LNOs could be staffed by JCS SAC in a crisis and in response to the unique political guidance at that time TOP SECRET SENSITIVE No Objection To Declassification in Full 2013 11 15 NLC-12-28-4-18-5