Approved For Release 2005 02 21 NLC-2-25-2-2-8 MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON SECRET-SENSITIVE January 29 1980 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT FROM ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI SUBJECT Daily Report Information Ambassador Linowitz•' Meeting with Hussein King Hussein is visibly delighted and gratified by your invitation to visit Washington for informal discussions and clearly views the invitation as an indication that the u s values him and is building back toward a close relationship While most of his subsequent comments to Ambassador Linowitz on the peace process were familiar Hussein sought to show understanding for our efforts and gave assurances that he would not do anything to make our task more difficult In his only criticism during the entire meeting Hussein stated that he was ignored by the U S and Egypt during the Camp David meetings and felt 0 betrayed 0 by Sadat who had assured him that he would let him know the outcome in advance Hussein felt his outside stance affected his relation with you since you probably interpreted his actions as challenges which was not at all his intention S If we can make real progress in the autonomy negotiations Ambassador Linowitz now believes Hussein will find some way to participate g5x1 even if peripherally S SECRET REVIEW ON JANUARY 28 2000 CLASSIFIED BY MULTIPLE SOURCES @tate Department review completed NARAJNLC review s completed s r-r- n r T L J I Approved For Release 2005 02 21 NLC-2-25-2-2-8 Approved For Release 2005 02 21 NLC-2-25-2-2-8 SECRET - - • SECRET-SENSITIVE -2- Letter from Khalid King Khalid has responded to your January 20 letter by confirming Saudi Arabia's support of a boycott of the summer Olympics unless the soviets withdraw completely from Afghanistan within the next month The king expresses hope that your wise stand will have its effect upon the states which are friends of the rule of security and peace in the world C French Briefini on Kornienko Visit Ambassador Hartman conferred with foreign a fairs Secretary General De Leusse on Sunday concerning Kornienko's talks with De Leusse and Francois-Poncet last week during which the Soviet reiterated the assertion that the u s was responsible for the intervention in Afghanistan Kornienko gave no assurances on Soviet withdrawal saying only that they would remain until the reasons for which they had entered were eliminated and that this would depend in part on the U S The French reportedly responded that the Soviet explanations were not convincing charged the soviets with dealing detente and Franco-soviet relations a severe blow and called for a precise and early timetable for withdrawal De Leusse seemed to feel that while Kornienko had not budged from his hardline position the French attitude had made a serious impression on him Hartman expressed some doubt noting that French actions not words would count C Ji ' I p '7 f _ 1f 1 · NSC Activity Minority Employment on the NSC j - _ r - 4 t 1 More than a year ago when our only black professional staff member µfi Henry Richardson left our staff we advised Arnie Miller that J 7 we would be prepared to find a job in any area for any qualified -yv- fr black Hispanic or any other minority Arnie welcomed this 1· request at the time though he has not proposed anyone since ltJ h rJ We recruit primarily from State CIA and the senior military ranks where there are few minorities and the agencies are anxious to hold onto them For example in addition to Henry Richardson ff we offered positions to Don McHenry and Colonel now General 1£ Colin Powell USA both of whom preferred to stay with their f respective organizations and to a black professor at the Harvard Law School who eventually also declined U fiU J l t SECRET Approved For Release 2005 02 21 NLC-2-25-2-2-8 ·- Approved For Release 2005 02 21 NLC-2-25-2-2-8 • SECRET -3- SECRET-SENSITIVE We have three women substantive officers on the staff now and we have had two others previously Moreover the third ranking officer heading the NSC st ff is a woman This of course does not count Situation Room personnel Over the last three years we have had several women analysts in the Situation Room on a rotating basis from the Intelligence Community U I would like to increase the number of minorities on our staff but frankly we are blocked at present by your limit of under 1 100 staff members That quota must accommodate the situation Room staff all of the staff for message handling and file maintenance of classified traffic for the NSC and the rest of the White House This leaves only 35 professional staff I would hesitate to fire any of my current professional staff members but if we had some small easing of the ceiling I am prepared to work with Arnie as I have in the past to secure minority personnel to perform substantive tasks U J C RET Approved For Release 2005 02 21 NLC-2-25-2-2-8