UNCLASSIFIED stamped over TOP SECRET
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 17, 1991 [sic]
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HONORABLE DICK CHENEY
Secretary of Defense
THE HONORABLE WILLIAM P. BARR
Attorney General
THE HONORABLE ROBERT M. GATES
Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Legislative Strategy for Digital
Telephony (S)
On December 30, 1991, I sent to the President a memorandum
seeking his approval for a legislative strategy for digital
telephony. The substance of that memorandum is attached. On
January 15, 1992, he approved the following course of action:
- Justice should go ahead now to seek a
legislative fix to the digital telephony
problem, and all parties should prepare to
follow through on the encryption problem in
about a year. Success with digital telephony
will lock in one major objective; we will have
a beachhead we can exploit for the encryption
fix; and the encryption access options can be
developed more thoroughly in the meantime. (TS)
<signed> Brent Scowcroft
Attachment
<stamped> Declassified/Released on <handwritten> 6/28/96
under provisions of E.O. 12958
by J. Saunders, National Security Council