1421 



TABLE 5— NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL STAFF POSITIONS 



1974 

 zctual 



1975 

 estimate 



1976 

 estimate 



GS-18 - 4.4 4 



GS-17 : - 4 7 7 



GS-16 - -.. 3 1 1 



GS-15 - ....^. 8 6 6 



GS-14 9 5 6 



GS-13 iL 4 2 2 



GS-12.... . 4 4 4 



GS-11 ..■..: - :..... J ... 6 ' 3 3 



GS-10.. ....... ..........:....'.'..i.-... ,4' 5 5 



GS-9.-iw. j-.--....i..ii.- — ■.j..,tL.,.^. — k — :-.~ i-.^.. ,...-.... .12 , 16 16 



GS-8.. ...:...-•.....,._..,...„ ..-,...-.; ..S:... 9 . 6 6 



GS-T..,..:.^:.;......v..:..3:-^:-:.:.i:l-:— i.:.:— 1- « ■'** --7^ -T 



6S-€.....j..-l-.:.....-..u.^:;.C:«.';.:..^Li:iLi:.-„^..i-.:u ■ .. 5.' : -.-I •:. A. 



6ST5.;u....^..J-,^,.-i^.-J..^.._..vV^-^ ,.-..-,.-... . ■ ■ ,^3., .. ...,,, 3 / _ , .. 2 



Tqtal permanent positions 79 72 ■' . 72- 



Unfilled positions, 'June 36.-.: ^.....=.-.'...w-.i.'.ii.L.^ji.:*i^-i.'- • -10.; • r-2 ' . "^2 



Total p«rm8nentfmplpymeni end of yeaf...Il.-..--.-^------- ■6f • ■' ' 70 Tfr 



Source: The budget of the U.S. Government Hscal y«ar 197E, appendix. 



' The contsQfcts betweeil th^ White Htoiise syBtem ftnd the/Departinent 

 of State have. :bee«fUrtheiv strengthened bv' the composition, formal 

 assignments, aiid informal contacts Unking the Policy Planning Staff 

 with the National Security Council. Thus, Wreatham E. Gathright 

 of the Staff is staff director of the Under Secretaries Committee of 

 NSC. Winston Lord, director of the Policy Planning Staff, chairs the 

 NSC Contingency Planning Working Group. And in general, all 

 members of the staff relate closely to the NSC staff and contribute 

 to its operational programs. Lord and one of his two deputies (Samuel 

 W. Lewis) served under Secretary Kissinger on the NSC staff, and the 

 other deputy (Reginald Bartholomew), was director of policy plans 

 and NSC affairs in the Department of Defense. 



The Policy Planning Staff, currently numbering about 30, finds itself 

 involved in an extensive array of scientific and technological problems, 

 issues, and fields of concern. The principal member of the staff for 

 scientific and technological affairs is Mr. Gathright, but at least eight 

 other staff members have technical assignments as a part of their 

 work (see Table 6). -^ 



Table 6. — Members of the Policy Planning Staff Concerned With "Science and 



Technology Related" Problems ' 



Michael H. Armacost — Japan. 



Harry C. Blaney — Law of the Sea, environment, population, energy. 

 ■ Luigi Einaudi — Latin America. 

 ' Charles R. Frank — economic problems of Less Developed Countries. 



Wreatham E. Gathright — general overview; technology policy; outer space; 

 environmental modification; U.S. -Soviet agreements; nuclear tests; arms control. 

 ^ Jerome H. Kahan and Jan KaUcki — nuclear energy, non-proliferation. 



C. William Kontos — development, Joint Cooperation Commissions (Middle 

 East/South Asia), U.N. 



Robert H. Morris — food, energy, taw materials. 

 Charles Zemach — SALT, arms control. 



• Source: Department of State. 



An enthusiastic endorsement of the "new" Policy Planning Staff is 

 offered by James Reston in the New lork Times. His coJumn, re- 



