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Mr. Kronmiller. That group consists of Under Secretaries and, 

 in some cases, Assistant Secretaries. 



Mr. Gilman. The same people who prepared the papers, in other 

 words? 



Mr. Kronmiller. No, sir. Deputy Assistant Secretaries prepare 

 the papers. 



Mr. Gilman. Then the Assistant Secretaries will look over the 

 papers and prepare a formal paper to go to the President? 



Mr. Kronmiller. They will pass along recommended papers to 

 go to the President. 



Mr. Gilman. At what point will Congress be brought into all of 

 this? At this point I assume you haven't consulted at all with 

 Congress. Is that correct? 



Mr. Kronmiller. In a formal sense, no. In an informal sense, 

 yes. We have had discussions with Members of Congress on an 

 informal basis? 



Mr. Gilman. With whom? 



Mr. Kronmiller. Mr. Malone has carried out those discussions. 



Mr. Gilman. May I ask Ambassador Malone who in the Con- 

 gress? Have you consulted with the chairman of our committee? 



Mr. Malone. I have not yet had the opportunity and privilege to 

 consult with Chairman Zablocki. We will be doing that and we will 

 be doing that, of course, with all of the interested Members, either 

 individually or in a group situation. 



I have, however, not had discussions with Mr. Zablocki, as Mr. 

 Kronmiller has just pointed out. 



Mr. Gilman. Have you had any discussions with any of the other 

 chairmen of any congressional committee? 



Mr. Malone. No. I have only had a limited number of individual 

 contacts with individual Members on both the House and the 

 Senate side so far. We have not moved into what I would describe 

 as the more formal phase of our consultation with Congress. 



Mr. Gilman. Were any of those discussions with members of the 

 Foreign Affairs Committee or the Merchant Marine Committee? 



Mr. Malone. There has been some discussion with members of 

 the Merchant Marine Committee. Thus far I have had no informal 

 discussions with members of the Foreign Affairs Committee. 



Mr. Gilman. Mr. Kronmiller, at what point, then, do you intend 

 to bring in congressional input? 



Mr. Kronmiller. We intend to do it as swiftly as possible. We 

 had hoped to have that process underway already. 



Mr. Gilman. How do you intend to do that, in what manner and 

 who are you going to seek out for that kind of input? 



Mr. Kronmiller. We are going to seek input, as I think you have 

 implied, from the chairmen of the cognizant congressional commit- 

 tees on both sides. We will make certain that all other interested 

 Members of Congress are brought into the process, and that their 

 points of view are fully taken into account. 



We intend for this to be iterative in nature. 



Mr. Gilman. Would that be before the Assistant Secretaries 

 review the final document? 



Mr. Kronmiller. Absolutely. I can state that categorically. 

 There will be consultations at an early stage. This is still an early 

 stage. As Ambassador Malone has indicated this is a highly com- 



