Arms Control and Disarmament
91. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18-3. Secret; Exdis. Drafted by Foster. This conversation took place in the Hotel des Bergues.
93. Minutes of Meeting of the Committee of Principals
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Disarmament, Committee of Principals, Vol. 2, Box 14. Secret. Drafted by George W. Rathjens (ACDA/D) on August 28. The meeting was held in the Secretary of State’s office. Seaborg’s notes of this meeting are in Seaborg, Journal, Vol. 26, pp. 304-307.
94. Summary of Actions
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Disarmament, Committee of Principals, Vol. 2, Box 14. Secret. Drafted by George W. Rathjens (ACDA/D), August 28, 1965. The meeting was held in the Secretary of State’s office.
96. Memorandum From the Acting Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Fisher) to Secretary of State Rusk
Source: Washington National Records Center, RG 383, ACDA/D Files: FRC 77 A 52, Memoranda to the Secretary of State, 1965. Secret. Drafted by Peter S. Bridges (ACDA/IR) on September 28. The source text was transmitted through Acting Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thompson.
97. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL US-USSR. Secret; Exdis. Drafted by William D. Krimer (LS) and Alfred Puhan (EUR/GER) and approved by S on October 2. The meeting was held at the Soviet Mission to the United Nations. Secretary of State Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko headed their countries’ delegations to the opening of the U.N. General Assembly’s twentieth session in New York, September-October 1965. Rusk was in New York, September 26-October 5, 1965.
98. Memorandum From Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr., of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy)
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, U.S. Draft Non-Proliferation Treaty, Box 27. Confidential.
99. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18. Confidential. Drafted by J. Harold Shullaw (EUR/BNA) and approved in S, U, and G on October 19. The source text is labeled “Part 2 of 6.” This meeting was held in the Secretary of State’s office. Stewart visited the United States October 11-14.
100. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18. Secret. Drafted and approved by Thompson (S/AL), October 29. Thompson informed British Ambassador Dean of the Soviet oral message, allowing him to take full notes, November 6. (Memorandum of Conversation; ibid.)
101. Memorandum From the Acting Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Beam) to Secretary of State Rusk
Source: Washington National Records, RG 383, ACDA/D Files: FRC 77 A 52, Memos of the Secretary of State, 1965. Secret; Noforn; Controlled Dissem. Drafted by James S. Bodnar (ACDA/IR) and Beam and cleared by Helmut Sonnenfeldt (INR/RSB), Raymond L. Garthoff (G/PM), Thompson (S/AL), and Vladimir Toumanoff (EUR/SOV).
102. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy) to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Country File, U.S.S.R., Vol. XI, 11/25-2/66, Box 221. Top Secret.
103. Letter From Secretary of Defense McNamara to the Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Foster)
Source: Washington National Records Center, RG 383, ACDA/D Files: FRC 77 A 52, Memoranda to the Secretary of State, 1965. The source text is Tab B to a December 3 memorandum from Fisher to Secretary Rusk, which asks Rusk to get McNamara’s concurrence on a draft letter from Foster to the Latin Americans on a Latin American Nuclear Free Zone (Tab A). Fisher’s memorandum states that the attached draft letter “maintains the pressure for the inclusion of Cuba but, in accordance with the position paper you approved, leaves the way open for subsequent U.S. agreement even if Cuba is not included.” For text of the revised letter of December 10, see Document 105.
104. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, S/S-I Files: Lot 79 D 246, US Officials Memoranda of Conversation with Leading USSR Officials, 1965. Secret. Drafted and approved by Thompson (S/AL) December 9, and in S/S-S by John P. Walsh. The meeting was held in the Secretary’s office.
105. Letter From the Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Foster) to the Chairman of the Negotiating Committee of the Preparatory Commission for the Denuclearization of Latin America (Garcia Robles)
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18. Confidential. Also printed in Documents on Disarmament, 1965, pp. 626-627. The source text is an attachment to a memorandum of conversation between Gerard Gaussen, Counselor of the French Embassy in Washington, and Samuel De Palma, Deputy Assistant Director, ACDA/IR, December 15.
106. Telegram From the Embassy in the Soviet Union to the Department of State
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18. Confidential.
107. Draft Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Pen Pal Correspondence: Lot 77 D 163. Secret; Exdis. Drafted by Walter J. Stoessel, Jr. (EUR). The conversation was held in Ball’s office.
108. Message From Chairman Kosygin to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Head of State Correspondence File, Pen Pal Correspondence, Kosygin, Box 8. Secret. A January 12 memorandum from Benjamin H. Read to McGeorge Bundy states that this message seemed to renew the “pen-pal” correspondence.
109. Memorandum From the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Secretary of Defense McNamara
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject Files, Disarmament, 18-Nation Disarmament Committee (ENDC), Vol. II, Box 13. Top Secret; Restricted Data. A January 14 cover memorandum by R.C. Bowman, transmitting a copy of the source text to McGeorge Bundy, states that the Joint Chiefs of Staff “strongly oppose any new test ban proposal at this time,” because the likely Soviet development of an area anti-ballistic missile system could reduce the U.S. strategic deterrent capability to a dangerous level. The Joint Chiefs of Staff wanted continued testing for several years and at the same time improvement in detection capabilities to an adequate level for monitoring a test ban.
110. Abstract of the Report of the Ad Hoc Panel on Technical Aspects of Nuclear Test Ban Proposals
Source: Washington National Records Center, JCS 383, Central Policy File: FRC 86 A 5, Folder 2557. Top Secret; Restricted Data. The report contains a transmittal letter from Panel Chairman W.G. McMillan to General J.P. McConnell, Chief of Staff,USAF, January 14. Also attached is a cover memorandum from General Earle G. Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to members of the Committee of Principals (JCSM-78-66), February 3, stating that the Joint Chiefs of Staff designated the U.S. Air Force as the executive agent to establish a panel for an independent analysis of technical problems relating to test ban proposals to evaluate the security implications of further nuclear test restraints.
111. Memorandum From the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Secretary of Defense McNamara
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, U.S. Draft Nonproliferation Treaty, Box 27. Top Secret, Restricted Data.
112. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18. Secret. Drafted by William F. Miller (ACDA/IR) on January 27 and approved in ACDA/D. A handwritten note on the source text indicates that this conversation was held at the British Embassy. Memoranda of two other conversations, January 19, are ibid. No memoranda of the January 20 conversations were found.
113. National Intelligence Estimate
[Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, National Intelligence Estimates 4, Arms and Disarmament, Box 1. Secret; Controlled Dissem. 22 pages of source text not declassified.]
114. Summary of Action
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Disarmament, Committee of Principals, Vol. 3, Box 14. Secret; Restricted Data. An attached list of participants is not printed. The meeting was held in the Secretary of State’s conference room.
115. Letter From the Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Foster) to Secretary of State Rusk
Source: Washington National Records Center, JCS 383, ACDA/D Files: FRC 77 A 52, Memoranda to the Secretary of State, 1966. Confidential. Copies were sent to Secretary McNamara, Chairman Seaborg, and McGeorge Bundy.
116. Letter From President Johnson to Chairman Kosygin
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Disarmament, Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee, Vol. II, Box 13. No classification marking. A January 24 cover memorandum to another copy from Benjamin H. Read to McGeorge Bundy states that “this is the message to Mr. Kosygin as delivered by Ambassador Thompson at 3:00 p.m. today.” (Ibid., National Security File, Head of State Correspondence File, Pen Pal Correspondence, Kosygin, Box 13) A January 23 memorandum from Bundy to President Johnson, transmitting the draft of this letter, reads in part as follows: “This letter now has the agreement of Rusk, Ball, McNamara, Foster and myself. We have managed to find language which gives a little more reassurance to the Soviet Government on nonproliferation than we have managed before now, while at the same time it fully protects our interest in nuclear arrangements that will keep the Germans with us. The major contribution is George Ball’s definition of proliferation in the fifth paragraph. That definition is a shade more binding than the language we have used before now, but it is entirely consistent with everything we have said to the Germans.” (Ibid., National Security File, Subject File, Disarmament, Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee, Vol. II, Box 13)
118. Telegram From the Representative to the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee (Foster) to the Acting Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Fisher)
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Agency File, ACDA, Vol. II, Box 6. Secret; No Distribution; Eyes Only. A February 16 cover memorandum from Fisher to McGeorge Bundy states that the telegram arrived by special channel because of the reference to the President’s January 24 letter to Kosygin. Fisher added that he was sending a copy to the Secretary of State.
119. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the United Kingdom
Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL UK-US. Secret; Nodis; Immediate. Text received from the White House on February 20. This text is apparently a White House revision of the draft text transmitted by memorandum from Secretary Rusk to President Johnson, February 19. (Ibid.)
120. Letter From the German Chargé d’Affaires (Lilienfeld) to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, Bator Papers, Non-Proliferation, August 3, 1965-July 29, 1966, Box 30. Secret. A cover memorandum by Francis M. Bator, which transmitted this letter to President Johnson on February 25, states that Chancellor Erhard was concerned that the recent changes in the U.S. draft nonproliferation treaty “will narrow the possibilities for NATO nuclear arrangements involving hardware.” Bator stated that “we will be able to reassure the Germans on this score.”
- According to Secretary of State Rusk’s Appointment Book, he attended this meeting beginning at 4:38 p.m. (Johnson Library, Rusk Appointment Book, 1965)↩