Arms Control and Disarmament
211. Letter From the Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Foster) to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Agency File, ACDA, Vol. III, Box 6. Secret.
212. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Country File, USSR, Dobrynin Conversations, Volume I, 11/63-4/68, Box 229. Secret. Exdis. Drafted by Foster on October 5 and approved in S/S on October 6. The conversation took place at the Soviet Embassy.
214. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18-6. Secret; Exdis. Drafted by Foster on November 2 and approved in S/S by Walsh on November 10. The meeting took place in Foster’s office.
215. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant (Rostow) to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Rostow Files, Meetings with the President, July thru December 1967, Box 1. Secret.
216. Telegram From the Department of State to Certain Posts
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18-6. Secret. Drafted by George Bunn (ACDA/GC); cleared by Culver Gleysteen (ACDA/IR), Fisher (ACDA/D), George S. Springsteen (EUR), Vincent Baker (EUR/RPM), Abraham Katz (EUR/RPE), Walsh (S/S), Allan Labowitz (AEC) (informed), and Morton Halperin (DOD) (informed); and approved by Acting Secretary Katzenbach. The telegram was sent to all NATO capitals, Tokyo, Moscow, and to the Mission in Geneva.
217. Notes of Meeting
Source: Johnson Library, Tom Johnson’s Notes of Meetings, Box 1. No classification marking. An attached December 4 cover memorandum from Tom Johnson to the President notes the time of the meeting and lists the participants as McNamara, Katzenbach, Wheeler, Helms, Schultze, Hornig, Seaborg, Spurgeon Keeny, Robert Anderson, Tape, Fisher, and Foster.
218. Memorandum From Secretary of State Rusk to President Johnson
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18-6. Secret; Exdis.
219. Telegram From the Department of State to the Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18-6. Secret; Exdis; Immediate. Also sent to Bonn, Brussels, The Hague, London, Luxembourg, Paris, Rome, the Mission in Geneva, and USUN.
220. Letter From the Acting Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Fisher) to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Non-Proliferation Treaty, 7/21/67, Vol. II, Box 26. Secret.1
221. Letter From the President’s Special Assistant (Rostow) to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Rostow Files, Meetings with the President, July thru December 1967, Box 1. Secret. The typewritten date of December 4 has been corrected by hand to read December 5.
222. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Germany
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18. Secret; Nodis; Immediate. Repeated to the Mission in Geneva and to USNATO for Secretary Rusk. The text of the telegram was received from Walt Rostow at the White House and cleared for transmission by Under Secretary Katzenbach and Samuel G. Wise (S/S-O). The telegram text was submitted under cover of a December 9 memorandum from Rusk to President Johnson. Rusk recommended that it be sent in response to Chancellor Kiesinger’s December 8 letter to President Johnson which “discussed unresolved German concerns over the Non-Proliferation Treaty … other bilateral issues and his recent trips to London and Asia.” Rusk also suggested that “Since I shall be seeing German Foreign Minister Brandt in Brussels on December 12 and shall raise the Non-Proliferation Treaty with him there, I think it would be helpful for you to send the enclosed letter [the text printed here] in time to reach Chancellor Kiesinger before that meeting.”
223. Telegram From the Mission in Geneva to the Department of State
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18-6. Secret; Limdis. Repeated to Bonn, Brussels, The Hague, London, Moscow, Rome, New York, Tokyo, and to the Mission at NATO.
224. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Country File, USSR, Dobrynin Conversations, Volume I, 11/63-4/68, Box 229. Secret; Limdis. Drafted by Foster on December 26. The conversation was held in Foster’s office.
225. 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, 1968. Secret. A handwritten notation on the source text reads: “Secretary saw.”
226. Memorandum From Secretary of State Rusk to President Johnson
Source: Washington National Records Center, RG 383, ACDA/D Files: FRC 77 A 52, Memoranda to the Secretary of State, 1968. Secret. The source text was submitted under cover of an undated memorandum from Fisher to Secretary Rusk, which enclosed for Rusk’s approval “a self-explanatory Memorandum to the President recommending that the United States sign Protocol II to the Latin American Nuclear Free Zone Treaty with an interpretive statement.”
228. 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, 1968. Confidential. The source text bears the concurrences of Leddy, Pollack, and Tape.
229. Memorandum for the Record of the 584th Meeting of the National Security Council
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, National Security Council File, NSC Meetings, Vol. 5, Tab 66, 3/27/68, Draft Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Secret.
230. Letter From Secretary of State Rusk to the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (Seaborg)
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18-6. Confidential.
231. Memorandum From the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (Bohlen) to Secretary of State Rusk
Source: Washington National Records Center, RG 383, Central Policy File: FRC 86 A 5, Folder 2915. Top Secret; Nodis. Drafted by John P. Shaw (G/PM) on April 2. There is a typed notation on the source text for Ambassador Thompson’s concurrence, but it is not initialed.
232. Letter From the Under Secretary of State (Katzenbach) to Secretary of Defense Clifford
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18-6. Secret. Drafted by Shaw and Leon Sloss (G/PM). The source text was sent under cover of an April 15 memorandum from Foster to Katzenbach, in which Foster recommended that Katzenbach send the letter to Clifford “informing him of the background of the U.S. interpretations of Article I and III before he (Clifford) goes to the NPG meeting at The Hague, April 18-19.” Foster also proposed to Katzenbach that he suggest that Clifford make a statement “setting forth our opinion that the NPT will not affect the activities of the NPG. The FRG has requested that such a statement be made. Messrs. Bohlen and Leddy concur.”
233. Memorandum From the Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Foster) to the Committee of Principals
Source: Johnson Library, Clifford Papers, Arms Control on the Seabed (1), Box 20. Top Secret; Noforn. A stamped notation on the source text reads: “Sec Def has seen Brief.”
234. Memorandum From the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Secretary of Defense Clifford
Source: Washington National Records Center, RG 383, Central Policy Files: FRC 86 A 5, Folder 3566. Top Secret; Sensitive. The source text was sent under cover of a April 18 memorandum from Clifford to President Johnson forwarding the views of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on possible proposals on arms control on the seabed. Clifford further related he had just received from ACDA a proposal on arms control on the seabed which was under review by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and by his staff. Clifford proposed that a Committee of Principals meeting be held to discuss the ACDA proposal, after which their views on the proposal would be forwarded to President Johnson.
235. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant (Rostow) to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Rostow Files, Strategic Missile Talks, Box 11. Top Secret.
236. Memorandum From the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Secretary of Defense Clifford
Source: Washington National Records Center, RG 383, OASD/ISA Files: FRC 72 A 1499, 388.3, January 1968. Top Secret.
237. Letter From President Johnson to Chairman Kosygin
Source: Department of State, Pen Pal Correspondence: Lot 77 D 163, Special U.S.-U.S.S.R. File, Pen-Pal Series, 1968. Top Secret. On May 3, at the request of Secretary Rusk, Dobrynin met with him confidentially to receive a copy of this letter, and was asked to deliver it to Kosygin. Bohlen also attended this meeting. (Ibid.) The text of the letter was also telegraphed to the Embassy in Moscow on May 7.
238. Record of Meeting of the Committee of Principals
Source: Washington National Records Center, RG 383, Central Policy File:FRC 85 A 83, Principals Meeting, May 14, 1968. Secret. No drafting information appears on the source text, although Sidney Graybeal and George Bunn of ACDA are listed as reporting officers on the attached list of participants. The meeting took place in the Secretary’s office.
239. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18-6. Secret; Exdis. Drafted by Leddy (EUR) and approved for distribution by J.P. Walsh (S/S) on May 20. The source text is labeled “Part I of V.” The conversation took place in the Secretary’s dining room.
240. Memorandum From Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr., of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Special Assistant (Rostow)
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Rostow Files, Glassboro State College, 6/4/68 Commencement Speech, Box 11. Confidential.