Arms Control and Disarmament


31. Oral Message From Chairman Khrushchev to President Johnson

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Intelligence File, Arms Control Messages Exchanged Between President Johnson and Chairman, USSR, Vol. 1, Box 11. No classification marking. A typed notation on the source text indicates that the date refers to the day the message was received.


32. Letter From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (Solbert) to the Deputy Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Fisher)

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Disarmament, Vol. 1, Box 10. Secret.


33. Memorandum From the Acting Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Scoville) to President Johnson

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Disarmament, Vol. 1, Box 10. Secret.


34. Notes of Meeting

Source: Seaborg, Journal, Vol. 8, pp. 565-566. No classification marking.


35. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy) to President Johnson

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Disarmament, Vol. 1, Box 10. Secret. The source text is attached to a June 13 memorandum from Keeny to McGeorge Bundy. Keeny expressed reservations about the failure of the agencies to resolve the issue of aerial reconnaissance and the exclusion of certain types of nuclear reactors from inspection but nonetheless concluded, “I am impressed that all the agencies have agreed to the paper and believe that you should recommend that the President approve the paper as it stands.”


36. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Disarmament, ACDA Publications, Vol. III, Box 12. Secret. Drafted by Scoville. The source text is attached to the summary of actions taken at the meeting, Document 37, which notes the time of the meeting and that it took place in the Secretary of State’s Conference Room. Also attached is a June 30 note from Keeny to McGeorge Bundy (who missed the meeting) that asked him to note the summary of actions and Secretary Rusk’s comments “on the problem of nuclear weapons for India when China obtains nuclear weapons.” Another account of this meeting is in Seaborg, Journal, Vol. 8, pp. 566-567.


37. Summary of Actions

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Disarmament,ACDA Publications, Vol. III, Box 12. Secret. No drafting information appears on the source text. The meeting was held in the Secretary of State’s Conference Room.


39. National Intelligence Estimate

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, National Intelligence Estimates, 11-64, USSR, Box 3. Top Secret; Restricted Data. According to a note on the cover sheet: “This estimate consists of an updating of those subjects in NIE 11-2-63 about which significant new information has become available, and which merit a restatement. It includes topics under the following main headings from NIE 11-2-63, ‘The Soviet Atomic Energy Program,’ dated 2 July 1963: Nuclear Reactor Program—Marine Nuclear Propulsion Systems; Fissionable Materials Production; Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program. The reader should refer to NIE 11-2-63 for information on other details of the Soviet atomic energy program.” NIE 11-2-63 is ibid., National Security File, National Intelligence Estimates, 11-63,USSR, Box 1)


40. Record of Meeting of the Committee of Principals

Source: Department of State, S/S-RD Files: Lot 68 D 452, Committee of Principals, January-July 1964. Secret. Probably drafted by Scoville, who is listed as reporting officer on the attached list of participants. The meeting was held in the James Madison Room, Department of State. The source text is also attached to the summary of actions taken at the meeting, Document 41, which provides the time and place of the meeting.


41. Summary of Actions

Source: Department of State, S/S-RD Files: Lot 68 D 452, Committee of Principals, January-July 1964. Secret. No drafting information appears on the source text. The meeting was held in the James Madison Room, Department of State.


42. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, S/S-RD Files: Lot 68 D 452, Committee of Principals, August-December 1964. Secret. Probably drafted by Jacob D. Beam, who is listed as reporting officer on the attached list of participants. The meeting was held in the Secretary of State’s Conference Room. The source text is also attached to the summary of action taken at the meeting, Document 43, which provides the time and place of the meeting.


43. Summary of Actions

Source: Department of State, S/S-RD Files: Lot 68 D 452, Committee of Principals, August-December 1964. Secret.


44. Draft Position Paper

Source: Department of State, S/S-RD Files: Lot 68 D 452, Committee of Principals, August-December 1964. Secret; Noforn. The source text was forwarded to Secretary Rusk under cover of an August 14 memorandum from Foster. Foster’s memorandum indicated that the paper “is based in part on discussion at the June 16 and July 23 meetings of the Committee of Principals and also sets forth a U.S. response to the recent resolution of the Organization of African Unity on this subject.” Regarding these two meetings of the Committee of Principals, see Documents 36, 37, 40, and 41. The OAU resolution refers to the declaration on the denuclearization of Africa adopted by the heads of state and government of the Organization of African Unity at Cairo, July 21. Text in Documents on Disarmament, 1964, pp. 294-295.


46. Memorandum From the Acting Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (Thompson) to Secretary of State Rusk

Source: Department of State,S/S-RD Files: Lot 68 D 452, Committee of Principals, August-December 1964. Secret; Limited Distribution. Drafted by Garthoff on August 24. The source text forms Tab C-1 of a briefing book prepared for Secretary Rusk for the meeting of the Committee of Principals on August 27.


48. Informal Minutes of the Fourth Meeting of the Committee on Nuclear Weapons Capabilities

Source: Department of State, S/S-NSC Files: Lot 70 D 265, Committee on Nuclear Weapons. Secret; Limited Distribution. Drafted by Garthoff on September 30. The source text was transmitted under cover of a September 30 memorandum from Thompson to the members of the Committee on Nuclear Weapons Capabilities.


50. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, S/S-RD Files: Lot 68 D 452, Committee of Principals, August-December 1964. Secret. Drafted by Scoville. Another account of this meeting is in Seaborg, Journal, Vol. 9, pp. 399, 404, and 409.


51. National Security Action Memorandum No. 320

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, National Security Action Memorandums, NSAM 320-Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation, Box 6. Confidential.


52. Memorandum From the Ambassador at Large (Thompson) to the Acting Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Fisher)

Source: Department of State, S/S-RD Files: Lot 68 D 452, Committee of Principals, August-December 1964. Secret; Limit Distribution.


53. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, S/AL Files: Lot 67 D 2, Gromyko/Secretary Conversations, December 1964. Confidential. Drafted by Akalovsky and approved in S on December 9. The source text is labeled “Part III of III.” The meeting, which took place at the U.N. Mission, was one of several between Secretary Rusk and Gromyko in late November and December in New York and Washington. Memoranda of their conversations on disarmament on November 30 and December 2, 9, and 19 are ibid., and also in Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18-4.


54. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL US-USSR. Confidential. Drafted by Akalovsky on December 11 and approved in S on December 15 and by the White House on December 16. The meeting was held in the White House.


55. Memorandum From the Acting Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (Thompson) to the Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Foster)

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Name File, Spurgeon Keeny Memos, Box 5. Secret; Limited Distribution. Drafted by Garthoff. At the end of the source text are concurrences initialed by Richard H. Davis (EUR), Henry D. Owen (S/P), Jeffrey C. Kitchen (G/PM), Thomas L. Hughes (INR), and Richard N. Gardner (IO).


56. Draft Minutes of Discussion of the Second Meeting of Committee on Nuclear Proliferation

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Committee File, Committee on Nuclear Proliferation, Chron File, Box 5. Secret; Limited Distribution. Drafted by Rivkin on December 19. The second meeting of the Gilpatric Committee was held in the Old Executive Office Building from December 13 at 10 a.m. to December 14 at 1 p.m. No approved version of the minutes has been found.


57. 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, Name File, Spurgeon Keeny Memos, Box 5. Secret.


59. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Committee File, Committee on Nuclear Proliferation, Minutes of Meetings, Box 9. Secret;Exdis. Drafted by Garthoff. The attached list of participants is not printed.


60. Minutes of Discussion

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Committee File, Committee on Nuclear Proliferation, Minutes of Meetings, Box 9. Secret; Limited Distribution. Drafted by Rivkin on January 19. The minutes cover the third meeting of the Gilpatric Committee, which met in the Old Executive Office Building from January 7 at 10 a.m. to January 8 at 5:45 p.m.