38. Editorial Note
In late June and early July 1964, during meetings of the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee in Geneva, Foster and the Soviet Representative Valerian Zorin met privately several times to discuss U.S. and Soviet approaches to arms reductions. At these discussions Foster particularly sought clarification of the Soviet proposal for reduction of military budgets, which Zorin apparently advanced to Foster privately on or before June 24 and formally introduced into the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee on June 25. Text is in Documents on Disarmament, 1964, pages 228-235.
Memoranda of Foster’s conversations with Zorin on June 26, June 30, and July 3, and a memorandum of conversation between Alexander Akalovsky, a member of the U.S. Delegation, and Soviet counterpart L. I. Mendelevich on July 4 are in the Washington National Records Center, RG 383, ACDA/D Files: FRC 77 A 80, Current Johnson-Khrushchev Papers. A more detailed memorandum of the last conversation is in the Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Disarmament, ACDA Publications, Volume III, Box 12.