29 February 1968: NATO to External - U.S. Interest in Arms Control

Following a meeting of disarmament experts, the Canadian NATO delegation reported back to Ottawa regarding insights from an American official, Dr. Herbert Scoville Jr., an Assistant Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. 

Scoville emphasized that ABM deployment vis à vis China had not diminished Washington’s desire to talk with the Soviets to control the strategic nuclear arms race. The American “stressed that new weapons systems made it more necessary than ever to reach arms control agreements, but confessed he was not personally optimistic about prospects for success.”