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No unclassifie d reply or reference . ft S^N^DMNEiii SEC P 191230Z FM CJS LONDON N A D I A N Paraphrase ~7 7* O N L Y -S')v:Ri"ff TO CCOS OTTAWA FOR SEC JIC BT S E C R E T CANADIAN EYES ONLY DRA 4 8 3 PLEASE PASS FOLLOWING TO CAMF^EtlKJlB FROM TR0TMANo MY LETTER L / 6 I / G 9 OF 14 DEC MAY NOT YET HAVE REACHED YOU* PROBLEM CONTAINED IN THIS LETTER IS NOW URGENT, AND FOLLOWING IS GISTo HAVE BEEN APPROACHED BY JIBCL) ABOUT RECENT LACK OF INFORMATION FROM CANADIAN SOURCES IN INDOCHINAo SYSTEM OF PASSING REPORTS THROUGH CRO WHICH EXISTED WHEN WE WERE FIRST ON GROUND HAS APPARENTLY NOT BEEN REINSTITUTEBe THIS IS EMBARRASING TO JIBCL) AS IT IS CLEAR THAT DATA FROM CANADIAN SOURCES IS REACHING WAR OFFICE PRESUMABLY AS RESULT OF LOCAL EXCHANGE, IF DATA IS RELEASED LOCALLY, WHY CANNOT PREVIOUS SYSTEM--tfF~Rt££$SE IN LONDON BE RECOMMENCEDo PLEASE ADVISE ME URGENTLY WHAT LONDON, BT CFN DRA 4 8 3 L / 6 1 / G 9 14 6 8 0 / 1 9 DEC 61 SECRET 00240 4 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indochina (CDVN) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CDVN00006 Title A name given to the resource Sharing Reporting on Indo-China with UK Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 19-Dec-61 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library and Archives Canada, RG24, vol. 31274, file 173-2000-1, part 8. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Government of Canada Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Canadian Crown Subject The topic of the resource Intelligence Activtiies in Vietnam Description An account of the resource Canadian Foreign Intelligence History Project Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canada Declassified Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource en https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/7127848728d5856193a2fee0d1891d9f.pdf 1c284c8e65781fcc3e8e183ffed3f784 PDF Text Text J ^p J C R C T SI W9-106-1 (LsC4 4 Cic22 10 w fil'61 ,2/07- J 19 December, 1961* Secretary of &ate for External Affaire, Seat Block. Ottawa, Ontario. f7\ My dear Colle&guet w x ft I refer to your letter of 30 March, 1%1, relative t o the ^proposed agreement with the United States Government governing the •A .provision of stockpile a of nuclear warheads for Canadian f o r c e s . In our letter you proposed that appropriate officials of our two departments undertake "to prepare a revision of the draft agreement i c such a way that it would deal with this problem a s a whole by providing that the detailed procedures governing storage, release from storage. and f authorisation of nee of the various weapons e y s t e m s ahould be eet out in <a s e r i e s of Schedules, one for each type of warhead t o be n o d e available. (/rthich would form en integral part of a comprehensive agreement". Subsequent to receipt of your letter interdepartmental discussion* and exchanges of proposed drafts occurred, and it le my understanding that you have given your approval t o the latest draft and forwarded it to the Prime Minister for hia concurrence. A copy of thia latest draft hae been made available to my department. 71 \ Since the time when the original drafts were prepared. ^ agreement has been reached with the United Skates whereby Canada $/acquired F"10l aircraft to replace the CFIOO In the Air Defence force. •*W The F101 le equipped to carry bomber-destroying m i s s i l e s using atomic warhead a. V Since nuclear weapons began to be made available for air defence a few years ago, there hae been a steady reduction in the numbers of Interceptors of various types programmed for the air defence forces of the United States and Canada. You will r e c a l l , for example, the very large cut-back effected last year by the United .-Sates In tho Bomarc B programme. In our owturaee, In addition to accepting m i s s i l e ^rengthLorlglnally eoatcmpleted a reduction of 75 percent in C/fjf |l y �SECRET *t the two Canadian Bomarc b a s e s , we ere now In the p r o c e s s of replacing I - CF-10- air defence interceptors with only 66 CF*-1C1 Interceptors which nun b«r resulted purely fron- availability and la abort of operational requirements. These reductions are to only a sn all extent justified by a decreaee In the estimated bomber threet. The real Justification s t e m s from the equipping of these various weapons with nuclear armament. Without such armament, the combined strength of the United States and Canadian air defence forces would be woefully Inadequate, re suit tag la an obvious and serious gap In our deterrent posture. in edditlon to significantly increasing the kill potential of any given air defence force, nuclear air defence weapons generally are designed to destroy not only the bomber but a l s o the bombs tt Is carrying, with only n Inor release of radioactive fall-out m a t e r i a l s . Considering the fact that any bombers brought down by our C F - l O l Interceptors would most likely be over C median territory and le the general vicinity of our most populated a r e a s , and that any bombs these aircraft carried which were not destroyed by the air defence weapons would most likely produce a full-scale ground level nuclear detonation, the desirability of employing nuclear weapons on our Interceptors Is, It s e e m s to n o , most obvious. One additional point that ahould be considered le that these 1C1 interceptors were made available to Canada by the United States for use In our mutual defence, out of and with a resultant reduction in their owe operational air defence Inventor)-. Before their transfer, these aircraft were equipped with nuclear weapons aad made a eignlfleaas) contribution to our mutual defence posture. If we should new limit the a m an ent of these aircraft to non-nuclear weapons, the result weald be a significant reduction In NORAD's defence capability. For th* foregoing reasons I would ask that the pre*)need agreement wtth the United States be expanded to ta-cfanio arrangements lor the prevision of nuclear a i r - t o - a i r weapon* tor Canadian CF-101 •'ptors. To chat end I enclose herewith a draft f.ch«'&il« for •.•sow In the egreea^e-as., which hat? been cen-posed to correspond to •VA* i >«d co-etatA c£ ttus other Schedules a s last drafted by year • a eio*«r*ay« Pen e l s e S. Harkness. 001259 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CDNW04307 Title A name given to the resource Letter to Secretary of State for External Affairs from Douglas S. Harkness Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "NATO Cooperation Regarding Nuclear Weapons And Missile Bases (IRBM)," RG24-B-1, vol 21468, file CSC 2108:1, part 4, Library and Archives Canada (LAC). Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Canadian Crown Subject The topic of the resource Nuclear Weapons Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canada Declassified Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource en Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 19-Dec-61