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E M E R G E N C Y LDN WASHDC OPIMMEDIATE REF YOUR TELS DL370 AND DL373 HAYS PROPOSED NATO PRESS RELEASE ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS TEE POSITION,FOLLOWING THIS MORNING'S COUNCIL MEETING,IS THAT, EXCEPT FOR ONE OR TUO OUTSTANDING POINTS OF DETAIL,ALL OTHER DELS ARE PREPARED TO AGREE TO THE ISSUANCE OF A NATO PRESS RELEASE AND WOULD LIKE THIS DONE WITH THE LEAST POSSIBLE DELAY.OUR ATTITUDE HAS BEEN MADE CLEAR IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR REF TELS,AND A DRAFTING GROUP COMPOSED OF TEE SEC GEN,THE PERM REPS OF THE WESTERN FOUR AND MYSELF I S TO MEET AT 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO CONSIDER WHAT AMENDMENTS,IN ADDITION TO THOSE ALREADY PROPOSED,MIGHT BE MADE IN AN EFFORT TO OBTAIN CDN AGREEMENT* 2*TKE FOLLOWING AMENDMENTS TO THE TEXT CONTAINED IN OUR TEL 391 HAVE ALREADY BEEN PROPOSED OR ACCEPTED:<A)IN PARA 1wTODAY*NOULD DE REPLACED DYnON MAY6W?<D)IN PARA 2"AND"WOULD BE REPLACED BY"OR* BEFOREuUNDER NEGOTIATION"!*OIN PARA 1 ALL AFTERWCERTAIN NATO COUITTRIES"UOULD READBFOR THE NECESSARY TRAINING OF PERSONNEL AND EXCHANGE OF INFO IN THIS FIELDCAND FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF STOCKS) w«< DELETION OF THE PHRASE IN SQUARE DRACKETS'IS SUBJECT TO A USA"RESERVE«-)(D)THE UORDSwUHICH CONSTITUTES THE ESSENTIAL BASIS OF NATO POLICY IN THIS HATTER"MIGUT DE DELETED FROM THE INTRODUCTORY PART OF THE LAST PARACTIIIS SUGGESTION UAS HADE BY STIKKER OF THE NETHERLANDS IN THE HOPE IT WOULD ASSTST UStAND .000436 SECRET /i �pY~T 3URE MEANS) Signal Centre Chairman5 Chiefs of Staff Room 4802A Bldg Phone 9-2-4835 SECRET . ; EPTADLE IN U/ ! •. :E •E: :E) ' UE LY UITH SON] "' E \L OR PART! ENT . . , t,....... . . E S . E ' •• : . u s :y/, •: . 1 E E ; s E HE FOLLOWING 1 ..- E U . . . : E A FORMAL 1 ESS . . . . . . . A PROP/ E E IE E.EUE'.EEU: . :, E: E •. ACCEJ • EEEEE : IGHT E cow E EC E: ' EL EE TO EEE E, 'EE EE EEEE ] . ' E E EE : EE.E. [JOT BE EEE SOVIET NOTES BY * 000437 SECRET �W Signal Centre _ Chairman9 Chiefs of Staff Room 4802A Bldg Phone 9-2-4835 CURE MEANS PAGE THREE 911 SECRET COUNTRIES HAVING RECEIVED TIIEH,IN THIS RESPECT,! SAID,THE CDN POSITION SHOULD BE VERY CLEAR•INDEED THE TINE WILL COME WHEN WE WILL HAVE TO CONCLUDE WITH WASHDC BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS OF OUR OWN ABOUT SPECIAL WEAPONS* 5*1 SUGGESTED THAT,IN QUOTING EXTENSIVELY FROM THE DEC 1957 MINISTERIAL COMMUNIQUE*7liE PRESENT DRAFT IN ITS LAST PARA CAN BE INTERPRETED TO MEAN THAT THE NUCLEAR POLICY OF THE ALLIANCE MUST DE CONSIDERED IN THE. LIGHT OF"A GENERAL DISARMAMENT AGREEMENT EMBODYING EFFECTIVE MEASURES OF CONTROL AND IN5PECT1CIPVIF THIS INTERPRETATION IS CORRECT,! THOUGHT THE COUNCIL SHOULD BE CLEAR IN ITS OWN MIND THAT THIS IS WHAT IT HANTS.IF SO,IT WOULD BE RESTATING A POSITION THAT HAS BEEN TURNED DOWN DY THE USSR ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS AND THAT7I SUGGESTED,!S UNREALISTIC* 6.1 SAID THE COUNCIL WOULD RECALL THAT STRENUOUS EFFORTS HAVE BEEN MADE SINCE 1957 TO GET MOSCOW TO AGREE ON A RESUMPTION OF NEGOTIATIONS ON GENERAL DISARMAMENT WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE UN.THIS HAS BEEN TO NO AVAIL,MEANTIMEjiiOWEVEEjSOME OF THE WESTERN POWERS HAVE BEEN CONDUCTING NEGOTIATIONS UITH THE SOVIETS ON PARTIAL ISSUES, SUCH AS THOSE OF SURPRISE ATTACK AND THE SUSPENSION OF NUCLEAR TESTS.IT IS THEREFORE WITH THE GREATEST OF CAUTION THAT UE SHOULD INJECT AT THIS PARTICULAR TIMEjON THE EVE OF THE OPENING OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE USSR,THE ISSUE OF GENERAL DISARMAMENT AS CONTEMPLATED IN 1957* 7*AT THE SAME TIME?I CAUTIONED THAT THIS SHOULD NOT BE INTERPRETED TO MEAN HAT THE CDN GOVT IS OPPOSED TO THE PROPOSAL THAT AN EFFORT BE MADE AT GENEVA TO RELAUNCH DISCUSSIONS ON DISARMAMENT* 000438 SECRET �g y T SURE MEANS PACE FOUR 9U SECRET Signal Centre Chairmanj Chiefs of Staff Room 4802A Bldg Phone 9-2-4835 SECRET ON THE WHOLE'AND UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES WE THINK THIS WOULD BE A GOOD THING BUT WE MUST KNOW THE BASIS ON WHICH IT IS DONE SINCE MOST? IF NOT ALL, OF OUR COUNTRIES UOU1.D BE INVOLVED .INDEED THE PROBLEM IS OF SUCH MAGNITUDE THAT NO PROGRESS CAN DE' MADE IN GENEVA WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE POWERS REPRESENTED THERE UNLESS CONSULTATIONS ARE HELD UITH OTHER COUNTRIESMUENCEyI SAID, IT SEEMS TO US.THAT AS PROGRESS IS MADE IN GENEVA ON THIS SCORE THE COUNCIL MUST DE KEPT INFORMED, S-.STATING THAT THE NEU INSTRUCTIONS I HAD RECEIVED CONFIRM THIS STAND,1 READ THE SUBSTANCE OF PARAS 3 AND 5 OF YOUR TEL DL370 AND ADDED THATjjFOR THE SAKE OF NATO SOLIDARITY ON AN ISSUE SUCH AS THISrI WOULD BE PREPARED TO CO-OPERATE IN A REDRAFT OF THE PRESS RELEASE AND WOULD HAVE COMMENTS TO MAKE IF A WORKING GROUP WERE SET UP FOR THIS PURPOSE9.ALL OTHER PERM REPS SUPPORTED THE ISSUANCE OF A PRESS RELEASE AND ANY RESERVATIONS EXPRESSED UERE OF A SECONDARY MATURE*SOME PRESENTED ARGUMENTS WHICH THEY HOPED WOULD CARRY WEIGHT WITH THE CDN GOVT AND 0THER5?AS INDICATED ADOVE?MADE SUGGESTIONS WHICH THEY HOPED WOULD ASSIST US, iO„THE MAIN ARGUMENTS PUT FORUARD UERE A3 FOLLOUS.IF THERE IS NO NATO PRESS RELEASE?THE RUSSIANS WILL RENEW THEIR PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN ON NUCLEAR UEAPONS AS SOON AS THE AGREEMENTS ARE MADE PUBLIC•THIS WILL TAKE PLACE SHORTLY AFTER THE GENEVA CONFERENCE OPENS ANT) WOULD?IF NOT FORESTALLED,GIVE THE RUSSIANS AN EXTRAORDINARY OPPORTUNITY TO LAUNCH ATTACKS ON THE UESTERN COUNTRIES CONGER- 000439 SECRET �S i g n a l Centre . Chairman s Chiefs of Staff Room 4802A Bldg Phone 9-2-4835 BY f ^SUHE MEANS PAGE FIVE 9ii SECRET tJED fU SING THE GENEVA CONFERENCE ITSELF AS A SOUNDING BOARD .THIS WOULD TEND TO HAVE A DISRUPTIVE EFFECT OU THE CONFERENCE AND WOULD ALSO TEND TO CREATE DIVISIONS AMONG UESTERN COUNTRIES. H.THIS POINT OF VIEW WAS PUT FORWARD BY THE BELGIAN REPLUG SAID HIS COUNTRY WOULD SOON BE CONCLUDING A BILATERAL ON NUCLEAR UEAPOMS,AMD WAS STRONGLY SUPPORTED EY THE USA, UK AND TURKISH REPS. ROBERTS SAID THAT HIS GOVT NOW CONSIDERED THE PRESS RELEASE EVEN MORE IMPORTANT THAN IT HAD PREVIOUSLY AND THAT MR LLOYD FEELS HE WOULD BE HANDICAPPED AT GENEVA IF IT WERE NOT ISSUED.HE ADDED THAT HIS GOVT REGARDS THE QUESTION AT ISSUE AS ESSENTIALLY A PROBLEM IN PROPAGANDA RATHER THAN ONE ESSENTIALLY TOUCHING THE SUBSTANCE OF EAST-UEST RELATIONSHIP ALSO MADE CLEAR THAT HIS GOVT NOW REGARDS THE PRESS RELEASE AS USEFUL VIS-A-VIS CRITICAL ELEMENTS OF THE UK POPULATION, i2*TIIE OTHER MAIN ARGUMENT UAS TIIAT?ON AH ISSUE OF THIS KIND,IT WOULD DE UNWISE FOR INDIVIDUAL NATO COUNTRIES TO LET THE. USA AND THE COUNTRIES PRESENTLY NEGOTIATING AGREEMENTS STAND ALONE.IT WAS FELT THATjWXTHOUT STATING ANY NEW NATO DOCTRINE,IT IS DESIRABLE TO HAVE A COMMON RE-STATEMENT OF THE NATO ATTITUDE.THIS POINT OF VIEW WAS EXPRESSED BY BELGIUHsNETHERLANrS,GERriArJY?USA,UK AND TURKEY. 13.THE NORWEGIAN REP PRAISED THE POLITICAL WISDOM IN OUR POINT OF VIEW BUT SAID THAT HIS GOVT,IN THE LIGHT OF THE GENERAL OPINION IN NATO,ARE PREPARED TO AGREE TO A PRESS RELEASE.TIIEY FEEL THAT THE REAL HARM IS DONE BY THE TIMING OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE AGREEMENTS AND THAT THE PRESS RELEASE WOULD NOT,IN ITSELF5BE DA- 000440 aJuwKu f �BY A SURE MEANS PAGE SIX StCRET Signal Centre „ Chairman9 Chiefs of Staff Room 4802A Bldg Phone 9-2-4835 9131 SECRET MAGINGOON GENERAL DISARMAMENT BOYESEN AGREED WITH OUR ANALYSIS BUT SUGGESTED THAT,SINCE THE PRESS RELEASE IS ABOVE ALL A PROPAGANDA DOC ADDRESSED TO OUR OWN PUBLICS,IT NEED NOT AND SHOULD NOT BE REGARDED AS PLACING A FORMAL LIMITATION ON THE SCOPE OF THE FORTHCOMING NEGOTIATIONSeHIS GOVT DOES NOT REGARD THE PRESS RELEASE AS MEANING THAT THE WEST NOW TURNS ITS RACK ON ADVANCES AND CHANGES IN ITS DISARMAMENT POSITIONS SINCE 1957>AND THEY COULD NOT ACCEPT IT ON THIS EASIS8NOR9ItI THE NORWEGIAN VIEU?SHOULD THE PRESS RELEASE BE INTERPRETED AS MEANING THAT THERE IS NO HOPE IN THE DISARMAMENT TALKS WHICH HAVE DEEM GOING ON II! GENEVA OR MAY GO ON ELSEWHERE-.BOYESEN THOUGHT THAT IF MISUNDERSTANDINGS ON THESE SCORES SHOULD ARISEjTHEY COULD BE DISPOSED OF IN SOME SUITABLE MANNER, DOYESEN UAS INSTRUCTED TO SAY THAT IF?AS A RESULT OF THE PRESS RELEASE,ANY MISUNDERSTANDING SHOULD ARISE TO THE EFFECT THAT DECISIONS HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO ESTABLISH IRBMS IN WESTERN GERMANY,THESE MISUNDERSTANDINGS UOULD HAVE TO BE CORRECTED AND THIS SHOULD DE DONE BY NATO ITSELF.THE SEC GEN UNDERTOOK THAT,IN THIS EVENT, THE NATO PRESS OFFICER WOULD BE AUTHORISED TO TAKE THE NECESSARY ACTION*. UeTHE" FRENCH REP,IN SUPPORTING THE PRESS RELEASE*SUGGESTED THAT THE QUOTATIONS FROM THE 1957 COMMUNIQUES SHOULD BE BOILED DOWN INTO BRIEF REFERENCES.HE SEEMED TO REGARD THIS AS PARTICULARLY PONDEROUS?BEARING IN MIND THAT THE TEXT OF THE PRESS RELEASE IS ITSELF TO DE REPRODUCED IN THE USA NOTE«HE SAID HE REGRETTED THAT THE CDN GOVT COULD NOT AGREE TO THE PRESS RELEASE* 15.THE DANISH REP SAID HIS GOVT HAD HAD DOUBTS ABOUT THE PRESS SECRET 000441 �ET Signal Centre I „ Chairman 9 Chiefs ..of Staff Room 4802A Bldg Phone 9-2-4835 3UHE MEANS PAGE SEVEN 9X1 SECRET RELEASE BUT WAS PREPARED TO ACCEPT IT IN VIEW OF THE GENERAL IJISH OF THE COUNCIL* IS.ONE OR TWO POSSIBLE CONPROMISES UERE SUGGESTED,FOR EXAMPLE, THAT NATO SHOULD AGREE ON A COMMON LINE WHICH WOULD BE USED BY INDIVIDUAL GOVTS AS THEY SAW FIT.A VARIANT WAS THAT THIS COMMON LINE MIGHT DE EXPRESSED IN A COUNCIL RESOLUTION-THE IDEA ITSELF DID NOT ATTRACT MUCH SUPPORT AND THE UK AND USA WERE OPPOSED TO A RESOLUTION,THE UK ON THE GROUNDS THAT THIS UOULD AMOUNT TO A RE-FORMULATION OF NATO POLICY RATHER THAN A RE-STATEMENT OF COMMON ACCEPTED POLICY •THE SEC GEN HINTED THAT ILE HAD A POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION UP HIS SLEEVE BUT HE DID NOT STATE IT AND CLEARLY REGARDED IT AS A COURSE WHICH WOULD NOT DE VERY LIKELY TO HAVE A STRONG APPEAL FOR THE COUNTRIES ADVOCATING A PRESS RELEASE.IN SHORT,MOVES OF THIS KIND PROVED ABORTIVE AMD9WITH THE SEC GEN IN THE LEAD AND THE USA REP FULLY IN AGREEMENTfIT WAS DECIDED TO TAKE THE ACTION DESCRIBED IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS MSG.I ACQUIESCED IN THIS BECAUSE,IN THE CIRCU!-5STAHCE5,IT IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR INSTRUCTIONS, 17.THE GERMAN REP MADE A LAST-MINUTE EFFORT TO PERSUADE THE COUNCIL THAT,BECAUSE OF THE DIFFICULTY WHICH WOULD EXIST IN OBTAINING THE AGREEMENT OF INDIVIDUAL GOVTS TO AN AMENDED TEXT?IT WOULD BE PREFERABLE IF t UOULD ATTEMPT TO PERSUADE MY GOVT TO ACCEPT THE PRESS RELEASE AS SO FAR AMENDED.THE SEC GEN FIRMLY OPPOSED THIS AND SUGGESTED FURTHER THAT ANY TEXT AGREED BY THE DRAFTING GROUP SHOULD SIMPLY BE CIRCULATED TO OTHER DELS IN THE HOPE THAT IT UOULD BE SECRET 000442 �[ Signal Centre . Chairman9 Chiefs of Staff Room 4802A Bldg Phone 9-2-4835 BY f ^URE MEANS PAGE EIGHT 9U SECRET ACCEPTABLE TO"THEIR GOVTS.HE THOUGHT THAT.SINCE IT COULD BE ASSUMED TO BE ACCEPTABLE TO THE WESTERN FOUR AND TO CDA,THE OTHER GOVTS MIGHT FIND IT EASY TO ACCEPT. iS.TIIE CRUX OF THE QUESTION STILL IS WHETHER THE CDN GOVT CAN AGREE TO THE PRESS RELEASE IN THE FORM IN WHICH IT EfERGES FROM THE DRAFTING GROUP.UE WILL TELEGRAPH THIS TO YOU UITH THE LEAST POSSIBLE DELAY '.TWO FACTORS IMPOSE A CERTAIN OBLIGATION ON US TO DO OUR UTMOST TO MEET AN EXTREMELY TIGHT TIME SCHEDULE-THE MAJOR FACTOR IS THAT IS SEEMS TO BE GENERALLY FELT THAT IT WOULD BE DESIRABLE TO MINIMIZE THE IMPRESSION OF CALCULATION WHICH NAY BE GIVEN BY TILE INCLUSION OF THE TEXT OF THE PRESS RELEASE IN THE USA NOTEyBY ALLOWING AS MUCH TIME AS POSSIBLE BETWEEN THE ISSUANCE OF THE RELEASE AND THE TRANSMITTAL OF THE NOTEeWE WOULD ALSO WANT TO HAVE BOTH DOCS OUT OF THE WAY AS FAR AS POSSIBLE IN ADVANCE_OF MAY-UoTHE MINOR CONSIDERATION IS THAT THUR5FRI AND SAT ARE HOLIDAYS FOR THE NATO STAFF AND MOST DELS. 19eIN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES,THE SEC GEN HAS STATED THAT,IF'CDN AGREEMENT TO A REVISED TEXT IS RECEIVED DY 11 AM THUR,IT UILL BE HOPED THAT ALL GOVTS CAN ACCEPT IT SO THAT IT CAN BE RELEASED FORTHWITH .IF $ ON THE OTHER HAND?TIIE SEC GEN IS INFORMED BEFORE U/AiU THAT THE CDN GOVT CANNOT AGREE?HE WILL CALL ANOTHER COUNCIL MIETING«THE EFFECT OF THIS IS THAT,AFTER il AM THUR,NEITHER THE STAFF NOR DELS UILL BE GEARED SO THAT A MEETING COULD EASILY BE CALLED.OF COURSE THIS COULD BE DONE IF NECESSARY,BUT IT UOULD DE MOST DESIRABLE IF YOUR ANSWER COULD EE IN NY HANDS AT THE OPENING CRH 000443 �|BY~Y TOHE _MEANS| PAGE NINE 9H CR Signal Centre . Chairman 9 Chiefs of Staff Room 4802A Bldg Phone 9-2-4835 SECRET OF BUSINESS THURS MORNING,BURGESS REQUESTED THAT ANY COMMENTS ON THE PROPOSED USA NOTECOUR'TEL 905)BE MADE AVAILABLE BY NOON THURS,IF POSSIBLE• 20.1 UOULD ADD THAT,ALTHOUGH FEU DELS SHARED OUR POINT OF VIEU, WE'WERE TREATED WITH THOUGHTFUL CONSIDERATION BOTH BY THE SEC GEN AND DY THE COUNCIL AS A UIIOLE 2017S-20n9-20lS0-20iSl-20iS3-20iS5-201S<S/AG/0621152 NAY 59 000444 blivKb I � 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 CDNW04093 Title A name given to the resource CDNW04093 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 2, Library and Archives Canada (LAC). 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