https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/88a3a1299fe717a1d7f63a9fe2d6d358.pdf 3354a8043dcf3d3bad92d4c6f8704552 PDF Text Text WICKET 12 fepteaber 1961. The Minister Draft ffultl-National Technical Arrangement •» !Ihe KATC Ccaeon Infrastructure PrograoEe includes funds for the construction of thrau Special Ammunition Storage Support Sites to be located attfueren,Lahn and Munster in Gensany for use by nations vith atottde delivery forces assigned to the t&rthem Ar»§y Group and to the Second Allied Tactical M r Force. The MATO Special Awamition Storage %ate» tor land forces requires the establishment of tbe following kinds of installation t Custodial, .Storagefofres- % e s e sitee are located with cr in d o s e prootiaity to the national delivery units and provide peacetime storage under U.3. custody for the first line or first and Second line atomic warheads required in ioraedl&te readiness for use %dtn the delivery weapons when a decision is ®ade to release the warheads for this jjurpose. Custodial stores sites are manned by a U.o. Custodial detachment and ar@ of various types depending on the kinds of delivery weapons to be supported. Support or Snaaort Battalion Sites - These are storage and technical support sites Banned by a United states A m y Artillery Battalion Headquarters or a United States Array Artillery Group Headquarters {'Parhead Support) and a Ifolted States Ordnance Coapany (GS). Thay provide a reserve storage facility and technical support for a nusfber of Custodial Storage Cites. ffenot Sites * These are rearward or base storage facilities vhich, in turn, back up the Support Battalion Sites. Under Korthern Army Group.logistic support plans, the three Support Sites in tbe Northern Artsy Group area will provide warhead storage and technical support jointly to all nations contributing delivery units to the Aray Group, the nations concerned ore Belgium, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kin&dao,. Canada's 2 �y^ - 2 interest as a user nation of these sites derives from the planned deployment of a surface-to-surface oissile (Honest John) unit vith ' 4 Canadian Infantry Brigade Group. The three Support Sites, in addition to backing up the delivery units of Northern Arty Group, will also provide limited technical support for B B E units of second Allied Technical Air Force. The precise extent of the 2 ATAF interest has yet to be determined. •Hie basic facilities of the GAS Support Sites will be financed by the JJATO Comon Infrastructurefcrograisse.Uiese basic facilities include the storage buildings for ths warheads, the buildings for technical taalntsnanee of warheads, living acccaaaodatlon for single personnel of the United States forces Banning the sites and such things as internal roads, security fencing, guard houses, utilities, etc. The Coraaon Infrastructure Prograsme does not, however, provide tsarried accomodation for United States personnel, accomodation for personnel of the forces of the user nations «ho are responsible to guard the sites, or furniture and equipment required for operation and maintenance of the sites. It is, therefore, necessary to have an agresaeat amongst the United States and the user nations concerned to govern their respective responsibilities to provide these requirelaents and also their responsibilities for the operation and siaintenance of the sites and for the logistic and administrative support of the U.S. Custodial Forces. Negotiations looking towards the conclusion of such an agreement for the three Borthem keep Group SAS Support Sites have been in progress un-ier the auspices of Headquarters, Northern A«$r Group, since January I960. The Department has been represented in these negotiations by staff officers of 4 Canadian Infantry Brigade Group and by the Financial Adviser (Overseas) who is a nosber of ay staff. The negotiations have resulted in the preparation of a proposed HaitiRational Technical ArrangeEcnt, of which the third and most recent draft dated 9 August 1961, is attached to this stsmoranduaru The proposed technical arrangement is a detailed document defining the respective responsibilities of the United States, on the cne hand, and the KGKPHAO user nations, on the other hand, for the establishment, operation and maintenance of the three Support Sites. Its stain provisions are as follows! *.. 3 001370 �-3Custody of the atomic warheads and the responsibility for thoir maintenance will vest in the United States Army. The physical responsibility for the establishment, isaintenance, operation and administration of each of the three sites will vest in one of the user nations, which will be known as the "sponsor nation". The sponsor nations will be the Federal Republic of Gercany for the site at lahn, Belgium for the site at Bueren and the United Singdoa for the site at Munster and for support of the U.S. Artillery Group Headquarters at fiheindahlen. The physical responsibilities of the sponsor nations will include those for the construction of facilities required over and above those provided, by NATO Cossaon Infrastructure, the provision of equipment for ths sites, operation and maintenance of the sites, the provision of security guard forces, and a large measure of logistic and adainietrativo support of the U.S. Custodial Forces. Financial responsibility for the Lahn site will be borne by the Federal Sepubllc of Germany. For the Bueren site, financial responsibility will be shared by Belgiuni and the Netherlands, and for the iitmster site and for support of the U.S. Artillery §roup Headquarters, financial responsibility will be shared by the United Kingdom, and Canada. t*here two nations share financial responsibility for a sits, their respective contributions will bd determined by agreestsnt between then. It appears likely that Canada*s share of the costs of the Munster site will work out at sojaathing less than 1/Q of the total for this site. Canada will not have to make any contribution to any of the three sites other than that at Munster except possibly for an interim period during whioh it is expected that the Bueren site will be completed and the other two still under construction. ... 4 �- 4 - (d) Tho arranjeaent would..COBS into foroo upon signature and would reaalnln force for a. period of five years. Thereafter it would resain in force for one y&w frem. the date on which any of tho signatory nations notifies the other signatories that It wishes to terminate. The agreement provides that the logistic support of the U.r. Custodial forces, excluding csilitary pay and allowances, clothing and personal equipment, rations and special tools for the warheads, but.including married quartern, schools and other services for United States dependents, will be ©ade available to the United States froe of charge by tho other signatory nations. Subject to soae further definition of tho precise scope of this logistic support, to further examination of the interest in the site of Second Allied Tactical Air Force, and to agreement on the responsibility for payment cf third party elai&s against the U.S. Custodial forces and their nQisboro, it is the opinion of Eoy staff that the jntlitory, technical and financial provisions of the attached draft of the Jluitl-Hatlonal Technical Arrenjjenent are satisfactory and in accordance with KATO policy in this field. This view ic shared by tho Chairman, Chiefs of Staff. It is a precondition to signature of the IIulti-Hatienal • Technical Arrangcnent that each signatory nation shall have concluded a bilateral agreenertt with the United States concerning the provision of nuclear warheads for use by its forces. Canada cannot, therefore, si$r» the I3ulti-»Hational Arrangcsent until the draft Bilateral Agreement with the United States, currently under consideration, has been concluded. It is likely, however, that ths Jlorthern Arcy Group negotiations t?Hl shortly bo concluded at least to the satisfaction of all nations other than Canada and that, if Canada is not then able to sign, the other nations will wish to go ahead with the arrsngonont without us. In this situation, it will, of course, bo op**m to Canada tc accede to the arranrecent at a later date. 'Tou will recall that I discussed with you earlier the �5 position which we should take on any Canadian financial contribution to tho costs of the SAS Support bites for Northern Arssy Group, in tho event that we were not initially able to sign the agrserwmt, and that you agreed that we should seek authority to pay our share of the capital costs as soon as this was called up, leaving open the question of operating and tsaintenanc© costs until we aro in a position actually to use the sites. I consider it important that we should be able to approve tho terms of tho proposed Itulti-Bational Technical Arranaeraent when it is in its final form oven though we may not b© initially able to sign lt. tie will otherwise be In the position where we will probably havo little alternative but to accede at a later date to an agreement which may in soase respects not be entirely acceptable to us. For this reason, I recently sent copies of an earlier draft of the Rulti-National Technical Arrangement and this Department's eoa&ente on it to the Deputy Klnister of Finance m& the UnderSecretary of State for External Affairs, requesting their views and suggesting that the final draft coaing out of tho northern Army Group negotiations should be submitted, when available, to the Cabinet or to tho Tdnistors concerned for consideration and approval as an agreement to which Canada would probably wish at sow© time to accede. I have since had a reply from the Deputy Htnistor of Finance stating that his Department agrees with the position this Dopartaent has taken on the financial aspects of the proposed arrangement. I have co far had no comments fron the Under-Secretory of State for External Affairs and I understand from informal contacts that officers of that Department do not believe they can usefully offer cosnwnts until the Government have taken a decision on the proposed Bilateral Agreement with the United States. If this is the attitude of the Department of External Affairs, it appears to leave us in a position of somo difficulty where we must decide either (a) to continue to participate in the Korthern Army Group negotiations on a purely departiaental basis and without assurance that the resulting agreement will prove acceptable to other Departeents ar.d particularly to the Department of External Affairs; '"or �-6 (b) to withdraw from the negotiationsj or (c) to seek to have conclusion of the Northern Army Group Agreement deferred until we are in a position either to approve it or to sign it. I consider that to follow courses (a) or (b) could well lead to the Multi-National Technical Arrangement being concluded by the other signatory nations without Canada and including provisions which the Canadian Government might find undesirable but would probably have to accept upon accession to it. The third course would undoubtedly prove unacceptable to the other signatory nations, since It is necessary to have each nation's responsibilities for the Support Sites settled before construction of them is completed, In order that particular national requirements may be taken into account. The first Site is already under construction and is expected to be ready by the end of 1962. Tou will perhaps wish to inform the Minister of External Affairs of the present status of the Northern Army Group negotiations and to draw his attention to the importance of having the proposedftulti-NationalTechnical Arrangement considered inter-departinentally while there continues to be an opportunity for Canada to influence its provisions. cc: CCOS E.B* Armstrong, Deputy M n i s t e r � 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 CDNW04385 Title A name given to the resource Memorandum for the Minister from E.B. Armstrong, Deputy Minister 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 12-Sep-61