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FOLLOWING IS TEXT OF PROPOSED MSG FROM PRESIDENT TO CONGRESS
TRANSMITTING AGREEMENT:QUOTE ON MAY!6,SEC OF DEFENSE AND CHAIRMAN OF
ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION JOINTLY RECOMMENDED TO ME,WITH CONCURRENCE
OF THE SEC OF STATE,A PROPOSED NEW AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE FOR
COOFERATION IN THE EXCHANGE OF ATOMIC INFO WITH NATO AND ITS MEMBER
NATIONSoTHlS NEW AGREEMENT WILL SUPERSEDE AN EXISTING AGREEMENT
EXECUTED IN 1955,AND WILL DO TWO THINGS:AHT WILL EXTEND THE TYPES
OF INFO WHICH WE CAN EXCHANGE WITH NATOoTHIS EXPANDED AREA OF INFO
IS NEEDED TO ENAELE OUR ALLIES TO MAKE EFFECTIVE USE OF NUCLEAR
DELIVERY SYSTEMS BEING PROVIDED THEM BY USA UNDER BILATERAL
PROCEDURES AND AGREEMENTS FOLLOWING CREATION OF NATO ATOMIC
STOCKPILES IN 1957.3)IT WILL PERMIT NATO MEMBER COUNTRIES TO SHARE
IN INFO WHICH USA HAS HITHERTO BEEN EXCHANGING ONLY WITH NATO
ORGANIZATION ITSELF UNDER THE 1955 AGREEMENT.THIS WILL MAKE THESE
COUNTRIES ROLE IN ALLIANCE PLANNING IN THE NUCLEAR FIELD MORE
EFFECT!VEoTHIS NEW AGREEMENT THUS REPRESENTS A LOGICAL AND USEFUL

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STEP IN OUR CONTINUING AND VARIED EFFORTS TO ENSURE WIDE ALLIED
PARTICIPATION IN NATO NUCLEAR DEFENSE=SUCH WIDER PARTICIPATION IS
NECESSARY ON EOTH MILITARY AND POLITICAL GROUNDSoXT IS NEEDED TO
ENHANCE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NATO DEFENSEoON POLITICAL GROUNDSp
IT IS NEEDED TO REINFORCE ALLIED COHESION BY MTG OUR ALLIES
LEGITIMATE DESIRE TO MAKE A CONSTRUCTIVE CONTRIBUTION TO NUCLEAR
DETERRENTS.THEREFORE,I HAVE AUTH0RI2ED THE SEC OF STATE TO EXECUTE
THIS NEW AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVT OF USA AND NATO AND ITS MEMBER
NATIONS TO PROVIDE FOR THE COOPERATION RELEVANT TO THE EXCHANGE
OF ATOMIC INFO FOR NATO PLANNING PURPOSES*IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE ATOMIC ENERGY ACT OF 1954?AS AMENDED9I AM SUBMITTING TO EACH
HOUSE OF THE CONGRESS AN AUTHORITATIVE COPY OF THE SIGNED AGREEMENT,
TOGETHER WITH A LET FROM SEC OF STATE,A COPY OF THE JOINT LET FROM
SEC OF DEFENSE AND CHAIRMAN OF ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION RECOMMENDING
MY APPROVAL OF AGREEMENT9AND A COPY OF MY APPROVAL MEMOoUNQUOTEo

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