https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/a97f28dbbf7bfe85f59a309e3e0527ee.pdf f3c7b10fbd32cf6e6da95284f8f7de69 PDF Text Text Document divulgue en vertu de la loi sur I'acces a I'informati * FM WSHDC MAR22/68 EXTER 1 2 9 4 INFO CANFORCEHED PCO DE OTT NORTHAMERICAN AIR DEFENSElDISCUSSION AT CDA-USA INTERPARLIAMENTARY GROUP MTG FOLLOWING I S EXTRACT FROM REPORT OF CTTEE ON DEFENCE AND,SECURITY MATTERS OF CDA-USA PARLIEMENTARIANS MTG MAR21-22.TEXT BEGINS: USA CHAIRMAN OPENED THE SECOND SESSION BY SUGGESTING A DISCUSSION OF THE NORTHAMERICAN AIR DEFENSE AGREEMENTNORAD).HE RECALLED THAT THE AGREEMENT EXPIRES ON MAY12 AND THAT IT WAS DESIRABLE THAT THERE BE AN EVALUATION OF THE THREAT AND THE WEAPONS AVAILABLE TO MEET THAT THREAT. A CDN DEL SAID THAT THE GOVT OF CDA MADE CLEAR ITS INTENTION TO RENEW THE AGREEMENT BUT ALSO MADE CLEAR THAT IT DOES NOT/NOT WISH TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ABM SYSTEM. A CDN DEL MENTIONED THAT HE WAS NOT/NOT OPPOSED IN PRINCIPLE TO AN ANTI-BOMBER DEFENSE SYSTEM BUT QUESTIONED WHETHER OR NOT/NOT AN ACTIVE ANTI-BOMBER DEFENSE I S WARRANTED IN TERMS OF ITS FINANCIAL COST.QUOTING A RECENT SPEECH BY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MCNAMARA WHICH MENTIONED THAT ANTI-BOMBER DEFENSE ALONE COULD NOT/NOT SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE DESTRUCTION IF AN ATTACK OCCURRED,IT WAS MENTIONED THAT IF SUCH WERE THE CASE CDA DID NOT/NOT THINK THAT IT COULD AFFORD THE CONTINUATION OF SUCH AN ANTI-BOMBER DEFENSE SYSTEM. • ••2 000204 �Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur faeces a tinformati \ PAGE TWO 1294 IT WAS ALSO POINTED OUT BY A CDN DEL THAT THE MAJOR DEFENSE OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT WAS NOT/NOT ANY OF THE PURELY DEFENSE MEASURES THAT ARE TAKEN BUT RATHER THE TREMENDOUS OFFENSIVE POWER OF USA AND THAT THEREFORE AN ANTI-BOMBER DEFENSE SYSTEM MIGHT BE QUITE OBSOLETE IN FACT. THE MEMBERS OF USA AND CDN DELEGATIONS REITERATED THE VIEW THAT THE BOMBER THREAT FROM THE USSR CONTINUES TO BE AN ACTIVE THREAT AGAINST THE NORTHAMERICAN CONTINENT AND THAT A DEFENSE WEAPONRY.INDEED,USA HAD LEARNED THE LESSON THAT A DEFENSE AGAINST MORE CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS,IN THIS CASE THE MANNED BOMBER,WAS AS IMPORTANT AS A DEFENSE AGAINST MORE ADVANCED THREATS. IN THIS DISCUSSION,THE MEMBERS OF USA DEL RPTDLY EMPHASIZED THAT USA WOULD WANT CDA TO EXERCISE COMPLETE SOVEREIGNTY OVER ITS TERRITORY;AND THAT IT WOULD NOT/NOT WISH IN ANY WAY TO IMPOSE ON THAT SOVEREIGNTY I F CDA SHOULD CHOOSE TO DENY THE USE OF ITS TERRITORY TO THE JOINT DEFENSE OF THE CONTINENT. ONE CDN DEL MENTIONED THAT THE EASTCOAST OF CDA HAD NO/NO DEFENSE SYSTEM TO PROTECT IT AGAINST SOVIET SUBMARINES AND SUGGESTED THAT THE NORAD AGREEMENT MIGHT BE MODIFIED TO ENCOMPASS NOT/NOT ONLY AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS BUT ALSO MEASURES AGAINST SEA AND UNDERWATER THREATS.IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT ALTHOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN IN THE RECENT PAST SEVEN PENETRATIONS INTO CDN CONTROLLED AIR SPACE FROM SOVIET BOMBERS THERE WAS ALSO EVIDENCE THAT SOVIET SUBMARINES WERE POSITIONED AROUND THE COAST OF CDA,PERHAPS EVEN IN HUDSON BAN. . ..3 000205 �Document divulgue en vertu de la loi sur I'acces a I'information * P-^E THREE 129 4 m T H I S , I N THE OPINION OF THE CDN DEL WAS A MUCH GREATER THREAT TO CDA THAN BOMBERS. IN THE FIELD OF ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE,A MEMBER OF USA DEL EMPHASIZED,USA-CDN COOPERATION WAS ALSO ESSENTIAL.THERE NEEDED TO BE A TRUE JOINT EFFORT IN THE ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE FIELD PARTICULARLY IN LIGHT OF THE INCREASING SOVIET SUBMARINE THREAT. THE MEMBERS OF USA DEL THEN REVIEWED THE AIR AND SPACE THREAT TO THE NORTHAMERICAN CONTINENT AS THEY SAW IT.THEY WERE CONVINCED, AND INFORMED BY USA MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT,THAT THE SOVIET BOMBER THREAT WOULD CONTINUE TO EXIST AT LEAST INTO THE M I D - 7 0 S . I N ADDITION TO THIS,THE USSR WOULD ALWAYS HAVE AN EFFECTIVE ICBM THREAT.WHILE MEMBERS OF USA DEL HAD SERIOUS RESERVATIONS ABOUT AN ABM SYSTEM,PARTICULARLY BECAUSE OF ITS HIGH COST THEY RECOGNIZED THAT USA HAD TO MAINTAIN ITS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THIS FIELD AS WELL AS IN OFFENSIVE WEAPONRY AND CONSIDERED THAT THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE SO-CALLED THIN ABM SYSTEM WAS PRIMARILY DESIGNED TO CONTINUE EFFECTIVE USA DEVELOPMENT OF THIS WEAPON. OTHERWISE,THE USSR WOULD HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE FAR AHEAD OF USA IN THIS FIELD.IN THIS CONNECTION,THE MEMBERS OF USA DEL EMPHASIZED THAT THE USSR HAD REFUSED ON RPTD OCCASIONS TO DISCUSS USA PROPOSED MUTUAL LIMITATION ON THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF ABM/ICBM SYSTEMS,TEXT ENDS. 000206 � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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 CDBM00165 Title A name given to the resource DC to External 1294 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3/22/1968 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived RG25-A-3-c, file 27-11-7, "DEFENCE - CONVENTIONAL AND NUCLEAR ARMAMENTS - ANTI - BALLISTIC MISSILES (ABM) = DEFENSE - ARMEMENTS DE TYPE CLASSIQUE ET NUCLEAIRE - ENGINS ANTIMISSILES (ABM)," vol. 10357, part 4, Library and Archives Canada, (LAC). 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