https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/2147211dc197859eebda4f8c21a6bf85.pdf 2a0a1859a86cd185aef562bf08bc9170 PDF Text Text T hent d i s c l o s e c U r m ^ ^ f f l ^ ^ ^ r H P R r i o t ! c 5 ^ c ^ ^ _ ^ Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, CANADA. NUMBERED LETTER TO: THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, OTTAWA, CANADA. FROM: Security:... .CPflfAflSR W f A , **..£%/. The.Canadian.Embassy^ Date:..M9y..2S».A9.5§.- .tyft8 tangt WI i. .P. C • Enclosures-....( T.WO ) Air or Surface Mail- Reference; Subject: NQPAP..7" .Release, of Atomic Ji?f o r a t i o n to Canadians a t NORAD Post File No: Ottawa File No. *ZoP/9- • A / f ' t / o 41)**™"- Reference Ni 1 Jia f ; - & * » 4 ' S 6 7 6 9 16 1 * 1 2 JUN 1958 Internal Circulation Distribution to Posts *1 s -a dUjfcjjf-^o Early this week the Embassy became aware that last December our Joint Staff had been approached by Mr. Robert Margrave of the Office of Munitions Control of the Department of State in his capacity as Deputy Chairman of the State Department — Department of Defence Military Information Control Committee regarding the desirability of working out an arrangement under the terms of the Canada-United States military agreement on the exchange of atomic information to enable Canadian officers on the staff of NORAD to receive certain documents which are classified "Atomic Restricted Information". For the purpose of working out an arrangement, a team of officers from National Defence Headquarters came to Washington on May 27 for a meeting held yesterday at the State Department. The Embassy was represented in this meeting. 2. As we understand it, the question had been raised by United States officers at NORAD who asked for guidance and clearance from Washington. The problem beinfj faced by Canadian officers at NORAD is essentially twofold there are a number of documents available to United State.'] officers wholly devoted to atomic information which canno-j be released to Canadians, even on a "need-to-know" basis,] without specific clearance from higher authority. This problem, however, is of a somewhat lesser nature than the' second problem viiich is that there are a considerable number of documents which may contain only one or two paragraphs of "Atomic Restricted" information and which, for that reason, cannot be made available to Canadians. A solution to the problem had to be determined by the requirements of the United States Atomic Energy Act of 19$k'* in particular it had to be decided whether the information should be passed on a government-to-government basis, and what method of accountability should be devised. There was no question that any of the information which Canadian officers at NORAD might be able to obtain would go beyond the scope of the Canada-United States military agreement. 3. At the meeting at the State Department yesterday, agreement was quickly reached. The Department of Defence \ and the State Department proposed that any "atomic restricted" information required by Canadians at NORAD would be released to them on authority granted by the Department of Defence with the concurrence of the Atomic Energy Commission to CINCCONAD and not to NORAD even though both are for the moment at least, the same person, i.e., General Partridge. There would be no problem of accountability for the RCAF as this could be looked after/ 000268 Ext. 18 2A( Rev. 2/52) �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information - 2by CINCCONAD. It would be assumed that any information obtained in this way by Canadian officers would not be passed on to other Canadian Commands or to NATO. The Canadian Service representatives readily agreed to.this suggestion which, in point of fact, represented an easier solution than they had anticipated, as it albsolves the Department of National Defence from any responsibility for accountability. l\.. It was further agreed that the State Department would draw up a record of the meeting upon which the Joint Staff would be asked to comment. A copy of this will be forwarded to you when received. It was also agreed that the terms of the agreement reached would be made an addendum to the document dated February 29, 1956, concerning the procedural arrangements for implementing the bilateral military agreement. 5« Attached are copies of letters exchanged between the Joint Staff and the Department of National Defence which will give you background information in this matter. The Embassy 000269 � 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 CDNW01286 Title A name given to the resource Numbered Letter 821 from WashDC to USSEA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 5/29/1958 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "Canada/US Agreement for Cooperation concerning military aspects of atomic energy." RG25-A-3-b, vol. 5957, 50219-AK-40, part 1, Library and Archives Canada (LAC). 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