SOVIETS OFFER NUCLEAR INSPECTION PLAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00338R000300100115-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2006
• Sequence Number: 115
• Publication Date: September 13, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Soviets Offer Nuclear frispection Plan
By Murrey Marder
Washington Post Staff Writer
A Soviet version of -a com-
)romise to break the deadlock
in the key inspection section
if a treaty outlawing the
spread of nuclear weapons
vill be put before the North
atlantic Council in Paris
today.
The proposal,-on the com-
plex subject of conducting in-
spections, is regarded, by
American officials as a step
forward. But agreement is not
anticipated at this meeting of the NATO Ambassadors. Several nations, notably West Germany, a~ready have regis-
tered reservations on the So-
viet language.Soviet willingness to present
a more flexible formula onl sped tion of their operations
An earlier Western proposal)
years
suggested that for three
of Eura
Euratom inspection
tom nations could be contin-
ued while an inspection ar-
rangement while
happen if those negotia
ons failed. The Soviet offer
b
now proposes
arrangement, reportedly
two years or less, but it also is
now said to be ambiguous on
what ,occurs if no accord is
=tfe lvit i"in T of ime.
Dan Morgan of The Washing-
ton Post reported that the
United States is circulating to
its allies a new Soviet draft
dealing with inspection. The
newspaper Frankfurter Rund-
schau said the new Russian
"draft" would require inspec-
tion of not only individual na-
tions, but of Euratom itself.
Euratom, in addition to hold-
ing ownership of member na-
tions' nuclear fuel, operates
three major nuclear facilities.
U.S. officials in Washington
denied that inspection of Eura-
tom itself is required under
the Soviet language. They safe
that this issue has.not arisen.
The U.S. Arms Control an(
Disarmament Agency (ACDA
also took issue with the de
scription of the new oviet Ian
guage as a "draft." A spokes
man aid: "We are consulting
with our Allies about possible
formulations for Article III
which we have discussed with
the Russians. There is as yet
no agreement, however, be-
tween the United States anc
the Soviet Union on ArticlE
.From none, 'West Germany, III."
the initial operation of the
treaty was counted on the
American side as a significant
development in itself.
The draft of the proposed
n u c l e a r nonproliferation
treaty that the United States
and the Soviet union submitted
three weeks ago to the 18-na-
tion disarmament conference at
Geneva left blank the section
on inspection, Artilcle III.
The disagreement has cen-
tered on whether inspection to
Euratom. The Soviet Union
has opposed that as "self-in-
spection." The problem has
been to inter-relate IAEA and
Euratom inspection.
While U.S. officials declined
to make public the new propo
to make public the new propos-
al, it- was described as drop-
ping what became known as a
Soviet "guillotine clause.'
That would have required
IAEA inspection exclusively
after a brief period of years,
whether or not IAEA and Eu-
ratom worked out a compro-
mise
a safeguard against the devel-
clear weapons by non-nuclear
nations will be conducted who
ly by the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA), or
shared with the six-nation
(Western) European Atomic
Energy Community (EURA-
TOM).
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