REQUESTS FOR CIA ASSISTANCE, RE PRESIDENTIAL SALT QUESTIONS TO ACDA'S GENERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE, CONCERNING US ALLIES, MIRV-ABM, AND CHINA -ABM

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000100020022-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 2, 2005
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: January 8, 1970
• Content Type: NOTES

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NOTE FOR: The Director of Central Intelligence
THROUGH: D/DCI/NIPE
SUBJECT: Requests for CIA Assistance, re Presidential
SALT Questions to ACDA's General Advisory
Committee, Concerning US Allies, MIRV-ABM,
and China-ABM
1. My attached memo of conversation (7 January 1970)
states that Mr. Thomas Fina, Staff Assistant for ACDA's
General Advisory Committee (Mc Cloy group -- GAC), informs
me:
a. That you and other Washington principals
will shortly be receiving from Mr. John McCloy a
Special Handling account of a GAC meeting with The
President, 16 December 1969, on which occasion
The President asked the GAC to prepare views for
him on various SALT items re US allies, MIRV-ABM,
and China-ABM.
b. That the GAC decided, on 5 January, to
work up its responses (for NSC attention) by 2 March.
c. That the GAC may accordingly be re-
questing DCI presence and views -- along with those
of other Washington principals -- concerning the above
three question areas. (For possible dates in the
period 17 January to 19 February, see Attachment a
to my memo.)
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2. Also, Fina asks if CIA would OK my lending
him some part-time, informal assistance, during January-
February, in helping to staff out the GAC responses in the
China question area. He is also asking two other (State)
officers to assist him similarly re the MIRV-ABM and US
allies question areas. Fina, incidentally, is the ACDA
officer who requested my participation in the recent
(25 November 1969) GAC discussion of Chinese advanced
weapons.
3. Subject to your views, I would be prepared to
lend GAC such requested temporary assistance. I see no
major problems, though I do recommend that Fina ask Mr.
Mc Cloy to put the request to you in writing, and that the
CIA reply spell out the proper limits of my participation
in this passionate business of China and the ABM.
25X1
China Intelligence Activities Coordinator
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