DEAR MR. MCCONE:

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 8, 1964
• Content Type: LETTER

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UNITED STATES ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY
OFFICE OF
THE DIRECTOR
June 8, 1964
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'Dear Mr. McCone:
'I I JUN1964
In connection with the proposals that the U. S.
has made at the ENDC, you may recollect that we have
proposed with our freeze on strategic delivery vehicles
a freeze on anti-ballistic missile defenses as well.
Questions have arisen as to whether it would be either
feasible or desirable to try to include under the freeze
some defense systems that might have capability primarily
against relatively short-range ballistic missiles and
high-altitude aircraft. During the last few weeks we.
have been attempting to determine where the limits might
most desirably be drawn, and which criteria might be most
useful, in distinguishing between those defense systems,
-the development and production of which would be
prohibited and those that might be permitted.
Also, the question of the desirability of trying
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tc impose limitations on testing of ABM systems has
arisen in connection with the report of the Interagency
Task Force on Prototype Testing and Bill Foster's letter
to you recommending a U. S. position based on the findings
of that Task Force. Finally, it has seemed to us desirable
that we consider whether a. freeze on strategic d?livery
systems that did not include an ABM freeze could'?"be
acceptable to the U. S. since the USSR can probably be,
expected to prefer, and might raise, such an alternative,
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The Honorable
John A. McCone,
Director of. Central Intelligence.
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Considering that these questions regarding the
way in which ABM defenses should be handled in the
context of the SNDV freeze proposal have not been
resolved by our efforts to date, we have concluded
that probably we should now attempt to deal with
them by convening a task force consisting of experts
from the DOD, CIA, this Agency, and others from out-
side the government.
We believe the task force should consider in
the context of our SNDV freeze proposal:
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Wheelon on
the question of desirable participation by personnel from
his office. We would, of course, also elcome participation
from other parts of the CIA if you t ink it app1
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intermittently during the next two months and deliver a
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those limitations on testing of ABM systems that the Task
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(3) the implications of including a freeze on ABM
deployment and th
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might constrain both;
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limitations th
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on
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air defense systems, including the defenses of our allies,
and the desirabilit
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requirements and capabilities;
(i) the question of the definition of ABM systems
to be affected by the freeze and the associated verifica-
jion
Sincerely,
Adrian S. Fisher
Acting Director
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