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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R001400120010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 25, 1963
• Content Type: LETTER

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APR1963
ER 63-3434 2 9
(This letter is in response to : TS 188261, 18 Fceb; ER 634388 a Fob;
and ER 63-2878, 8 Apr)
45 April 1963DDI-P-06 I- 6_
Dear SUL
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ths rotadts of or scus.ten o kprU 17th and in doing so.
r your to m? f Y.bru&xy 8th and April Oth, sad
Adrina Irishor's Utter of Tobrnary 18th. Tha topic* and ideas
itovorod by th*** lettere have. as Indicated by you, bean the au *
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organisations.
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wed with the respeasibility
Ways which you have
c be 4. I think this arrangement
ements. Tbs establishment of a MD
matters se propoeed i your letter preseate
your manifold need*. Your requiremeate
situation to JAZIC er GUAM for they
pecitic tree of intelligence activity
rang* over a very bread field of
and enthrals.
to the AoILCIA represeatalion on 1151/1 committees
14AIC, or aa USLB iteelf it is my i.eii*g that
extravagant waste of talent *a your part ter
involved in a van number of problems
interest to AC. A batter procedure
re the committees or the Board itself
West to ACDA are up tor consideration.
Hughes. Otrecter of Intelligence and
of Roo, who sits on UB and bas
committees and therefore. can
r which ACOA representation
dentally, is a procedure w* follow
the Government that have a
Wares* la & problem, that mar
of its comirdttees.
made IA Mr. Fisher s
range of probable error
order of battle, quantity of
s t rstand just what
which would be constructive.
4 by Mr. Ft.hsxr 1. that H... la addition to comment.
amps of probabis ortor. the iatelligence community
.. tad:trate their degree at confideoce that the estimates
sly la error... ACDA. will. in addition, require ext
asp of error or total inventories as WSIL"
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Coordinated with?
Orig tectc- Addressee
1 - 13CI Chrono
I - DCI alpha
1 - ER with basic letters
DWI- --Mr. Sheldon
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Use* ly.
Dr. Kent, Mr. Sheldon
1 - General Carroll (General Carroll concurred
on the above on 26 April)
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Meeting with Mr. William Foster,
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss letters recently received
from Mr. Foster. Mr. Foster. whilspraising the work of
and others. stated that many of ACDA.'s requirements from nut. and CIA
have been delayed because of other priorftiee. He, therefore, had
written to me asking for liaison man from C/A and he bad an offer ittiesx
iCibtx from Gilpatric asking the same from DIA. He also requested certain
other matters discueeed in this memorandum. My views were as follows:
1. Am& should have one source which should be within CIA
and should gather all information required by ACTA from the intelligence
community. I. e. CIA and its many departments, DIA, NSA. AEC( etc.
2. No permanent man should be or would be aesigned by CIA to
the Disarmament Agency. However, a focal point of contact would be
established within CIA and this party, (perhaps a staff, if necessary)
would be instructed to expedite all of DIA'e requirements. 1 would
work out an appropriate arrangement with USIB members for coordina?
tion wii,VACDA information. I cautioned against direct contact by
A.g 0-WC-with USIB members as information received could very easily
be misleading and representative of a unilateral department viewpoint.
This would be most particularly true of Defense, since DIA wore
responsive te tbe JCS and the JCS iiiad definite unanimous and stated
epiiiions on all of ACDA's activities.
ACTION; An organisational plan should be worked out
for the inter-relationship of the USIB members and ACDAs
and discussed with McNamara and Gilpatric by IktIcCone after
preliminary discussions by Carter with General Carroll and
General Fitch.
3. The Agency cannot establish a separate group to work on
Disarmament matters, as Disarmament problems penetrate practically
all divieionii.of intelligence community and ca, and therefore a separate
group would not be practical but the arrangements above would be
practital.
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4. ACD& was welcomed to participate in JAEIC. GMAIC, and US1B
'cues1as:1s of a matter of apecific interest to ACD& and where ACDA's
11 ewe are necessary. In McCone's opinion. the circumstances would be
elstremely rare. It was not practical for ACDA. to have a permanent
lepresentative on any of the above bodies nor was it practical for them
o attend meetings except dairdng the time when an item of ACDAls special
Interest was being discuesed. This seemed to satisfy Mr. Foster.
, 5. There was only a most general discuesion of the request of
itAGDA. to give an estimate of the probable accuracy of *climates. I
;I stated that any such estimate would be valueless for the reason that it
I was not poseible to estimate the input of any item of AHEM armament intO
the Soviet system. / said, for instance, we knew gaits well the number
of IRINA end ICBM launch pads in existence or under construction, We
did not now know, nor could we determine, the number of missiles and
ucir did we know much about
the rate of manufacture of missile.. The same was true of warheads,
of tanks, of guns, and to a lesser extent. of Airplanes. Therefore.
said to take any particular figure as the amount of equipment in existence
JI and then to reduce this by 50% through agreement to destroy half of the
if existing resource might be entirely misleading. I said. end roster
a reed, that any such program of destruction of existing armament on
a matching basis or under some formula should be accompanied by a
'I reasonably addquate inspection of what is left. NOTE: This Is a most
important point and is a deviation from the most recent thinking of ACM
as explained to ma by
ACTION: The above policy ehatald be discussed with
appropriate people in CIA and elsewhere and followed by
staff. Under no circumstances should wo give the impression
or fail to give ACDA. full ,cooperation and prompt support. \
This is our responsibility to ACDA and all other tgencies of
Government. However, we should avoid becoming engaged in.
ACDA's policy.making processee and hence find ourselves
a party to an agreed position without rally having had a voice
or a vote on the final policy position.
6. In the discuseion it became apparent that a letter h*
forth In the last three or four day8 from the President and Ma
to khrushchev on the question of the test ban.
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ACTION: We should see this letter. Mr. CI no
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arrange accordingly.
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