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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86T00268R000700150023-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 22, 2013
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: March 23, 1961
• Content Type: MEMO

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23 March 1961
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD:
SUBJECT: Developments in the Field of Disarmament
I talked with Bob Matteson on Tuesday to bring myself up to
date on recent developments. He made the following pointe:
1. There is a difference between Stevenson on the one hand
and *Cloy on the other hand regarding the U. S. approach to dis-
armament. McCloy is supported by Finletter and Acheson. According
to Matteson, McCloy spent a large part of a recent meeting with
Finletter complaining about Stevenson's views.
a. Stated in extreme form, McCloy's position is that we
must first develop a peaceful world and then proceed in the
disarmament field, whereas Stevenson is willing to take the
disarmament plunge immediately.
b. According to Matteson, this difference appears to
be sharper than it actually is. McCloy really wants to move
towards a peaceful world and at the same time toward disarma-
ment, i.e., the two come together. Stevenson's position would,
presumably, not be drastically different from this.
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2. There is also disagreement on organization. Rusk wants to
have our disarmament activity under the State Department, and McCloy
prefers that it be part of the Executive Office. Rusk is supported
by McNamara who takes his cue from Nitze. Nuestadt originally favored
State control. He now seems to favor an organization in the Executive
Office which would eventually revert to State.
3. Matteson told McCloy last Friday during a briefing that the
Soviets no longer insist on a specific time period - -four years - -for
reaching general and complete disarmament. They are now willing to
talk about timing for individual phases or, measures. He also told
McCloy that the Soviets no longer insisted on an automatic transition
from stage to stage but would buy a supervisory organization, possibly
the Security Council, which mould have to declare that a particular
stage had been carried out. The U. S. would have a veto on such a
declaration. Matteson remarked that in spite of this briefing, McCloy
keeps backsliding into believing that the Soviets retain their old
attitudes on these matters. He also continues to mininterpret
Stevenson's position which, as noted above, is not really so different
from McCloy's as McCloy sometimes thinks.
4. McCloy is planning to bring Eaton down to participate in
the present work on disarmament. He has not yet decided, however,
on who the negotiator will be, although it will not be McCloy himself.
5. Nobody is quite sure about how the negotiations on a nuclear
test ban will go.
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