ABM DEFERRAL PROTOCOL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-507-1-45-8
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: May 16, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT: ABM DEFERRAL PROTOCOL
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FROM SONNENFELOT AND LODAL
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF GEORGE ALDRICH, MOOS .DENTY, WE
HAVE POLISHED UP THE DRAFT PROTOCOL ON ABM DEFERRAL, AS:
YOU INSTRUCTED. THE BASIC pROVIsIpNS,ARE STILL, THE SAME:
EACH SIDE IS RESTRICTED TO ,A SINGLE. SITE, WITH A ONETIME
FREEDOM-TO-SWITCH, WHICH CAN BE 'EXERCISED ONLY IN CONNECTION
WITH ONE OF THE FIVE-YEAR REVIEW PERIODS (1977, 1902,
ETC.). ONE SUBSTANTIVE' CHANGE HAS BEEN MAOE. THELYEAR IN
WHICH THE SWITCH OPTION CAN BE EXERCISED BEGINS ON OCTOBER
3:RATHER THAN JANUARY I TO BRING IT INTO LINE WITH THE
EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE TREATY. .
WE BELIEVE THE SALT DELEGATIONS: SHOULD 00 RECONVENED. IN
ooklevA To WORK ON THE, ABM nEFERRAL, IF WE INTEND r TO CONCLUP5.
A PROTOCOLTORMALLY AT THE SUMMIT. A PERIOD OF, TWO OR'
THREE
.WEEXS SHOULD BR ADEQUATE FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS THE DELEGATION
COULD RETURN To GENEVA AROUND 'JUNE 1. WE RECOMMEND YOU.
PROPOSE THIS TO DOBRyNIN AND HAND HIM THE TEXT OF THE .DRAFT
PROTOCOL AFTER YOU RETURN TO WASHINGTON. IF YOU APPROVE,
WE WILL PREPARE TALKING POINTS ALONG THIS LINE FOR YOUR
DISCUSSION WITH DOARyNIN.
BEGIN TEXT OF DRAFT' PROTOCOL:'
State Dept. review completed
PROTOCOL
TO THE TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND,
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THE UNIDN OF SOVIET SoCIALIST.REPUBLICS ON THE ,LIMITATION
OF ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE SYSTEMS, WHICH WAS SIGNED ON
MAY 26, 1972. ,
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE UNION OF SOVIET
SOCIALIST REPUBLICS, HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS THE PARTIES;
PROCEEDING FROM THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF RELATIONS
BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THF UNION OF
SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS SIGNED ON MAY 29, 1972,
DESIRING TO FURTHER THE OBJECTIVES OF THE TREATY ON THE
LIMITATION OF ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE SYSTEMS SIGNED ON MAY
26, 1972, HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS THE TREATY,
REAFFIRMING THEIR CONVICTION THAT THE ADOPTION OF
FURTHER MEASURES FOR THE LIMITATION OF STRATEGIC ARMS WOULD
CONTRIBUTE To STRENGTHENING INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY,
HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
ARTICLE I
1. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE It! OF THE TREATY,
EACH PARTY SHALL BE LIMITED,TO A.SINGLE AREA OF DEPLOYMENT
AT ANY ONE TIME FOR ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE SYSTEMS (ABM
SYSTEMS) OR THEIR COMPONENTS AND THEREFORE SHALL REFRAIN'FRom
EXERCISING ITS RIGHT TO DEPLOY ABM SYSTEMS DR THEIR COMPONENTS
IN THE SECOND OF THE TWO DEPLOYMENT AREAS PERMITTED BY ARTIcLE
III OF THE TREATY, EXCEPT AS AN EXCHANGE OF ONE AREA FOR
ANOTHER IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE II OF THIS PROTOCOL.
2. ACCORDINGLY, EXCEPT AS pERMITTED BY ARTICLE II OF THIS
PROTOCOL, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SHALL NOT DEPLOY''
AN ABM SYSTEM OR ITS COMPONENTS IN THE AREA CENTERED ON ITS
NATIONAL CAPITAL, AS PERMITTED BY ARTICLE III (A) OF THE
TREATY, AND THE SOVIET UNION SHALL NOT DEPLOY' AN ABM SYSTEM
OF ITS COMPONENTS IN THE DEPLOYMENT AREA OF INTER-CONTINENTAL
BALLISTIC MISSILE (ICBM) SILO LAUNCHERS, AS PERMITTED BY
ARTICLE III (B) OF THE TREATY.
ARTICLE II
'1'. EACH PARTY SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO DISMANTLE ITS
ABM SYSTEM AND COMPONENTS IN THE AREA WHERE THEY ARE
PRESENTLY DEPLOYED AND TO DEPLOY AN ABM SYSTEM AND ITS
COMPONENTS IN THE ALTERNATIVE AREA PERMITTED BY,ART1CLE
III OF THE TREATY, PROVIDED THAT PRIOR NOTIFICATION IS
GIVEN DURING THE YEAR BEGINNING OCTOBER 3, 1977,OR
DURING EACH FIFTH YEAR THEREAFTER, THOSE BEING THE YEARS
FOR PERIODIC REVIEW OF THE TREATY, AS PROVIDED IN ARTICLE
XIV OF THE TREATY. THIS RIGHT MAY BE EXERCISED ONLY ONCE.
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2, ACCORDINGLY, IN THE EVENT OF SUCH NOTICE, THE SOVIET
UNION WOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO DISMANTLE THE ABM SYSTEM
AND: ITS COMPONENTS IN THE AREA CENTERED ON iTs NATIONAL
CAPITAL AND TO DEPLOY AN ABM SYSTEM AND ITS COMPONENTS:
IN AN AREA CONTAINING ' ICBM SIL0).AUNCHERS, AS PERMITTED
By ARTICLE III(B) OF THE TREATY; AND THE UNITED STATES
WOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO DISMANTLE' THE ARM SYSTEM AND:
ITS COMPONENTS IN THE AREA CONTAINING ICBM SILO LAUNCHERS.
AND TO DEPLOY' AN ABM SYSTEM AND ITS COMPONENTS IN AN AREA,
CENTERED ON ITS NATIONAL CAPITAL, AS PERMITTED BY ARTICLE.
III (A) OF THE TREATY.
DISMANTLING AND DEPLOYMENT' OF, ABM SYSTEMS' OR THEIR
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COMPONENTS PURSUANT TO SUCH ,NOTICE SHALL BEHCARRIED :ENT
IN ACCORDANCE WITH PROCEDURES AGREED IN THE STANDING CON-
SULTATIVE COMMISSION.
ARTICLE III
THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS ESTABLISHED BY THE TREATY
REMAIN IN FORCE AND SHALL RE RESPECTED BY THE PARTIES
EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT MODIFIED By THIS PROTOCOL. IN PAR.
TiCuLAR, THE DEPLOYMENT QF AN ARM SYSTEM OR ITS COMPONENTS
WITHIN THE AREA SELECTED SHALL REMAIN LIMITED BY THE
LEVELS AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS OF ARTICLES IT AND III
OF THE TREATY,
ART/CLE IV
THIS PROTOCOL SHALL BE sUBJECT TO RATIFICATION IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROCEDURES OF EACH
PARTy, IT SHALL ENTER INTO FORCE ON THE DAy OF THE Ex-?
CHANGE OF INSTRUMENTS OF RATIFICATION AND SHALL THERE?
AFTER BE CONSIDERED AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE TREATY.
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